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Ephesians 6:18-24
June 24, 1979
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This morning we come to the 6th chapter of Ephesians, for the last time because we're going to be finishing our study of this marvelous book this morning.
I understand as I mentioned last week that this is about message 62 or 63 in our study of Ephesians and I feel again as I always do when I close a book, even though we've been well over a year studying this book we haven't really begun to plumb all of the riches and the depths that are here. But God has really changed our lives as we've studied; God has done some marvelous things. As I look back on the themes of the Book of Ephesians we've been through probably in this book in the last year plus the most exciting time of our church. God has confronted us in many ways and with many new thoughts, done some dramatic things in our midst, and it doesn't really come to an end now because we simply take all that we have learned, all that God has planted in our hearts, and begin to apply it from here on out as we live our lives to His glory. So we don't leave the Book of Ephesians, we simply take what we've learned and begin to let it move through us to the glory of God as we live in this world.
But we come this morning to the last section of the Book, and we're going to take this section as one unit this morning and I want you to listen as I read verses 18 to 24. "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching there unto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, For which I am an ambassador in bonds; that in this I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. But that ye also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things; Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts. Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen."
In 1671 was born in Germany a man named Johan Bershard Fraystine. He wrote the following words to an old hymn, "Rise my soul to watch and pray, from thy sleep awaken be not by the evil day unawares or taken. For the foe well we know oft his harvest reapeth while the Christian sleepeth. Watch against the devil's snares lest asleep he find thee, for indeed no pains he spares to deceive and blind thee. Satan's prey oft are they who secure are sleeping and no watch are keeping. But while watching also pray to the Lord unceasing, He will free thee be thy stay, strength, and faith increasing. Oh Lord, bless in distress and let nothing swerve me from the will to serve Thee."
Over a hundred years ago Charlotte Elliot wrote the words for another hymn. "Christian, seek not yet repose, cast thy dreams of ease away, thou art in the midst of foes, watch and pray. Principalities and powers mustering their unseen array wait for thy unguarded hours, watch and pray. Watch as if on that alone hung the issue of the day, pray that help may be sent down, watch and pray."
Both of these hymns point up the reality that victory over Satan, victory over his hosts, victory in the warfare with which we are engaged involves a tremendous commitment to prayer. That's what both hymn writers are saying.
And that is precisely what the Apostle Paul is saying in chapter 6 verse 18. Now he has already discussed the warfare in chapter 6 verses 10 to 13, and he has discussed very clearly the armor in verses 14 to 17, and now he brings on to bear the theme of prayer and verse 18 begins, "Praying always." Now prayer then becomes the closing theme in the letter of Ephesians. It is not mentioned as a part of the Christians armor, because it's more than that. The armor ended in verse 17 and prayer is in addition to that and more prayer is in concert with that. So the Apostle Paul is not saying in addition to these things add prayer but rather woven into this is prayer. All the while we are attending to the belt of truthfulness and the breastplate of righteousness and the shoes of the Gospel of peace and the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, all the while that we are engaged with those elements, the shield of faith, we are at the same time involved in prayer. "Praying always." All through the procedure of arming ourselves, all through the demands of the battle, all through whether it's the heat of the war or a lull, we are engaged in prayer. Prayer is the very air we breathe.
I remember reading about the kind of animal that lives at the dark places of the sea, down deep in the sea, it's neither fish nor fowl really but it lives there and it can stay there in the darkness for, for some period of time but then it must ascend all the way to the surface and gasp air and then go back again, and so the believer all the while in his life in all the vicissitudes and at all times of his life must ascend as it were to the throne of God to breathe the air of prayer and then and then alone can he be able to exist in the darkness of the world about him. And that's exactly what Paul is saying here. Prayer is like our breath, I've told you before that it's like breathing you don't have to think to breathe because the air exerts pressure on your lungs and forces you to breathe, and so as a believer not to pray is to hold your breath spiritually and the results are all bad. All the while you live the Christian life, all the time you put on the armor, all the time you fight, you are breathing and breathing and breathing as it were in prayer. Prayer pervades all of that.
I think in reading Pilgrim's Progress of how God gives to Christian in that wonderful allegory a weapon called all prayer, and the else instruction that when everything else fails this will cause you to be able to defeat all the fiends that come in the valley of the shadow. But prayer is really more than Bunyan sees it there it's, it's more than an additional weapon, it is the atmosphere in which all our living occurs, all our fighting and all our arming ourselves. It is pervasive in that sense.
Now the fact that it is climactic in the Book of Ephesians is planned by God's Holy Spirit, it is not by accident. Our Lord urged men always to pray and not to faint in Luke 18:1. And He knows that in the battle when it gets hot you can faint, you can get weary, you can give up, you can abandon the fight if you don't pray. You really only have two alternatives, you either pray or faint, there's no middle ground. And so in the warfare that he's just talked about prayer becomes vital. But it's more than just that context. The reason prayer comes here is because it fits the ending of the total book, the whole letter of Ephesians comes to a, a climax and a peak and a pinnacle at this point. It's as if prayer is like the musical crescendo in the great, the great anthem of praise that is the book of Ephesians.
Now let me show you why I say that, if you go back in Ephesians you will find as we have in the time we've studied it that this book probably more than any other book in the entire Bible presents the resources of a believer. I don't ... in my mind I don't see any other book matching it in stature as far as a delineation of the resources that are ours in being in Christ, it is incomparable in that sense. It is a long cataloging of all that is ours as Christians. What Peter says in one simple phrase that, "We have all things that pertain to life and godliness." What Colossians 2 says in that one simple phrase, "You are complete in him," is really magnified and exploded to its fullness in the book of Ephesians. All our completeness is here, all our resources are here, and the key to that is chapter 1 verse 3, "Blessed with all spiritual blessings in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus."
And then he goes on to delineate them for 6 chapters. It's a monumental cataloging of all that is ours in Christ, and it lifts us to great heights. It starts us as it were in the heavenlies, we start in the glories and we stay there for the whole book until finally we come to chapter 6:18 and God demands that we fall on our knees. And prayer then becomes the key now mark it, to appropriating the resources. They're all there, and they are all ours in Christ, but we cannot simply float around in the glory as it were we have to come to the reality of being on our knees before God, so that these things can be implemented in our lives. And so the Book that begins in the heavenlies ends on its knees, as Paul calls us to prayer.
Now you might think in a book with such tremendous resources prayer wouldn't be very necessary, what would be to pray for? For example listen, according to chapter 1 verse 3, we are super blessed, according to chapter 1 verse 4 to 6 we are super loved, according to chapter 1 verse 7 we are forgiven and redeemed. Chapter 1 verse 8 says we are given wisdom, chapter 1 verse 11 says we are made rich, chapter 1 verse 13 says we are secure, sealed with the Spirit, chapter 2 verses 4 to 6 we are alive with new life, chapter 2 verse 7 we are the objects of eternal grace, chapter 2 verse 10 we are God's masterpiece. Again chapter 2 verse 10 we are called to a life of good works which God will do through us, chapter 2 verses 13 to 18 we are one with God and with every other Christian. Chapter 2 verse 19 we are members of God's intimate family, chapter 2 verse 22 we are the very habitation of the Holy Spirit. Chapter 3 verse 20 we are powerful beyond our own imagination, chapter 3:21 we are able to glorify God. What an incredible definition of a human being, amazing what God has done for us, beyond anything we can even imagine. And when you move from there into the 4th chapter it just keeps going. In chapter 4 verse 3 we are told we possess the living Spirit of God in us, in chapter 4 verses 4 to 6 we are members of the body of Christ, in chapter 4 verses 11 to 13 we have received gifts and gifted men to perfect us to do the work of the ministry. In chapter 4 verses 20 to 24 we have Jesus Christ to teach us to walk a new life. In chapter 5 verses 1 and 2 we've received the love of God so that we can walk in love. In chapter 5 verse 8 we have received God's very light so that we dwell in light. In chapter 5 verses 15 to 17 we have received the wisdom and the truth of God so that we can walk wisely in the world. In chapter 5 verse 18 we have received the power of the fullness of the Spirit of God. In chapter 5 verses 21 through chapter 6 verse 9 we have received the resources to make every human relationship all that God ever intended it to be. Finally in chapter 6 verses 10 to 17 we have received invulnerable, invincible, fantastic, powerful armor, against which Satan is hapless and helpless, if we use it. Climaxing itself in the sword of the Spirit, the magnificent weapon of the Word of God which is in the hand of every believer.
Now that's a tremendous picture. That's all what it is to be a Christian. Now by the time you've gotten all that in your head, and you recognize your exalted position in Christ and you see the resources for effective Christian living and you know you lack nothing, you immediately then face a problem, and the problem is what you might call a kind of doctrinal egoism, a problem may be defined in First Corinthians 10:12, "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he (what?) fall." You can actually become what I would call a spiritual atheist. In other words you have a full belief in God you just don't need Him. And I suppose this would be one of the grave dangers in a church like ours. We are so adequate, we have so much knowledge, we have so much information, we have so many resources, we understand our position, we know our gifts, we've seen God's blessing, we've had so much success and very little failure, and so it's easy for us to just move along and not really acknowledge God at all. And we can fall into a terrible sin of feeling we're adequate and losing a sense of dependence on God. I guess we should pray as one brother prayed that God would give us enough success to know He's there and enough failure to desperately need Him. We have so many things going for us in our society, in our church, in our lives, we've seen such tremendous blessing of God that it's easy to become smug and reduce everything to the how to's and the gimmicks and the programs and the methods and we've got it all and we've done it all and it's all great, you know, maybe our marriage is working out, our kids are good, everything's fine at the church, it's all wonderful, and we become spiritual atheists, we just tune God out. And that kind of passionate, deep, longing, yearning, earnest prayer that God calls from our hearts just isn't there.
We have some dear friends, Pedro and Lilia Marevus, with whom we have visited many times when they were in the States and with whom we shared much rich fellowship while we were ministering in Nicaragua. In the last week or so in the terrible fighting and slaughter that's gone on in Nicaragua these dear people have had to flee the country, to gather what they could and get out. He has a little plant where they made cosmetics, had his own business, and the government demanded of course that he use it to produce some kind of ammunition, and the rebels said if he did they'd kill them all, and so he was trapped and they had to flee for their lives, and I very seriously doubt whether they have much trouble thinking of something to pray about. They've lost everything, everything, their home, everything. They must rebuild again. Their children are being educated in the United States; I understand they'll have to bring them all home because they have no money to support them anymore. But we get along so well, sometimes, that we lose the perspective and I think sometimes if we lose it God may just bring things into our lives to help us get it back. And that's what Paul is saying. You've got it all but it still all depends on Him.
It's kind of like a football coach. A professional football player has mastered his techniques, by the time he gets into the professional football ranks he knows what he's doing, he knows exactly what he's doing. He understands how to play his position, he understands football, he's trained, he has the skills, the equipment, the talent, the whole thing and yet that great big hulking man who has mastered the form of profession that he's in, who knows the whole thing inside and out has to listen to a little guy on the sidelines with a clipboard telling him every move to make. I have heard from some of the men on the Dallas Cowboy's that it's a typical speech that Tom Landry gives after a game, when Dallas loses he walks in the locker room and says this to them, gentlemen, "I told you how to win the game, you didn't do what I told you so you lost," turns around and leaves.
Now you can have all the talent and all the resources and all the training and all of the innate ability but if you don't do it the way God directs it to be done you lose. That's essentially what Paul is saying, don't think that because you have all these resources and you have all this history of success and you have all of this in being in Christ that you can become a spiritual atheist and live as if you didn't need God. It can't be done. The armor is not mechanical and the armor is not magical, it needs God. God infuses into the armor and God infuses into our resources His power and His energy. So there is the latent danger that Christians who have a knowledge of doctrine and some kind of a history of success and a fairly effective grip on practical spiritual principles can become satisfied and they don't need a heart rending passionate constant prayer, and that's a tragedy. And that's why the Epistle that begins in the heavenlies ends on its knees, because all of that is dependent on prayer. Maybe you look at your life and you say, you know I know so much. Why some of you people, some of you young people, some of you people in seminary and some of you people who've come out of seminary, you look at your life and you say, I know so much but I don't see too much happening. Well you think the armor or you think your resources are either magical or mechanical and they're not. They're dependent on prayer, the soul of man moving in the presence of God.
Now that's what Paul wants us to see so let's look at it, and we're going to cover all of these verses believe it or not, somebody came up to me after I did it in the first service and their mouth was hanging open and they said, "I didn't think you could cover that many verses, I'm shocked." We will. We're going to skip the last four. First of all I want you to see the general instruction in verse 18, the general instruction, verse 18, and you'll notice there are four alls, "Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints." Now here you have the four all's of prayer, four times all is emphasized. This is so great, each piece put on with prayer, prayer pervades all that we are and we do, it is the all-encompassing element of our lives. That's why I say it is the air we breathe. There's no time in our lives when we should not be in prayer.
Let's look first of all at the frequency of prayer; we'll take these alls one at a time, the frequency of prayer, verse 18, "Praying always." When are we to pray? Always. Now some of you have come out of backgrounds where you prayed reading out of a prayer book or where you prayed at a certain set time. You know the Jewish people used to pray at certain times, and even in the Book of Acts when the early church met they met for the prayers, it says, and that was really a holdover from their old Judaism, the set times of the day for the prayers. But the New Testament and the new covenant and the birth of the church brought a new era, and that is that there is to be an always character to prayer, we are not praying at the set times anymore, we are praying at all times on every occasion at every time. Jesus gave us indication this was coming when He said in Luke 21:36, "Watch ye therefore and pray always." And the early apostles said it in Acts 6:4, "We will give ourselves continually to prayer." Continually, not only to those prescribed prayers but to all prayer.
It was said of Cornelius in Acts 10, "He was a devout man and prayed to God always." In Romans 12:12 it says, "Continue diligent in prayer." In Colossians 4:2, "Continue in prayer." In Philippians 4:6, "In everything by prayer." And summing it up First Thessalonians 5:17, "Pray without (what?) ceasing." Second Timothy 1:3 the Apostle Paul indicated that he did that. To Timothy he wrote, "Without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day."
We are to pray always. In Acts 12 we find the church praying constantly and even though their prayer was somewhat weak in faith God answered. So that there is a pattern of praying at all times. I used to wonder what this meant, because my life was filled with so many things there was just seemingly no way I could pray at all times. And obviously you can't run around ah, with a little book reading prayers all through the day, you know you go to Israel and you see those Jewish people genuflect in front of the Wailing Wall and go on hour after hour through their prayers.
You, you may have been from a background with the Catholic Church where you run through a series of beads again and again, again and again, time after time after time, none of those things is what is meant by praying always. It isn't just walking around mumbling certain formulas, vain repetition. It is simply living your life in God consciousness; it is that your whole life rises before God in communion and communication. I can look at my own life and I used to wonder how you could pray always, and now I find very few times in my life when I'm not conscious of God. Everything I see and everything I experience in my life simply becomes a prayer that is it's something I share with my best friend; it's something that instantly is communicated with God. If I am tempted immediately I find that temptation becomes a prayer, "Lord, You know what I'm going through, help me in this." If I see something good my first thought is, "God, You're the source of every good and perfect gift, thank You for that." If I see something evil I say, "Oh God, that evil should reign, or oh God make it right." If I see somebody without Jesus Christ and I have occasion to meet them my first response is always, "Oh God it's so sad that they don't know You, draw them to Yourself." If I see trouble I say, "God You're the Deliverer."
In other words life becomes a, an ascending prayer, all of its thoughts and all of its deeds and all of its circumstances become a cause or a, a point of communication with God. That's the way to live, see? That's what it means to set your affections on things above, that's what it means to think about Christ, to have His conscious presence in your mind, so that everything becomes a prayer, all your life and all your thoughts. And I guess really that's the whole point of the Christian life, you see? You see the reason God saved you was for fellowship, did you know that? He saved you for fellowship.
That's what First John says, "That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you," why do you declare the Gospel? "That you also may have fellowship with us; and our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son, Jesus Christ." God saved you for fellowship, He wants your fellowship. And there's no greater expression of fellowship than prayer, that's when you commune with God. And if you've been saved and you don't commune with Him you're denying Him the purpose for which He saved you, you're denying Him the purpose for which He redeemed you. You're saved to enter into fellowship with Him. And so we are to continually pray. The root word in Colossians 4:2, "Continue in prayer," is the root "kartereo," it means to be steadfast, to be constant. It's used of Moses when it says he endured in Hebrews 11:27. The term is used in its intensity in, in Colossians with a preposition added to the front and it means to be intense, to hang in there in constant prayer. The idea is not just some kind of easy going once in a while dropping a prayer to the Lord but a whole life of strong persevering struggling over deep issues. And you know it's just a, it's just a way of life, when your heart is open to God, earnest, strong, courageous, persistent prayer, holding on and not letting go till you're blessed.
You know how our Lord Jesus gives two illustrations in Luke 11 and Luke 18? And He talks in one portion about the, the unjust judge and the woman kept coming and begging and begging and begging and finally the unjust judge did what she wanted, and the Lord is saying, if an unjust judge will give something to a persistent lady, what do you think a just God will give to His own child? If he persists. And later on, do you remember the guy bangs and bangs and bangs on the door and the man says, "the store is closed go to bed, I'm in bed with my wife and kids I'm not getting out?" And he bangs and bangs and finally the guy says, "okay" and he gives him the bread, and what Jesus is saying if, is if a sleepy man who's tucked in and asleep will come down and give bread to somebody banging on his door, what do you think a loving Father will give to a son who has a need? And the point in both of them is they kept persisting and they got what they wanted, and God is saying, if you're persistent and faithful in your prayers and you pray with importunity then He'll hear and answer. And so life is to be a constant exercise of prayer. Oh beloved, you can know so much and never think about God, all you ever think about is the things that you've learned, and the whole purpose of what you have learned is to draw you into the presence of God. We'll see more about that in a minute.
First of all then, the frequency of prayer, always. Always, whatever you see in life ascends to God in a prayer, because the communion is so open. By the way the word fellowship is the word communion.
Secondly, we see not only the frequency of prayer but the second "all" shows us the variety of prayer. "Praying always with all prayer and supplication." All prayer and supplication? The word prayer, simple word just generally means requests, "proseuche," prayer in general, conversation. Then the word supplication, "deesis," it means a specific. So there are general ... the general area of prayer, we pray more generally, we pray specifically. But notice, we are with all prayer and all supplication to be praying at all times.
Now what does he mean by all prayer and all supplication? Simply all kinds that's all. There's all different ways to pray. Some people think the only way you can pray is on your knees, some people think the only way you can pray is with your hands up, others think you have to have your hands folded like this or like this. Some people think that ah, you've got to pray out of a prayer book or you've got to have the prayers told to you. Listen, he says, pray all the time, with all kinds of prayers. And if ... by the way if you're going to be praying all the time you're going to have to have all kinds because you're never going to be in the same position. You can pray public or private, you can pray verbal or silent, loud cries or quiet whispers, deliberate and planned or spontaneous, there can be requests or thanksgivings, confessions and humiliations, praise, you can be kneeling, standing, lifting up holy hands, lying prostrate, he's simply saying, pray all the time in all ways. And that's, that's a good indication that he means just pray through the whole flow of life. I'll sometimes, well usually every night I'll kneel and pray with our children, and we kneel, Melinda lies down, the rest of us kneel, and we pray. Then I'll go to bed sometimes and I'll lie in bed and my head will just look up and I'll just pray and I find myself waking up in the morning never having said an amen.
I pray when I'm walking. I remember when I was in college and I was learning how to preach, they used to take us out in a car, five of us would pile in a car and we'd go and they'd drop us at different bus depots in cities and make us preach. And they'd take me to the Greyhound Depot and they'd say, here's your depot, you preach you have we'll be back in two hours, preach a sermon and then take a 15 minute break and go witness and then preach another sermon. And so that's kind of a frightening thing for a young guy I'll tell you it's still frightening, I wouldn't do it now. But anyway, anyway all the way up there we'd pray, and we'd be praying driving the car and I remember when I first time we did this I thought it was kind of strange the guy driving would pray and he wouldn't close his eyes, and the more I thought about it the better I liked it obviously, a living testimony to the fact that that's a good way to pray if you happen to be driving.
But anyway, you pray driving a car. In fact Bill Clutterham told me this morning that his wife can always tell when he's praying driving because his speed gets slower and slower and slower and slower, the closer he gets to God the more sensitive he is to the speed limit. But anyway, you can pray at all times and in all circumstances in whatever situation you're in, and that is exactly what Paul is saying. Don't you ever, having counted on all of the infinite resources that are yours in Christ, think for a moment that you're not every moment dependent upon the power of God. Because you are. Let everything become a prayer. And so does Paul say to Timothy in First Timothy 2:8, "I will that men pray everywhere." If you study the prayers of the Bible you'd find there were all kinds of prayers in all kinds of positions at all kinds of times, it's a way of life. A soldier is praying at all times so that whenever the battle comes even if it's a surprise attack he is ready. He has the kind of a life that's open up to God totally.
Listen, I remember going to a pastor's conference with some of the staff and a guy got up and he preached on the fact that we ought to pray in the morning, and I mean he preached we are to pray in the morning. And he went to every passage like I did this morning, Psalm 63, "Early will I seek thee, oh God." And he went to the guys who prayed in the morning and here they were in the morning and we are to pray in the morning, was his great sermon. And all the time he was preaching it I kept looking up all the Scriptures that talked about praying in the evening, and at noon, and so forth and so on. I mean he had a good point; we are to pray in the morning but not to the exclusion of any other time. Even Psalm 55:17 says, "Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray." And Daniel prayed three times a day, and of Jesus, Luke 6:12 says, "He continued all night in prayer." And First Timothy 5:5 says, "The widows prayed night and day." It is a way of life. Prayer in a sense beloved is more important than knowledge, and that's a good word for us here. In a sense it's a more important element than knowledge.
Martyn Lloyd Jones says, "'Our ultimate position as Christians is tested by the character of our prayer life." You may have a lot of knowledge, you may be a seminary student or a seminary graduate or a, a minister a pastor, a missionary, a Bible teacher but your prayer life will be a monitor on how really deep your knowledge of God and your relationship to Him is. Why do I say that?
For this reason listen, theology, listen, is ultimately the knowledge of God, right? Theology is the, is the knowledge of God. So the more theology I know the more I know about God, and the more I know about God the more I ought to be driven, as the Psalmist said, to follow close behind Him. And if I say I have all this knowledge, but I am not driven to be in His presence all my waking hours then it's questionable the effect that knowledge has had on my life. It is that they may know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent, that I study. It is that I want to learn the Word that I may know God and the more I know Him the more I want to be in His presence. And if you know all of that but you don't hunger and thirst to be in His presence, and your life is not an open communication line to Him every waking moment then it's questionable that your theology has had the proper effect. And you see then we are to pray at all times, all kinds of prayers as our lives are opened to God. As I said He wants us to know Him because fellowship is the end result. Do you have that fellowship? Is your life a constant prayer? Oh, what a cleansing thing that is.
Thirdly, we see not only the frequency of prayer and the kinds of prayer, the variety of prayer, but the manner of prayer thirdly. He says, "Watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication."
In other words we are to watch with all perseverance, and again you see the idea of perseverance meaning to stick to it, to stay at it, to hang in there, to continue, to persevere, praying continuously while watching. Prayer is to be alert to the issues, alert to what's happening. Jesus said, "Watch and pray" many times. First Peter 4:7, "Watch unto prayer." You can't pray properly unless you see what's going on. When you come to the place where your heart is filled with prayer, it'll be because you see so many things going on.
I, I was praying even with my wife last night and we were talking about the fact that it's hard nowadays to, to pray not because you don't know what to pray for but because there's so much you don't know, you don't know what to put your arms around. You know we live in a day of tremendous communication. I get mail from radio listeners, tape listeners, people in mission fields, from all over the place, the church is so large, there's so many needs, the prayer sheet that comes out on Wednesday night just boggles my mind. There's so many things that sometimes I just say, Lord, God I, I don't even know what to say to You other than read the prayer list, you know? I mean I can't, I used to try to keep a prayer list and write things down and it just became, it's just monstrous, I still do that, but it's just monstrous, I can't even begin, listen if I prayed without ceasing I couldn't pray for all of the things that are in my heart to pray for. But I have to keep watching and I have to be alert so that I can see the needful things. I want to pray specifically because then God answers specifically, then I give Him specific glory, that's John 14:13 and 14, "You ask anything in my name and I'll do it that the Father may be glorified."
You see God answers prayer to put His power on display; if you don't pray specifically then He can't display Himself. I, I told you one time about Marcy, she used to pray when she was little, "God bless the whole wide world." And I'd always say, Marcy you can't pray that what God can't do that. He can't go zap world, now do you feel better? That's too big. You, you need to, to pray about specifics and, and our children have become ah, well adapted to that and now we pray for specifics and God answers with specifics and we give Him glory. Watch, be alert, do you know what's going on in the people around you? By the way the term watch tells us a little bit also that we're looking out rather than in. We know our own problems, that's not where we need to spend our time in prayer, where we need to spend our time in prayer is with other people, looking out, watching, seeing their needs. And I'll tell you what kills this, selfishness.
Frankly I'll give you a simple illustration; most of us never really get serious about prayer until something happens in our own lives that's troublesome. We are ten times more intense about our own problems than we are about anybody else's and that shows the self-centeredness that we have to live with. Can you lose yourself in the, in the needs of others like the dear Apostle Paul? Could you say, "I prayed for you night and day with tears."? Have you ever prayed for anybody night and day with tears? You may have wept a few over your own troubles but I doubt whether many of us have done that over somebody else's. That shows the self-centeredness of the human heart, even a regenerate believer. We are to "proskarteresis," that is be persevering, intense, continuing, steadfastly, watching and praying, being alert to the needs of others. And by the way I could add here, get past the physical.
You know we pray for Aunt Martha's rheumatism, somebody's heart problems and somebody's broken leg and somebody's surgery, and I don't mind all of that but frankly folks on my prayer list those things come at the bottom. What I'm concerned about is the spiritual battle, is the warfare, and are, are the believers winning the battle? The physical in a sense though it is material is immaterial. What ah, gets my heart anxious is somebody who's not seeing victory in their life, somebody who's not seeing God do His mighty work, somebody who doesn't know what it is to see the release of the power of the Spirit of God, that's what, that's what concerns my heart. I am praying for the advance of the Kingdom of God in the lives of His people, I am praying for souls to be won to Jesus Christ and it's very hard for me to put at the top of my list the physical, although I realize that that's a need and, and it has a tremendous effect upon our spiritual lives, that comes secondary.
What Paul is saying is this, "look, here is the war and it is about the war that you must pray." It's not easy for you to fight the battle and so I pray for you. Oh, I pray now and then for people's physical things but more than that I pray that God will give you victory, I pray that you'll win the battle against the enemy. I don't really care what happens to my physical body or yours as long as we gain the victory for the glory of God, amen? That's the battle, that's the issue.
So we, we concentrate on the thing that is most needful, and so Paul here when he gives a prayer request he doesn't say, "oh pray for me I'm in jail, oh pray for me I have this chain I'm, it's rubbing me raw, pray for my right leg." No! What he says is "pray for me that boldness may be given unto me, that I may have utterance to speak the mystery of the Gospel." In other words "pray for me that when Satan tempts me to shut my mouth I'll win out over temptation and I'll speak the Gospel, pray that I'll win the battle." Oh beloved we're to get involved in supplicating for each other persistently while we watch and see what the needs are. Do you really know the needs of the people around you? Do you know the spiritual needs of your spouse? Of your children? Of your friends? Of your neighbors? Of people in your Bible study? People that you know? Do you really pray for them as they fight the battle? Sometimes all we ever do is pray when the disaster comes and maybe a little preventative prayer could have helped.
So we see the frequency of prayer, always. The variety of prayer, all prayer and supplication. The manner of prayer, watching with all perseverance. Then finally the indirect objects of prayer, "praying always for all saints." It says at the end of verse 18. And this has been led by, led into by our last point; we're to pray for each other. You know it doesn't tell us to pray for ourselves. That, that isn't the priority. I just have a personal commitment in my own life and I don't want to push it off on anybody but I just, I don't pray for myself, I can hardly encompass all the things that are needful and I just, I've never found the need to pray for me, I realize that I have needs and I do ask the Lord about sinful things and I do confess things in my life but as far as concentrating on me I am rather obedient at this point, I trust the Scripture in praying for others than myself. I get covered because others pray for me. Oh it's so wonderful when we give ourselves to pray for others.
I met a guy one time he said to me, he said, "you know your ministry has blessed me I'm going to put you on my prayer list for six months." I thought "that's funny, what do I have to do to get a year?" But then as I began to think about it I thought well now that's a commitment he's made. Bless his heart for that commitment, he'll pray for me, and I wound up praying for him, because all the six months I knew he was praying for me I felt responsible to pray for him, because if anything happened to him he'd stop praying for me, see? And so this is the way the body grows into love, this is the way we become one, when we don't have to wait for our own trouble to pray but when we're lost in the needs of others.
So we learn to pray by praying for others. This is the body's prayer life. Oh the Apostle Paul illustrates it so well, he always prayed for everybody else. First Samuel 12:23, "God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you." Don't worry about you; you pray for somebody else, somebody else prays for you and everybody gets covered, right? When one part of the physical body is ill the rest of the body compensates directly and indirectly and so it is in prayer, pray for each other. The sick finger can't help itself the rest of the body has to pump new life into that finger, that wounded one, that ah, a part of your anatomy that's injured or whatever has to be supported by all the rest, it can't support itself in its weakness and so it is that we must pray for each other, and be concerned about-that.
You know that before the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in Barcelona and Madrid and other parts of Spain there were psychological clinics that had arisen all over the land of Spain and they had large numbers of neurotics, according to historians, and these neurotics were undergoing series of treatments ah, for their neurosis, they were attended regularly ah, by psychiatrists and so forth and there were lots of outpatients and this one historian said interestingly enough they did a psychological and sociological study of the effects of the Spanish Civil War and all these people had personal problems and worries and anxieties and temptations and they were involved in psychiatry and psychoanalysis and all this.
As soon as the Civil War came one of the first and most striking effects of the war was that it virtually emptied all psychological and psychiatric clinics in Spain. How interesting. And one writer said, "These neurotic people were suddenly cured by a greater anxiety." The anxiety about their whole life, whether their homes would still be there, whether their husbands would be alive, whether their children would be killed. Their greater anxieties got rid of the lesser ones, in having to give attention to the bigger problem they forgot their own petty problems. Do you want to be a healthy person? Then lose yourselves in the real things that matter, the spiritual battles of other people. Lose yourselves in consuming prayer for the Kingdom of God and you won't have trouble with your little petty anxieties. I understand the same thing happened in Britain during the Second World War, a greater fear drove out a lesser fear. And I think it's needful for us to learn that.
One of the reasons we have such a, such a sick basket case society, people running around with all kinds of psycho-induced aches and pains and problems is simply because we are so totally self-centered. You know really I, I'm, I consider myself to be somewhat patient, I use the somewhat just because some people might argue with that. But you know one thing it's hard for me to tolerate, is people who are just totally consumed with all their own problems, because it's such a manifestation of self-centeredness that is so foreign to the concept of, of the Christian life. We should be so lost in the needs of others that self-vanishes. Let your little anxieties give way to greater ones, the spiritual battles of others.
Well there's one final thought in this verse 18, and it's this that when you've said it all, the frequency of prayer, always. The variety of prayer, all prayer. The manner of prayer, watching, so you know the needs with all perseverance. The indirect objects of prayer, all saints. But the pervasive thought is in the middle of the verse, we are to pray in the Spirit. In the Spirit. Now please beloved this does not have anything to do with speaking in tongues every time. I hear that it just ... it's like rubbing fingernails on a blackboard to me. He is not talking about ... you cannot introduce tongues into this verse.
In Jude 20 it says, "Praying in the Holy Spirit." It is not talking about some ecstasy; it is not talking about some ecstatic language. Praying in the Spirit is the same as praying in the name of Christ, it is praying in consistency with who He is and what His will is. Learn to pray in concert with the Spirit, make your prayers a duet with the one who ever intercedes for you. Do you know that Romans 8:26 says, "We know not what to pray for as we ought; but the Spirit makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And God knows the mind of the Spirit, and he hears and answers."
Listen, all the while you live the Christian life the Spirit of God within you prays on your behalf, and He always prays the right prayer and He always gets the right answer, so that verse 28 says, "All things work together for (what? for) good." That's not an accident, that's because the Spirit is praying. And praying in the Spirit is simply lining up your own prayer consistent with the mind and the will of the Spirit. You say how do you do that? By simply walking in the fullness of the Spirit, as your life is filled with the Spirit, as you walk in the Spirit, in obedience to the Spirit, as you are walking close behind the Lord, as you are constantly communing in His presence the Spirit of God will govern your thoughts so that your prayers will be in harmony with the Spirit of God.
That's praying in the Spirit. What a tremendous thing it is to know that I can join my prayers with the Spirit of God, that I can cry from the depths of my heart, because of the indwelling Spirit, Abba Father, and know that God hears and answers. So the one over all pervasive qualification in our prayers is that we are to pray in the Spirit. In fact Zechariah 12:10 calls the Holy Spirit the Spirit of supplication, the Spirit of supplication. It's no different than praying in Jesus' name; in fact the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of His Son, the Spirit of His Son.
And so beloved we're to pray, our lives are to be open communion. And you know something? This is such a healing thing, oh what a healing thing it is. So the frequency, the variety, the manner, the indirect objects all work to God's glory, and to our joy as we pray.
Then Paul closes with a specific illustration, I'll just read it to YOU, it's simple. Now you want something specific to pray for? Verse 19, "Pray for me," what should I pray for Paul? "That utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, for which I am an ambassador in bonds; that in this I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak." He says, I'm the illustration, pray for me, not my physical needs but my battle, my warfare, pray that God will allow me to be bold and courageous and straight forward and give me utterance.
Now this is the pattern beloved. The warfare was there, Paul was facing the enemy nose to nose, eyeball to eyeball as he was a prisoner in Rome. Ambassadors had diplomatic immunity but not this ambassador he was chained, and there he was, and he says, "Oh the battle is tough." You know sometimes I want to quit, sometimes I feel I'm losing my courage, pray for me that God will give me utterance. I'm going to ride his coattail; I'm telling you pray for the preacher. People say, well what do we need to pray for you kind of guys, pray for Paul, who needs to pray for Paul? I mean he's got it all together, we've got to pray for the people on the periphery. You just remember that if the guy in the lead falls a whole lot of people are going with him. And Paul was knowledgeable about the fact that the rest were as strong as their leader was and their pattern, pray for me, he says, that I may have boldness and utterance, and in my boldness maybe I'll gather some of the others around me and they too will have boldness. And you know when he wrote the Philippian Letter after this, he wrote and he said, oh, he said, what's happened to me in jail has given greater boldness to others, see? So as they prayed for him he became a stronger example and it helped others. Pray for me, he says. And the point I want you to get is that he prayed ... he wanted them to pray for a spiritual battle to be won, that he wouldn't lose his courage and his boldness.
You say, well you know I'd like to pray for other people but I don't have any information. And that's why Paul added verse 21 and 22, he says, "But that you also may know my affairs, and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things;" I don't expect you to pray for me if you don't have any information, so I'm going to send my good friend Tychicus. By the way a dear friend of Paul's mentioned five times in the New Testament who is the one who delivers the Letter of Ephesians and also brings word about Paul. They were worried and concerned, they didn't know what was going on in his life, they didn't know how it was in prison, they wanted to hear. He says I'm sending him and he'll give you all this information so you can really pray intelligently. Verse 22, "1 have sent him to-you for the same purpose, that you might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts." He'll tell you I'm doing well and he'll tell you where the battle lies and you can pray.
Listen beloved, if we're going to pray let's pray about spiritual things and let's open up our lives to each other so we have something to pray about, right? We have to communicate, we've got to share the struggle, share the battle, share the victories, so we can carry each other's cares. What a lesson on prayer. We are to be God conscious, selfless, watchful, Holy Spirit filled, persistent, bold people seeking only God's glory in our prayers. And I believe as we live that kind of life and pray those kind of prayers that we'll be more and more fitted into the image of Jesus Christ. And as we pray for each other the body will be built up and He'll be glorified. And that's the climax to the letter.
Paul closes with a benediction, to which I add nothing. "Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God, the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen." Let's pray.
A saint of God many years ago prayed this prayer, I want to make it our prayer this morning, "Oh Lord, in prayer I launch far out into the eternal world and on that broad ocean my soul triumphs over all evils on the shores of mortality. Time with its amusements and cruel disappointments never appears so inconsiderate as then. In prayer, oh God, I see myself as nothing, I find my heart going after Thee with intensity and long with vehement thirst to live with Thee. Blessed be the strong winds of the Spirit that speed me on my way to the New Jerusalem. In prayer all things here below vanish and nothing seems important but holiness of heart and the salvation of others. In prayer all my worldly cares and fears and anxieties disappear and are as little in significance as a puff of wind. In prayer my soul inwardly exalts with thoughts of what Thou art doing for Thy church, and I long that Thou shouldest get Thyself a great name from sinners returning to Thee. In prayer I am lifted above the frowns and flatteries of life to taste the heavenly joys, entering into the eternal world I can give myself to Thee with all my heart forever. In prayer I can place all my concerns in Thy hands to be entirely at Thy disposal having no will or interest of my own. In prayer I can intercede for my friends, ministers, sinners, the church, Thy Kingdom, with greatest freedom, brightest hope as a son to his Father and as a lover to his beloved. And so oh God, help me to pray always and never to cease."
Father may I add to that prayer my own, that we would be people of prayer. Never smug, never content, never self-satisfied, knowing that all our knowledge and all the past record of Your blessing is but to lead us to the fullness of fellowship that comes when our life is open communication with You. Oh may we follow close behind Thee, so living as if our very life were offered as a prayer and we thank You in Christ's name for such a privilege. Amen.
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I'm following your posts, Steve... anxious to see how you do. Keep posting! Thanks.
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Started by hazelnut66, Jan 21 2005 04:46 PM
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Posted 29 January 2005 - 12:54 PM
Posted 30 January 2005 - 07:32 AM
Posted 30 January 2005 - 07:37 AM
QUOTE(SteveLewis @ Jan 29 2005, 04:57 AM)
And I'm up. The olive oil/grapefruit mixture actually taste pretty good, go figure . I took my third dose of epsom salts this morning and found that them hard to take even though I just gulped down the first dose, had some trouble with the second dose. I'm doing the alternative schedule so I'll drink some more of the Olive/grape mixture at 840 then lie down and have my last dose of epsoms at 1040. So far, no trips to the bathroom although my stomach was grumbling and after taking the olive oil, It was as if I could feel something moving through my whole digestive tract, it was quite bizzare.
Yup, when I did my 2 flushes (almost 1.5 years apart) I used olive oil-Pink Grapefruit mixture and it tasted rather fruity to me. I used 100% juice, but it wasn't a full blend of pink grapefruit, but that didn't affect the amount of ...stones I got out. I actually got out more and larger ones during my second flush. I also broke out pretty bad after my second flush but I now realize that could have been attributed to me eating almonds & it's related fruits as I was eating plenty of those (which DO break me out badly) after the flush...sigh.
Best of luck =)


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SPRINGDALE, Wash. -- A school bus crash sent eight students on board to the hospital Wednesday morning.
The Mary Walker School District identified the bus involved in the crash as number "6," which is used along the Cemetery Rd route. The crash was reported along Cemetery Rd near Highway 231.
Authorities said the bus slid on ice. The bus' back wheels went off the road and the vehicle ended up flipping onto its side.
The district superintendent, Kevin Jacka said the bus travels that road daily during the school year.
"They are roads that are maintained by Stevens County and as you get farther south, they are Spokane County so we work with the two counties," he said. "They are maintained. They are plowed"
The School district reported 27 students between pre-school and high school ages were on board at the time.
Jacka said he learned about the wreck soon after it happened and his first concern was the for those kids.
"The first response and the first thought is, 'how are the students doing?'" Jacka said.
Children on board climbed out hatches and were huddled outside when emergency responders arrived, fire officials said. Medical staff at school evaluated all of the students. They either were free to go to class or released to their parents.
The eight students transported to the hospital with bumps and bruises were sent as a precaution. The bus driver was not seriously hurt. Mary Walker School District staff personally contacted the parents of these eight children.
"I think you're seeing post effects of a wreck," Jacka said. "We've had some kids that are complaining a little bit about back stiffness, neck stiffness, and shoulder stiffness."
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Barbara Davis, owner of Koch's Bakery, boxes doughnuts for a customer Tuesday evening.
• What: 648 doughnuts
• Height: About 1.25 inches each
• Total: 810 inches, or 67.5 feet
Chattanooga Councilman Yusuf Hakeem and Cynthia Patrick smile as Hakeem eats a Koch's Bakery doughnut before the City Council meeting Tuesday evening.
A doughnut mural covers the side of a building near Koch's Bakery on 20th Street.
So many doughnuts were delivered to the City Council that if each were stacked atop the other they would have towered some 67 feet high.
The sugary scent of 648 glazed doughnuts -- 54 dozen -- filled the council building's foyer Tuesday evening.
Some people stopped to stare. Many -- City Council members included -- dared to reach their hands inside and pluck one of the Koch's Bakery delights from its box, carrying it with them into the meeting.
The doughnuts were meant to send a message to the City Council: The community's sign ordinance is too harsh. Artists and local residents bought the doughnuts in response to a challenge by a Times Free Press columnist.
All were incensed that a code enforcer had ordered bakery owner Barbara Davis to paint over her flying doughnuts mural, telling her it was an illegal advertisement and not art.
Yet even before council members peered inside the boxes of doughnuts stacked outside the council chambers, several acknowledged that something must be done to protect business owners who are beautifying the city and crack down on those whose signs are hurting the city's overall appearance.
"When a dedicated and valuable member of our community like Barbara Davis takes a blighted area and injects life and beauty she should not be punished, she should be heralded as an example of what we want to see in our residents and business owners," said Councilman Chris Anderson, in whose district Koch's Bakery is located.
At Tuesday night's meeting, Anderson announced that he will pick several local artists, business owners and architects to form a committee to come up with an ordinance that prohibits blight but encourages art and attractive advertisements.
Currently, Chattanooga's ordinance prohibits murals that have symbols of one's business. But the City Council wants to probe the 59-page ordinance further and study rules that mandate that a business sign can take up no more than 20 percent of one's building.
That requirement is going to be significantly different on a one-story building like Koch's bakery compared to the 18-story SunTrust building downtown, said Council Chairman Chip Henderson. That's not a fair regulation, he pointed out.
As for the rest of the dozens of doughnuts that weren't eaten, the Chattanooga Community Kitchen was scheduled to pick up the boxes this morning to serve for breakfast.
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The Grand Mufti of Bosnia thinks the election of Barack Obama as American president is a gift from God that could help foster greater international tolerance of Muslims. "I believe that Obama is a divine sign to humanity," Mustafa Ceric told me in an interview in Sarajevo. Americans "think that they have elected him, but I believe that he was elected by God." (Photo: Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric, 27 Jan 2009/ Danilo Krstanovic)
"Barack Obama is one of these most noble goods of our time and our civilisation, that is why I think he is a gift of God," he said. "At the moment we feel a trend to change. Whether this change will be really in practice and life, we need time to see."
Sometimes called one of the world's most liberal grand muftis, Ceric is considered a voice of moderation with an international reputation. He is active in dialogue with other faiths and discussions of how Islam can integrate into European societies.
Bosnia may be the European country where this integration is most evident. The call for prayer from Sarajevo's hundreds of mosques wafts over cafes where alcohol is served in abundance and young couples cuddle in a mix of East and West traditions that has long characterised the capital. Women wearing headscaraves walk in the old quarter alongside others with revealing tank tops and uncovered flowing hair.
Yet the post-Sept. 11, 2001 atmosphere has impacted the image of Muslims everyone, from Bosnia to Indonesia. Ceric blames former U.S. President George W. Bush for fuelling further suspicions by using charged words such as a "crusade" against terrorism. The Republican president "will be remembered for creating a sort of Islamaphonia," said Ceric, who was educated at Al-Azhar University in Cairo before receiving a doctorate at the University of Chicago.


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The 4S
A great reflection on the iPhone 4S event by John Gruber (unlike, say, this one). Three key takeaways. On the 3.5-inch screen debate:
Bigger is not necessarily better. Apple decided on the optimal size for an iPhone display back in 2006. If they thought 4-inches was better, overall, as the one true size for the iPhone display, then the original iPhone would have had a 4-inch display. It's not like 4-inch screens are harder to make, or use some sort of new technology. If anything they're surely easier to make, as the pixels are less dense.
That's a great point that no one ever brings up. It's not like 4-inch screens are some technical achievement that Apple can't handle. They simply choose not to. And why? Because they believe 3.5-inches is the correct size.
Want bigger? You're gonna love the Nexus Prime. But remember something else: bigger screen mean worse battery life. Add a 4G chip into the mix and well…
In the months leading up to the iPhone 4S unveiling, there were only two things I heard for certain: "October" and "3.5-inch screen". No one wanted to listen on the latter, apparently.
On the form factor and timing:
The gist I get, after talking to some valuable little birdies over the past few days, is that a new form factor was never in the cards for this year's iPhone. It may or may not have ideally launched a few months sooner, but the plan was always for an iPhone 4 successor that looked like the 4 but had improved internal components. I wouldn't be surprised if the next iPhone doesn't change, or doesn't change much, either.
I also believe the original plan to launch this new iPhone in the summer but it was delayed (as was the Retina iPad that was originally due this fall). What I'm still not clear about is if Siri/iOS 5 delayed the iPhone 4S or the other way around…
Speaking of Siri:
I can't help but see Siri as Apple's first attack in the direction of Google's crown jewels: search. Apple mentioned and promoted two partners for Siri's knowledge back-end: Yelp for locations, and Wolfram Alpha for encyclopedic information and as a calculation engine. Every Siri query that's answered by Yelp or Wolfram Alpha is a query that might otherwise have been answered by Google. The more people use Siri, and the more non-Google data sources Apple adds to it, the less iPhone users will use Google search.
Yep. And there will be more Siri-powered partners coming. And I bet they will come soon. I can't believe Twitter isn't one yet…
Bobby Ghoshal, founder of FLUD News, shares a very personal story about his interactions with Apple and Steve Jobs:
The day FLUD News launched its iPhone app last december, I emailed Steve and thanked him for his contribution to the app industry. I also asked him to check out the latest FLUD when he got a chance, the next day I got a call from Apple heads telling us that we were the number 1 featured app in the app store and that we were invited to meet with people from the app store team. It gave me goose bumps.
In Praise of Bad Steve - The Atlantic
When engineers working on the very first iPod completed the prototype, they presented their work to Steve Jobs for his approval. Jobs played with the device, scrutinized it, weighed it in his hands, and promptly rejected it. It was too big.
The engineers explained that they had to reinvent inventing to create the iPod, and that it was simply impossible to make it any smaller. Jobs was quiet for a moment. Finally he stood, walked over to an aquarium, and dropped the iPod in the tank. After it touched bottom, bubbles floated to the top.
"Those are air bubbles," he snapped. "That means there's space in there. Make it smaller."
Just an hour in and by 9:30PM last night, almost every social medium online was abuzz with the terrible news, with 1,905 blog posts, 3,836 online news articles, 1,483 forum posts, and over 570,414 tweets. Numbers continued to rise as the news spread and the world both fell asleep and awoke to the sadness. Keywords surrounding Jobs' passing had also moved from conversation central to the release of the iPhone 4S, and onto more timely and emotional chatter related to his death. (via 2.5 Million Steve Jobs tweets sent out in just 12 hours)
Steve Jobs-A Man of Vision
The Apple home page says it all, appropriately in black and white. Steve Jobs was a legend, a visionary, and a businessman, who looked to the future but never stepped on people to get there. He had high hopes for Apple, and he surpassed every goal he set for his company.
There have been some grumblings around the iPhone 4S debut, but seriously, who doesn't want one? If you feel like you were short-changed by not seeing the iPhone 5 debut, just think about what that launch will be like.
Steve Jobs was smart enough to know he needed to enable others to recreate his kind of vision and innovation. Not just follow his, but be even better. Lead into the future. Dare, reach, dream, and make it happen. He knew enough about his business to understand, he could never be the only innovative, forward-thinking, creative, visionary for Apple. His desire for others to succeed at Apple, and in business in general, means I can't wait to see what Apple has in store. I'm sure they will honor the memory of Steve Jobs, and his vision, and it will be like him, extraordinary.
Jam With app Launch
Brand new iPhone app fresh from our lab. 'Jam With…' is aimed at the music industry and is a dream for musicians.
We are launching the app via our blog BEFORE we go to record labels with the concept. We have one major UK band signed up but essentially this is a social experiment. Share the content, let us know which band YOU want to see in the app and you never know, you might be in luck!


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She awoke at 6:30am on Sunday morning. It no longer mattered if it were the weekend or a weekday, if she were working or not. She always awoke at 6:30am. She was not a morning person. She was not even a day person. She was hostage to a Pavlovian fear of being late for work, which she still sometimes was as public transportation was prone to breaking down, catching fire and being the scene of crimes, suicides and other unfortunate events. Maybe she wasn't even a night person. Maybe she was no kind of person. She had a panic attack and went back to sleep.
She awoke three hours later to the instrumental howls of a marching band passing under her window. She arose and checked her email. Her family had written to inform her that they would not be visiting for Easter. Today was April 1. She replied, "is this an april fools joke?" No. It was not. They could not come to visit. She wept. She was angry and confused. Why had there been an April Fool's Day parade? She gave the cat treats because she felt guilty for crying in front of him like that.
Despite her warnings that she would be poor company in her current condition, her family had insisted on visiting for Easter. The would bring a ham and do her laundry for her. What did she want to eat with the ham? Despite her current condition, she had spent the previous day cleaning her apartment, doing 5 loads of laundry and grocery shopping. Being broke and mental was difficult, yes, but being a proper host (or guest) remained imperative. Life was a negotiable. Providing guests with clean linens and breakfast was not.
She had lost her appetite and 15 lbs., but now faced a home full of food and thoughts of starving children. She prepared herself an elaborate breakfast: curried eggs, chicken apple sausage, toast with honey, mango smoothie and iced coffee. It tasted like rubbish. Everything tasted like rubbish lately except vanilla ice cream. It was the only thing she enjoyed eating. After breakfast, she missed the pleasant sense of weightlessness and delirium acquired on an empty stomach.
She checked her email. Perhaps they had changed their minds and would be able to come after all. Instead, she found an email from a man who was in love with her, but with whom she was not in love. She did not scorn or hate or pity or judge him. She understood his pain, and it made her sad that she had caused it. She did not know what to say to him. She wanted to make everyone's pain go away. She cared about him, but was not in love with him. She was in love with someone else, who cared about her, but was not in love with her. She didn't imagine. Perhaps he was, a little, yes. She decided he must be a little in love with her, but that it did not matter, as it was the kind of love that had to be created to be destroyed. She wept. She was angry and confused.
She began to write. This is what she did when she could no longer make sense of the world. As she wrote, her eyes fell upon a bandage over her wrist and the blood which had soaked through and dried. It had not been an attempt to kill herself. Perhaps it was an attempt to confirm she was still alive. Perhaps it was a temporary escape from her thoughts. Perhaps she wore her scars like tarnished family jewelry passed down from one generation to the next, worth little at auction but of sentimental value and reliable conversation pieces. She'd seen a show about a British doctor afraid of blood. She was also afraid of blood, except when appearing from an intentional slice. She imagined being a surgeon. She imagined living in a seaside village in Cornwall. She imagined that would be lovely.
She checked her email again, like her aunt had kept checking the morgue to see if her son was still dead. Another email from another fellow. She thought she should write a self-help book for lonely women, a manual detailing how to attract men by being insane and broke. She'd developed a collection of suitors over the years. At first, their persistence terrified her, and she suspected them of being predators, or worse, vultures. But their broken hearts, their desperate gifts, their confessional emails sent from airport bars made them all more real to her, and therefore more impossible to dismiss. She wished everyone were so real and vulnerable and impossible to dismiss. Why did the world encourage us to be robots? We have robots for robots now. Why had their invention not given humanity the freedom to be more human? Why have we agreed to compete with robots on their terms?
It was turning into one angering and confusing day.
As she wrote, the cat rested his little cat face upon her foot, fell asleep and began to dream. The twitching of his whiskers tickled her foot, and she concentrated on remaining motionless in order not to wake the cat. She remembered how a few nights ago she had accidentally had one of his dreams. They were asleep back to back. She dreamt a lot of birds of different types had gathered on a tree branch outside her apartment and were tormenting her. A squirrel joined them, and she became very agitated. Then in her dream she thought, "wait, why am I having this dream? This is a cat's dream." She opened her eyes turned her head opposite and found the cat thrashing and huffing in the throes of a dream. She wasn't sure how she'd gotten in or out of another creature's subconscious, but was relieved that the upsetting experience was over. Folie a deux. Shared delusion. Somehow she could achieve this with a feline and a psychologist, but having a shared reality with anyone eluded her.
She began to pay partial attention to an opera on tv as she wrote. She decided that not much differentiated the 18th Century Italian librettist and the 21st Century reality show writer. A vastly unequal amount of talent was dedicated to the staging of each genre, but people acting foolishly-wise, they were rather on par with one another. She thought about how art and fantasy are both outlets and prisons for emotion. One may act on one's emotions in an opera and be noble or prototypical or at worst a romantic, but in reality doing so is thought childish. She imagined the knickered, philandering rake in the opera realizing the error of his ways and entering therapy. That would suck as an opera. She thought she should end her tedious therapy and seduce her psychologist. She watched as Don Giovanni is engulfed in hell-fire. Or not.
She sits in a clean apartment, with a full stomach and a cat curled up at her feet, listening to Mozart, reading love letters. She tries not to weep although she is angry, confused and feels herself a fool.


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The Biotech Research Center fosters cutting edge biotechnology
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The Biotechnology Research Center (BRC) promotes education and research in biotechnology for the benefit of society and the environment. The major focus is to promote research excellence, the dissemination of knowledge, and commitment to quality education in the sciences and engineering at MTU. The BRC fosters collaborative research, provides state-of-the-art research facilities, and contributes to educational opportunities in biotechnology. The diversity of faculty research is reflected in the wide range of disciplines including biology, biomedical engineering, chemical engineering, chemistry, computer science, forestry, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, and physics. Our Center continues the tradition of excellence in research, student training, and outreach with substantial research grants and contracts, the major portion coming from the primary national funding agencies. We offer graduate fellowships, undergraduate research opportunities, a seminar series, travel awards, an infrastructure development program, and sponsorship of an annual student research forum which exemplify our conviction to directly and effectively support science and engineering research at Michigan Technological University.
ESC/BRC Student Research Poster Forum Winners Announced
The Ecosystem Science Center and the Biotechnology Research Center announce award recipients for the Tenth Annual ESC/BRC Student Research Forum held March 19, 2014. Graduate students conducting research related to ecology, the environment and biotechnology at Michigan Tech submitted 60 posters and abstracts. Undergraduate students submitted 10 posters and abstracts in a separate division. Grand prizes and merit awards were presented in each division. Thank you to the participants, the judges, and all who helped with another successful ESC/BRC Student Research Forum. View list of 2014 awards.
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