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Speaking the Same Language

Where is your mother tongue from?  Where is your identity from?  In all the mix of things, we all ended up here in America.  We share the commonality of speaking American English and being part of the this generations mass media obsession.  We have a certain type of slang that we can all understand.  Kind of shifts the idea of how the Tower of Babel went down doesn't it?  

But somehow....

Many days of the year, we still feel out of place in our leadership styles, communication styles, and values system in our ministry, mission, and career industry. I mean who doesn't have a hard day or a bad day, tough bosses, complaints and disagreements. We often feel unheard, unsatisfied, helpless, stuck, unprepared, under appreciated, conscious, and insecure.  All these words make us understand the commonly of disconnect, a gap, and discomfort.  May in the next week or so we approach the throne of grace, to be reunited with the Father, and ask our Father as his beloved children to be purified in the refiners fire. May the sound of prayer resonate throughout His courts as we come to speak His language in our displacement,  and my our eyes begin to see a bigger vision of living in light of eternity.  As Anne Vonkamp writes in her blog this week:

"When heaven is really your motherland, then prayer is really your mother tongue, and you can’t help but yearn to speak in the language of your Father now."

-Anne Voskamp,
A Holy Experience and
author of NYT bestseller One Thousand Gifts

May you find the Father in your pain, in your temptation, in your trial, in your suffering, and in the tensions of life. As you are in approach of the throne of grace and hear from our heavenly Father, may every breath and being be salty and a fragrant aroma of worship to our Father.  And in this language may He be glorified in all that you do.  

As we are a community scattered around the nation, would you join us in praying for SEALS 2014 conference in October.  Please pray that our community would consecrate their hearts for this assembly. Pray for an opportunity to extend the invitation and, that we would come together to have a true fast (Isaiah 58:6-14), true fellowship (Acts 2:42-47), and true worship (Romans 12:1-2) to our heavenly Father.  Ask as well that conference would come full circle in its financial support, so that we can provide scholarships and continue to be a blessing in the will and mission that the Lord has for SEAC.

May it be well with you in all circumstance, any trial, temptation, bad news, good news, joy, and celebration.


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