Matt 21

My thought came from verse 13. ""It is written," he said to them, " 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are making it a 'den of robbers.'""

It will be called a house of prayer.

Throughout these last chapters the faith of the people is what made things happen, not their own abilities. I think this is again partially what it means.

Yesterday I was at dinner with the other summer students and my supervisor. When asked what I was doing this weekend I replied "Not sure, but I am going to start looking for a church." There are a lot in Saskatoon apparently so my supervisor started suggesting some. There are a couple at school which would have a lot of student aged people. She then said she was thinking of all the weddings she had been to and then suggested the nicest buildings and one that had like professional musicians that might play there.

So, church is about music? church is about the nice buildings? church is about people my age? church is about being close to walk to?

No.

The church, the house of God, that is where God's children adopted by the blood of Christ on the cross come together to worship God for what He alone has done, to encourage one another as to what He alone can do, and to come before Him humbled asking for Him to do even greater things through us.

We should be a house of prayer.

Prayer is coming before Him and humbling ourselves. Not relying on our own strength, but asking Him to be our strength. Not trusting in our plans, but asking that His will be done. Not demanding of Him based on what we have done, but asking that He as our Heavenly Father would give us the daily bread we need. Not taking the things we have and being proud that we have earned them, but thanking Him for giving them to us.

We need to be in prayer more. Eph 5:18a, Phil 4:6, Col 4:2, 1 Thes 5:17.