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LaWanda – O Jesus, the day is almost gone and once again, I have let other things distract me.  Will I never learn, Lord?  Help me, Lord Jesus, to from the moment I wake up to put you FIRST, with everything else coming AFTER my time with you.  I cannot continue to sleep until 7 or 8 and expect to get everything done.  I need your help, Lord.  Help me to go to bed early enough for me to get up @ 5 or 6.  O lord, I feel you are calling me to more of you, for me to invest more of me into you.  And I must get to bed by 10 to do it, Lord.  Help me please.

When talking to the leadership team at Catch the Fire in Toronto, they confirmed that when they pray for people, not everyone is slain in the Spirit. For those who don't know, being slain in the Spirit is falling over (generally backward), when someone is in front of you praying for you. The understanding is that the Holy Spirit is coming upon them and this weakens them so they fall down, and then normally they rest under the Spirit's power as they lay on the floor and He ministers to them.

I suspect that everyone deals with rejection, in at least some areas. (When I typed that, I sneezed—a sign, for me, of deliverance. Shew!) Rejection, of course, is antithetical to who we are in Christ, which is that we are accepted in the beloved. And rejection has been one of the themes of my prayers this last week. Cindy McFaden had me read through this prayer, out loud, thinking it through as I went. As always, feel free to add lines or thoughts as they surface—this is an excellent template, but feel free to edit as you go, if it doesn’t apply completely. (A prayer probably from Elijah House.)

My counselee said, I have already gone through deliverance for all this and had demons cast out. How can they be back?

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LaWanda – ♪♪“O Lord, my God, when I in awesome wonder, consider all the worlds Thy hands have made.  I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder and there proclaim, My God, how great Thou art.”♪♪  O Jesus.  ♪♪ “I love you Lord, and I lift my voice to worship you, O my soul rejoice.  Take joy my King, in what you hear.  May it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ear.”

First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and dissension. (1 Tim. 2:1-8)

Dear Mark, Thank you for posting the "Ever feel like Solomon..." podcast yesterday.  I listened to it this morning as part of my morning routine.  I have felt like this at times lately, and made the connection when I heard your podcast that it was the feeling that all things are vanity.  I am a busy homeschooling mom and wife.  I have been blessed by learning to hear God's voice through your ministry, but I have been journaling sporadically for a while.  I did today's journaling in the midst of my family around me, starting our day.  I put on journaling music that everyone could hear.  Even in this busyness, Jesus met me.  Here is my journaling:

Here is an excellent way to get depressed and believe everything is vanity. Simply go to today’s headlines without first taking a walk with the Lord in the cool of the day and receiving some fresh manna from Him. Now, the nice thing about knowing ways I can wreck my life is that I can now be careful not to make these particular mistakes. Living in depression is nothing I choose to do.