http://ikoncommunity.com/exercises/jesus-in-prayer-part-4 A new Christ community in San Diego Sun, 25 Apr 2010 01:15:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://ikoncommunity.com/exercises/jesus-in-prayer-part-4/comment-page-1#comment-347 Ben Sternke Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:51:27 +0000 http://ikoncommunity.com/?p=666#comment-347 Humbling indeed. Thank you Denise. Humbling indeed. Thank you Denise.

]]> http://ikoncommunity.com/exercises/jesus-in-prayer-part-4/comment-page-1#comment-345 admin Sun, 24 Jan 2010 01:35:51 +0000 http://ikoncommunity.com/?p=666#comment-345 Wow. That's pretty humbling. Thank you for sharing this. Wow. That’s pretty humbling. Thank you for sharing this.

]]> http://ikoncommunity.com/exercises/jesus-in-prayer-part-4/comment-page-1#comment-339 denise Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:32:02 +0000 http://ikoncommunity.com/?p=666#comment-339 Well this couldn't have been more timely! A couple of weeks ago as we studied the Lords Prayer and talked about forgiveness someone in our Sunday night group shared that he struggled with forgiveness of some church leaders. I asked my self, do I have that problem with anyone? Nope, couldn't think of anyone. Then last week, out of the blue, with out remembering that discussion, I decided to send off an email to a pastor that I had had a problem with when he did a series of sermons on a certain church movement. I had such an issue with it that I left the church. Now in my blindness to my own issues I thought, well I'm not mad anymore so I think I will just reach out to him and see if I can persuade him to take another look at this subject. Wow, what arrogance! Yesterday, I got a reply. But not from the pastor I sent the email to who did the series but from his associate pastor he had passed it off to. It was not the response I was hoping for. Boy was I mad! I stewed about this for most of the day, did not pray about it at all and then I sent off a very scathing reply to them BOTH, all the while feeling pretty self righteous. Then last night God started really convicting me about that email. It was terrible, He really hounded me about until I finally feel asleep feeling pretty awful about myself. So this morning when I woke up, VERY early (God wasn't going to let me sleep in) I bravely reread what I had written and sent off to those poor pastors yesterday. OUCH, it was bad! And the worst part was that all the scripture I had written (yes, I quoted scripture to them) really applied to me!! Now I'm thinking, will I ever get this "living like Christ" thing down? I'm feeling like it's pretty hopeless as I realize, man, there is just no good thing in me! So, I decided to do today's lesson hoping there would be some answer for me there. Well there was. I saw my problem (or at least one of them) was that until I confess my lack of trust in God and my arrogant belief in my own abilities and start relying on God, through prayer to change me, Satan will continue to sift me like wheat. Well this couldn’t have been more timely! A couple of weeks ago as we studied the Lords Prayer and talked about forgiveness someone in our Sunday night group shared that he struggled with forgiveness of some church leaders. I asked my self, do I have that problem with anyone? Nope, couldn’t think of anyone. Then last week, out of the blue, with out remembering that discussion, I decided to send off an email to a pastor that I had had a problem with when he did a series of sermons on a certain church movement. I had such an issue with it that I left the church. Now in my blindness to my own issues I thought, well I’m not mad anymore so I think I will just reach out to him and see if I can persuade him to take another look at this subject. Wow, what arrogance! Yesterday, I got a reply. But not from the pastor I sent the email to who did the series but from his associate pastor he had passed it off to. It was not the response I was hoping for. Boy was I mad! I stewed about this for most of the day, did not pray about it at all and then I sent off a very scathing reply to them BOTH, all the while feeling pretty self righteous. Then last night God started really convicting me about that email. It was terrible, He really hounded me about until I finally feel asleep feeling pretty awful about myself. So this morning when I woke up, VERY early (God wasn’t going to let me sleep in) I bravely reread what I had written and sent off to those poor pastors yesterday. OUCH, it was bad! And the worst part was that all the scripture I had written (yes, I quoted scripture to them) really applied to me!! Now I’m thinking, will I ever get this “living like Christ” thing down? I’m feeling like it’s pretty hopeless as I realize, man, there is just no good thing in me! So, I decided to do today’s lesson hoping there would be some answer for me there. Well there was. I saw my problem (or at least one of them) was that until I confess my lack of trust in God and my arrogant belief in my own abilities and start relying on God, through prayer to change me, Satan will continue to sift me like wheat.

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