San Francisco Prayer Tour prices and details just announced.

http://realitysanfrancisco.com/#/sign-up/

This tour will focus on the birth & first service of Reality San Francisco.

November prayer schedule just posted on our website!

http://realitysanfrancisco.com/#/pray/

And join us this Sunday for a Communion Feast. 5:30pm at 390 Page St.

chrislazo:

Dave Lomas filling us in on the first prayer meeting in San Francisco. Since S.F. Is so technologically savvy, Dave does his usual thing… iChat conferences and Twitter updates.

Why we pray, the vision

We pray because we are dependent.

Jesus is the head of the Church (Col. 1:18), the chief shepherd (Pet. 5:1-4) or senior pastor of the Church. The correct understanding of Jesus as the Head of the church keeps us from taking an unhealthy ownership of the ministry and keeps us focused on being obedient to and dependent on Christ; doing everything that we do for Him.

Through prayer we are expressing our need for Jesus as a collective community and looking to Him for the direction of the Church. Through prayer we submit our thoughts, ideas and plans to Jesus.

John chapter 15 records a discourse Jesus is giving His disciples about abiding and staying connected to Him. Jesus says to His disciples that, “Apart from Me you can do nothing” (v.5). He then says that, “If you abide me Me, and My words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. By this My Father is glorified (v.7-8).”

We can do nothing apart from Jesus; making us completely dependent on Him. We’re dependent on God to give us a love for this city, grace for this city, a burden for ministry in this city and to bring healing and wholeness to this city through our hands.

We pray because we are desperate.

The situation of starting a Jesus glorifying church in the city of San Francisco doesn’t just suggest we pray, it demands we pray! Seeing the enormity of the problems in our city we can’t escape our need for God. We’re desperate for God to move. If we think we can minister in this city by our own strength and love or our own education and training, we’re sadly mistaken.

Desperation is epitomized in 2 Chronicles 20 when King Jehoshaphat was up against an army too big and insurmountable for Israel. He cried out to God and said, “We are powerless and don’t know what to do, but our eyes are upon You (v12).” This is our posture, desperation. We are desperate for God to move: in our lives, in our church and in our city.

It is our desire to pray.

It is not our desire to pray so we get answers or power, but it is our desire to pray to get God. Through prayer we draw near to God. He is the goal and He is the prize. Leonard Ravenhill in Revival Praying said, “Converts often take on the atmosphere in which they were born.” We want to be a people who’s chief desire is God and we want every convert to be born into that atmosphere.

It’s true that we’re dependent on Jesus as the Head of the Church and it’s true that we’re desperate to see God move in our city, but it is truer that we desire God most. He is not a means to an end, He is the Chief End.

How we pray, small group technicalities

Pray with brevity.

Spurgeon said about a prayer meeting that “length is a deathblow to earnestness, and brevity is an assistant to zeal.” Short powerful prayers laid on your heart by the Holy Spirit take the pressure off of saying a lot of words. It allows us to agree and track with you in prayer. Please keep prayers short, allowing others to pray as God would lead us.

Pray audibly.

We can’t agree with you in prayer unless we can hear you. Please pray aloud so we can say, “Yes” and, “Amen.” However, we must remember we are talking to God! This is not to be confused with praying aloud so men can hear (Matt 6:5) but praying with others so we can agree, “…If two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.” (Matt 18:19) 

This is also a good time to bring up that you don’t have to be eloquent. Prayer is something you grow in, like language.

What to pray, prayer requests

Tonight we’re going to intercede for San Francisco. There are apparent extreme needs in the city like poverty, homelessness, sex trafficking, drugs, alcohol abuse, and much more. There are also common needs that everyone shares no matter who you are or what you have like meaning, love, community, spirituality, and many others.
We also must intercede for the believers and churches in the city. No doubt it’s a challenge to live in San Francisco full of faith and not get jaded by it all.

Reality is beginning our presence in San Francisco a little old-school (or is it old skool?). We’re starting with a prayer meeting. Just a prayer meeting. A gathering of people, normal people and maybe even some people that get a bit nervous about praying out loud, together praying for the needs of our city to a transcendent God who hears and acts.

We believe that before we can radically pour our lives in service to San Francisco we must go to the Fount from which all passion and compassion flow.

We believe that before we can be part of, “His Kingdom come, His will be done on earth…” we must open our mouths in prayer, “Father who art in Heaven…”

The first century church started with a prayer meeting, and Sunday night Reality San Francisco gets to be a part of that historic stream.  Join us Sunday nights 390 Page St. in San Francisco at seven.

Announced today are a plethora of dates for the “birth” of Reality San Francisco.

Weekly Prayer meeting, Prayer Tour and……the date of the first RealitySF service (Lord willing:)

Check out the site for the skinny

http://realitysf.com

kjaere:

Dave Lomas in the first ever live via Skype from San Francisco straight to the Reality SF Foundation meeting tonight in Carpinteria!

“Apart from Me you can do nothing.”
-Jesus.

Prayer Tour.

• They just keep getting better.
• Those who were on the tour that sense a call to move got really rocked emotionally & spiritually at some point on the trip. 
  • All part of God’s divine process.
    • The romance is gone and realism moves in.

• Due to the spiritual success of the trip (both for RSF and RC) and the momentum going into the proposed Jan launch date, we’ll be doing another tour in the fall (Sept/Oct).

Transition.

• Starting July 20th we’ll be at the Morgan’s house hosted by KJ.
  • Goal is to make it more of a homegroup for the next couple months before everyone moves.
  • We’ll be going through some urban church planting material, praying for one another, building relationships.

• Ashley and I (Dave) will be moving to the city as soon as August and as late as September 1.
  • Sensed the date move way up after the last tour.

• Prayer meetings will start in the city September 11th (Friday/weekly)
  • It might be wise to start looking for jobs now and leave the exactly “when” you relocate to the sovereignty of God. If it’s August or October or December…
  • I really want some of you to bring the DNA of reality prayer meetings to SF, so if someone moves by Sept, I’m excited.

John 15:4-5

• When the reality of starting a church in this city and in this economic climate hit me or the reality of relocating your life to the city hits you, it can be a good thing even though it doesn’t feel that way.

• You realize that the task is too big and cannot be accomplished by yourself.
  • “A branch cannot bear fruit by itself.”
  • “Apart from Me you can do nothing.”
    • It should draw us ever nearer to Jesus.

Here are a few more pics from the last couple days from throughout the city. Thank you so much for following us. This was an amazing time that the Lord gave us. Thank you Jesus!

The tour just wrapped up and we can’t wait until we go from prayer tours to praying residents. Thanks for following and praying with us. We’ll be posting some closing thoughts in the next couple days.