There are 168 hours in a week. So in about 173.5 hours, the five15 Retreat begins. Please pray.

It is possible that each of us could arrive at the retreat unprepared. We might hastily pack and leave our Northern Virginia homes full of excitement for the retreat, but not really ready to benefit from all we will hear and experience. I think prayer is the key. It bends our hearts toward the Lord, and postures us to hear fro Him, to submit our wills to Him, and the receive from Him. Here are some key ways you can be praying for the retreat:

• Pray that God will reveal himself to you. I like the prayer Eli gives Samuel in 1 Samuel 3:9, “Speak, Lord, for your servant hears.”
• Pray that God will reveal himself to your friends. Pray along the lines of Ezekiel 40:4, that your friends would “look with their eyes, hear with their ears, and set their hearts on all that God shows them.”
• Pray for Seita, Vince, and me as we prepare to speak. Ask God that he would grant the words of Isaiah 50:4, that he would give us “the tongue of those who are taught, that we may know how to sustain with a word him who is weary.”
• Pray that God would visit us powerfully by His Spirit. Pray with Ephesians 5:18-21 that everyone person there would “be filled with the Spirit, addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart, giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.”

I’m sure we could go on. How are you praying for the retreat?

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