SEAC Prayer Journal

Matthew Geppert from Southeast Asian Prayer Center (SEACP) challenged conferees to take a moment to reflect and listen regarding our Identity.  The   continual  encouragement was to  remember  and minister to ourselves this message.   And  when we are struggling most to  remember it and profess it outwardly during those hardships. We repeated in response: “I AM WHO I AM  MADE BY THE I AM WHO  SAYS WHO I AM.” This morning create a time and space for listening prayer.   Perhaps the Lord may offer an adjective to describe the season, provide an affirmation, a new name, a vision, or an image.   After listening, perhaps draw, sketch, paint, or color the provided word.   It can become a process that will reveal a lesson, bring healing, and/or bring clarity. Creative methods and strategies with new tools may have its struggles and uncover an emotional or spiritual epiphany. This morning during morning meditation a few 

Flat Tire on the Motorbike Journey into the Villages, Laos, March 2014 Do Not Forsake Me, O Lord Psalm 38 (ESV) A Psalm of David, for the memorial offering How often do you feel overloaded by surroundings, criticisms, judgments, shame, and even sometimes our own communities?   As Disciples on this earthly journey our Refuge is here to lean on throughout all our struggles, hardships, judgments, shame, and community development. ·       Read through Psalms 38. ·       Reflect on each section ·       Write your own psalms of offering in your own words ·       Our Refuge is here to lean on. Surrender: Confession of Shortcomings 1. O Lord, rebuke me not in your anger, nor discipline me in your wrath!   2. For your arrows have sunk into me, and your hand has come down on me.   3. There is no soundness in my flesh because of your indignation; there is no health in my bones because of my sin. 4. For my iniquities have gone over my head; like a heavy burden, they ar

Glory at the Foot of the Rocks, Ryan Ranch, Joshua Tree, California Throughout the Old Testament the desert thrives as a Biblical motif.  In the desert people groups were taught mighty lessons. From those mighty lessons, there was abundance, multiplication, promise, and growth. In Genesis, Abraham's legacy and his family were established through sojourning for a new land.  Along the journey the Lord promised him a nation that would be greater than the numbers of stars in the sky and the number of grains of sands on the earth. In Exodus, the Israelites sought for the promised land, a place filled with milk and honey.  As they faithfully traveled for hundreds of years, they developed as a sojourning nation.  Some developments were within their culture, simplicity of life, and worship and reverence for the Lord. In Psalms, King David and his writers extolled the liveliness and abundance of the desert.  There King David's faithfulness is grown. The desert place was where

Have you ever heard the term SUPERBLOOM ?   What is it?   This is the newest frenzy for Californians in the last two weeks.   In all thirty some years of my life, I have never heard this term outside of the 60’s peace era. My social media pages and face-to-face conversations have been filled with eyewitnesses of “super bloom” Super Bloom, Lake Eleanor, CA :  photo by  @mirandajonez National Geographic Magazine defines “ super bloom” as “a colloquial term used to define an explosion of wildflowers that exceeds typical spring blooms. The park, which is typically bare of flowers, has come alive with vibrant greenery, poppies, primroses, and lilies.” photos from National Geographic Other photos of super bloom in California It is praise to the Creator that the California drought has finally ended from the downpour of rain this past winter.   Our reservoirs are filled and the drive on the I-5 is no longer hazy brown.   But rather the interstate has become drenched with roll