Enjoying intimacy with our beautiful God

• Encountering God we understand his beauty and affection
• Our focus is God himself
• We enjoy God (Psalm 149:2)
• God enjoys us (Psalm 149:4) - even in our weakness (SoS 1:5)
• Fascination with God empowers us to engage in night and day prayer
• Our spiritual identity is as lovers of God

Living a fasted lifestyle

• Jesus wants us to live the Sermon on the Mount lifestyle (Matt 5 - 7)
• It keeps us focused on the "one thing" (Psalm 27:4)
• Fasting tenderises our hearts before God
• There are 4 dimensions of the fasted lifestyle:

Fasting

Praying

Giving

Serving

Importance of combining worship and intercession

• Worship - agreement with who God is
• Intercession - agreement with what God promises to do
• As we worship our faith expands to agree with what he will do
• It brings the promise of enjoyable prayer (Isaiah 56:7)
• It was the model for the Tabernacle of David
• God surrounds his throne with worship and prayer (Rev 5:8)

Team ministry

• Everybody is included
• There is no prominence given to individual ministries or gifts
• We learn to flow together
• Creates a dynamic diversity that helps us sustain longer hours of prayer

Carrying a prophetic spirit

• Cultivating a prophetic spirit on musicians and singers (2 Kings 3:15)
• Music releases revelation: God's beauty is revealed
• We are a prophetic sign to our community
• God is constantly speaking to us
• We grow in confidence in hearing God's voice

Scripture based prayer

• Focus on God asking him to release good qualities rather than remove bad
• It is the language of God's heart
• We agree with what God has said
• Avoids preaching and judgemental prayers
• Keeps us grounded in truth

Understanding end times and the importance of Israel

• We need to understand the signs of the times and what is to come to be able to stand and pray and not be offended or lose heart
• We must understand the promise of a coming revival and victorious church along with end time judgements of God (the "great and terrible day of the Lord")
• Jesus will return for a holy, united church - a pure and spotless bride
• Awareness of the significance of Israel in the outworking of God's end-time plan
• Praying for Israel and the peace of Jerusalem (Psalm 122)