Prayer Today, 2 Opportunities

Wednesday Prayer & Fasting
Wednesday Oct 6th Noon-12:30 at Anne Osborn's home
Wednesday Oct 6th 6:15-6:45 at Hope Community Church (Tower & 24th)
Rob Pendley will lead both of these prayer meetings. There is much to pray for as we seek together to Experience & Extend the grace of Jesus Christ in Gainesville.
Remember that prayer has several Key Result Areas (KRA) for us this Fall
1.) to have every member participate in one of our many prayer meetings
this Fall
2.) to average 10 people in prayer at each meeting this Fall
I've been rehearsing my memory of a great book, Pray with your Eyes Open, by Richard Pratt. It has some of the best scriptural patterns for prayer.
I'll design this week's prayer meeting on one of the models Pratt suggests.
Also, I'm going to make sure that those who have never prayed out loud have the opportunity to take some baby steps (one word prayers) when we're together.
The meeting at Hope is the "child-friendly" prayer meeting.
There are some fasting quotes at bottom.

Directions to Anne's Wednesday 12:00-12:30 Prayer Meeting
Coming from University, go south on 13th St. Take a left at the Museum Rd./8th light (you will drive between sorority row and Norman field). After parking garage, take your first left onto 12th (runs behind college of education). Go two blocks and turn right onto 6th Ave. 1111 SW 6th Ave. is the second house on the right. I will try to have as much parking as possible.
Anne's House
1111 SW 6th Ave.
692-3871 or cell 283-1996

Fasting Quotes I've collected in years passed.
There is an ache inside every Christian
that Jesus is not here as fully and intimately and as powerfully
and as gloriously as we want him to be. We hunger for so much
more. That is why we fast.

Fasting is not a no to the goodness of food or the generosity
of God in providing it. Rather, it is a way of saying, from time
to time, that having more of the Giver surpasses having the gift.

Fasting gives glory to God when it is experienced
as a gift from God aimed at knowing and enjoying more of God.

I grew up on the mission field in Korea. There is one experience
emblazoned on my mind to show the sacrificial dedication
to prayer and fasting in Korea. My father worked
with a leper colony, and they had prayer meetings that met
at four o'clock in the morning. I was a little boy, but my
father took me with him, getting me up at about 3:30 A.M.
to get there on time. He sat me down in the back where I
could see out the door. And I'll never forget one man who
had no legs, no crutches, and was using his hands and crabbing
along the ground, dragging his body to pray at 4 A.M.
I'll never forget that.
Rising early is a kind of fast. And coming to pray when it
is hard to get there is another kind of fast. When we make such
choices, we make war on the deceitfulness of our desires and
declare the preciousness of prayer and the all-surpassing worth
of God.
The weakness of hunger which leads to death brings
forth the goodness and power of God who wills life.
Here there is no extortion, no magic attempt to force
God's will. We merely look with confidence upon our
heavenly Father and through our fasting say gently in
our hearts: "Father, without you I will die; come to my
assistance, make haste to help me."
-JO S E P H WIMMER
"Our seasons of fasting and prayer at the Tabernacle have
been high days indeed; never has Heaven's gate stood wider;
never have our hearts been nearer the central Glory." CH Spurgeon
If you really want to read more, and this is the book that turned my heart (from discipline/drudgery to delight) on fasting, read ANY chapter at this
link:
http://desiringgod.org/media/pdf/books_hfg/hfg_ch2-4.pdf