Seperated: the churches Call to seperation-part 2

Hello All:

Prayer, Prayer is part of being separate the world is no praying like it used to, the church is not praying like it used to, and to be honest I'm concerned about how we deal with this subject. Churches today talk about prayer, they teach on prayer, but we lack praying Christians, I know, everyone talks about prayer and how we all need to pray more, but really what is prayer in a world we live in? prayer is the time we have with God before we enter the world. This is the time of separation from the world. Jesus often took time to pray and to take a rest from the world and his ministry.
Luk 6:12 Now it came to pass in those days that He went out to the mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.

This was Jesus time to be separate, he needed just like we need to, spend time with the Lord. He used this opportunity I'm sure to get refreshed, we need to be refreshed spiritually. the call to prayer is simple, the task is hard, it's hard to get up early and pray or stay up late and pray but when we do great things start happening,(Jam 5:16)
The world is a dangerous place and unless we are praying and seeking the Lord our efforts for the kingdom will fail, we need to keep our own walk with Christ in check before we move out into the field. We need that relationship with Christ, Prayer in a dark world is the ultimate type of separation. We are called to pray without Ceasing(1st Th 5:17)
This means always be praying always live a life of prayer, don't treat prayer like a 1/2 hour session then live your life! we must live always in prayer we must act upon our relationship with the Lord, we must be on the alert for prayer opportunity. Prayer is useless if we get into the business mindset of prayer we pray for 1/2 hour a day then live in the world! dude, that time spent was useless if we use prayer a s a means of fulfilling the christian walk in that sense. We must walk in prayer we must never cease from praying! This is true separation.

Seperated: the churche's call to seperation part 1

I really want to express my heart for the church to be separated. We are called to be separate from this world, that means that anything ungodly or any hint of living in the world ought to be away from us.
God's call to us is simple 2Cr 6:17 Therefore "Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you."
We are to "come out" and be separate. That's radical!
"Do not touch what is unclean"
What is unclean? the things of this world, the pagan traditions (Ironically today is earth day) the world of TV the movies, the godless activity of the weekend, drinking, sex, etc. Frankly I'm sad to see churches today not obeying the call to be separate, we are using the excuse "we need to become all things to all men" dude! thats a stupid excuse. I understand Paul said that but he also told the church to not be part of the world. Paul would not have gotten involved in a pagan colony just to become all things to all men. And if the church today does use this excuse we are abusing the liberty of Christ Jesus(Gal 5:1).
We are not supposed to be part of the world in hopes of reaching the world. What happens when you start hanging out people who talk bad? you start talking bad.
ok we have established the need and the call for separation basically the intro to this topic. next we shall see the love of separation.

Park outreaches and the lost-my interaction with the hispanic world.

Hello all!

just got back from spending some time in a city park. At the park i was able to talk with a family from Mexico the mom is most likely single with 3 kids and a few extra kids to take care of. She is very friendly and helped to provide me with a glimpse into the spainish world. My heart aces for the single Hispanics mothers trying to make a living. if this interaction was not enough then after the park I headed over to a house of a friend who is from El Salvador he expressed that there is a great need in my city for solid spanish churches. he also expressed the need for the pastors to get grounded in the word they are hungry just lacking the needs, I believe the needs are best described as below:
Spanish bibles
Tracts
Solid Biblical teachings (Cd's and books)
Discipleship groups
I am praying as to how to get involved more, my missions director has decided i am to bring the teaching to the Hispanic communities and then trust the lord to move with them.

The word of the Lord

1Sa 3:21 Then the LORD appeared again in Shiloh. For the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

I love how Samuel learned from the lord by "the word of the lord" that is truly amazing, just to study his heart for the lord is amazing. How often do we forget the word of the Lord? how often are we distracted by other teachings we never seek the lord for ourselves? I believe that we need to be reading the word more often and praying more often, we must kill our flesh and study the word.
I'm tired of dead religion and tired of not reading the word. It's time to read the word and study it. the lord will reveal himself to you in his word if we honestly seek him.
I love it! I have seen his words come true so many times but I still don't get enough of the word. It's amazing when we fall in Love with Jesus daily, I love the word I wish I had more time to dedicate to it. Anyways, point being is this, we need to seek the lord by reading the word and let the Lord build the house.

Who do we allow to rule our lives?

Jdg 8:23 But Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, nor shall my son rule over you; the LORD shall rule over you."

Who do we allow to rule our lives? I am not debating the role of leaders here, but honestly, who do we place our trust in? our pastor, parents, etc?
While we are supposed to honor them as the word commends we must not look to them more then we seek the lord.
I see such danger in the church of looking to man instead of God. We allow man to rule our churches rather then the holy spirit. Mans plans fail and amount to nothing, we may think we know whats going on but we really don't. We may have a plan for our church but we really need to seek the Lord? why have we taken the control of the holy spirit and given it to man? because we want to be "content" we want to be ok with our lifestyle, why are we dying off and not allowing the Lord to control our lives/churches? because we are afraid of conviction, because we are prideful. the idea of control is radical, this idea is over the edge. I am desiring to be completely controlled by the holy spirit. Ahh! the Lord is amazing when he controls our lives it is an adventure. He provides for us and he gives us joy and fulfillment.