Latest Update - July 2006

LIFE-UPDATE FROM LYNN (July 2006)
Many changes have occurred in this year. As my journey goes, I have been involved in prayer ministry (both in a local church and also with the parachurch ministry of the Prayer Command Post for over 15 years. I have served with other prayer ministries, both nationally and locally. All of it has been very good and has been from God and has had much fruit. Last year, I began to sense the Lord shifting me towards becoming more active in my community. I have worked with many local city-reaching ministries, but my heart began longing to be active in some kind of practical, hands-on way towards reaching a city. Long story short (and after much prayer/counsel), I went back to school for a few months and renewed my Registered Nursing License and am now working full time as a HOSPICE Nurse in my own city that I have lived in for over 20 years. It represents ministry just as much as any previous commitment as I am now re-presenting Christ and providing compassionate care to patients and their families as they are in the crisis of facing terminal illness. I am seeing the Lord bring His sweet presence and am very aware of the sacredness of this calling.
It is good to be serving in my community and applying "City-reaching" principles in a very practical way. A dear friend summarized this season well when she prayed 2 Kings 7 over me. It is a story of a famine in the land and 4 lepers are starving and waiting to die...and they risked and went into a city and discovered an empty city that was full of food and plunder....and they realized that God was calling them not to horde it for themselves but to share it with the others from their city who were still starving.... "they said to one another, "We are not doing what is right. This day is a day of good news, and we remain silent. If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore, come, let us go and tell the king's household." (see II Kings 7:3-9 for the full story). I think this scripture sums up what the Lord is doing with me. Having been feasting with the Lord in seasons of prayer and prayer ministry for years, it is now time to go into the city and share what I have been so richly blessed with by the Lord. May the Lord show you your place of reaching out to those in your city too.

Day Retreats
Although I am working full time and serving my city in practical ways, we, as the ministry of the Prayer Command Post, will also continue to serve others in the area of equipping. We will be doing Day Retreats several times a year that will have a focus of Spiritual Formation & Deepening Our Relationship with God. The desire of our Day Retreats is to welcome the Lord to minister through worship, devotions, community and the beauty of His creation. Our next Day Retreat is scheduled for:

Date: Saturday, September 30, 2006 (9am-5pm)
Place: Descanso Gardens (Pasadena/La Canada area)
Please see our website: www.prayercommandpost.org for further info (look under "Upcoming Events")

I pray that you can join us at one of our retreats in the near future.

Please know that I have not exited out of ministry all together, I have just entered into some new and different types of ministry. The Lord is doing a lot for those who are serving Him through their jobs and I pray that those of you who are doing this will be greatly encouraged and know that God wants to use you mightily to re-present Him to those you work with and come in contact with everyday. Don't despise your job, God has placed you there for His purposes. Pray and ask the Lord to give you new eyes to see it as He does and to use you in new ways for His Kingdom. You will be amazed at how He answers this prayer!
Thank you for reading this and for tracking/befriending me over the years. I would love to hear how the Lord is using you in this season as well.
I am praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And I pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. -Colossians 1:9-12

Serving the Lord with you....for His glory and smile,
Lynn Heatley
Prayer Command Post