@Halie Asmus I was thinking of a prophetic prayer study. How do you know when prayer is prophetic (given or receving). How can you grow in it? What do we know of it throughout scripture and how do we apply that to our lives today.

@Halie Asmus so interesting! I have a friend who started a PiT group haha, Prophets in Training ha!

I believe the Lord is opening a door for me to step into leading people to hear Gods voice at my church at an upcoming prayer and worship night. My church has not gathered in prayer all together for quite some time if ever (we’re fairly new here) so I am expectant of the Spirit to open ears :) with the being said, I’m having trouble doing the work of gathering the team and making ideas flow to create the plan … these are all areas of strength for me, but I’m experiencing a lack of motivation to take these initial steps. Pray against any influence hindering me or distracting me, and pray that I would take the step of faith to do the work no matter how I’m feeling in the moment.

@Halie Asmus whoa, later today, God gave me direction for this night by reminding me of a picture from a month back that he shared for the people at my church. It’s absolutely supposed to be for the prayer night, he also gave a specific passage for this night to be read over everyone who’s there :) grateful and feeling ready to pursue and receive again

Hi and hello @Damian Barr I’m so glad you’re creating this space for people to grow and commune over scripture. I do not have the space for this study at this point in my life but I hope the kick off is enriching and unified with the Spirit for all who are there!

OOOO SO MANY! With by Ski Jethani, The Gift of Being Yourself by David Banner, The Other Half of Church by Jim WIlder, The Soul of Desire by Dr. Curt Thompson, and a variety of fiction works that have incredible, riveting, thrilling storylines with redemptive themes. One series I'm thinking of is the Wingfeather Saga, and less recently, Flannery O'Connor's short stories. Can I expand the question and ask what kind of multimedia (movies, shows, theater and stage) have you found moving your soul towards Jesus? Was it the story arch or the performance?

Ah! i forgot one! An all time must read is Living Fearless by Jamie Winship Really, any of his content through podcasts/sermons is so worth checking out!

The Lord brought something full circle last night. See, 3 years ago, my husband and I knew that God was asking us to ‘be exposed’ to His church… get out of our normal/comfortable experience. Well, we’ve been doing that through being at 3 different churches that God brought us to in the last 3 years (the last one being where we are now!). Last night, we got to share our present/day, gritty faith story we’re in with a family over dinner. Their response: crickets. There was no dialogue after we shared about what we shared… and there’s some pretty amazing moments of God revealing himself directly! It didn’t sit right with me. And later, just in verbal processing, I told my Husband that the experience left me feeling exposed. It didn’t hit me until just this morning that God’s bringing us into a new experience of what it means to ‘be exposed,’ and that is that as we share our story, as vulnerably as we can muster, and spread the seed of Jesus throughout it, some people will have no response ( maybe their afraid, offended, skeptical) and it’s okay to feel exposed in that moment. 😊