Tea, Toast and Prayer - Part 1 (The Invite)

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Date: 29 May 2007 06:56:36

Tonight, if you're logging on between 7:15 and 9:30 / 10ish (or at any point today really) and you are that way inclined I invite you to join my tea, toast and prayer evening.

It's an evening when the idea is that people spend a bit of time praying in a way they feel comfortable with and just take some time focusing on God and talking to Him. It's intended to be a time when you chill with Him telling him what's on your mind, about the people and things you're concerned about both close to home and in the wider world and about the way you've messed up and need Him to pick you up and sort you out because you're sorry.

It's a time when you might want to use words or not. A time to get creative with God or perhaps just be with God.

It's a time to understand that at the end of the day God answers prayer, and so it's about Him answering rather than us praying. But it's also knowing He might want us to be the answer and so it's a time for listening as well as spouting on or doing. It's a time to recognise the Holy Spirit within you and to let God in again.

I've invited a few friends round to do tea, toast and prayer IRL, but as I say I invite you to make a cuppa and maybe a slice of toast, pull up a chair and join in by just praying where you are when you know some other people are aswell. The whole point about this though is whilst it's people doing it together it's also you and God time so nobody need know what you're praying except for God, (infact God tells us to pray without making it into a performance). However, if you want others to specifically join with you in what you're praying and I invite you to use my comments section today.

If you are praying virtually here are some ideas you might want to use:

1. If you're a regular on The Wibsite or surf around a number of bloggs you could pray through for everybody as you read their posts today

2. BBC News tells you some of what's happening in the world

3. Indy Media gives you information about the stories the mainstream may not want to cover

4. BMS World Mission has some useful stuff form an overtly Christian perspective

5. Ekklesia is abit like Indy Media for God stuff

6. If you want to pray but can't find the words Sacred Space may be useful

7. 24/7 is a constantly open prayer room