a few great points from my weekend retreat

• God knows what you need...so throw away the "list" and listen to Him so that He can direct you in His will and how to pray for others
• be listening so that you can be used to "stand in the gap" for someone else that needs you to pray
• be a "mighty musk ox prayer warrior princess"! a musk ox never runs from a fight...they come in around the small and weak ones to protect them.
• get rid of your "porcupine state of mind"! porcupines have a lot of great points, but no one wants to be around them! (you don't always have to be right...and even if you are right, who cares?!)
• tell stories worth telling. stop talking about how people have done you wrong and the world is against you...tell stories of what God is doing and what you have learned.
• God's got your back!
• if you are sick and tired...consider the energy that you waste on worry and fear...give those to God and allow that energy to be used to keep your body healthy
• every lie from the devil can be used to pray. you can pray all day long if you take those negative thoughts and convert them to a quick prayer right then.
• we said a theme every day...and i don't remember the whole thing...but it was to this effect: God is going to use me and no lie from the devil can stop me...i will be used in my home and comunity and world and I WILL NOT BE MOVED

update...if you click on the "donna partow" link on my friends blogs...you can read the whole declaration!