Leaping Joy https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/0227-Leaping-Joy.jpg Praise be to the Lord, for he has heard my cry for mercy. The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. ~ Psalm 28:6, 7 READING: Psalm 28 David...

Wait on the Lord https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Wait-on-the-Lord.png But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. ~ Isaiah 40:31 READING: Isaiah 40:27-31 Many Old Testament passages tell us to “wait on the Lord.”...

Painting the Dragon Red #2 https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Painting-the-Dragon-Red.2.png And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. ~ Matthew 6:13 READING: I Peter 5:8 In her excellent book, Listening Prayer, gifted Christian psychologist Leann Payne tells the story of a time when she and her ministry team faced daunting and wide-spread spiritual attack....

Painting the Dragon Red #1 https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Painting-the-Dragon-Red.1.png Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. ~ I Peter 5:8 READING: I Peter 5:5-11 When Pastor Jim and Stephanie Boyd planted their first church in San Marcos, California, they enlisted a prayer team of thirty-one people...

Shepherding on your Knees https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Shepherding-on-your-Knees.png I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers… ~ Ephesians 1:16 READING: Ephesians 1:14-23 “Pastor, your note arrived at a time when we were really hurting. I miscarried that week – nobody even knew we were pregnant – and it was such a comfort...

Interceding for our People https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/interceding-for-our-people.png So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes. ~ Daniel 9:3 READING: Daniel 9:1-23 When we receive a calling from God to a particular group of people, God makes us responsible to Him for them. Many...

On the Altar https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/On-the-Altar.png He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.” ~ Genesis 22:2 (ESV) READING: Genesis 22 Starting our first church was very...

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Transparent Prayer https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Transparent-Prayer.png Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done. ~ Luke 22:42 READING: Luke 22:39-46 Jesus took His disciples to Prayer Mountain and then withdrew from them to pray. Luke says it was a usual act of Jesus, an ideal modeling from the...

Guidance https://dcpi.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Guidance.png Saul died because he was unfaithful to the LORD; he did not keep the word of the LORD and even consulted a medium for guidance, and did not inquire of the LORD. So the LORD put him to death and turned the kingdom over to David son of Jesse. ~ I Chronicles 10:13,...