A rabid heart for intercession and prayer.

I'm sitting at my favorite Starbucks in Hawaii pretending that I'm home but not in a sad way, just in a I'm glad they have a Starbucks here even though it's a foot and an arm more expensive kind of way. Hmm missin' ya'll.
Today I was thinking a lot about these last two weeks and what I should do with this Blogger thing, as I was doing so the Mom-tron 3000 called. We talked about home and how I shouldn't worry about the home front too much. But ohhh do I anyways? Duh.. Today folks I want to love on the word Intercession.
    How much do we love the theory of interceding for others?! I LOVE it!! Intercession means simply prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of one another. A way for us as humans to act out in selflessness. In the last weeks I have learned how much I love crazy rapid fire prayer; screaming it out as individuals or teams for people who need it. This act isnt something you only do once a week with your small groups or church, believe it or not you do this allllll the time in prayer. I am constantly interceding for my siblings, family and friends back at home. But it is here that I have learned that this can go so much further than the people that I hold dearest. Come on Ellie, so simple.
   These last two week's we have interceded for passion in God, the men and women here, Hawaii and different YWAM outreach teams all over the world. Here at YWAM we get the great privilege to have Dan Bauman as a friend and speaker at our school. Last week we talked about passion and how as people sometimes we let our faith in God be driven by our emotional highs and lows. It's okay, we as people are emotional and it's great! BUT our relationship with God and our love for Him should be rooted with consistently or our love for Him will be inconsistent (spiritual highs and lows). After Dan talked for only thirty minutes the room exploded with prayer! We as students were all standing on our chairs praying against passivity and our comfort zones. Yelling out, proclaiming the freedom in God's name. Thirty minutes later we were praying over eachother, proclaiming the truth that we all have a voice and He wants to hear us. Everyone broke their chains off that day, such beauty was found.
  The very next day we divided up: women on one side and men on the other. Our separate circles were praying and proclaiming the lies that we have told ourselves through and through. After awhile we came back together, women in the inside together and men circling around us praying over us as brothers. Interceding and apologizing to us for what men have done to us in the past. This time was so amazing, such freedom was found for many of the women. I couldn't hold myself together. I was scared, sad and full of anger by my past and how I've been let down by men in my life. But once us as women circled around the men and prayed for them all of those feelings had left me. God gave me His heart for this beautiful breed of men that He has put here at YWAM. They are my friends and my brothers, God is pulling a 180 in my heart.
   The picture above is the prayer room on campus, we have prayer sets twice a week. It is here where we worship God as the kingdom family, on Mondays we pray for our outreach teams, nations, family, and worldviews. On Wednesdays we pray for reconciliation in Hawaii. Hawaii has the highest numbers of abuse of crystallized meth/ "ice" in America. Please join us in prayer on Wednesdays and all week as we pray for addictions. Also in Hawaii one out of two girls in high school deal with teen pregnancy. Please pray for families in HI. That addictions are shattered so family structures can be rebuilt with a firm foundation of love. Lastly pray for the church and mission leaders here in HI, that more will step out in faith, that they will help mend and reach more people in this land.
  Pray it out this weekend! 
Psalm 86:1-7
Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me,
    for I am poor and needy.
² Preserve my life, for I am godly;
    save your servant, who trusts in you—you are my God.
³  Be gracious to me, O Lord,
    for to you do I cry all the day.
⁴ Gladden the soul of your servant,
    for to you, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
⁵ For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
     abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you.
⁶  Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer;
    listen to my plea for grace.
⁷ In the day of my trouble I call upon you,
     for you answer me.