SEALS 2017 Morning Meditation - Listening Prayer thru Art

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 attendees were able to create their word in reflection to their listening prayer.  They used brushes, colored pencils, crayons, liquid mask, and watercolor to create their word in visual form.  

One person had to press really hard with he crayon to get the affect that he wanted for his word "listen".  He realized in process that he may have to utilize hard listening to really withdraw the beauty that the Lord desires to uncover in his upcoming season.  

Another conferee has a difficult time writing due to his trembling condition from Parkinson's.  During the morning meditation he was able to listen, and take the time to slow down and practice writing with different tools.  It was empowering to him because he was able to practice controlling a new tool in a relax and fun manner.  It took "courage"for him to try to paint for the first time since his diagnosis.  And he knows that it will continually take courage for him to step out in faith in his walk and adaptations to upcoming life circumstances.