Peter -n- Melodye

The defending champions strolled confidently onto the football pitch (soccer field, for you Americans).  They carried themselves as befitted a team that had come from behind the year before and decisively crushed all opposition.  This was a team that knew what it meant to play hard, to play with heart, to give it your all. The opposition came in from the other side, somewhat intimidated but determined nonetheless.  They knew they had done all the preparation they could possibly do for this game.  They knew that on paper they had a good chance.  But ... the game wasn't going to be played on paper, now, was it?  They were worried, but they were determined to give it their best. The challengers won the toss and the game soon moved into a fast-paced, skilled match.  The teams were so evenly matched!  The ball moved from one end of the field to the other, resembling tennis more than football! Then something strange happened.  The challenger...

Today our Christar-Balkans team had a day of prayer.  My friend and co-worker, Dave Spencer, led the day and put together a fantastic resource on the attributes of God and how to use them in prayer. Here's how it worked.  We focus on a single attribute at a time.  Dave had handed around a packet that listed multiple verses for each attribute.  (See below for the content of this packet.)  He had also asked each person to send him several prayer requests and he had put them onto a separate sheet of paper.  So we slowly and thoughtfully read each of the verses for that particular attribute out loud and in between each verse we paused and anyone who had a song they wanted to sing or a prayer in connection with that verse (usually directly related to one of the requests for our team members) could go ahead and lead out in prayer or song. The prayer time went really well -- we spent a very enjoyable 3-4 hours with periodic breaks.  And the packet Dave p...