Harvey Carey on Prayer

Harvey Carey, founder and senior pastor of Citadel of Faith Covenant Church in Detroit, Michigan was recently recorded saying...


“Why is it that our business meetings, our strategy meetings, our management meetings far eclipse our prayer meetings? In your calendar do you not spend as much time in your personal prayer life, seeking God, asking Him for His direction, as you do in your management and strategy meetings?

If the truth be told the average Christian leader spends more time in management and strategy meetings than we ever do talking to God. How are we going to think that we are going to further the work of the Church of God, the Kingdom of God, the things of God, without God. We are doing these things and we are doing them by human ability and doing them with human intelligence and human capital. If we have got enough money we will do it, if we have enough staff we will do it, if we have got enough buy in from the congregation we will do it, it is us doing it.

And God is saying to us if you are going to do my work it requires my presence. And so we have got to pull away from this man made management of God’s Kingdom. For unless the Lord builds the house the labourers work in vain.

You cannot make the Kingdom like you make a widget.

God is real, prayer is real, the Word of God is real. God is asking that if My people who are called by My name, would not abandon thinking, not abandon their brain, but come to me first, and generally give Me the same about of energy that you give to the other piece. We have not given the same amount of energy to our God, as we have to own ability. It not an either or. Keep thinking, for God gave us that, but it is spirit and truth. It cannot be the add-on, “God meet us with our plan.”

When you allow God in this equation, whatever you have done to this point that was your idea, you saw what you could do, but watch what God can do”

Are we are stuck in a rut of meetings without power?  What are your thoughts?

John Wesley quote

Jesus Way

I am no longer my own, but yours.

Put me to what You will, 

                        rank me with whom You will;

Put me to doing, put me to suffering;

Let me be employed for You

                        or laid aside for You;

Let me be full, let me empty;

Let me have all things,

                        let me have nothing;

I freely and heartily yield all things to

                       Your pleasure and disposal.

And now, O glorious and blessed God,

Father, Son and Holy Spirit,

You are mine, and I am yours forever.

So be it!

                       John Wesley (1703-1791)

How to pray

Thanks to the skit guys for hitting the mark

Walk humbly with your God today.

Bible on a treadmill

I have recently began a slow walk on a treadmill, (non powered) and it sits in front of a TV. Sally and I have on video the dramatisation of the book of Acts. So I walk as the disciples go about Kingdom business.


Over the past few days my thoughts have been on prayer and how the Holy Spirit is a vital force in our lives particularly with regard to prayer. More on my thoughts of prayer another time, but this morning as I watched (walked with the disciples), I noticed that when the disciples prayed for those who were newly converted to receive the Holy Spirit, those who were prayed for spontaneously bursted with joy and laughter. The interested thing is that as I watch, I also innately responded with a like joy and laughter. It reminded me that I have this same Spirit within me. That I am not alone, and that I am connected to those first disciples. They like you are my spiritual brothers. We are one in the bond of Love (the Spirit of God).

I walk and work and rest and eat today, as one with God, and also with you, if you have this same Spirit within you. I am connected to the one who is all!

Blessings.