I swear they engineer these things w/ addictive properties. I barely have a cough but I find myself instinctively reaching for a new one after I finish one. I think they have narcotics in these.
The car said it was -16 F on the way into work today. That is cold.
I blew something out in my car. Now it shakes a lot (kinda rhythmically), and especially when I accelerate. My CD player was skipping last night before it got warmed up because it was shaking so bad. Also the acceleration is really sluggish and when I start it exhaust fumes come out from behind my front wheels.
Anyone know where I can get a fairly reliable car for 1 to 3 thousand dollars. Preferably on the lower end of that. I’m thinking late 90’s civic or mid 90’s saturn. I hope I can find a stick…I hate automatics. I think I will get an automatic though when I have kids. Seems like I would have too much else to think about then.
Aaron called me last night. He has been helping me research sound stuff. It was kinda funny cuz I started looking stuff up again this week (I stopped when I got sick and started traveling a lot) and randomly Caleb sends me some stuff he had been researching on it too. But the really funny part is that he found a board that he thought we should get that Aaron said he was gonna recommend as an option anyway. So if you are reading this Caleb, way to go man…that is some good research you put into this. Aaron says for 200$ more we can get a 20 channel board w/ two 500 Watt amps built in though, he said we might want to consider that.
Besides that I have this funny feeling while reading this Power Healing book that something must be wrong with me. The more I read I think, “Jeez, I am really freaked out by the idea that I might have something wrong with me I don’t remember, or I might be demonized and not realize it, that would suck.”
That might be irrational, it might not be. I don’t know. But I aim to figure it out by praying a lot and addressing the fear head on.
Wimber says that the people he knew who were effective in praying for the sick speak in tongues, I found that depressing. But I’m gonna keep trying until I become the exception to that, or speak in tongues. I want to pray for more people, but it is so stinking hard to get up the nerve to ask sometimes.
That is all for now, I need to reboot my computer and work on a quote.
Siberian says
Bob doesn’t pray in tongues. I don’t think it’s all that useful for ministry prayer. On rare occasions. And if we pray in tongues, sometimes that gives the other person license to do so, and more often than not that’s a hindrance to them just receiving the work that God is doing.
And demons aren’t that common. A lot of cases where people think something is a demon, it’s actually just the presence of sin still in them. Or a false belief. Whatever it may be. Now, we sometimes have to pray against that belief or sin. But we don’t treat the person like they’re demonized. We just pray against the power of that sin or belief or lie or word spoken over them. The enemy doesn’t have to be there for his effects to remain on the person. We pray against the effects.
Some quick thoughts for ya.
vip1 says
Sheesh! It’s like jumping through hoops to sign up on TypeKey and to stay logged in! Stupid computer….always erroring out for no good reason….
Anyway, yeah, when I read the thing about speaking in tongues, I pretty much thought the same thing. It was very discouraging. I didn’t really expect as much when I prayed for healing. I’ve never had a desire to speak in tongues (except for a brief moment during mini-group once). I did have Dirk pray for me to get the gift once and I didn’t feel anything and he said that he felt the gift was not for me at that time. So….yeah, it’s kinda discouraging. I try to still expect healing because it’s up to God and He didn’t put a rule about speaking in tongues, but I always remember that part and it brings my faith down a little. If you manage to find a way to not let that discourage you while praying for healing, please let me know. I feel like it’s actually damaged my gift since I don’t have as much faith.
BigCat says
While I found the small paragraph that mentioned speaking in tongues in the book a little depressing, I have to say I’m not going to let it discourage me.
That is right, it is as simple as deciding it is not going to stop you or discourage you.
The things you have to remember are this.
1. Have faith for whatever you are praying for…in the words of Steve Nicholson you have to expect God to show up and work when you pray for people.
2. As I learned from Todd Hunter (led the Vineyard between wimber and wagner) that you should always expect to reach back into your empty “prayer toolbox”, knowing that it is empty, and expect to pull out the right tool every time you pray. This is also just a way to describe faith, but it is great and I’m working this more into my mind all the time.
When our small group had a lot of stuff going on that was a little off the wall I was just starting to really implement #1 in my prayers. I don’t pray much for people (as in I don’t say a lot, but I pray a lot for people), but I show up and have faith.(I’m not saying it was all me or anything, but I think Lauren was coming into a period where she was more ready for leading prayer, James was doing his thing which has always been to pray using #1 and #2, and the rest of you were all growing really fast in your prayer abilities by going to LTMJ and the prophetic stuff) Next is to add #2 for me, and to pray a whole whole lot more. The more spaghetti the more likely it sticks.
I think if you need to speak in tongues, God will have you speak in tongues. Either you (and I) will develop the gift over time to improve our “spritual antenna’s”, as wimber put it, or we will spontaneously manifest the gift at a necessary moment….no need to push or force it. Then you just make up BS and spew it out ur mouth and that is no good.
Don’t lose heart…just pray a lot. That is my current solution to changing everything I’ve read in the book.
Hope that helps.
BigCat says
Thanks much, that is some interesting stuff to chew on.
My current plan is to have Lauren pray for me that I will either A) drop this silly fear I have of discovering something awful in my past, or B) that it will show its ugly head and then I can just deal with it. B is scary, but better than living with it.
Does Bob speak in tongues at all? I thought he did.
Anyway, Wimber was just saying that helps him build faith or ‘edify himself’, not that it was necessary. He just mentioned that all the people he knows that are really good at praying speak in tongues. So I’m not out of faith or hope or anything, just found that bit about tongues a little annoying / discouraging. But I’m not gonna give up.