Comments on: When You’re Tired http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/01/when-youre-tired.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Tue, 22 May 2012 03:53:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Swap Blog » Blog Archive » Sick and tired of being sick and tiredhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/01/when-youre-tired.html#comment-34022 Swap Blog » Blog Archive » Sick and tired of being sick and tired Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:10:54 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/01/when-youre-tired.html#comment-34022 [...] much more to be excited about in that then what the world tells us. This one is well worth ready. Full Post Here Swap This These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new [...] [...] much more to be excited about in that then what the world tells us. This one is well worth ready. Full Post Here Swap This These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new [...]

]]> By: franciscohttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/01/when-youre-tired.html#comment-33753 francisco Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:55:29 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/01/when-youre-tired.html#comment-33753 Dire Dan: I guess Oengus might be tired to respond to your "When you're tired" post. Oh, wait...I'm tired too, need to go to bed! :) Dire Dan: I guess Oengus might be tired to respond to your “When you’re tired” post. Oh, wait…I’m tired too, need to go to bed! :)

]]> By: Hollyhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/01/when-youre-tired.html#comment-33749 Holly Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:01:11 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2008/01/when-youre-tired.html#comment-33749 These Cerulean Sanctum posts always seem to have it's thumb directly on the pulse of our times — it's downright uncanny. We ARE in the midst of the sleep of the damned. That's so well put. It's like a lethargic, bleary-eyed stumbling through this world on it's way to eternal damnation. What to do regarding the Church at large? It seems since these are spiritual issues, they can be only overcome using spiritual means. In a word: more focused, deep, fervent intercessory prayer for these specific issues. Not a prayer or two shot off with the passion of someone who wants to check "Pray for Church off their prayer list. No, with the passion of someone praying for the Church with the same intensity and desire you'd see if a person's child was kidnapped and the mom or dad spent their days and nights crying out to God from the depths of their being for their child's safety and return. Do we have that kind of fervent passion for the health of the Body? Do we see it as OUR problem, and not the leadership's problem or someone else's problem (like someone with the "ministry of prayer — what is that notion, anyway?! — we ALL have the ministry of prayer)? Is fervent, deep, focused intercessory prayer for the health of His Church our driving passion? If not, why not? And then, for the Church to be in a state of readiness to receive the directives He wants us to carry out. So the first and primary response, I think, is to shut off all the mindless time wasters and retreat to one's prayer chamber, fall on our faces before Him, earnestly pleading for God to bring passion and a renewed sense of the set apart nature of His Church — that in all places everywhere His true Church gathers, that He would breathe life into these dead bones and restore to us a sense of wonder, renewed joy, and fervent passion to see His name honored throughout the world (and especially amongst the people who are called by His name), and that He would purge from us all that displeases Him and ALL that weighs us down and makes us lethargic and spiritually dulled. Would that God would grant us hearts desperate for Him — hearts that would treasure the joy of intercession far above the joy of eating, sleeping, or anything else! These Cerulean Sanctum posts always seem to have it’s thumb directly on the pulse of our times — it’s downright uncanny. We ARE in the midst of the sleep of the damned. That’s so well put. It’s like a lethargic, bleary-eyed stumbling through this world on it’s way to eternal damnation.

What to do regarding the Church at large? It seems since these are spiritual issues, they can be only overcome using spiritual means. In a word: more focused, deep, fervent intercessory prayer for these specific issues. Not a prayer or two shot off with the passion of someone who wants to check “Pray for Church off their prayer list. No, with the passion of someone praying for the Church with the same intensity and desire you’d see if a person’s child was kidnapped and the mom or dad spent their days and nights crying out to God from the depths of their being for their child’s safety and return.

Do we have that kind of fervent passion for the health of the Body? Do we see it as OUR problem, and not the leadership’s problem or someone else’s problem (like someone with the “ministry of prayer — what is that notion, anyway?! — we ALL have the ministry of prayer)? Is fervent, deep, focused intercessory prayer for the health of His Church our driving passion? If not, why not? And then, for the Church to be in a state of readiness to receive the directives He wants us to carry out.

So the first and primary response, I think, is to shut off all the mindless time wasters and retreat to one’s prayer chamber, fall on our faces before Him, earnestly pleading for God to bring passion and a renewed sense of the set apart nature of His Church — that in all places everywhere His true Church gathers, that He would breathe life into these dead bones and restore to us a sense of wonder, renewed joy, and fervent passion to see His name honored throughout the world (and especially amongst the people who are called by His name), and that He would purge from us all that displeases Him and ALL that weighs us down and makes us lethargic and spiritually dulled.

Would that God would grant us hearts desperate for Him — hearts that would treasure the joy of intercession far above the joy of eating, sleeping, or anything else!

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