Hearing the Voice of God

For this past week, my family and I have been doing intercession prayer that I’ve learned from Youth With A Mission.

Usually intercession prayer is about praying for others but the one we are doing is to build relationship with God by asking and waiting on God to hear what we need to pray for/about then we pray together with things we shared with each other. It’s about hearing from God first then we pray on what God has inspired, spoken, and shown us to pray.

I wanted to do this because it’s very good spiritual practice to be comfortable and getting used to ask God and wait to hear His voice. We often want/need to hear God’s voice at last minute but if we don’t recognize the voice, how do we know and trust the voice?

I also thought this could benefit us as we wait on Pentecost in 50 days and of course, times like this gives us perfect opportunity to spend time with God. So here’s how we do it.

Praise God - Sing a song or praise God for who He is

Repentance - Psalms 66:18 If I had cherished sin in my heart, the Lord would not have listened.

Rely on the Holy Spirit - Romans 8: 26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.

Deal with the enemy - James 4:7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Trust and rely on God to speak to you - If possible, have your Bible with you, should God want to give you direction or confirmation from it. Isaiah 55:8 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.

Share with others - When God ceases to bring things to your mind for which to pray, finished by praising and thanking him for what he has done, reminding yourself of Romans 11:36 “For from him and through him and for him are all things to him be the glory forever! Amen.”

Finish with prayers

- Pastor Rein

Let's Start the Engine 01

So what is this Letter with Dreams you are reading right now?

Well, this is my way of communicating to all of you on each and every Sunday. You might ask, ‘How about a sermon?’ well, sermons are God’s communication channel to us and I’m just a messenger. So weekly Letter with Dreams will be my main communication channel to all our church members from now on.

I’ll be sharing about my life, church plans, prayer requests, family matters, upcoming events, and even a joke! I’ll be sharing pretty much everything and anything I can think of. You will hear(read) it from here.

First thing I would like to share with you today is upcoming church plans and prayer request.

Doug and I were in House Church Seminar for Lay Leaders in Houston, TX few weeks back and had a great time of learning and witnessing how God has used NLF to help other churches to restore the spirit of New Testament church. And I would like our church to be a part of the movement by hosting a seminar.

I know, I know, we are few and small... That is why I’m asking you to pray for our church and that is my first prayer request. For our church to host a House Church Seminar for Lay Leaders in three years. That’s right! By year 2023!

Second, My wife and I are planning VIP outreach in March by providing beginners’ tennis lesson from elementary to middle school kids.

We believe this can fill the needs in our community and at the same time, gives us an opportunity to reach out to non-believers.

Third, I would like for us to pray for missions trip in June.

(to be continue...)