Final Judgment

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature...life
is either a daring adventure, or nothing."... Helen Keller

Please lift Brooke and I up in prayer during this 'daring adventure'.
The judge acknowledged the wrongness of the jury verdict but refused
to change it.

Please pray for a negotiated settlement in the coming days...

We have been truly overwhelmed by all of your love and prayers.

Your Brother and Sister in Christ,
Brooke and Drew

Prayer Update

Please pray for the judge to reverse his tentative decision. At the
hearing today, it was incredible to hear the judge acknowledge from
the bench that he disagreed with the jury's verdict, but that he
didn't think he could and/or would reverse it....Please pray!!!

love,
Drew and Brooke

Fasting: Just Try It.

Where has fasting been all my life? Now I am sure like anything else,
there are good fasts and bad ones. But if you want a time for God to
speak to you then fast. Just do it! Don't be legalistic about it: I
found that Day #1 works best with cranberry juice when I'm hungry or
thirsty, and a few hours before bedtime, a large jamba juice
chocolate smoothie at seven or 8 p.m. tides my hunger pains over.
Then juice in the morning and wow what a quiet, clear energy a fast
produces! Often when I pray, I get sleepy, but when you are on a
liquid fast, your energy level is higher. I found myself able to pray
with a much more focused and peaceful disposition. I thought fasting
for more than a day was going to take me out of commission, but it
actually did the opposite.

Prayer Update

We want to thank you all for your prayers! The hearing has been
changed by the judge to February 1st at 1:30pm! Please continue to
pray for reversal and/or reduction of the judgment against us. (Psalm
27)

The Power of Prayer

"... prayer is powerful... in fact, it is probably much more powerful
than you and I have ever imagined. The reason we aren't convinced of
the fact is that we usually fail to pray, consistently, intensely, and
strategically..."-Chip Ingram

A Call to Pray

Dear Family and Friends:

There are only 10 days left before the hearing by the judge on the
28th at 9am. We are asking everyone for
intercessory/intervening/focused prayer each of the next 10 days for
the judge to reverse or reduce the judgment against us.

We have been overwhelmed by your commitment to pray for us and your
incredible words of encouragement. We are truly blessed and honored
to know all of you!

Please join us in bold and fervent prayer before God on this situation.

love,
Brooke and Drew

"... If you've ever wondered what your missing in the Christian life,
look here first. A commitment to intercessory prayer changes lives.
If you want to know who the most influential people in the world are?
When we think of power, we usually first think about presidents and
business moguls or cultural icons like movie stars and sports figures.
But in God's economy, those people have very little influence. S.D.
Gordon words it well: the great people of the earth today are people
who pray..."-Chip Ingram

Prayer is ALIVE and ACTIVE

"Few things have contributed to spiritual barrenness in the Church
Christ founded as has the idea that prayer is mere quiet, meditational
passivism... but prayers alive. It is aloud with praise. Aglow with
warmth, attuned with song, aflame with power. And it is also
unsettling in its violence."-Jack Hayford, Prayer is Invading the
Impossible

WOW! These words took me out! I have always thought of prayer as an
after thought or a 'mere quiet' and passive process. NEVER have I
considered it to be ALIVE! ALOUD! and yes, even violent or forceful.
As I have thought about it more and more, it is our ONLY action that
DOES anything. Prayer IS the force, the action of piercing through
the veil of our world into the heavenly realm. It is ACTIVE listening
and ACTIVE speaking to the only One who can effect change: God. It is
also a force (and our only force) against the powers of darkness that
are violent and active against goodness.

So next time you go to your 'quiet place' to have 'quiet time'
meditate on the power that you hold and act on through prayer.

"... Power is the key to our victory, and prayer is the pathway to
power... prayer opens the doorway to the dynamic that shakes,
shatters, and does violence to the world of darkness."-Jack Hayford