Posts Tagged ‘2008’

What can we learn from people who lived musically?

Practice | Disciplines

•    discipline – an uninteresting thing that you do over and over again until you get good at it

•    the Christian life is basically about the same thing

Breath | Sabbath
•    set aside your work and do not do what you normally do

•    we need to breath in order to talk/sing
o    somehow we think we can do ministry without resting

•    If we want to live more  musically as Christians, we have to learn to stop what we are doing – take a “breath”
o    take a day of rest

Psalm 131

Early church read, “pray without ceasing,” and asked, How do we do that?
•    They said it has to do with breathing
o    when you breath in, prayer; when you breath out, prayer
•    Prayer
“[breathe in] There is Another, [breathe out] who lives in me.
[in] There is Another, [out] who completes me.
[in] There is Another,  [out] whose righteousness is mine.”

In prayer distractions become the material of our prayer