Per usual, we continue to provide two options for studying the Scripture and spending time in prayer and personal worship throughout the week!!
Click on the links below for the associated resources for the week:
Once-A-Day Approach for March 27-April 2
Divine Offices/Hours for March 27-April 2
Please add any comments as you read through these this week!!
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Resources for the Week | 03/27 - 04/02
Monday, March 26, 2007
COMMUNITY Life & Prayer | Week of March 26
Last night, since the commissioning went a little over time, we missed out on a planned time of prayer, which is totally fine because we firmly believe in commissioning everyone and we were all really excited about it I think! So, this post will center on what was going to be the focus of our time in prayer at TILT last night.
The premise of commissioning is, of course, that we are sent out into the world, to the places where we already are. Yes, God may call you elsewhere, but where you are right now is where God has called you!
So, let's spend the week praying for the places to which we have been sent, the people to whom we have been called to serve and things to which we have been commissioned to do.
Post a comment as you desire and we can pray for one another as a community - where do you work? who do you interact with? what do you do? To whom has God sent you? Post your thoughts and we can journey together through our commissioning and pray for one another.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
COMMUNITY LIFE & PRAYER | March 20
Here is our weekly space to share with one another as a community throughout the week. What can we pray for as a community - for TILT, for Toronto, for Canada, for the world? Who are the people we are interacting with and how can we pray for them? Post your comments and we can pray for one another.
Some things that came up on Sunday night:
Thank you, Lord! Becki and Barb both shared encouraging stories of God's work in their lives - Becki in raising support and Barb in a job for the summer.
Continue to pray for healing for Jen-Mai. And the health of mother and baby for Monica and Michelle (and fathers too! [Greg and Jay]).
The federal budget was announced yesterday. Pray for accountability in funding, use of resources with integrity, that they may be used justly, equitably and fairly.
Please, post anything else we can pray for!
Resources for the Week | 03/20 - 03/26
Click on the links below for the associated resources for the week:
Once-A-Day Approach for March 20-26
Divine Offices/Hours for March 20-26
Please add any comments as you read through these this week...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
COMMUNITY LIFE & PRAYER | March 13
How is God leading us as Easter approaches? How can we as a community of faith live out the Gospel - as a gathered community and as a scattered community throughout the week? Who are the people God is leading you to be in contact with? How are you seeing God's presence as you go about your day? Are you?
Is there anything that the community as a whole can pray for you? Something we can rejoice in together? Post it here!
As you pray this week, contemplate Jesus' work through the cross. We know in our heads what it is about, but pray that it becomes a part of who you are - knowing Jesus' triumphant victory over evil, the freedom the Cross provides to follow and obey God...
Resources for the Week | 03/13 - 03/19
Contemplative/Devotional/Reading Resources for the week are here!
Once-A-Day Approach for March 13-19
Divine Offices/Hours for March 13-19
Please add any comments as you read through these this week...
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Resources for the Week | 03/06 - 03/12
Here are the resources for the week:
Once-A-Day
Divine Offices
Post your thoughts and reflections here!
Monday, March 5, 2007
COMMUNITY Life & Prayer | Week of March 4
Last night was our communion potluck and we spent some time praying for one another. If you were there last night, continue to pray through some of the things that were raised at your table. Here were the questions which guided our prayer:
Jesus’ prayer: “I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one”. Pray for unity as a TILT community, Spring Garden community and for the church throughout Toronto and Canada.
God has made us competent ministers of His Good News. Pray for eyes to see opportunities to be ministers in both word and deed, and for courage to respond to them!
Pray for one another about areas of our lives where we struggle to trust God. What are we anxious about? Where do we need both discernment and trust?
As always, post your stories, prayer requests, praises by clicking on "Comments".
Thursday, March 1, 2007
COMMUNITY Life & Prayer | Week of February 25
Stemming from last night's conclusion of the Reconstructing the Call series - how is God leading you in prayer? Are there areas where the community can pray for you in terms of the details of your life? Seeing your job as a ministry? Building in trust of God rather than depending upon clarity in everything? Post your comments belows by clicking on "Comments".
Praying for politicians: Quebec's provincial election is coming up soon - always hotly contested and full of rhetoric.
Praying for widows and orphans: There are 27,000 Inuit children who live in foster homes. Pray for justice, and safe homes.
Praying for God's creation: The Conservatives are soon to release their "Green" plan. Pray that it would lead us in being good stewards of our country.
A request from our community: Peter D'Angelo and Bill Hall will be speaking to the youth on Wednesday about sexuality. I think we all know how distorted sexuality has become in our society. Pray that God's truth will be shown to the youth with respect to their bodies and sexuality.
Our Stories | Becki Lee
I strongly believe that like many things in life, hearing from God is something that requires an investment of time in order to see fruit. Last spring, I was blessed with both the opportunity and desire to do just that. This was the first time in my life where I made a habit of devoting an extended period of time to prayer. To not only pray by speaking to God, but also by intentionally listening.
I am someone who thrives on structure and specific direction, which the book “Conversation with God” by Lloyd John Ogilvie provided for me as I delved into two-way prayer. One of the key components of prayer that he outlined was a time for silence and listening. At first, as is often the case with something new, I struggled to quiet my mind in order to hear God’s voice. With some practice though, I began to cherish these times and to hear specific things from God.
One such occasion of hearing from God came at the end of May when I simply asked God “What do you want to speak to me today?” and focused my mind until I felt His words forming.
“Move out” He said to me.
“Move out?” I questioned, “But Lord I just moved in!”
At the time I had been living in a new apartment for less than three weeks when I heard this directive. Why would God be leading me to move out of a place I had lived for less than a month, a decision in which I had felt His strong confirmation just weeks before? “This doesn’t make sense,” I remember thinking to myself. “I don’t know if this is really from God.” Given my predicament, I decided to pray a prayer of putting on the armour of God from Ephesians 6.
I really can’t explain what happened next, but the next thing I heard was “Move out...into new territory,” the way a military general would command his troops.
“New territory?” I asked.
“Move out into new territory” I heard again. “Take ground for my kingdom. Ryerson.”
Now in order to fully understand what God was speaking to me, I should explain a little about my work. I work in full time ministry with Athletes in Action, the sports ministry of Campus for Christ, at York University and the University of Toronto. So, it was clear to me that God was blessing and encouraging me to step out in faith and begin the process of developing a ministry at Ryerson University. God’s directive was further confirmed later the same day when I spoke to my co-worker Monica who told me she had been sensing a similar leading from God about Ryerson. So I began to explore some possibilities and move in this direction.
Although we are not yet actively doing anything at Ryerson due to a variety of circumstances, I still believe that it is God’s will that when we are more able, we will begin to do so. I also believe that this word from God was a general encouragement that I need to hold on to for my life ministry, both personally and professionally.
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