SP500 Journal Entries for Weeks One and Two

Note: I am taking a class at Fuller Theological Seminary called SP500, Spiritual Traditions and Practices. I will be posting some of my journal entries for this class here (which are not much different from my previous posts). We are practicing different models of contemplative prayer.

Week Two, Entry Three

Tuesday, January 14, 2014, 3-4 p.m.

I am listening to the CD Fling Wide by Misty Edwards, also “God is a Flame”. I am sitting at my desk enjoying the afternoon sun as it fills my living room.

My soul thirsts for more of God’s presence in my life.

My body hungers for more of His tangible presence to invade every part of my day and night.

Baptize me with Your LOVE

O, God, consume me

With Your holy refiners Fire!

For I have laid myself down once again

I am on Your holy altar.

Let all of Your Glory pass over and through me, God

Take me into the deepness of who You really are.

I am shrouded in Your holy wings,

Yet I long to see the One for whom my heart longs…

Come to me,  God

One touch and I will be healed

And I will pour myself out upon You

I will kiss Your holy wounds

I will embrace Your feet

Why did they hurt You that way?

Why did they beat You like that?

And they have now locked You out of Your own house

You have kept me O, God.

I am most grateful that You have put me

Here in the secret place.

I feel Your holy presence now

You are filling my home

With Your warmth and LOVE

My heart sings a new song

Your holy Fire will consume me!

Misty Edwards singing "God is a Flame"

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Week Two, Entry Four

Thursday, January 16, 2014, 5:45 a.m. – 7 a.m.

I am sitting in bed listening to Misty Edwards and the 2012 Bethel Loft Sessions with Jeremy Riddle and Steffany Frizzell.

Thoughts

In normal circumstances, I choose to not talk much about how or when I fast as the LORD instructed us in Matthew 6, but my class requires me to fast. I chose to fast from Facebook, the news, Pinterest, and other social medias. I am also fasting from tasty and sugary foods. My current diet is not pleasant.

Kyrie Eleison!

Lord have mercy!

Kyrie Eleison!

I chose to pray this many times this week over myself and my husband and my family and even strangers I pass along the way.

Awake

Awake my soul, O, God

To LOVE You

To adore You

To be all that I can be for You

Enlarge my heart to LOVE You more, God!

Encounter me, O, God.

Rapture My Soul

Rapture my soul

That I might LOVE You more

Here

In this place

With all my heart

With all my soul

With all my mind

With all that I am…

From the Bethel Loft Sessions, Jeremy Riddle and the worship team, "Fall Afresh"

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