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The Day Before Our First Preview Service

March 27th, 2008 by Carl Thomas.

Tomorrow night is our first preview service at The Mission.  If I weren’t so exhausted I would be excited.

I had a final meeting with my staff last night.  We were supposed to meet for a half hour and pray for an hour but it wound up going the other way around.  Apparently the Holy Ghost was not offended because He spoke to us through a prophetic utterance.  In short, He reminded us that practicing setting up and having a public service was secondary to practicing the presence in a public service.

There is something comforting about knowing that God is going to be attending your meeting.  For me, it causes me to be less results oriented.  I know that if I yield to Him, and keep my focus on Him, He will minister to His people.  And in the end, that is my goal.  That people would encounter this increadable God of love that I have met.   He uses me to minister, but He does it so much better than I.

So last night we fellowshipped, laughed, dreamed, and planned.  Tomorrow we put our faith into action.  Today we write corny blog posts. lol

Seriously, for the two or three people who read this blog, stop what you are doing and lift up a prayer for these couple of things:

  1. Things would go smoothly with our location
  2. sound would mix fine
  3. people would worship
  4. presence of God in the service
  5. the preaching would go well
  6. annoited ministry time
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6 Responses to “The Day Before Our First Preview Service”

  1. slw | 27/03/08

    God’s best to you all.

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  2. Kathi | 27/03/08

    Just prayed for God’s presence to be poured out and all to flow smoothly.

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  3. john | 27/03/08

    You rock Carl! All the best on your service! Fire!

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  4. sista cala | 27/03/08

    Just another reminder of His faithfulness to help us to stay on track. May God continue to bless all your efforts.

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  5. Patsy | 28/03/08

    Dude, #4 needs to be #1. If He shows up, no one will even notice that your sound sucked or that when you stood up to preach, your voice cracked.

    I’m running CD worship and having to pry people off the floor. They won’t leave (our last meeting lasted 9 hours) because the presence of the Lord is in the place. I promise you, when the Lord’s presence is there, nothing else matters (like you didn’t already know that.)

    I’m praying that God will send you hungry people. If people are hungry for the Lord’s presence, He will come and meet with them.

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  6. David Copeland | 29/03/08

    May the fire of God burn!!!!

    Reply

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