60 Minutes Continues…

Next week sees the return of 60 Minutes, 7 prayer meetings across the city over the course of one week.   If we want to see God do all that He wants in our city then we are required to step up and pray.

Next weeks meetings will be:

60 Minutes // Moss Side
Monday, 5.30pm
123 Horton Road, M14 7QD
Helen Turley // 07872992059

60 Minutes // Bolton
Monday, 7.30pm
22 Heaton Avenue, Harwood, BL2 4BP
Paul Beaumont // 01204 418726

60 Minutes // Didsbury
Wednesday, 6.45am
Flat 3, 127 Lapwing Lane, M20 6US
Jon Hodges // 07974 428221

60 Minutes // Wythenshawe
Wednesday, 11am
14 Glendevon Close, M22 8FB
Sally Pearson // 07980 646737

60 Minutes // Newton Heath
Wednesday, 7pm
130 Droylsden Road, M40 1WT
Katie Barratt // 07593 196481

60 Minutes // Levenshulme
Thursday, 6.45am
62 Livesey Street, M19 2GU
Michael Ball // 07792 063807

60 Minutes // City Centre
Thursday, 12.30pm
Kro Piccadilly, Piccadilly Gardens
Lizzie Bhatia // 07814544823

Check out tinyurl.com/60minsmap to find your way to one of the meetings.  Please do cover all the meetings with prayer, whether you can make them or not!

The New 60 Minutes Meetings, coming next week.

60 Minutes is our chance as a church family to get together and contend in pray from our city.  We believe that God wants to change Manchester and if we want to see that we need to unite together to pray for that.
For one week every month we will hold 60 minutes meetings across the city and various times and locations.  The dates or the 60 minutes weeks are:

21-26 September 2009
19-24 October 2009
23-28 November 2009
18-23 January 2010

Check out tinyurl.com/60minsmap to find your way to one of the meetings

60 Minutes // Bolton
Monday, 7.30pm
22 Heaton Avenue, Harwood, BL2 4BP
Paul Beaumont // 01204 418726

60 Minutes // Didsbury
Wednesday, 6.45am
Flat 3, 127 Lapwing Lane, M20 6US
Jon Hodges // 07974 428221

60 Minutes // Wythenshawe
Wednesday, 11am
14 Glendevon Close, M22 8FB
Sally Pearson // 07980 646737

60 Minutes // Levenshulme
Thursday, 6.45am
62 Livesey Street, M19 2GU
Michael Ball // 07792 063807

60 Minutes // City Centre
Thursday, 12.30pm
Kro Piccadilly, Piccadilly Gardens
Lizzie Bhatia // 07814544823

60 Minutes // Newton Heath
Thursday, 7pm
130 Droylsden Road, M40 1WT
Katie Barratt // 07593 196481

60 Minutes // Moss Side
TBC
123 Horton Road, M14 7QD
Helen Turley // 07872992059

Testimony

Hi.  Apologies for the big gap between posts, it has been a busy few weeks!

God is doing some exciting things in our church and we want to share them with you to encourage you to press in deeper into what God is doing in Manchester through our church.  To see the testimonies head over to vinelife.co.uk and click on the latest news section.

persistence and faith

How much do you have to pray for something before God answers your prayers?  Is once enough to expect that God will honour your request?  Let me submit to you two things to consider.  They are persistence and faith.

God the Provider

I thought this week we could focus on the global recession and the effects that is having. With this recession we have been given a great opportunity to learn that God is our provider. In Luke 12:22-34 Jesus teaches us to have a Kingdom attitude towards the Lord’s provision.

He tells us to “seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well.” Our earthly mindset tells us to worry about our circumstances but what Jesus is telling us is that if we adopt our new Kingdom mindsets, a mindset which is preoccupied with seeking the Kingdom, then God will provide for us, as he knows all that we need.

Lets take some time this week to pray for understanding of God’s economy and how we can put it into action here on earth.

Prayer Points

These are the prayer points for this week from the Weekly.  Please take some time to look over them, consider them and pray about them.

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• We’ve been praying for a building for so long and it can seem like we are getting nowhere fast.  Now is the time to really press in.  God is opening up some doors and closing others so please be praying for guidance for Phil and Sarah as we seek to find the building that God has got for us.

• If you haven’t already, we need to start praying against this outbreak of swine flu.  Let be praying for all those around us that we would be healthy and that this flu virus would have no power against us.  God’s desire is for us to be healthy so we declare health in Jesus name.

• It would be almost impossible to ignore the situation in post election Iran.  We need to be praying for God’s hand to rest in that nation.  Over the last 25 years more Iranians have become Christians than in the last 1400 years but persecution is also stronger and more severe than ever before. It is illegal to preach or hold any sort of church service is there native language.  Please keep this nation in your prayers.

The Importance of Prayer

Have you ever stopped to consider the importance of prayer?  We belong to the creator of all things, King of Heaven, Lord or lords.  We worship the one true God, a God who moves in power and might,  yet he calls us His children.  He promises He will answer our every prayer. Matthew 7:7-8 (New International Version) says

7″Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”

If our Heavenly Father promises us that He will answer prayers and we know that He has the power to do more than we can even imagine (Ephesians 3:20) then we need to understand that when we pray it releases this great power.  

Reformational Prayers

2 Chronicles 7:14

¹⁴ if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Bill Johnson from Bethel Church, CA spoke this week on reformational prayers.  It’s pretty interesting although an hour long.  He getting into it all at about 20 mins but if you have time then check out the whole thing.  The video is here. It’s free to watch,  although you will have to register to watch more than 15 mins.  Why not check out some of their other videos too!

Pre-Service Prayer // 05.07.09

God’s pressence will be with all the people in this building.  God will catch people unawares.  God has deposited faith, now stir it up Lord.  Be all together Yours, full of the Holy Spirit.  Do the things only you can do among Your people.  God will mercifully bless.

Knit us together in Christ.  Do a work in this building today.

Underpin the cracks in the foundations.  Wash us clean.

¹ “Ho! Everyone who thirsts,
Come to the waters;
And you who have no money,
Come, buy and eat.
Yes, come, buy wine and milk
Without money and without price.

Isaiah 55 (NKJ)

Christ in us the hope of glory

Take out hearts of stone and give us hearts of flesh.  Christ is formed in our hearts by faith.

Culture of Prayer

Prayer is a fundamental element of the Christian walk, yet we so easily take it for granted.

Prayer should be the starting point of all we do.  We should be “seeking first the Kingdom”, seeking God for our lives and then following His leading.  If we are expecting God to impact our city, then we need to be asking God it impact our city and we should be bold enough to be specific.  If you need God to move in an area of your life, then be specific and ask Him to.

Pray is about more than just addressing our needs.  We need to be praying for both people and situations around us..   Paul says in 1 Timothy 2

¹I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone— ²for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness.

What I’m trying to get at is that we need to start cultivating a culture of prayer in our lives and communities of faith.  It’s time to get excited about what God is going to do with Vinelife and in Manchester and it’s time to start really seeking the Lord for these things, in prayer, intercession and thanksgiving.    But we need to recapture our personal prayer as well.  We need to be praying about all our decisions, for the coming day, for opportunities to share the gospel, for greater level our relationship with Him.If we can start to see a shift in our attitudes towards prayer and see this culture of prayer grow in our church then I truly believe we will see God move amongst us more than we have ever seen.

We need to rise up and get praying.  Getting our prayer lifes straight is the start of seeing His Kingdom come on this earth in our time.