Thursday, February 26, 2009
Uno Prayer Meeting
If you take a group of kids and have them play Uno (a card game) you can have a good prayer meeting. Simply ask each child to ask God what to play each turn. What you will have is several kids all asking God for help to win. But winning is not winning the card game. Winning is more than that.
Having spent years in the prayer room now, I know that the life of prayer is all about living. The revelation, insight, power, visions and a thousand other favors from God are about living life well, playing each turn of the cards the best you can. When we do the best we can, we win. Winning is not the one who wins, if you know what I mean.
Each of us is a person living in a long line of people - history. None of us arrived on our own. We were both created by God and cared for by other humans. Our place in time was the Lord's doing. Our place in humanity is the result of the life flow of humanity, this is our personal "fullness of time". This is the card we have been dealt to play.
Winning, which is continual fellowship with God, is making each play under His Lordship. Even if we loose the game we can win with our ongoing fellowship with God. Winning is not always winning. The people of God need a fresh understanding of this.
Some of the greatest people, greatest Christians are people who have a very very bad hand to play, and they play it well. Some of the most immature believers have a great hand and think that their external success is the result of their wonderfulness. It is not. They simply had a good hand.
Father God
I offer up to you today
My "me" centered Christianity
I ask you to upgrade my "meness"
To the wonder of the revelation of Jesus Christ
Thank you for the cards you have give me
Even these are more than I deserve
My I play well this day
In fellowship with you.
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