b'House of PrayerJanuary 08, 2012Please turn in your Bibles to Luke 19:45-48Vs 45: Praying or PreyingApp: Be about the business of ChristVs 46: House of Prayer or Den of Thieves\\u2022Den of thieves (see Jeremiah 7:11): a place where thieves hide after committing crimesApp: We mustn\\u2019t hide in our religion?\\u2022House of Prayer: a place of light (see Isaiah 56:7)5This is the message we have heard from Him and declare to you: God is light; in Him there is no darkness at all. 6If we claim to have fellowship with Him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. 7But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin. 1John 1:5-7Prayer = Walking in the light\\u201c21\\u2026a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem\\u202623Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24God is spirit, and His worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.\\u201d John 4:21, 23, 24Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God?... 1Corinthians 6:19Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven. 20For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them.\\u201d Matthew 18:19-20Prayer is the place where we encounter God and God encounters usThis is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. John 17:3\\u201cknow\\u201d = to fully know and to be fully known\\u201d(Ref. Rev. 22:17, Gen. 5:24, Heb. 11:6, Jn. 7:37-38)CHALLENGE:1.Set a personal TIME for prayer each day this week 2.Determine a PLACE to pray this week 3.Decide at what level you will FAST this week4.Plan to JOIN US Monday through Friday What is His Spirit saying to you this morning?'