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The Prayer Challenge
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feel like I’m probably the last person who should be writing anything on prayer. My prayer life has always been the most difficult discipline to nurture. Can you relate? Growing up in the church, children are taught that prayer is talking to Jesus. As we mature, we learn prayer is relational — listening and talking. We read books and listen to messages on prayer. We download prayer guides and even delve into ancient spiritual practices like Lectio Divina and the Daily Examen. Sometimes I feel my prayer life is like having a conversation about a person in the room instead of actually connecting with that person. Despite vibrant seasons, my prayer life has never been consistent. I know the Father
desires time with me. Why do I have difficulty responding to His pursuit? I’d like to issue a simple challenge. What if, for the next 30 days, we all take five minutes a day for prayer? You decide the format: silent listening, journal writing, out loud while commuting or when the babies are sleeping. Share your journey on facebook.com/ fmcusa. Post resources, tips, encounters with God and answers to prayer. Share how prayer is shaping your day, week or month. Free Methodism has always been Archer i Jason a movement of prayer. Let’s move Executive Director of Communications together. [LLM]
EXTRA! EXTRA! Read more about prayer online at llcomm.org 1] Do you use QR codes? Scan this box with your smartphone to read more articles on this issue’s theme. 2] More Discipleship Orient your life for prayer with Lloyd and Deb Lewis of Mary’s Place Ministries. 3] Beneath the Layers Cheri Cowell explores and prays in Israel.
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ome people view the new year and beyond as increasingly dark and foreboding. They look into the future and try to see what is ahead, but they can’t know. Other people see the horizon as bright with reason for optimism. Are there any signs for us to read? The early church in Acts is a bright example of how to respond when the future seems uncertain and the road ahead is uncharted. uuu
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3 [feature] Acts 12 gives the story of a young church under siege. The early Christians were overwhelmed, and their future was very much in doubt. James, their leader, had been thrown into prison and then killed. Peter, second in command, was taken into custody, and his death seemed imminent. Herod was on a rampage, determined to destroy the infant church by destroying its leaders, but the Jerusalem believers knew something that few others did. They knew how to pray. “So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him” (Acts 12:5). Their prayer had three distinct characteristics.
Turning to God First, they prayed to God. Their faith was in Him and Him alone. They had no other place to turn. Many of them had been cut off by their families and abandoned by those they loved most. They were disinherited and disenfranchised. Civil authorities turned a deaf ear to their plea, and there were no lobbying groups to plead their case. God was their only hope, but what a great hope to have. Evangelist Vance Havner said they were “shipwrecked on God.”
Earnest They were also earnest in their praying. This wasn’t like a mealtime prayer or a “good night, Lord” sort of thing. The Jerusalem band was desperate. The King James Version says they prayed “without ceasing.” One can sense the pathos in those words, especially since Peter’s fate seemed sealed.
Focused But one other characteristic in Acts 12:5 is important. They prayed with a definite object in mind. Their LLM | Jan 2013
prayer was focused on Peter. We don’t know exactly what they were saying as they prayed, but we know Peter’s name was being spoken over and over again. These were not words spoken in glittering generalities. They were anguished pleas for a doomed man.
Still Relevant? What happened as a result of their prayer? In uncertain times, as we face a new year, is there a lesson to be found in Acts 12? I am convinced the story of the New Testament church is extremely relevant in a postmodern world. As we pray, gloom can be turned into powerful joy. Uncertainty can be exchanged for God’s positive opportunities. In Acts 12, we see what happened to Peter and those early Jesus-followers.
Sovereign God When we pray like we should, the sovereign will of God is done. True praying always recognizes God’s sovereignty. For James, God’s will meant an early death and immediate entrance into the presence of Jesus. For Peter, it meant miraculous
[feature] 4 deliverance from prison and continued kingdom work. God very often does more than we ask. When Peter was set free by an angel and walked out of the prison where he was guarded by 16 Roman soldiers, he immediately went to a house where many of the believers were praying. They were shocked when he appeared at the door. When Rhoda — the servant girl — ran to tell the others it was Peter, they said, “You’re out of your mind. It must be his angel” (Acts 12:15). Some have accused the Jerusalem church of not believing or having faith, but no record exists of prayer for Peter’s deliverance. They were praying “for him,” and here is an instance where God did “immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us” (Ephesians 3:20). God revels in impossible situations, and He delights in doing things for us that are far above our expectations. In Acts 12, the tables were turned on the people who wished harm to the young church. After an investigation, Herod ordered the execution of the guards responsible for Peter’s security. In fact, even Herod met a rather terrible fate because he failed to give praise to God.
A praying church is a powerful force. God always hears the cries of those who call to Him. Judgment ultimately comes on those who reject Christ.
Growth My favorite part of this story is what happened as a result of their prayers and Peter’s deliverance. Acts 12:24 says, “But the word of God continued to spread and flourish.” A praying church will be a growing church. The circumstances and surroundings of the Jerusalem believers probably didn’t change. Persecution was still rampant. They still lived in an alien culture, but God’s Word continued to increase and spread. For those of us living in a 21st-century environment, this fact is worth noting. As Maxie Dunnam asked, “What if there are some things God either cannot or will not do until people pray?” As New Year’s Day 1952 arrived, the Korean conflict was raging. China and the United States were drawn into the vicious fighting with hundreds of thousands of troops on that peninsula as the threat of nuclear war hung over the world. Christians in South Korea were scattered and
God revels in impossible situations, and He delights in doing things for us that are far above our expectations. deeply discouraged. Churches were closed or destroyed. Families were torn apart as men were killed in large numbers. One American denomination — concerned about its churches there — sent its world missions director to assess the situation. He wrote back a grim report of the toll the war was taking on the Korean church. Several church buildings were bombed, more LLM | Jan 2013
5 [feature] than one pastor had been killed and, in the director’s mind, it seemed like a hopeless situation. At the close of his report, however, he noted that the people were praying. He said that various churches were meeting together to pray. He closed with these prophetic words, “But they know how to pray.” As the conflict came to a close and South Korea began to rebuild, so did the church. Today, that denomination
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has more than 1,000 churches, and the largest church in the world is in Seoul. When I visited in 1989, more than 18,000 believers attended an all-night prayer service. What happens when the church prays? We have a wonderful example in the early church. Now, let’s pray that God will unleash His power on us and fulfill His will and purpose! [LLM]
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Rex Bullock, a Free Methodist pastor and evangelist, is the president of Dayspring Ministries (dayspringradio.com) and the voice of the “Dayspring” and “PowerSurge” radio programs.
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One Is the Loneliest Number
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rayer is a delightful puzzle for logical people who wonder, “Why pray? Doesn’t God already know everything?” Prayer puzzles people of action who wonder, “Wouldn’t it be better to do what I know God wants, rather than just sit here with my eyes closed?” Prayer puzzles thoughtful people who react against the idea of “the power of prayer,” as though prayer were like a switch we can throw to get stuff done. Prayer puzzles healers who can’t understand why sometimes He heals when we pray, and sometime He doesn’t. Prayer is a relationship, not an activity. The grand story of creation is a loving God whose love bursts out in creation, culminating in us, walking together in the garden with Him. The tragic story of sin is us messing it up, breaking relationship, hiding from Him in the shadows. The sweet story of redemption is relationship restored, the walks reinitiated. If prayer is indeed relationship with God, then that helps the logical people: “Pray because you want to hear and be heard. You hunger for the garden walks together.” It helps the people of action: “If prayer is relationship, then there’s not a hard line between activity and contemplation. It’s all prayer.” It helps those who cringe from manipulative prayer: “If prayer is relationship with the all-powerful, then expect miraculous stuff.” And it helps those puzzled by healing and prayer: “If prayer is relationship with the Restorer, then, of course, healing (as well as sickness and physical death) happens as we enjoy His best path toward goodness.” In fact, prayer as a discreet activity is just goofy. Prayer is contemplation and petition, yes; but it’s also action, justice, listening and singing. Prayer is us nestling into the heartbeat of our Father. We don’t become one with Him. We are still creatures, but we creatures become good with the Creator and do good with the Creator. Prayer is the communication part of relationship. It’s that full, natural, two-way flow of our thoughts, words and deeds. To not pray is to strangle the relationship. We either pray or reveal our unbelief. To not pray is to return to the aloneness of the garden’s shadows. To not pray is to stand alone. [LLM]
LIVE VISION CAST Join us for our next live Vision Cast on Feb. 10. This roundtable discussion will feature people who are living out living out the three strategies our bishops discussed in the last vision cast. Learn more at
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Go to fmcusa.org/live on Feb. 10 to watch the discussion live. Invite your church, small group or family.
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Bishop David Roller
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Satellite of Prayer BY BOB HASLAM
S C RI P T U R E : Romans 8:26 Ephesians 6:18 Ephesians 3:16 1 Peter 4:7
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n the middle of the night in Michigan, Grandma Wakeman was awakened by an intense urge to pray for her former pastor. When the pastor and his family left for missionary service in the Philippines, she promised to pray daily for them, but the nighttime prompting caused her to pray as in 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.” Meanwhile, I (her former pastor) struggled half a world away, where it was the middle of the day. Missionary couples had left the field, and I was having a difficult time keeping up with all the responsibilities that had fallen my way in the tropical heat and humidity. Wakeman followed the call to “pray in the Spirit on all occasions” (Ephesians 6:18) as she bombarded heaven with almost wordless prayers. As she sent prayer like a satellite transmission, God answered. While at my desk desperately completing lesson plans for my next Light and Life Bible Seminary class, I suddenly was inundated by the divine presence. My entire being was renewed — spiritually, emotionally, mentally and physically. Wakeman’s prayer must have echoed Ephesians 3:16: “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being.” In those moments, the thought came to me that Wakeman was praying. I later confirmed with her the date and time of the shared experience. As 1 Peter 4:7 states, “Be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.” Whenever God prompts you to pray for someone, do it right then, no matter the person’s location. As you use God’s satellite of prayer, He will do His work. [LLM]
Former LLM Editor Bob Haslam is the author of the 2012 book “PK,” fmchr.ch/bhaslam. LLM | Jan 2013
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Pray With Your Family BY D.F. NEWTON
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mit family prayer morning or evening! What for? What do you gain by it? Dispense with your breakfast, your supper, your regular meals for the sustaining of your physical strength? Better a thousand times starve the body than the soul. You need the bread of heaven to nourish the soul, infinitely more than you need earthly food to nourish the body. “Haven’t time,” say you, reader? Indeed! What is time? Whose is it? Who made time? Is time yours, or God’s? Has God given you time to live, breathe, walk, talk, pray? Why not pray, then? Mind what God says. God commands you to pray — pray always, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, watching thereto with all perseverance. It is said of Martin Luther that the more he had to do, the more frequently and fervently he prayed. On one occasion he remarked to a friend, “I have so much to do today that I shall have to pray three hours.” Robert Hall, hearing some worldly minded persons object to family prayer as taking up too much time, said that what might seem a loss will be more than compensated by that spirit of order and regularity, which the stated observances of this duty tend to produce. Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling. To pray in our families is a solemn duty — a blessed privilege. Let God speak — utter His voice in your families and prayer meetings. The father who does not pray in his family will scarcely take much pains to bring up his children “in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4 KJV). [LLM]
This article is a condensed version of “Family Devotion, Morning and Evening” in the June 1870 issue of the Earnest Christian. The entire article can be downloaded from the Marston Memorial Historical Center at fmchr.ch/dfnewton.
To pray in our families is a solemn duty — a blessed privilege. LLM | Jan 2013
BY MICHAEL J. METTS
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[action] 10 Three years ago, after hearing about similar ministries at other churches, Sherene Eckenrode encouraged the ladies of Cove Run FMC in Lemont Furnace, Pa., to make prayer shawls. Since then, the church has delivered more than 400 shawls to people around the world. Cove Run member Judy Hanna feels blessed to be able to help so many people. “We’ve gotten a lot of responses from people who have told us how much comfort they have gotten from them,” Hanna said. The women make 10 to 25 prayer shawls each month, praying over the shawls as they work. On the last Sunday of the month, the entire congregation prays over and anoints the shawls before they are sent out. Every shawl includes a card explaining how the church prays for each recipient. “We’ve had people that have been told that they would never be healed, and they have been healed,” Hanna said. “It’s nothing to do with the prayer shawl. It’s the prayer that goes behind it.” Some people mistakenly think the shawls contain some kind of power. The church uses these opportunities to educate recipients about the power of prayer.
“The power is from God,” church secretary Betty Nicklow said. “That’s where the healing is from.” The church looks for any opportunity to give a shawl to someone in need. Recipients could be down the street or on the other side of the world. “We have sent them to our soldiers in Afghanistan, Iraq — just different places all around the world and all over the United States,” Hanna said. Because many of the recipients correspond with the church, the church family has opportunities to see prayer working in people’s lives. “It’s just a blessing to us to hear the good news that comes back about each prayer shawl that’s sent out and the many cards we’ve received,” Hanna said. In addition to prayer, church members have other opportunities to be involved in the ministry. “There are just so many aspects of it,” Cove Run member Maureen Livingston said. “We have the people who crochet, the people who donate the yarn, the people who donate the money for the yarn and then we also have women that actually deliver them into the homes.” “We get cards almost every Sunday from somebody saying how much the prayer shawl meant to them or
p The ladies at Cove Run FMC include a card explaining how the church prays for the recipient of each shawl. They also include a “prayer bear” for the children of the recipient. Opposite, left to right: Judy Hanna, Betty Nicklow and Maureen Livingston of Cove Run FMC are involved in the church’s prayer shawl ministry.
their family,” Livingston said. As encouraging as the ministry is to others, it’s also a great encouragement to the church. “It makes us feel just as good as the person that’s getting the shawl,” Livingston said. “It’s a blessing for us.” [LLM]
Watch a video of the women involved in Cove Run’s prayer shawl ministry: fmchr.ch/UE9ZsG
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Hill Reflects on Four Fruitful Years BY JEFF FINLEY
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our years ago, Dale Hill left his 27-year career at a Wenatchee, Wash., accounting firm to move to Indianapolis and become chief financial officer of the Free Methodist Church – USA. Hill said he was greeted by “some very big challenges as far as finances, information technology and financial reporting.” Denominational departments used different financial software and didn’t always collaborate. “The only way we were going to get beyond this and really survive in the 21st century would be working together,” said Hill, who called for regular staff meetings with all departments’ employees. A new vision statement followed: “Together, as servants of Jesus Christ, we are valued for our excellent service to meet the changing needs of our growing worldwide church.” The departments now use the same financial software. For in-depth “In the accounting world, coverage, when you’re having to recvisit fmchr.ch/ dalehill. oncile two different general LLM | Jan 2013
ledgers, that’s an impossible task,” Hill said. Hill recently left the CFO post to return to Washington. On Feb. 1, he will rejoin his former firm in an administrative post that is full-time during tax season and part-time the rest of the year. Hill said he and his wife, Donna, want to take “a sabbatical and really reflect, seek the Lord and determine what the next step is as far as using us in His kingdom.” They will be closer to a new grandson and Dale Hill other family and friends in Washington, but they’ll miss the Midwest. “We are better people because our lives came through the World Ministries Center,” Hill said. Chief Operating Officer Larry Roberts said the center’s employees are better because of Hill. “Dale Hill had a profound impact
on the work of the World Ministries Center during his time here,” Roberts said. “He installed needed systems, improved communication, integrated the work flow across the various departments, and brought the organization’s digital infrastructure into the 21st century.” [LLM]
[news] 12 HURRICANE HAMMERS EAST COAST Long Branch, N.J., and Brooklyn, N.Y.
David Harvey, superintendent of the Acts 12:24 Churches, received no reports of injured Free Methodists when Hurricane Sandy blasted the East Coast. However, flooding resulted in lost possessions for members of the Long Branch (N.J.) Brazilian Church and Brooklyn (N.Y.) Bethlehem Haitian Fellowship. Harvey’s update is available at fmchr.ch/fmsandy.
PASTOR SHARES SANDY STORY Ironia, N.J.
Hurricane Sandy caused the Ironia FMC to lose power in its church building and parsonage for multiple days. Then a snowstorm hit. A Jewish center offered to let the FM congregation use its facility for Sunday services, but electricity returned to the church in time. Pastor Stephen Reyner shares more at fmchr.ch/ironiafmc.
PASTORS JOIN RIVER CONFERENCE Laredo, Texas
The River Conference appointed Pastors Guillermo and Ligia Flores to the Laredo FMC. Guillermo, previously the Hispanic ministries superintendent in Southern California, will also serve as the River Conference’s director of ministry development/church planting and renewal. Ligia, an ordained FM elder, also pastored in Southern California.
VAN DUZER NAMED SPU PROVOST Seattle
Seattle Pacific University President Daniel J. Martin announced Nov. 26 the appointment of Jeff Van Duzer as the university’s provost. Van Duzer has served as dean of SPU’s School of Business and Economics since 2001, as well as professor of business law and ethics. He is the author of “Why Business Matters to God,” fmchr.ch/jvanduzer.
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Freedom Sunday Set for Feb. 17 BY KEVIN AUSTIN
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here are more slaves in our world today than at any other time. Real slaves: U.S. teens who have run away from home only to be tricked into sex slavery; agricultural slaves harvesting our tomatoes; child soldiers in Africa; children picking cocoa beans; and women, men and children robbed of their dignity and treated as things to be used and abused. Free Methodists are confronting this evil and leading the movement to end modern-day slavery. From Greece to Nigeria, Thailand, Brazil, Columbia and India, Free Methodists are rising up to say that no one should be for sale. Across the United States, Free Methodists in churches, organizations and universities are also asking how to engage while choosing to live differently, praying with passion and spending money in the direction of freedom. With other Christians across the globe, Free Methodists are pursuing holistic freedom. God wants to set people free physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually. Free Methodists raise their voices in prayer and song, reach out with genuine love, act in smart ways to create new futures and follow Jesus across the street and around the globe. Slavery exists in our products, back yards, schools and mission fields. God calls us to courageously engage. On Freedom Sunday, Feb. 17, Free Methodists across the globe will focus on this movement of To learn more God to bring hope and healing to the world. It’s a about the fight day of celebration. It’s hope-infused and prayerto end modern slavery, visit filled worship that spills out into the community to fmchr.ch/llmfree. set captives free. LLM | Jan 2013
A girl holds eggs at a bus stop in Cambodia, where abolitionists are working to end child labor and slavery. (Photo by Kevin Austin)
Participate by going to fmchr.ch/freedomsunday for step-by-step instructions. In addition to worshipping in the direction of freedom, Free Methodists are invited to engage beyond the day’s celebration as well as give to specific Set Free projects. [LLM]
Kevin Austin is a missionary working domestically and globally to end slavery through the Set Free Movement. To learn more about Set Free projects, email him at kevin1austin@gmail.com.
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New Year’s Resolution or Prayer Life? BY DEB LEWIS
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ew Year’s resolutions are made because we believe action is necessary, but why do we fail to keep them? Four words form the heart of the life-reorientation process taught at a Choosing Mary’s Place prayer retreat: urgency, motivation, competence and determination. This article’s focus is urgency. Urgency means a “need for action, haste or pressing.” Does your prayer life include a need for swift action or a pressing desire? The “Choosing Mary’s Place” workbook states: Most people fail to keep commitments or resolutions because they jump too quickly to the determination stage. They grit their teeth and think, “I’m not going to fail!” Don’t do that. Start off with increasing your sense of urgency. Why do I absolutely need to do this? When I asked God to help me dial up my urgency meter, He reminded me of the children of Israel wandering in the wilderness. He led me to Deuteronomy 2:3: “You have made your way around this hill country long enough; now turn north.” Distractions come easily in our busy world. Jesus says in Luke 10:38–42 that “Martha was distracted,” but Mary “has chosen what is better.” Do a Scripture study on the priority that Jesus assigned to prayer. Three key passages are Mark 1:35–39, Luke 5:15–16 and Luke 6:12–13. Jesus spent the entire night praying before He chose His 12 disciples. If the Son of God — who had perfect communion with His heavenly Father — had to put prayer above everything else in His life, how much more do we need to do that? [LLM]
GROUP DISCUSSION: [1] What are distractions that keep you from spending more time in God’s Word and prayer?
[2] How do the Scripture Deb Lewis and her husband, Lloyd, are New South Conference ministerial candidates and the directors of Mary’s Place Ministries, fmchr.ch/ marysplace.
passages indicate the urgency Jesus attached to prayer?
Did you know a new discipleship article is posted to our website each week? The four monthly articles are perfect for use in your small group or as a weekly supplement to individual study. LLM | Jan 2013
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MARY’S PLACE This ministry reorients people and churches around prayer and God’s Word: fmchr.ch/marysplace.
Go online for Free Methodist advice and assistance for improving your prayer life.
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MISSIONS PRAYER Free Methodist World Missions provides prayer services and requests: fmchr.ch/fmwmprayer.
LIGHT & LIFE HOUR In this classic 1973 broadcast, Robert Andrews discusses what makes prayer worthwhile: fmchr.ch/llhour.
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CONGREGATION Beth Cullison shares “A Prayer for the Congregation”: fmchr.ch/cullison.
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