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TODAY SATURDAY JUNE 14 IS GLOBAL OUTREACH DAY

Please look at the following website to inform your prayers:-

www.globaloutreachday.com

I hope you have found the 30 days of ‘Light the Fire Again’ to be helpful. Click on this link to see webversion of hardcopy:-

http://peter.prescott.ws/footnotes/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Light-The-Fire-Again-1.pdf

If you would like to purchase hardcopies of this devotional, then please send requests by email to andrew.taylor7@cantab.net

Cost is £3 per copy + postage. ( I will be on holiday for 2 weeks, from Tuesday 17 June so there may be a delay in reply)

Over the past 30 days approximately 35-38 people have usually been accessing these devotionals daily . Some people may have just been reading the devotionals on the life of Wesley. The intention has been that these devotionals would inspire prayer for revival AND ideally morning and evening reading and praying of the psalms IN A GROUP. The Christian faith is essentially corporate rather than individual in nature and there has been no one book of scripture more helpful devotionally in all the ages of the church than the book of psalms.

For those eager to grow in their discipleship of the Lord Jesus Christ while a member of a community of people reading and praying the psalms, while praying for revival, a 20 unit discipleship course will hopefully be posted, on this website starting in the autumn, inspired by both Benedicts rule and also inspired by key teachings on the Youth With A Mission Discipleship Training School curriculum. ( Summary of this 20 unit discipleship course below)

Jesus tells us to bring old treasure out of the store house as well as new treasure ( Matthew 13:52)

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Benedict’s Rule

Benedictine spirituality is distinctive because it was the spirituality that the Lord used to evangelize Europe. At the time that Benedict died his rule was one of the many rules for monastic life, but within two hundred years, Benedict ‘had become the patriarch of western monasticism and the Rule was the most influential in the Latin church’ Benedictine monastic life had a huge influence on every country in Europe during the Middle Ages, and half of the cathedrals in England were under Benedictine rule. Cranmer skillfully shortened the Benedictine monastic offices into the two Anglican prayer book offices, namely Matins and Evensong. Mark Noll argues that Benedict’s rule was one of the key turning points in the history of western civilization. It is now over 1500 years since Benedict wrote his rule which is still adhered to in Benedictine monasteries in the UK today ; it was the basis for the evangelization of Europe, and it has strongly informed institutional Christianity across the world.

The Youth with a Mission Discipleship Training School

Youth with A Mission is a Charismatic evangelical international interdenominational mission agency that was founded by Loren Cunningham in December 1960. The aim of Youth with a Mission (YWAM) is to know God and to make Him known. YWAM is essentially a modern-day monastic movement. Loren Cunningham’s original intention in establishing the Discipleship Training School was to focus on Christian character and missions, while living together in community. YWAM currently operates in over 1000 locations and there are over 15,000 staff, in over 149 countries.

Tentative summary of forthcoming 20 unit discipleship course.

‘LISTEN MY SON’

INTRODUCTION

‘And so we intend to establish a school for the Lord’s service…' Benedict’s rule –Prologue This is a 20 unit discipleship course designed to be used alongside a community of praying people eager to grow in their discipleship of the Lord Jesus Christ.

1.) KNOWING GOD THE FATHER

‘Listen my son to the masters instructions, and take them to heart they are the instructions of a loving father…’ Benedict’s rule - Prologue

2.) THE INVITATION TO FOLLOW CHRIST

‘It is to you, that my words are addressed, if you are ready to take up the powerful and glorious weapons of obedience, renouncing your own will with the intention of fighting for the true king Christ the Lord…. Now at last we must wake up, as scripture rouses us to do when it says “Now is the time for us to rise from sleep” Romans 13:11’ Benedict’s rule - Prologue

3.) LISTENING TO THE HOLY SPIRIT

‘Let us open our eyes to the divine light and listen carefully to what the divine voice tells us to do when it cries out each day, ‘If you hear his voice today, do not harden your hearts.’ Ps 95 7-8, and also ‘He who has ears to hear, let him listen to what the spirit says to the churches’ Rev 2:7; see also Matt 11:15’ Benedict’s rule -Prologue

4.) THE FEAR OF GOD

‘And what does he say? Come to me, my children and listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.’ Psalm 34:11 Benedict’s rule - Prologue

5.) SEEKING GOD FIRST

‘First of all, ‘love the Lord God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your strength’, then love your neighbor as yourself.’ Matt 22:37,39; Mark 12:30-31, Luke 10:27 Benedict’s Rule - Ch 4

6.) SEEKING GOD IN COMMUNITY: STABILITY

‘The workshop where we diligently work at all these tasks is the enclosure of the monastery, in the stability of the community’ Benedict’s Rule - Ch 4

7.) SEEKING GOD IN COMMUNITY: CONVERSION OF YOUR WAY OF LIFE

‘The one who is to be received ….must promise stability, conversion of his way of life and obedience before God and his saints’ Benedict’s Rule - Ch 58

8.) SEEKING GOD IN COMMUNITY: OBEDIENCE

‘‘The first step towards humility is unhesitating obedience, which comes naturally to all who hold Christ dearer than anything else….’ Benedict’s Rule Ch 4

9.) THE WORD OF GOD

‘As we make progress in our way of life and in faith, as our heart expands with the inexpressible sweetness of love, we shall run along the path of God’s commandments…’ Benedict’s rule -Prologue

10.) PRAYER

‘If we wish to ask a favour of a powerful person, we would not dare to do so except with humility and respect. Is it not all the more important for us to pray to the Lord, the God of all, with the utmost humility and purity of devotion Benedict’s Rule Ch 20

11.) THE HOLY SPIRIT

‘As we make progress in our way of life and in faith, as our heart expands with the inexpressible sweetness of love, we shall run along the path of God’s commandments…’ Benedict’s rule -Prologue

12.) SPIRITUAL GIFTS

‘Each person has his own gift from God – one person has one kind of gift and the next person has a different one.’ 1 Corinthians 7:7 Benedict’s Rule Ch 40

13.) HUMILITY AND A TEACHABLE HEART

‘The first step towards humility is unhesitating obedience, which comes naturally to all who hold Christ dearer than anything else.’ Benedict’s rule Ch 5

14.) SERVANTHOOD

Holy Scripture calls us brothers, saying, ‘Anyone who exalts himself will be humbled and anyone who humbles himself will be exalted.’ Benedict’s Rule - Ch 7

15.) RELATIONSHIPS

‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ Matthew 22:37,39, Mark 12:30-31, Luke 10:27 Benedict’s Rule - Ch 4

16.) GENEROSITY

‘God loves a cheerful giver’ 2 Cor 9:7 Benedict’s Rule - Ch 5

17.) HOSPITALITY

‘All guests who arrive should be received as if they were Christ.’ Benedict’s Rule - Ch 53

18.) RESTRAINT OF SPEECH

‘Let us do as the prophet says: I will keep a watch over my ways so that I do not offend with my tongue….’ Benedict’s Rule - Ch 6

19.) THE LEADER AS A SHEPHERD

‘The shepherd will…. think carefully about the account he must give of himself.’ Benedict’s rule - Ch 2

20.) LIFESTYLE MODELLING

‘The …abbot should be chosen for his virtuous way of life and the wisdom of his teaching ….’ Benedict’s Rule - Ch 64