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Lenten Devotionals 2009
Welcome to OneLife Ministries. This site is designed to lead you prayerfully into a heart experience of the Presence of God, Who is Love. Please share this ministry with others, and I hope you return soon. There is a new offering daily.
Blessings,
Rev Dr Brian K Wilcox
Pastor-Teacher, Author, Workshop Leader, Spiritual Counselor, and Chaplain
PRAYERFUL ENTERING
Let the following sentences be preparation for entering into the Inner Sanctuary of the Heart of Hearts...
Divine Love, you are here with me
You are coming from outside me
You are arising from within me
Your Spirit and my spirit are becoming one.
You are meeting me
in many ways
in many places
through many persons.
You are
changing me, more and more,
into the Likeness of YourSelf.
I am here
I am receptive.
My Love, I invite you fully into me
my body
my heart
my mind
my soul.
*Brian K. Wilcox.
MAKING MELODY
"Lord I Give You My Heart." Michael W. Smith.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvUNkRbi5Rc&feature=related
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LISTENING TO THE SCRIPTURES
35 Jesus traveled through all the towns and villages of that area, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them because they were confused and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 He said to his disciples, “The harvest is great, but the workers are few.
*Matthew 9.35-37 (NLT)
22 Immediately after this, Jesus insisted that his disciples get back into the boat and cross to the other side of the lake, while he sent the people home. 23 After sending them home, he went up into the hills by himself to pray. Night fell while he was there alone.
*Matthew 14.22-23 (NLT)
RECEIVING SACRED TEACHING
Falling into the World
Open yourself toward the Light
Breathe in the Fire
Merge with Burning
the way you were One
before what you call I came in here
Do you really think your soul
was born with your body?
Do you really think flesh
gives birth to spirit?
Are you one of the many
suffering from a mistaken sense of identity?
Wax, be, running down the candle
of your once dead life
poured into the hand of the Beloved
Take the shape of Compassion - God! -; then,
Fall into the world, in Love again
Did you just feel a Breeze blow in Here?
Words hide when such Grace
comes knocking at
our door.
Don't talk! Don't even try to listen.
There is work
The Beloved can only ready you for
in darkness
in quiet -
A whisper rises inside the heart: "Enough talk. Hush!"
*Brian K. Wilcox
QUIETLY RESPONDING
1. What does it mean that God prepares us for some work in the world only within "darkness" and "quiet"?
2. What does it mean to "fall into the world, in Love again"?
3. What is compassion? Are you a compassionate person? Explain your response.
4. Do you believe we humans, generally, talk too much? If so, what might that say about us? Why would we want to talk so much?
5. Why do you think Jesus, as the Gospels say, often went to solitary and quiet places to pray alone?
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*OneLife Ministries is a ministry of Brian K. Wilcox, of SW Florida. Brian is pastor at Christ Community United Methodist Church, Harbour Heights, FL, and Senior Chaplain for the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office, Punta Gorda, FL.
*Brian welcomes responses to his writings or submission of prayer requests at barukhattah@embarqmail.com .
*Contact the above email to book Brian for Spiritual Direction, retreats, or workshops. You can order his book An Ache for Union at major book dealers.
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