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Day 5 in the prayer room - September 30, 2010

Prayer focus: Campus meeting tonight

Father, you know where there has been injustice...have mercy on us! You know where we have leaned on our own understanding and where we have moved in haste - where we haven't waited patiently for your leadership. You know when we as a campus have stopped you mid-sentence and haven't walked out the fullness of your call. Have mercy on us, O God, according to your lovingkindness and for your hope of glory!

Father, forgive me and forgive us for viewing each other as separate. Yes, we each have our own decision to make, but they affect everyone. Forgive us for falling prey to an "us against them" mentality. Forgive us, all of us, for keeping records of wrongs - for counting the injustices against us instead of praising you that the testing of our faith is producing perseverance in us! Forgive us for judging and condemning and not considering our own "planks."

Forgive us for not being patient, slow to anger and rich in love with one another as your are with us. Forgive us for not giving out of the abundance you've given us. Forgive us for speaking with our mouths but not honoring you with our hearts...for saying that we are a community of people who love one another but falling short in demonstrating it. For your kingdom does not exist in words but in power. Forgive us for saying to one another that we will pray for each other but not doing it. Forgive us for losing vision, getting distracted, falling away, and growing weary in well doing.

Thank you for this opportunity for us to throw our hands up without giving up. Oh God, help us to strengthen what remains and is at the point of dying for our works are not complete in your sight! Do not abandon the work of your hands, God! We repent and we return to you with fasting and prayer and hearts longing to be with our Beloved again in FULLNESS!

Every person is connected to another. If one person suffers, if one part of the Body suffers, the WHOLE BODY suffers. If one part of the Body chooses to disassociate itself with its responsibility of working with the rest of the Body, our position and attitude towards them and the situation cannot be "good riddance...go and do as you will," but rather we should be wounded that unity has not yet been attained and so continue to pray and bear their burdens with them. (UPSIDE DOWN KINGDOM!)

I pray that you would prepare the hearts and minds of every person coming to the meeting tonight, that we would have eyes to see and ears to hear what you're saying and doing in this hour. I speak against confusion or a spirit of offense that seeks to bring division where you are bringing unity. I thank you for the spirit of unity in the bond of peace tonight. Let your kingdom be advanced in this meeting tonight as we seek to come together to pursue brotherly love.

Onething's position toward campus: Galatians 6:10
Onething campus' current position: 1 Corinthians 12:12-27
Where Onething is going: Ephesians 4:15-16
How Onething "gets there": Hebrews 10:35-36
In the meantime: Ephesians 6:18