Comments on: Revivals, Chalk Circles and Me https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:38:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18326 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:43:43 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18326 Oh thank you, Mary, and welcome to my blog!!

]]> By: Mary Haskett https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18325 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 15:23:15 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18325 Oh may revival fires sweep through the whole world. I recently started a faith filled women's prayer group in my home in Canada. I will share with them the focus of your blog. We've been praying for family needs within our group, but I feel strongly we should enlarge our tent, as it were, and pray for world situations.

]]> By: Miss Mollie https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18324 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 13:09:58 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18324 L.A. I believe God moves in all ways. Quiet weeping may be the Spirit's move where you are. I feel this revival is going to be different than any we have seen and it is going to start in the driest church- those dry bones are going to get flesh and fresh breath blown into them, only from the Holy Spirit. So don't think we know how God is going to move, just be open to His moving. God bless and look to the Heavens.

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18323 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:34:05 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18323 Hazel, here's some virtual chalk, and Lord, please remind me to use it!!

]]> By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18322 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:32:06 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18322 Wow, thanks Mollie. That sounds lovely.

Lucky you, Ursh, how exciting–I guess if I ever do, I will need to stop spectating, and abandon myself to the Spirit.

Hi LA, yes, I too experience God best in quiet, solitary prayer. Yet sometimes, when i read or hear people like Heidi Baker or John Arnott, I feel my spiritual life is paler, flatter and more anemic than it need be. I want more. I am sure the Spirit can be experienced in solitude, yet, historically, right from Pentecost, the phenomenon of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit has always happened in community.

Blessings on your sermon RACH, and may you and your people meet him. And P.S., I hope you find a way to blogging again at some point

]]> By: Hazel Flood https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18321 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:24:58 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18321 Thank you for this post..and pass the chalk please 🙂

]]> By: Rach Marszalek https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18320 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:31:02 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18320 Thank you, as l pray into finishing a sermon tomorrow that begins a focussed look at the Holy Spirit, this encouages me to preach some of the more challenging stuff. We are hoping for more freedom amongst the people to meet with God.

]]> By: LA https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18319 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:19:46 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18319 One of our friends' church believes that God literally moves his way around the earth and He's in China right now. Apparently it'll be a while before He makes His way 'round to y'all. :). Sorry about that…revival in the UK will have to wait until He goes through America again. LOL

Seriously, though, I'm way too Frozen Chosen for the wildness of a revival but I get jazzed when I se others being touched by its awesom power! God comes to me in the very still times and in the quiet sharing I have with Him. I have been to those very overwhelming spirit events and I find the intense emotion puts me on complete sensory overload and it just isn't my cup'o'tea.

But I had a lady once tell me it was because there was evil in my soul that made me want to run and hide. I needed to scream to exorcise it out. I just firmly told her no, the music was too loud and the emotion just too intense. Give me the quiet contemplation of a Taize service any day.

Yet, isn't it absolutely wonderful that God comes to us wherever we are, whoever we are and whenever we are? He comes in the wild shouting and speaking in tongues…in the gospel preached and the people glorifying with “Amen brother/sister”…in the stillness of the contemplative chant…through the steps taken in the labyrinth…in the dark of the night as we pray before our eyes close one day and as we praise Him when our eyes open for the new day. Wherever we are…there He is.

]]> By: Ursh https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18318 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:14:49 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18318 Can I just say…I so CANNOT wait for revival. I've seen it…overseas. It's messy and it doesn't fit into peoples boxes and it's colourful and beautiful and…it's God moving as He wishes. Oh my. I can't wait!

]]> By: Miss Mollie https://anitamathias.com/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18317 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:30:18 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/08/30/revivals-chalk-circles-and-me/#comment-18317 I had been asking for years for ladies to just pray for revival. Last month, women started trickling in to the sanctuary on Monday evening. What a sweet hour of prayer. Simple little prayers of repentance lifted up.

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