Latest / Armed Anchored Adorned / Invitation - 30 days to "just give thanks"
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- Armed Anchored & Adorned: Well hello. Hello and welcome. I'm so glad you're here. I want to share something with you that the Lord has invited invited me to and I wanna invite you to come along too. I know you just got here, right? I've had a heart for prayer. I've shared it here, and I pray that that never goes away. That I never lose my awe of it. I've witnessed incredible things through prayer, through others' prayer, through my own. I've seen the the beauty and the depth of connecting with the Holy of Holies, the the King of Kings. Like we get to do that. I'm just I'm just in awe. And I'm also kind of in awe of just how frequently that gets missed in in our faith. Like we feel like we need to be doing something rather than we think prayer, being in prayer isn't doing something. And man, that is just not the case. It's just not. So I wanted to I've been s I've been talking with him about this years and years ago. Maybe not years and years, maybe years ago, I would wake up and at seven AM I would meet with maybe some of you, but we would we would pray every single morning together. through a a live feed and it has been it it was such a season of growth for me and like blessing upon blessing. I just and that's not that's not why I did it. But boy did I I felt that. I felt the blessing. Was my life perfect? No it was not. No it was not. But boy the the presence of him that that I experienced and the peace and the joy was something that you really can't quite express, you have to experience it. So I'm inviting you for 30 days. I'm starting with November. And if the Lord draws us to something new in December, which I feel like he probably will, I'm s we're starting with November. And I had to pray through this because it felt like, everybody does thankful November giving things in November because of Thanksgiving. I'm feeling a call to prayer, deeper prayer every day. Every day to give thanks to not not miss giving thanks every single day. there are so there's 30 days in November. There's way more places in scripture than just 30. Well, we're gonna start with 30. And I want to prepare my heart for the end of this year and the beginning of next. And I wanna start with thank you, Lord. Thank you for who you are. And I think it's so cool how they're starting to really recognize the power of giving thanks. Look into neuroscience of giving thanks to God. Just look into it. It's mind-blowing. I mean, it isn't because we believe what God's word says. I mean, Romans 12, 2 tells us, renew your mind. It and and they're seeing in the neuroscience like that's what is happening. It's creating new places within our brains that give us greater capacity to deal with this world. And there's less anxiety, more joy, more peace. So, y you ever hear the phrase, you can't outgive God. We give him thanks and it like releases something within us and blesses us. And that's not why we're coming and doing this. But boy, how cool is that that the Lord even offers that back to us. Like he's just that good. So Here I am sharing with you a place that I have felt called and invited. I'm inviting you along. We're gonna pray every day in November and we are going to give thanks. And I'm excited to see what the Lord wants to do here. Here, here first. Lord, change me, grow me, cleanse me, and get my eyes back on to you. Less of me, empty me of me, more of you, fill me with you and your truth. This is not about what we can get, what I can have, what what is anything about me, but open my eyes and soften my heart in the places you know we need it. I need it. We give you thanks for this invitation and we ask for help in any ways that are going to try to derail or distract or tempt us. To not accept your invitation. I believe this was an invitation from you, not a demand. It's just a loving invitation that you know is going to do something beautiful. And I'm here for that, Lord, whatever that is. Thank you. We love you. In Jesus' holy name, amen. So when we get together and pray, it will not be very long. It will just be about scripture and giving thanks. There will be no what's for dinner or anything else. But it will be every day. And I'm really excited to just give the Lord that space. So come and pray with me. Come renew your mind first thing in the morning. He's got something cool for us. And I hope you come. See you then. Love y'all.