Concerts of Prayer

There is nothing I enjoy more than to have the opportunity to musically administrate a concert of prayer with an audience of people desiring the same venue.  A two hour venue "to connect both the earthly and heavenly realms postures my heart for a romantic adventure with the Lord.  He takes delight in making these moments mysterious and thereby revealing hidden truths to our seeking hearts. 

Two hours are almost to much time for a musician.  There is a tendancy for those planning to fill that time with song after song after song after song.  I have a different approach.  Neither approach is wrong or right.  It's a personal choice in this time of my life to have such a venue to draw out of the saints their burdens, petitions and heartcries before the Lord.  Such a time of mutual connection between heaven and earth is something to look forward to by both realms.  The more sensitive the leader is, the greater potential the outcome.  Personally, I think historic breakthrough is the potential for each gathering.  The unraveling of demonic strongholds in personal situations and communities extremely high.

We enter His gates with thanksgiving and praise.  We don't need to come prepared to have a great time with God.  We only need to recall our histories with God individually and collectively.  Thankfulness is an entry place into the heavenly realm.  It is valuable in any relationship to recall the places where we have bonded with someone.  Rememberence is a memorial. It is a stronghold in our life.  In other words, it is a thought and series of thoughts coming from real experiences in our life, a verbal testimony of His goodness to us on earth.  This time in a concert of prayer establishes the reality of God in our midst.  Over 500 people witnessed the resurrected life of Jesus by visibly seeing Him alive after the crucifixion.   In a court of law, witnesses are called to give an eyewitness account in order to give a credible conviction of guilt or innocence.  Such a procedure renders a judgement that society values.  

Thanksgiving declarations can be very different every time people meet because God is always at work in the righteous (those who have determined that righteousness comes through His blood and not their own works). 

This approach towards corporate gatherings of believers sets a volatile venue for a sovereign visitation of the Holy Spirit.  The atmosphere of Thanksgiving brings about a spontaneous declaration of praise.  It's automatic.   Praise brings about a manifestation of God, who takes the sincerity very personal.  This draws a reponse from Him.  The atmosphere is now explosive.  Our portion in this at this point is based on our history and skill in relationship with him.  Each corporate gathering different consequently.  The possibilities endless. 

SKILL
The word "skill" can have different connotations.  From my perspective as a community master craftsman, is a qualified definition.  Everyday I work with a level of power that potentially can take a human life.  I have been trained to work with the science level of this raw power under industry recognized standards to provide its usefulness to a community for everday use of unskilled people. 

God wants us to be skillful in our relationship with him.  HE gave us his WORD so we could accomplish that.  His Word is like a technical manual that gives us the ability to LOVE Him within perameters and tolerances.  He is all powerful, he wants us to experience the power of His love, of which have a depth, width, height and length.  These descriptors are all measurable.  No one thus far is able to give us those tolerences.  Until we reach a fullness is the only measure.  Such a description to a skillful craftsmen gives us more questions than answers.  Men have testified over centuries that those who have found Him in a measure have realized that there is yet more of Him.

Skillful singers were used in David,s tabernacle.  At first I thought that was those who were final contestants in American Idol.  Now I believe it is calibrated by those with thankfull hearts, who are full of praise while being mindfull of the manual that applies to His LOVE. 

Concerts of prayer... there is still more.