First Worship Service

• You Are Good by Israel Houghton
  • Hear it on Israel and New Breed’s album “New Season”
• Everlasting God by Brenton Brown and Ken Riley
  • Hear it on Anthony Evans’s album “The Bridge”
• My Redeemer Lives by Reuben Morgan
  • Coming soon on KCBT’s Worship album
• How Great Thou Art by Stuart Wesley Keene Hine
  • Hear it on Paul Baloche’s album “Our God Saves”
• Let the Church Rise by Israel Houghton and Jonathan Stockstill
  • Hear it on Sound of the New Breed’s album “Kingdom”
• Mighty to Save by Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan
  • Hear it on Laura Story’s album “Great God Who Saves”
• By Our Love by Christy Nockels
  • Hear it on Christy Nockels’s album “Life Light Up”

Second Worship Service

• Take It All by Matt Crocker, Scott Ligertwood, and Marty Sampson
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One”
• Foreverandever Etc. by David Crowder, Mike Dodson, and Jack Parker
  • Hear it on the David Crowder Band’s album “A Collision”
• King of All Days by Dylan Thomas
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “A_CROSS // The_EARTH: Tear Down the Walls”
• Nothing But the Blood by Matt Redman
  • Hear it on Matt Redman’s album “Facedown”
• I Stand Amazed by Charles Hutchison Gabriel
  • Hear it on Chris Tomlin’s album “Passion: Everything Glorious”
• Nothing But the Blood by Robert Lowry
  • Hear it on Fernando Ortega’s album “Hymns and Meditations”
• What the World Will Never Take by Matt Crocker, Scott Ligertwood, and Marty Sampson
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “Look to You”

MONDAY—EVANGELISTIC PRAYER

Chronological Reading: Psalm 136-138 + 2 Corinthians 6
Monday, August 31, 2009

Psalm 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Gracious God and Master:
There are times in my life when friends and family, any human counsel or sympathy, fails to comfort me. Why do you allow this?
Maybe it is because I have been living too much without you. Maybe it is to draw me closer to the throne of grace. Maybe it is because I am thinking too much of myself, taking myself too seriously, and ignoring the people you want me to reach-out to around me. After all, this is the self-esteem generation.
Take away everything I naturally depend on so you can drive me to yourself! Do the same for __________ and __________, because Lord you know how they will not listen to me or heed the gospel until they come to the end of themselves. They are like the prodigal son; they love the swine troughs and have forgotten the father’s love. Help me speak to them today about my good God and his great love for them.
You favor me with famine (even while I am in the land of promise and going to a wonderful church) because it will make me seek after you more and serve you more. The best position for me is to be living hand-to-mouth on your grace. As Paul puts it,
† 2 Corinthians 6:10 As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
My standing before you is not guaranteed because of my sanctification, or my sophistication, or my feelings. I am saved because Jesus Christ offered a full atonement and I am trusting in that. Lead me to others who I can lead to that same truth today. Make them thirsty, and then make them rest on the merits of Christ, for I ask it in Jesus’ name. Amen.

TUESDAY— CORPORATE PRAYER MINISTRY

Chronological Reading: Psalm 139-141 + 2 Corinthians 7
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

1 Thessalonians 5:17 Pray without ceasing.

Giver of the Great Commission:
Prayer is the foundation of moving forward in fulfilling the mission. Just as there is no unsanctified place in the world where it is not right for us to witness and make disciples, there is no unholy moment in the hour when it is not right for us to pray. Wherever we seek you with true hearts, you are found by us. Whenever we cry, you hear us.
We have permission to come to the mercy seat when we want. The veil has been torn in two from top to bottom. Our access is undisputed and indisputable. The King of kings has called for all his subjects, and they may come at all times. Your scepter is always stretched out to us!
Among ancient empires there were only a privileged few who were allowed to come to the court, and fewer still that had the special right to come when they chose. The reserved right of the few and the great in times past is now the familiar right of every child of God.
The dead of night is not too late to pray. The breaking of morning is not too early for the Most High. At midday you are not too busy. When evening approaches, you are not too weary. So to pray continuously is the most precious permit we have as a church. That we can pour out our hearts to you at any time, that is what we need in order to thrive and not just survive.
The doors to the church may be closed, but the doors to the temple of divine love are never shut. Nothing can place a barrier between what we need, and our ability to ask for your supply. The road of angels is ever open to us. Bring us to our knees together. Let us send forth the dove of prayer and we can be certain she will bring back an olive branch of peace. Be gracious to us. Amen.

WEDNESDAY—REVIVAL PRAYING

Chronological Reading: Psalm 142-144 + 2 Corinthians 8
Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Rev. 2:1 These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

O Lord My Father:
Your work in me is not occasional but continual. And so you know my deeds, my sufferings, and my sins. Your eyes are like a flame of fire, so you see with a piercing insight, discernment, and accuracy that no one else can touch. You see me through and through.
Since you are the most careful observer, you are also the most candid. Being the most thoughtful, you are able to be the most forthright. You are the faithful and true witness. You love much, and therefore never judge too harshly. Yet you love much, and therefore always judge jealously. You will neither speak smooth words nor bitter, but only the truth in love.
Your sacrifice has ended, but not your service in caring for me. You completed the redemption of your bride, but you continue her preservation, preparing for her presentation. With you is the oil to feed the living flame. With you are the golden snuffers with which to remove every trace of greasy nastiness.
Oh for your presence now! To search me and to sanctify me for your Son. To make me shine forth to the Father’s praise and glory. I would pray today,
Psa. 139:23-24 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
If you are with me, Lord, then my conversation will be a river of life to those who listen. But if you are not with me by your Holy Ghost, it will be the dried-up bed of a place that bears the name “river,” but lacks the running stream. I expect your presence, because you will always come to the lamps that call on your office to trim them. Tarry with me. Amen.

A DAILY PATTERN FOR PRAYER & BIBLE READING

Chronological Reading: Psalm 145-147 + 2 Corinthians 9
Thursday, September 3, 2009

2 Chronicles 20:15 Be not afraid nor dismayed…for the battle is not yours, but God’s.

BEAMS of Heaven, as I go, through this wilderness below,
Guide my feet in peaceful ways, turn my midnights into days;
When in the darkness I would grope, faith always sees a star of hope,
And soon from all life’s grief and danger, I shall be free some day.
Oftentimes my sky is clear, joy abounds without a tear,
Though a day so bright begun, clouds may hide tomorrow’s sun;
There’ll be a day that’s always bright, a day that never yields to night,
And in its light the streets of glory I shall behold some day.
Harder yet may be the fight, right may often yield to might,
Wickedness awhile may reign, Satan’s cause may seem to gain,
There is a God that rules above, with hand of power and heart of love,
If I am right, He’ll fight my battle, I shall have peace some day.
Burdens now may crush me down, disappointments all around,
Troubles speak in mournful sigh, sorrow through a tear-stained eye;
There is a world where pleasure reigns, no mourning soul shall roam its plains,
And to that land of peace and glory I want to go some day.
I do not know how long ’twill be, nor what the future holds for me,
But this I know, if Jesus leads me, I shall get home some day.
—Charles A. Tindley, 1906

FRIDAY—FOCUS ON CHRIST’S LIFE

Chronological Reading: Psalm 148-150 + 2 Corinthians 10
Friday, September 4, 2009

Matthew 26:56 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

Son of God:
Let me contemplate. You were made man. You lived a life of perfect virtue and complete self-denial. You were despised and rejected by men. Your haters were legion, your friends were few (and those few were faithless). You were arrested while in the act of prayer. You were arraigned before both religious and civil courts. You were robed in mockery and then disrobed in shame. You were sat on a throne in scorn and then tied to a pillar in scourging. You were declared innocent and yet delivered up by the judge to your persecutors. You were dragged through the streets to the cross, and nailed at the cross to the wood. The sun burned you. God forsook you. All this contains the concentrated hell deserved by your creatures.
Then you hung. Your heart was broken and your limbs dislocated. Heaven failed you, earth forsook you, and all your disciples fled. There is no one who can share the toil, because you must tread this winepress alone. You drank the last dregs of the cup that could not pass from your lips if the Father’s will was to be done. Bitter cup. At last you cried, It is finished, and gave up the ghost.
Can I hear that cry as a shout of triumph? For it still rings with all the force that it had two thousand years ago. Spirit of God, open my ears to hear it today from the sacred word and the Savior’s lips. What did it mean?
You meant that all the types, promises and prophecies were now fully accomplished in you (John 19:28). There is not a single jewel of unfilled promise, not one picture of coming redemption that was not pictured by you and in you, Son of God. And I honor you by trusting your completed work of salvation.

SATURDAY—IN THE PSALMS

Chronological Reading: Proverbs 1-3 + 2 Corinthians 11
Saturday, September 5, 2009

Psalm 119:131 I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.

Lord of Life:
Do I pant to have more of your Spirit? Is that my sincere prayer right now?
Lord, I seek from you the zeal for your house that eats me up. I want to hold on to it, get more of it, and not let the Devil deceive me out of possessing it.
I ask for nothing but more of you, of your divine presence and influence. I often feel like my life is boring, even dying. Spirit of God, bring me life. Revive in us the spark of divine life. Strengthen in my heart God’s life. Give me your quickening breath, and bring me back from the dead.
Psalm 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Sometimes my sin has so much power over me. O Spirit of God, destroy sin within and work holiness and purity without. Enlighten me about the truths that are beyond me right now. Bring me more of the truth that I need, so I can conquer temptation.
I wait upon you. You have given me your Son, but you also promise your Spirit. O that I had that fire! Come in answer to my cry. Come and light our church and each individual member of it.
Galatians 5:25-26 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
There is no work of your Spirit unless we seek it. But all of the fruit of your Spirit will come if I ask for it. If I neglect it, I am left to watch envy provoke vain glory. What a shame and what a sham. Make your work really real in me. Give me more grace to seek glory for thee. I want to live my life and spend it on the one who bought it with his divine being. You cannot do this because I am worthy, but you must do this for the sake of your Son. In Jesus’ name I ask. Amen.

This week has been a wet one again! The rain has made working difficult, but we have seen progress. They have continued working on the east block wall and the formed concrete walls by the office door. If it is dry enough to work on Friday they are going to move the construction fence on the north side by the office entrance and will form the footing for a wall that will jot out into the parking lot to the edge of the driveway.

The Point came down on Thursday and by quitting time on Friday the mess will not be in the driveway at the Point. The Gym Section of The Point will be open for events this weekend.

First Worship Service

• God of Wonders by Marc Byrd and Steve Hindalong
  • Hear it on Caedmon’s Call’s album “In the Company of Angels – A Call to Worship”
• Days of Elijah by Robin Mark
  • Hear it on the African Music Experience’s album “Worship Africa, Vol. 2″
• King of Wonders by Paul Baloche, Steven Curtis Chapman, Stuart Garrard, Israel Houghton, Tim Hughes, Graham Kendrick, and Chris Tomlin
  • Hear it on the worship album “CompassionArt: Creating Freedom from Poverty”
• By Our Love by Christy Nockles
  • Hear it on Christy Nockles’s album “Life Light Up”
• I Surrender All: Words by Judson W. VanDeVenter; Music by Winfield S. Weeden
  • Hear it on Klaus’s album “Living Waters”
• My Redeemer Lives by Reuben Morgan
  • Hear it on Reuben Morgan’s album “Life Through Your Eyes”

Second Worship Service

• Freedom is Here by Scott Ligertwood and Reuben Morgan
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “A_CROSS // The_EARTH: Tear Down the Walls”
• Loose the Bands by Taylor Stansell
• Perfect Love by Dylan Thomas
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “In A Valley By the Sea”
• Second Chance by Grace Hawthorne and Gregg Sewell
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “In A Valley By the Sea”

The rain this week has made it a real challenge to get anything done. Pearce Construction has been busy trying to pump all the water out of the holes after each rain. Intec tried to do a few things this week, but Kinateder (the masons) are the only group that has been able to get work done putting up the east wall. The crew at the Point has been busy working on getting the building ready to take down. Kansas City has caused a little delay in that process but the way that it looks right now the building will starting coming down the first of next week.

MONDAY—EVANGELISTIC PRAYER

Chronological Reading: Psalm 118-120 + 1 Corinthians 16
Monday, August 24, 2009

Ezekiel 34:20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

Heavenly Father, Master and Redeemer:
Every firstborn was yours, but since the ass was an unclean animal it could not be presented for sacrifice. What then? Should he be allowed to go free from the law? No. The life is what is required, but God will not accept it. There is no way of escape except by redemption. The creature has to be saved by substitution—by putting an innocent lamb in its place. If not redeemed like this, it has to die.
O Lord My Father! Does __________ or __________ know that the ass is a type (a picture) of a person lost just like them? And they must die an eternal death if they do not accept the sacrifice of the Lamb of God on their behalf.
Here is a lesson. I was the unclean animal. I am rightly the property of the God who created me. But I was so sinful that God would not, could not accept me. It has come to this. The Lamb of God must stand in my place or else I die for ever. Let all the world know my gratitude to the spotless Lamb of God that bled and died for me, and redeemed me from the curse of the law.
Which should die; the ass or the lamb? Should I not pause and compare? The value of a soul is worth less than the life of the Son—and yet the Lamb dies and man the-ass is spared. O God, I admire your boundless love in this!
I am a worm, bought with the blood of the Highest. Dust and ashes redeemed with gold. What doom had been mine if a redemption price had not been found. Save __________ likewise from the wrath to come! Do it for Jesus’ sake and to honor his death. Amen.

TUESDAY— CORPORATE PRAYER MINISTRY

Chronological Reading: Psalm 121-123 + 2 Corinthians 1
Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Jude 1:20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

Our Most Holy Father:
You do not sit like an indifferent spectator to our problems and difficulties. You know our frailties, and even failures to pray. Yet you are not angry with us. Rather, you move yourself to pity us because you love us. Instead of shutting mercy’s gates, you devise ways to bring the lame into your presence and up to your table, as we see in the life of David (2 Sam. 9:1-8).
You teach the ignorant how to pray. You strengthen the weak with your own power. That help is not found in somebody’s book, or set of lessons, or in repetition of certain words, or from sitting in certain consecrated places. It is found in the condescending help of the Holy Ghost to us!
The Holy Spirit is actually willing to make us a praying people, and make our church (the church for all peoples) a house of prayer for all peoples! He will teach us how to pray. When we are at a loss for words and cannot express our desires, he will make intercession with us, even as the Lord Jesus makes intercession for us as our High Priest (Rom. 8:26,34).
Lord, in your Gethsemane agony you were strengthened by an angel. We are strengthened by the Holy Spirit himself. This thought needs no oratorical expression. It is a wedge of gold from Ophir, far above price. God the Holy Ghost helps us when we are on our knees. If we cannot put two words together, yet he helps us speak to God. Prayer is the one thing at which we can never fail.
Our hearts shall conquer, for you read our petitions according to our inward groans. You notice the longing and answer it. Thank you, Lord. Amen.

WEDNESDAY—REVIVAL PRAYING

Chronological Reading: Psalm 124-126 + 2 Corinthians 2
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

2 Corinthians 1:11 Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

O Dear God:
Since you give me power to bless people by my prayers, then do not let me scrimp the supplication and so cramp the blessing! What is it that I want the most? In one word it is the Holy Ghost.
Let the Holy Spirit be given to my spouse, and they will fulfill their role as a mate. Let the Holy Spirit be given to my child, and they will develop a tender conscience. Let the Holy Spirit be given in my job, and I will find favor with my employer. Let the Holy Spirit be given to my church, and we will have a desire to follow Christ, a hunger for the word of God, and a love for the lost to save them and the saved to disciple them. I will find the Savior and become a useful servant.
I pray that the Holy Spirit will visit us in more fullness so that divine blessings we cannot attain for will attend our services. Make souls to be saved, Make worship to be prominent. Make strife to cease. The hearing of the preaching is the vehicle, but the power lies in the Spirit of God.
I can never go wrong with the Holy Ghost. You keep me right and lead me into all truth. And if you will send your Spirit among the congregation, then the right preachers and faithful ministers will come. The leaders of leaders will emerge. Since the Spirit of God is the might of the church, he speaks with power in us so he can communicate power through us.
He is the Spirit of holiness. He leads to obedience. He purges from sin and creates the image of God in me. His presence is revival itself, so for this thing I pray. Grant unity, because if the Spirit is in us and abounds, we shall not be easily divided or discouraged. We plead this in prayer for Jesus’ sake. Amen.

A DAILY PATTERN FOR PRAYER & BIBLE READING

Chronological Reading: Psalm 127-129 + 2 Corinthians 3
Thursday, August 27, 2009

2 Samuel 23:20-21 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow: And he slew an Egyptian,

YIELD not to temptation, for yielding is sin;
Each vict’ry will help you some other to win;
Fight manfully onward, dark passions subdue;
Look ever to Jesus, He’ll carry you through.

Shun evil companions, bad language disdain,
God’s name hold in rev’rence, nor take it in vain;
Be thoughtful and earnest, kindhearted and true;
Look ever to Jesus, He’ll carry you through.

To him that o’ercometh, God giveth a crown,
Through faith we will conquer, though often cast down;
He who is our Savior, our strength will renew;
Look ever to Jesus, He’ll carry you through.

Ask the Savior to help you, comfort, strengthen, and keep you;
He is willing to aid you, He will carry you through.

—Horatio R. Palmer, 1868

FRIDAY—FOCUS ON CHRIST’S PRAYER LIFE

Chronological Reading: Psalm 130-132 + 2 Corinthians 4
Friday, August 28, 2009

Luke 11:13 If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?
Wonderful Savior:

I believe that right prayer will give right answers and bring right power. So I am bold to ask for spiritual comfort, for maturing gifts, for enabling grace—for revival. I thank you that you will not mock my request by giving me something that only addresses the superficial, because revival, since it is a work of the Spirit of grace, always deals with root issues.
Give me the faith this year to ask for the best blessings, the richest graces, the highest work, and the closest fellowship with Christ. Because whatever is happening to me right now, you have not given me a stone, a serpent, or a scorpion (vv 11-12). You are not treating me ungenerously. And were I as able to judge reality and goodness as you are, I would recognize that you are giving me the best possible things to enable the Holy Spirit’s operation in my life.
So trials may surround me, but your love is right there. All my faith has to do is open one eye and see that I am not even dealing with apparent evil, but evident good. Blind unbelief is what misrepresents your work, your ways, and your heart. Give me a clearer eye of faith to see the truth.
Let me seek and see truth regarding my own frailty and faults. I seek repentance from the Holy Ghost through Jesus Christ. I come to you Father, to say,
Psalm 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
If my heart is not broken and contrite, break it and heal it. Give me a tender spirit. My longing is toward you. Deal with me in a way that brings revival, for so I ask it in Jesus’ name. Amen.

SATURDAY—IN THE PSALMS

Chronological Reading: Psalm 133-135 + 2 Corinthians 5
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Psalm 103:17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;

Merciful Lord and Master:
I thank you for that contrasting conjunction between my frame of dust and your everlasting goodness: But! How wonderful is your mercy, which links my frailty with your eternality and makes me everlasting too! Thank you for choosing me to become a partaker of your grace.
And since you are Jehovah the LORD, you do not change. That means I can give you an extended praise that your mercy is endless. Those who fear you find that neither their needs nor their sins have exhausted your grace. Hallelujah, what a Savior!
The past commands my praise and the future invites it. Let me sing this Sunday so that other generations can hear what you have done! I pray that you would grant us a godly seed, and give us a spiritual legacy through discipleship.
Just like the sweet Psalmist David hymned the various attributes of your nature, grace, and providence, so must I. Gather my energy this Sunday for a grand outburst of adoration in which all the subjects of the Great King can unite their life, their lips, their loyalty and allegiance.
You call on angels to sing your praise. They dwell nearer your throne than I am allowed to climb. I am jealous, because they get to see the glory I want to adore. But then I am not jealous, because I get to adore that glory by faith before I ever see it.
Give us a great weekend in your house. Have everybody there just to unite together in giving you thanksgiving. You deserve our best, our most, our highest, and you deserve that consistently and continually from my heart. Amen.

First Worship Service

• Floodgate by Paul Colman and Michael Neale
  • Hear it on The People’s Church’s album “Shine Out – Live from the People’s Church”
• Come Thou Fount: Text by Robert Robinson; Music – Traditional American Melody; John Wyeth’s Repository of Sacred Music
  • Coming soon on KCBT’s Worship album
• Desert Song by Brooke Fraser
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “This is Our God”
• Amazing Grace by John Wesley
• I Give You My Heart by Reuben Morgan
  • Hear it on Reuben Morgan’s album “World Through Your Eyes”
  • En Español: Samaritan Revival’s “Asi Yo Quiero Vivir”

Second Worship Service

• You Deserve by Matt Crocker and James Dunlop
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “This is Our God”
• All We Need by Charlie Hall
  • Hear it on Charlie Hall’s album “Flying into Daybreak”
• Sweetly Broken by Jeremy Riddle
  • Hear it on Jeremy Riddle’s album “Full Attention”
• Jesus Washed by Chuck Dennie
  • Hear it on By the Tree’s album “Hold You High”
• Came To My Rescue by Marty Sampson, Joel Davies, and Dylan Thomas
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One”
• Foreverandever etc. by David Crowder, Jack Parker, and Mike Dodson
  • Hear it on the David Crowder Band’s album “A Collision”

First Worship Service

• Floodgate by Paul Colman and Michael Neale
  • Hear it on the People’s Church’s album “Shine Out – Live from the People’s Church”
• Your Grace is Enough by Matt Maher
  • Hear it on Matt Maher’s album “Empty and Beautiful”
• Nothing But the Blood by Robert Lowry
  • Coming soon on KCBT’s Worship album
• Spirit of the Living God by Daniel Iverson
  • Hear it in the WOW Worship Collection
• Special Guest Artist: Sergio Blazquez
  • People Need the Lord by Greg Nelson and Phil McHugh
  • Great is Thy Faithfulness by Thomas Obediah Chisholm and William Marion Runyan

Second Worship Service

• Take it All by Matt Crocker, Scott Ligertwood, and Marty Sampson
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One”
• Blessed Be Your Name by Matt Redman and Beth Redman
  • Hear it on Matt Redman’s album “Blessed Be Your Name: The Songs of Matt Redman, Vol. 1″
• Grace Like Rain by Chris Collins, Edwin O. Excell, John Newton, and Todd Agnew
  • Hear it on Todd Agnew’s album “Grace Like Rain”
• Oh You Bring by Matt Crocker
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “A_CROSS // The_EARTH: Tear Down the Walls”
• We Are Hungry by Brad Kilman
  • Hear it on Passion’s album “Passion: The Road to Oneday”
• All Day by Marty Sampson
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One”

This week we started with a muddy site, but most of the work continued as the footprint of the job is covered with rocks. The utility company has been installing a fire hydrant line around the building and has it just about ready to do a pressure test. The flat work concrete and iron works that are doing the footing and walls below grade are around to the south side. They should pour another large section the first of next week. The retaining wall around the back of the parking lot and by the new handicapped parking area is 90% complete. Looking out from the foyer you can see the door frames for the new foyer entrance from our current foyer. The demo of the east half of the Point in scheduled for sometime next week.

With twenty men working the job site we have been able to get many things done this week, even with Tuesday’s rain! The footings were done next to the current building, as were some on the Temple Heights side; they should complete the west side and some within the building area by end of week. The site utility company completed all the storm inlet boxes and will begin the fire hydrant lines. The sidewalk and driveway approach were finished last week; a block retaining wall separating the driveways from the parking lot may be completed next week. The large hole just outside the foyer windows is for the shaft of an elevator to take people to the second floor.

The crosswalk marking in 55th street has been updated, removing the angled crosswalk line and putting in required crosswalk markings. A few signs in the drop off area were updated to improve readability. We hope to have the asphalt patch in place by the office doors before Sunday morning.

John Hefner’s company will begin taking down the east half of The Point next week. The area will be turned into a green space, leaving a plain flat face on the east side of the Upper Room at The Point.

MONDAY—EVANGELISTIC PRAYER

Chronological Reading: Psalm 100-102 + 1Corinthians 10
Monday, August 17, 2009

Zephaniah 3:17  The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

O God of Time and Eternity:
I lack words to effectively express praise for the fact that you not only have determined to enrich me in the future, but even now are blessing me with treasures of your love. I thank you that your love is as certain in the night of the darkness of my depression as in the brightness of the day of my joys. Your love is that fountain from which all the rivers of mercy—all the rivers of grace both in time and in eternity—take their rise.
I praise you living Lord, that praying over your word as the Holy Ghost enables me brings great joy. This is where I make fresh discoveries of the heights and depths, the lengths and breadths of the love of Jesus Christ, and find new and precious meaning in texts long familiar or lightly forgotten.
O Father, help me today to talk about Jesus in such a way that others can see at least an outline of his beauty and an exposition of the gospel! Then, let your Holy Spirit shine through the mist of my cloudy language so Christ can be revealed to them in all his glory. Take away the blindness from _______ and _______. Allow them to know the terms of the gospel and then give them faith to believe in your grace.
You are the Refiner. I thank you that you still are patient with me through unstoppable love, until Christ be formed in me. That is my certain and sure hope of glory. Spirit of God, cause my faith to increase in fullness, consistency, and simplicity. Give me a more perfect knowledge of Christ’s love, so that in turn my love for him will grow and his love for others will be shown. I ask it all for Jesus’ sake and in his name. Amen.

TUESDAY— CORPORATE PRAYER MINISTRY

Chronological Reading: Psalm 103-105 + 1 Corinthians 11
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Romans 15:30 Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus Christ’s sake, and for the love of the Spirit,

Heavenly Lord:
FOR THE LOVE OF THE SPIRIT, revive in us the attitude of a child.
•    Make us accustomed to take our cares and cast them on you
•    Make us know that we are accepted and beloved
•    Make us perfectly content with the great Father’s will
For that will make all of us the envy of the lost. They will envy our peace and joy in believing. It is happy saints that become the most efficient witnesses to the world.
FOR THE LOVE OF THE SPIRIT, revive holiness as our delight. Make our holiness not a mere morality, out of some hard sense of duty. Holiness should be the entirety of our humanity fully consecrated to Christ, and molded to his image by submission to his will. In that way, holiness is tied to living the Great Commission. That is the one thing our church must have, but never can apart from the Sanctifier. He sets us apart for sacred use. There is not a grain of holiness anywhere except what exists by the operation of your Holy Spirit.
Anointed words preach to those in our congregation, but it is the acts of our church that preach to the community! Help us support the testimony of our pastors by our actions. There is no likelihood of victory if Achan’s sin is in the camp. Do many mighty works in us because of our consecration to your mission.
FOR THE LOVE OF THE SPIRIT, revive our prayer life. Prayer is the creation of your Spirit. We cannot do without prayer and we cannot pray without the Holy Ghost (Rom 8:26). Make us desperately dependent on him. Give us more love of the Spirit that our spiritual power might grow. For Jesus’ sake we ask this. Amen.

WEDNESDAY—REVIVAL PRAYING

Chronological Reading: Psalm 106-108 + 1Corinthians 12
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Psalm 69:21 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Jesus, My Suffering Substitute:
It is only when the struggle is over that the athlete, police officer or soldier comes back to their senses and takes stock of the expenditure of strength. Even so Jesus, your thirst expressed the fact that your pain began to subside, the fury of the crucifixion had spent itself. The fever left behind made you take note of your lesser pains, but the agony of being forsaken by God was over.
Your thirst on the cross confirms my natural enmity against God. Modern men and women think they are fine and noble people, but our homicide rate puts the lie to that. Splendid and dignified beings that they are, they think truth should be altered for them, and the gospel should be modified to suit their tastes. Justice has to leave the field lest it be too severe to such deserving beings. As for punishment, you can’t even whisper that into polite postmodern ears. In fact, the tendency is to exalt man above God and give him the higher place.
The very cup that they offered to you Lord, mingled admiration of your person with scorn for your claims. Men and women write books admiring your example, and at the same time reject your deity. They admit you are wonderful, but deny your sacred mission. They extol your ethics and teaching, but trample on your blood, thus giving you a drink, but that drink being gall and vinegar—bitterness soured. Oh, how much we need revival!
Help me beware of praising Jesus and yet forgetting his sacrifice. Save me from rendering him homage but dishonoring his name. How often have I given him vinegar to drink? Jesus, you turned water into wine, now turn my sour “drink offering” into something sweet to yourself. Amen.

A DAILY PATTERN FOR PRAYER & BIBLE READING

Chronological Reading: Psalm 109-111 + 1 Corinthians 13
Thursday, August 20, 2009

1 Chronicles 21:26 And David built there an altar unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the LORD; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

THIS is my Father’s world. O let me ne’er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet.
This is my Father’s world: why should my heart be sad?
The Lord is King; let the heavens ring!
God reigns; let the earth be glad!

This is my Father’s world, dreaming, I see His face.
I ope’ my eyes, and in glad surprise cry, “The Lord is in this place.”
This is my Father’s world, from the shining courts above,
The Beloved One, His Only Son,
Came—a pledge of deathless love.

This is my Father’s world. I walk a desert lone.
In a bush ablaze to my wondering gaze God makes His glory known.
This is my Father’s world, a wanderer I may roam
Whate’er my lot, it matters not,
My heart is still at home.

—Maltbie D. Babcock, 1901

FRIDAY—FOCUS ON CHRIST’S LIFE

Chronological Reading: Psalm 112-114 + 1Corinthians 14
Friday, August 21, 2009

Luke 10:1  After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

O Lord Jesus:
At your first coming you sent out seventy disciples to prepare the way in front of you. Allow today that the pastors, ministers and missionaries of my church would likewise be used to so prepare and make ready your way. Give them your grace to be able to turn the hearts of the disobedient toward wisdom as they counsel today. In that way, at the rapture of the church, where you carry us away to the judgment seat of Christ, we will be found acceptable in your sight. Prepare me to live and reign with the Father and Holy Spirit forever.
You gave your only-begotten Son to take my nature upon himself. Grant that since I have likewise taken his nature on me by salvation, I might have daily grace, renewed by your Holy Spirit, through the same Lord Jesus Christ who lives and reigns with you forever.
You pour-out on me the new light of your Word. Allow the same light that kindles in my heart to shine forth through my life, not just enlightening others, but setting them alight by your gospel!
Raise up, I pray, your power, and come among us and upon us with great might in revival. Through my own sins and wickedness I am severely hampered in running the race. Give me your bountiful grace and mercy to help and deliver me so I can speed with your purposes in this life.
Father, I ask it all through Jesus Christ my Lord, to whom, with you and the Holy Spirit,
Jude 1:25  To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and for ever. Amen.

SATURDAY—IN THE PSALMS

Chronological Reading: Psalm 115-117 + 1 Corinthians 15
Saturday, August 22, 2009

Psalm 14:7  Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

LORD God and Loving Father:
Let me not be laughed-out of my confidence in you. Instead, let me scorn the scorner’s scorning, and defy their foolish jeers.
Luke 18:7  And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
What could more effectively convince an atheist, more effectively halt my haters, and more effectively stop sin and secure the godly, than the salvation of your people at their cry? How many of us cry to you today from lands all over the globe! We look for you to come. Come today with healing in my life, and Lord, may you come very soon to catch away your bride!
Psalm 15:1 LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
Considering the law, no one can dwell with you, because none of us lives up to the qualifications. Let me learn today, from the Lord of the tabernacle, what the true requirements of entrance are. Only my spotless Lord Jesus—and those who are conformed to his image—get in!
Make me more like Jesus today. Perfect holiness is found only in the Man of Sorrows, but in a measure the Holy Ghost develops it in each one of us who are his people. I am only right if I am upright in walk and downright honest. My faith shows itself by good works. Help me not follow evil—even in the secret closet of my heart—for you are there to listen.
Jesus is my mirror of sincerity and true holiness. Make me more like him as we go into a weekend of worship and praise to the Lamb of God. For his sake I ask it. Amen.

MONDAY—EVANGELISTIC PRAYER

Chronological Reading: Psalm 82-84 + 1 Corinthians 4
Monday, August 10, 2009

1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul:

Dearest Lord and Greatest Redeemer:
The thought in David’s heart was a false thought, but how many times does Satan tempt me to think that same way? I have no reason for believing that your anointing is an empty act, that your Holy Spirit is given to me in vain. Yet so often I am unbelieving about what you can do and intend to do.
Don’t believe everything you think, and certainly not everything you feel. Help me act with hope today, especially towards __________ and __________, who are lost. They need to see in me the kind of faith they could have in Christ, which would rescue them from the “Sauls” in their circumstances.
I have been put in perilous positions at times, but never once have you deserted me to my haters. The trials I am exposed to are varied and many, but with every trial you send a way of escape for me (1 Cor. 10:13). What grace! Today when I pray I want to argue from what you have done for me, not from what I do not have. You will be my defender still, so that I can be your effective witness still.
Every mistrust of you is without cause. You are good and you are God, and I acknowledge that. Your lovingkindness has been marvelous, and I need to start my week remembering that. You have never failed to justify my faith in you.
I have dark nights, but your star of love still shines. I have stiff battles, but when I am too weak to defend myself, you hold up the shield. I face many trials, but never to my detriment; somehow you always make them work out for good.
What a God and what a gospel! Help me throw down the Jezebel of unbelief and get that message to those who need it most this day. Amen.

TUESDAY— CORPORATE PRAYER MINISTRY

Chronological Reading: Psalm 85-87 + 1 Corinthians 5
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Proverbs 4:4,21  He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

Holy God and Righteous Lord:
Teach us to really love your word like Job did (Job 23:12), and like Jeremiah did (Jer 15:16). Then, our reading and our study will become a labor of love, and a joy we look forward to with delight.
Psalm 119:96-97  I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
We plead with you to give us patience to study as well as to read; to meditate as well as to scan, and to openly contemplate throughout the day. Lord, help us take our Bible with us at all times in our hearts, and not leave it in our drawer after devotions. Make us have responsive hearts. Make us willing to pay any price necessary to be saturated with your words. Jesus is so worth it!
Come Holy Spirit, breathe light into our thoughts and life into our speech as we meditate and pray over your word. Thank you, Father for the unspeakable gift of the Lord Jesus. All the unknown joys he gives were bought with agonies immeasurable. How can we praise you enough for sending the Lord Jesus, who became a man of sorrows so we could know fullness of joy?
We bow down in grateful adoration before you, Lord Jesus; before you who bowed so low that you lifted us up to be with you forever. What are our shallow griefs compared to your infinite sorrows? You are chief among ten thousand to our souls. Teach us to live under the shadow of your cross as we walk through this life today. Our great Savior, these things we pray to your honor and glory, for the joy of your soul and the accomplishment of your mission. Amen.

WEDNESDAY—REVIVAL PRAYING

Chronological Reading: Psalm 88-90 + 1 Corinthians 6
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Mark 4:40 And he said unto them, Why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?

Wonderful Savior:
I am saved, but I still need the Holy Spirit with me every day. I need him to do his work of convicting of sin. I need him to convince me of the evil and bitter sin of distrust, because this grieves the Spirit and prevents revival. Give me the ability to trust you in a more childlike way. Oh, convicting Spirit, dwell with me from day to day to convict me of sin, but especially make me feel the worst for questioning my faithful Friend.
The world’s guilt is proven beyond a shadow of doubt. Give me open doors of opportunity to speak up and show people how the gospel of grace frees them from guilt and delivers them from bondage to sin. Part of my unbelief is the silence that I wear around others, when all it would take is getting in a word for the gospel edgewise.
Psalm 37:5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.
Spirit of God, make me sane and wise. I commit my way to you so you can guide and direct my path. Direct us as a church into revival, so you can cause it to spread into the community, so that Jesus Christ might be glorified by the working of your Spirit in our midst. We pray for his power so we can perform your plan.
I thank you that this is no vain request. Asking results in receiving. Seeking results in finding. Knocking will lead to opening. My request for revival is not lost in the wind, and there is a connection between your divine decree and my prayer that is raised for mercy. It is for mercy we plead. Send the showers of blessing that bear fruit for your glory. Amen.

A DAILY PATTERN FOR PRAYER & BIBLE READING

Chronological Reading: Psalm 91-93 + 1Corinthians 7
Thursday, August 13, 2009

2 Samuel 13:19 And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

AS the deer panteth for the water
So my soul longeth after you
You alone are my heart’s desire
And I long to worship you

You’re my friend and you are my brother
Even though you are a king
I love you more than any other
So much more than anything

I want you more than gold or silver,
Only you can satisfy.
You alone are the real joygiver
And the apple of my eye.

You alone are my strength, my shield
To you alone may my spirit yield
You alone are my heart’s desire
And I long to worship you

—Martin Nystrom

FRIDAY—FOCUS ON CHRIST’S LIFE

Chronological Reading: Psalm 94-96 + 1Corinthians 8
Friday, August 14, 2009

Luke 19:38  Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.

Lord God and Only Redeemer:
I praise you; I bless you; I worship you; I glorify you; I give thanks to you for your great glory as heavenly King and Almighty Father. You sent your Son to die for the sins of the world, but you have mercy personally, individually on me. Receive my prayer today whenever I give it. Since Jesus my High Priest sits on the right hand of the Father, he may show mercy to intercede for me (Rom 8:34).
You only are holy. You only are most high in glory. Give me the peace of God that passes all understanding, that my heart and mind can be kept in times of trial today. Keep me in your knowledge and love. Keep me in your blessing.
Romans 13:12  The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
Give me grace to throw away the works of darkness and put on my armor now—in the time of this mortal life—just like Jesus your Son who came to us in great humility. That way in the day of Christ, when he comes again for me in glorious majesty to take me to his judgment seat, I will not be ashamed at his presence. Let me rise to maturity through Jesus who lives and reigns above.
You wrote the Bible for my learning (Rom 15:4). Now grant that I can hear it, read it, mark it, learn it, and inwardly digest it in such a way that by patience and comfort of the Holy Ghost I will embrace it and hold fast the blood, the Book and the blessed hope. These are all things give me in my Savior Jesus Christ. I lean on them today as my daily food and as sustenance to my soul. Let it not be mere dead letter, but in a real sense my “armor of light.” In Jesus’ name I ask it and to his glory. Amen.

SATURDAY—IN THE PSALMS

Chronological Reading: Psalm 97-99 + 1 Corinthians 9
Saturday, August 15, 2009

Psalm 13:3  Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

LORD God and Life-Giver:
I know David must have prayed this more than once while in danger. And I have ever-returning trials just like he did. Verses one and two repeat the question, How Long? four times. Sometimes I mingle impatience with my desire for deliverance. Oh for grace that, while I wait on you, I can be kept back from a complaining spirit!
Psalm 13:2  How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
How long the day seems, when my soul is cast down within me. Let me lift up the voice of faith, O LORD my God! It is a glorious blessing that my position in Christ is not destroyed by all my trials and sorrows.
Psalm 13:6  I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
My heart is more out of harmony than David’s harp, and I must tune it just as often. But prayer has now so refreshed me that I need to clear my throat for a song. My joy can be all the greater because I have wept.
Psalm 13:5  But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
Because I am sure of my faith, my faith makes me sure. It is only when I doubt the reality of my own trust in you that the windows of heaven are blocked. So as the shipwrecked sailor clings to the mast, Lord let me cling to you, because I am truly trusting in your mercy alone.
Faith makes music to you. Let my tongue keep time with my soul and declare, I will sing unto the LORD. Thank you for always returning a song after sorrow. I praise you in Jesus’ holy name. Amen.

First Worship Service

• Oh Praise Him by David Crowder
  • Hear it on the David Crowder Band’s album “Illuminate”
• Everlasting God by Ken Riley and Brenton Brown
  • Hear it on Anthony Evans’s album “The Bridge”
• God With Us by Barry Graul, Bart Millard, Jim Bryson, Mike Scheuchzer, Nathan Cochran, Robby Shaffer
  • Hear it on Mercy Me’s album “All That is Within Me”
• Praise to the Lord the Almighty by Catherine Winkworth, Joachim Neander, and Travis Cottrell
  • Hear it on Travis Cottrell’s album “Alive Forever”
• Let the Church Rise by Israel Houghton and Jonathan Stockstill
  • Hear it on Jonathan Stockstill’s album “Bethany Live: Let the Church Rise”

Second Worship Service

• How He Loves by John Mark McMillan
  • Hear it on Eddie Kirkland’s album “Orthodoxy”
• Awesome God by Rich Mullins
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “Look to You”
• The Stand by Joel Houston
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “The I Heart Revolution: With Hearts as One”
• Revelation Song by Jennie Lee Riddle
  • Hear it on Gateway Worship’s album “Living for You”
• Never Let Go by David Crowder, Mike Hogan, and Mike Dodson
  • Hear it on the David Crowder Band’s album “Remedy”
• Always by Mia Fieldes
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “More Than Life”
• Lead Me to the Cross by Brooke Fraser
  • Hear it on Hillsong United’s album “Look to You”