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Day 3 in prayer room - September 23, 2010

Praise you, Lord - in your heaven and your earth! Worthy are you to be praised! For only you can give perfect peace in every storm, only in you can a tree bring forth fruit in its season, only you can make beauty from brokenness, and only you can sustain the weary with just a word!

*Time in prayer room dedicated to praying specifically for intimate team.

John 17

John 17:11 - "...Holy Father, keep in Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are one."

Father, I am praying for the Onething campus and community out of John 17. Jesus, these are YOUR words - this is the cry of YOUR heart - you desire that we would be One within ourselves, One with you, and One with each other. You said that when we are One, operating in a spirit of unity in the bond of peace, that it radiates to the world the truth of who you are and releases grace and faith to believe in you!

God, I am asking that you would pour out your spirit and grace without measure to Onething campus and community...that you would awaken our hearts to pray and genuinely consider one another; that the selflessness and love that comes through prayer would fan the flame of your love inside of us. In the name of Jesus, I tear down every stronghold of fear of relationship and any fear of rejection or exposure or vulnerability. I declare perfect love casts out ALL fear and I come into agreement with you Holy Spirit and invite your perfect love into the intimate team and campus.

I thank you that when you invade us with your love, it is easier to keep peace and thereby keep unity. Unite us in love! Father, give us eyes to see the beauty in diversity and how our differences balance each other. I pray against a spirit of offense. I pray that in humility we would consider one another higher than ourselves. That it would be our joy to yield to one another in love.

I pray that the corporate cry that comes from Onething would be, "God, we long to be with you!"

We just want to love you more today
Than we did yesterday
So come and love us like you do...