the journey

sunday we met together for a time of prayer and reflection about ten people came together extremely good number for a prayer meeting as it doesnt entertain it isnt sitting back in a comfitable chair prayer is all about you and all effort comes from you.
The journey was a walk through prayer time taking the plan Jesus laid out for us The Lords prayer, howJesus lead us into gods presence, firstly we looked at how important order is to God he created in an order to achieve perfection. The Lords prayer takes us through order to achieve the ultimate intimatcy. The Bible is an example of Gods order, numbers are relevent and each have a prcific meaning.
No 1 represents singleness ephesians 4 v7 speaks of oneness John speaks of unity all together in oneness when we are speaking in prayer we are at oneness two people joined together as one.
no 2 represents the truth two witnesses to clarify the truth no 2 is used 21 times in Daniel and rev in respect of figure two
3 represents the Godhead the trinity
4 represents universal truth the four corners north south east and west the four winds all expressing God is for all in every direction
5 refers to the teaching the 5 books of moses are teaching books Jesus used the figure five in his ministry five loaves, five virgins all teaching
6 represents mankinds rebellion imperfection its used 273 times God created man on the 6th day and the rebellion is clear in that area in Rev 666 identifies the mark of satan it identifies the stain satan can leave on your life
7 represents perfection God completion of creation on the 7th day seven is the most important it represents everything of God
rev sets the foundations
seven churches the foundation
seven spirits the life of the church
seven candlesticks the light of Jesus
seven trumpets the sound that reaches out
seven thunders the warning beware theres rough weather ahead
seven mountains trials ahead to climb, endurance, faith.
seven slain the lost
seven kings the glory the prize the victory

The lords prayer is taken in seven stages
start the journey our father which art in heaven, call on his name call him into your presence before you take another step in your prayers
2 hallowed be thy name recognising the holiness the magestic position God has in our lives
3 thy Kindom come speaks of Gods authority its all about you jesus
4 thy will be done total submission giving ourselves totally into gods hands
5 having gone though stages 1-4 we have prepared the way cleared the path to be intermate in oneness with God. Give us this day our daily bread to enable us to be that position to ask to recognise his love and his grace over our lives the first four stages are important
6 forgive us our trespasses, with these words we recognise our own worthyness and how we have failed God its a time of cleansing asking protection over our lives
7 for thine is the kindom the final step in our Journey the ultimate triumph the reign over all
we followed this example as we went from stage to stage regarding our church.