Gathered Around the Fire

*** First Time Visitors *** Please go to the  First Time Visitors  tab or    go to  Thursday Night   tab   If you want to share what we are doing with a friend please direct them using the URL for that page.      ============================ We want to be right with God and right with our world. When we see others make decisions that are not congruent with what we believe is right, it can knock us off balance. It can steal our Joy, dampen our faith, and even make us feel downright hopeless. Tonight a news story caused some in our group to lose their joy, like air escaping from the neck of a balloon that is not tied off Fllagththhhthhthth. it speeds chaotically around the room making a strange lip-flapping sound. We appear to do the same thing when bad news deflates us we go about chaotically blowing off steam.  The sounds that escape our lips are a lot like that balloon, with so much hot air, Fllagththhhthhthth. When we care deeply abo ut something a

3-2-7-2014 Aaron described seeing a prosthetic knee with water flowing over it continuously like a water fall.  Last night in our growth group I was about to share a prayer request for a co-worker that had to go into the emergency room earlier this week and solicit prayer for her. But before I was able to share the condition that we would be praying for, Aaron described seeing a picture of a prosthetic knee with water flowing over it continuously like a water fall.  He said he could see all the mechanical structure of the prosthetic knee. God must be confirming that we are to pray for a healing for this co-worker. What no one knew in the room was that an infection of a prosthetic knee was the issue. Well I was impressed, He received a word of knowledge in a moving picture, for a condition that had not yet been revealed.  I feel that the 40 day prayer campaign we walked through in the fall of 2013, has somehow pried open the door for more intercessory prayer combi

*** First Time Visitors *** Please go to the  First Time Visitors  tab or    go to  Thursday Night   tab   If you want to share what we are doing with a friend please direct them using the URL for that page.                                      ============================ 3-20-2014 It is good to remind yourself from time to time of the prophetic things God has spoken to you individually and as a group. Bill Johnson says he keeps prophetic words he has received on 3 x 5 cards and carries them with him when he travels. To remind himself what God has said, especially when the enemy begins to whisper accusations and doubt..." Has God really said?"  This last week I went through the posts on this blog all the way back into 2012 and pulled several of the spiritual songs that have come forth as a part of the GAP meetings. I re-familiarized myself with many of them and played them on my guitar and sang them out to remind myself of what God has spoken. And to r

PRESIDENTIAL PARDON FOR DAKOTA 38? - The Issue may go to the WHITE HOUSE Petition to pardon the Dakota 38, Mankato Citizens are petitioning the White House to pardon the Dakota 38.  Please add your signature to this petition if you want to know more read our posts using the keyword Dakota 38  Back in August during our 40 days of prayer on a Thursday night we had a vision of a barley loaf rolling up Capitol Hill  and coming to rest, leaning on the capitol building.  It was followed quickly by a barley loaf rolling into the Oval Office and filling it up.  This petition would be for a presidential pardon therefore it would fulfill the vision of the a barley loaf rolling into the Oval (presidential) Office.   The image of a barely loaf comes from Scripture, it is recorded in in the book of Judges chapter 7 to prove to Gideon in case he was afraid, it proved that God was with him and He would accomplish what He promised.  MANKATO, Minn. - Mankato residents have set up a

*** First Time Visitors *** Please go to the  First Time Visitors  tab or    go to  Thursday Night   tab   If you want to share what we are doing with a friend please direct them using the URL for that page.                                      ============================ 13-MAR-2014  A time of worship and Scripture reading.  Using Spontaneous songs from times past, we opened with...  Lord, you are Glorious ,  - 2014 this song invites interactive worship, each person was invited to speak out one of the names or attributes of God and then we would sing that name inserting it into the song.  Psalm 25 - Teach me thy ways oh Lord. - Abbott Loop - circa 1975 There's Glory behind the veil  - 2012 Come unto me all you weary and heavy laden  - L. Bartell - circa 1993 Concerning the day of the Lord and our position in that day, as sons of light and sons of the day.  1 Thessalonians Chapter 5  But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need

From an investment broker... I don't normally discuss these matters, however this one has me very concerned due to its imminent nature. Subject: Economist John Williams: Financial Collapse if Russia Sells U.S. Dollar Holdings  http://youtu.be/9LSHdkaCLOA ------- When I see news like this... I want to throw my hands in the air, there is no way to get prepared for  this  in the natural, I don't have the time or the financial resources...    ...and then I read this passage. For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,   who died for us,  that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.   this passage was taken right out of the context of the Day of the Lord a day of calamity, from  1 Thessalonians 5. So we can be assured that in the face of calamity that this promise holds true.  But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you

Haggard, Inconstant Splashes of Beauty  A profound beauty can often be found in the ordinary.  Will you look for it with me today?  The cost is nothing and the value is high. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then let us become beholders. Yes, people will laugh at us if we see beauty where they do not. Let us think of this laughter as our gift to them. We should laugh a little, too. And now I will tell you a dark secret that is also a paradox: the richest of all beauties - the one that takes your breath away - is deeply terrifying.  It grants me new life when it appears, but I do not seek it. For this richest beauty happens only when my world collapses and my only hope is in God. Perhaps you, too, have been there There is a quickening, a wiggle of life when we're in extremis, a rearrangement of priorities, deep and clear. The problem that's about to swallow you whole becomes a pool of water that serves as a magnifying glass and for a moment you see e

*** First Time Visitors *** Please go to the  First Time Visitors  tab or    go to  Thursday Night   tab   If you want to share what we are doing with a friend please direct them using the URL for that page.                                      ============================ 7-MAR-2014 If we are honest, most of the things we fear or are anxious about, we cannot change.   Most of the time our fears will never come to pass, we just are worried that they MIGHT come to pass.  These fears then begin to filter how we view the words and the actions of others, and we begin to believe lies about them. No man can change the heart of another man, only God can do that.  Casting all your cares upon Him, for He cares for you. 1 Peter 5:8     Last night we prayed for a brother and watched him  struggle   for 30 minutes or so to let go of some things, that frankly he cannot change, even if he hangs on to them and gives all that he has to see them change.  In short He needs Go

*** First Time Visitors *** Please go to the  First Time Visitors  tab or    go to  Thursday Night   tab   If you want to share what we are doing with a friend please direct them using the URL for that page.                                      ============================ 28-FEB-2014 For the past couple of weeks our focus has been on making faith based declarations, while we are comfortable culturally with making prayer requests to God both individually and corporately, Jesus and the disciples would declare a healing, or issue a command, "take up your bed and walk', "Lazarus, come forth!"  Like I said, this makes us a bit uncomfortable. In essence true worship songs, extol God and stir up faith. Some Scripture songs make declarations about who God is and declare the various attributes of God.  It wasn't pre-planned, but we started with worship Phil Hess played the piano, Aaron and I played guitar,  as we all gathered around and sang.. We s