Father, I have made you known to them, and will continue to make you known, in order that the love you have for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them. Jesus Christ (John 17:26) Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Daniel Fast 2012: Day Twenty Dear Family in Christ, Our cousin Silvia just sent us an itune gift, a song by OneRepublic called "Made For You".  You can hear this song and read the lyrics on Youtube:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No3FmavI2qI The song starts like this:  "I was writing, thinking with my long hand. Put dream to paper. Everything was sinking. Then start to wonder how you're going to handle me? When I'm under, swimming in the darkest sea? The answer comes in the chorus, "Everybody wants you to make it...it's all yours. Everybody wants you to take it....it's all yours. Can you feel all the love? Can you feel all the love? It was made for you!" Next verse, "Tell me something, something that will move me. Tell me lies and I swear you're going to lose me. In like an ocean, jealous of the fish. It feeds your devotion swimming inside of me."  Chorus: "Can you feel all the love?" Everybody wants you to make it, it's all yours! Can you feel all the love? Everybody wants you to take it, it's all yours!" Have you ever been under deep discouragement and oppression? Have you ever felt like you were swimming all alone in the darkest sea? When you were that desperate, that needy and vulnerable, did you wonder how God (and His people) were going to handle you? What were you believing in your heart? At times like this (and at all times), we don't need lies. We need the TRUTH.  We need a supernatural revelation of God's love. We need an experiential encounter with the love of God.  Often, it comes through "all the right friends and all the right places". God has filled the universe with His love. He is literally bombarding you with His love every second. It just takes the "eyes of our hearts to open", so that we can see and receive. Eph. 1:17-19 Praying biblical prayers each day has helped us to hold onto the truth of God's love when life seems to be undermining the TRUTH.  You might want to pray this right now:  "Dear Father, I pray that out of Your glorious riches, You will strengthen me with power through Your Spirit in my inner being, so that Christ may dwell in my heart through faith. And I pray that I (we), being rooted and established in love, may have power, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that I will be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God."  Ephesians 3:14-21  Can you imagine yourself walking around the planet saturated in the love of God, and filled to overflowing with the fullness of God? That is exactly God's intention for you! We are at a time in history when "love has grown cold". Matt. 24:12   When we radiate God's love to a lost and dying world, the contrast is staggering. Love is so rare, that when the real God-sourced love flows from us, it is like a sweet jolt from heaven to unbelievers. Authentic love accompanied with the TRUTH will liberate people who are captives of deception and rejection. Our prayer is that you will experientially encounter the love of God each and every day. And that His love would steadily flow from you to those who are broken, vulnerable and lost. With His Affection, Tim & Janet Johns (Ft Collins, CO)  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Rock Tribe- An international spiritual family called to reclaim Christ's kingdom by serving as a catalyst to help revitalize and reform the church, plant new churches, and transform cities for the glory of God. Rock Tribe Intl PO Box 472 Ft Collins, CO   80522

I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. Jeremiah 31:3 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Daniel Fast 2012: Day Nineteen Dear Familia In Christ, Here is what I do to love and obey Jesus more: About the second or third day I was saved as I was sitting before the Lord.  I got a picture of me running towards Jesus.  I was about three years old and still wearing a diaper.  As I ran closer to him the clearer I could see him so eager to embrace me.  When I got to him.  He picked me up and just held me.  That day I learned that my father was eager to embrace me and was even excited about it! Having said that, this is what I do to love Jesus more.  I run to him.  I get in his presence and just sit quietly and wait.  Wait for what?  To hear the voice of my father.  To hear  his heart beat for me.  So that my heart can beat with the same rhythm his does.  In his presence nothing else matters.  In the secret place it all makes sense.  Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you hope and a future.  Everything (problems, concerns, doubts and fears) become so small.  I have a notebook with me and I write down what my father speaks to me and about me.  This is what I do hear my father say to me every day. Jeremaih 31:3,  "I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness."  So I just trust him.  It is comforting to know that I trust and obey the one who’s got my best interest at heart.  What else is there? Here is what I do to help others love Jesus: I pray for them.  A lot of the time when I’m running errands.  The Lord will show me things about people so I walk up to them and ask them if I can pray for them.  One time I followed a lady around at Wal-Mart for about an hour.  When our shopping carts passed each other in the aisle I sensed great sorrow.  So I began to ask the Lord about her sorrow.  Long story short, I ended up approaching her and asked her if I could pray for her.  When I finished praying for her.  She showed me a gun she had in her purse.  Her son had been killed just two weeks prior and it was going to be her first Christmas without her son. Yesterday I was coming out of another store and in the parking lot there was a van with a young lady’s picture that has been missing for six years now.  I began to ask the Lord about that young lady.  As I was getting in my vehicle the owner of the van was getting in her car as well(it was the gal’s aunt.)  She stopped and looked at me.  I knew the Lord wanted me to pray for her.  I asked if the young lady had been found, she said no.  I took her hands and asked her if she wanted a resolution?  She said yes so I prayed for resolution of the case.  She had been mad at God and she reconciled with the Lord. We love you all, Manuel & Diane Marquez (Kansas City, MO)                                                                                          follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Rock Tribe- An international spiritual family called to reclaim Christ's kingdom by serving as a catalyst to help revitalize and reform the church, plant new churches, and transform cities for the glory of God. Rock Tribe Intl PO Box 472 Ft Collins, CO  80522

Sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth. Sing to the Lord, praise his name; proclaim his salvation day after day. Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous deeds among all people. Psalm 96:1-3 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Daniel Fast 2012: Day Eighteen Dear Family of God, What I do to get to know God better... A couple years ago, I read the Bible thru in a year for the first time in my life. I have been a believer for over 30 years and have never done this. Since then I have done it again and finished end of 2011 and decided to do it every year now. I have been completely amazed at the depth and scope of supernatural understanding and the knowledge of God that has grown for me in doing this...truly God gets to plant spiritual seed in our hearts that grows as we present to Him the garden of our heart and allow  Him free reign to plant and tend it. I would encourage you, if you have not done this... to make the commitment, and see how God returns to you in many ways that are without end. What I do to help others know God better... It is easy in this life to allow ourselves to get squeezed into a moment or segment of time when we may be experiencing difficulty. We are bombarded by the preaching of the gospel of this world system 24 x 7... I try to remind others (and myself) that we are living in eternity right now...  that the enemy of  our souls is not going to run this place forever, that we are strangers and aliens... sojourners in a foreign land that one day will be run under the headship of our King. Eternal perspective eases the angst of many things in this life... its also important to remember that our loving Father uses suffering and difficulty to forge and shape Christ in us... I hope this Daniel Fast finds you drawn deeper and deeper into Him... Mike Whited (Loveland, Colorado)  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Rock Tribe- An international spiritual family called to reclaim Christ's kingdom by serving as a catalyst to help revitalize and reform the church, plant new churches, and transform cities for the glory of God.   Rock Tribe Intl PO Box 472 Fort Collins, CO   80522

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. Phil. 4:13 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Daniel Fast 2012: Day Seventeen Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift. 2 Corinthians 9:15 Dear Family of God,   There are several things that a person can do to help in knowing and loving God. It could be different things for different people, but it all must lead us to Him in harmony with His Word.  There are few things that speak to Jackie and me about God, His magnificence, His magnitude and His love any more that nature itself. We love to sit on our back porch, take a walk, take a bicycle ride or even better, a motorcycle ride and take in the grandeur of God. Noticing everything from the power of an ant to the power of a river and putting all of that in the context of God’s Word creates worship in the soul.  There is one major enemy to doing this. TIME  If we don’t “make time” it won’t happen, or at least it won’t happen on a consistent enough basis. “Make the time, and your love for God and your knowledge of Him will increase  dramatically. In helping others in this area of knowing and loving God better, “example” is the best teacher. In pastoring a church, our people will not usually exceed the passion of the pastor. Their love for their spouses will not usually exceed the  love of the leaders. The flock’s zeal will not usually exceed the zeal of the shepherd. More passion, love and zeal for God is caught rather than taught. We must teach it, but if we are not exemplifying it, we are a resounding gong  and clanging symbols. We are all examples whether we like it or not. We might as well exert ourselves in the things of God and lead the way in passion, love and zeal. Otherwise we risk being lukewarm examples. You can do it. Together we can do it.  We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us!  In Christ's Love, Ron & Jackie Meyer (Rigdon, Indiana)  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Rock Tribe- An international spiritual family called to reclaim Christ's kingdom by serving as a catalyst to help revitalize and reform the church, plant new churches, and transform cities for the glory of God.   Rock Tribe Intl PO Box 472 Ft Collins, CO 80522

Daniel Fast 2012: Day Sixteen

Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. Joshua 1:8 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Daniel Fast 2012: Day Sixteen Dear Family of God, One of the practical things we do to know God more is having live worship and prayer streaming into our home along with praying the Bible out loud.   Most of the music and prayers are scripture based, thus there is a constant audible streaming of God's word. This impacts us in a powerful way by causing us to refocus our gaze throughout the day on Jesus. Our hearts become more fascinated and our love deepens for Him. In the morning we come before the Lord to adore Him in our prayer room, praying to Him with His Word. As we drive the worship streams on our I phones through our stereos. In our offices, it plays softly on our computers as we work. When we direct the gaze of our heart and spirit toward Him as often as possible it helps us to know Him better.  Our hearts are moved by His glory, by His love, by His personality as we spend our time worshiping and praying the words of the Bible out loud. The Jews prayed the Word out loud back to God until the law took root in their hearts.One could say that they used their mouths to lasso their minds, to affect their spirits. St Patrick, the famous missionary to Ireland was said to recite at least 100 psalms a day out loud to God. By looking at Him and gazing on Him often we encounter the reality of His love and affections for us. We become more and more confident of His love for us and this revelation transforms us into greater lovers of God and of people.  It causes us to change; becoming more like Him.  Our lives increasingly come into alignment with the Holy Spirit's seed that was deposited in us and stimulates growth emitting more and more of the aroma of Christ to those with who we interact with. This correct alignment taught by Jesus is critical to remember to prevent burnout and empty works of ministry. How can we speak of love and of the One we know to others if we don’t know Him ourselves and are in love with Him first?   By seeking God FIRST and loving Him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength we follow Jesus' teaching of the way to live. From that focus then the "doing" of loving others will be a natural/supernatural byproduct.  To engage in prayer is the most obvious and the most universal reflection of man's relationship with God. Prayer in its highest form and at its most sincere levels is called a "service of the heart", and constitutes one of the many ways by which the love of God is expressed." (Praying the Bible by Wesley & Stacey Campbell, pg.29).  Like Daniel (Daniel 12:8) we may not understand everything we see and pray because the finite mind will never completely understand the infinite. The entire Bible is God breathed, it is the language of the Spirit; it is the language of prayer. "This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.” (1 Cor. 2:13) With Christ's Love, Ron & Jackie Vigh (Grand Rapids, Michigan)    follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Rock Tribe- An international spiritual family called to reclaim Christ's kingdom by serving as a catalyst to help revitalize and reform the church, plant new churches, and transform cities for the glory of God. Rock Tribe Intl PO Box 472 Ft Collins, CO   80522

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! 1 Jn. 3:1 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Daniel Fast 2012: Day Fifteen Dear Family of God, This is what helps us get closer to Jesus... From Tammy: Thanking Him, Praising Him, snuggling up on the floor (in my bathroom) next to the fire place reading the Word with Him, loving My Studmuffin Sweetheart, loving/taking care of the gifts that He's given to us--Maverick and Mariah, taking care of our home with Him, Thanking Him,  garage sale-ing with Him, shopping with Him, making cards n gifts with Him, Dancing with Him, singing to Him, being His instrument to enable others to bloom into what He has created them to be, going to Zumba with Him, Making healthy meals for the temples that He's given us, working out on the treadmill with our Praise n Worship i home DVD's with Him (at home), plugging in my Christian workout mix and getting on the treadmill at the club with Him, Snowmobiling with Him, Skiing with Him.  Oh and did I say thanking/praising Him? (that He takes the time to listen AND to speak to me, shelter, fuel, His word, my Godly/handsome over the top husband, blessing of getting to witness Maverick and Mariah grow even more in Him, Tim and Janet Johns, warm shoes, kitchen appliances, the luxury of a fitness membership, the strength, health and ability to work out, healthy food, BHRT,  my clothes, our washer and dryer, great heating system, warm clothes, His wisdom, His love, safe vehicles to drive, His patience with me, comfy furniture, a home to share with others, our kitties and pups, amazing phone and computer, He's the same yesterday, today and forever, He is the Alpha and the Omega---the beginning and the end, His forgiveness, He is the great I AM---His banner over me is LOVE----He is the God of LOVE----He is Jehovah Jireh our provider---He is Jehovah Rophe our healer---He is the Prince of Peace--Elohim---Yahweh-- and etc..) This is what helps us share Jesus with others...  From Ben: His amazing Love.  LOVE --- hugs, smiles, His joy--lend a listening---non condemning or judgmental ear----that's for the Lord to do ---not us----Think out of the box----give LIFE-----give----share Him through your life and actions--knowing that in all you do in your day to day life---that you are in the fishbowl----you are being watched-----Be His Hands and feet Give materialistic things away that can be a huge blessing to others.( Must have no strings attached and desire nothing in return )  It's all about dying  to flesh and sacrificing to others. Get up in the morning determined to be a blessing to one person that day. ( Helps take your eyes off yourself) Examples: Simple word of encouragement.  ( Text someone and tell them how awesome they are) Probably one of the greatest investments you can make in a person life and the opportunities are endless.Pay for someones coffee or toll that morning. Let someone cut in front of you ( others before self ) Take advantage of community activities and events to show up and spread the love.     Examples; 1)4th of July cook out at big gathering area's.Meet new people and bless folks with GOOD free Barbecue.Dont know how to barbecue, bring someone who does.                      2)Go to work on a community service project or fund raiser and donate your time.                      3)Christmas time; knock on doors in less fortunate areas, hand out gifts and sing Christmas Carroll's.(this will imprint your life)                      4)Get involved with your High school; coaching,fund raising,party throwing,etc.(Don't have kids in school, even better, you have more time)        b)Ask foreigners over for games and supper. (These folks rarely have many friends and are excited to meet local people that welcome them into the community)        c)Love, laugh ,and smile,no matter how tuff it can be sometimes. Spread the Joy of the Lord, it's a matter of choice, not circumstance. May God's Blessings Be Poured Out Upon You! Ben & Tammy Bartlett (with son Maverick and daughter Mariah) (Jackson, Wyoming)    follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Rock Tribe- An international spiritual family called to reclaim Christ's kingdom by serving as a catalyst to help revitalize and reform the church, plant new churches, and transform cities for the glory of God. Rock Tribe Intl. PO Box 472 Fort Collins, CO  80522

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it. John 14:14 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Daniel Fast 2012: Day Fourteen A Secret to Unhindered Prayers.... Dear Family of God, Mt 18:19 (ESV) Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 1 Peter 3: 1-7 (ESV) Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, 2 when they see your respectful and pure conduct. 3 Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—4 but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God's sight is very precious. 5 For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, 6 as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord. And you are her children, if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening. 7 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that prayers may not be hindered. Both long ago and recently the Lord has visited us in several vivid spiritual encounters to reinforce to us his zeal for wives and husbands to experience a unity of spirit that results in a sense of "shalom" in the very soul of their marriage.  As a naturally/supernatural by-product, there is a mysterious power in prayer that will flow out from this level of unity that will touch the heart of the Father and thereby move his hand to do things that only he can do for us and others. What we have found in our journey is that this has required us to humble ourselves before God and cry out for the real help we need from him by: 1)  committing to him the pains of any disconnect between us  2) giving and receiving forgiveness from the heart for ways we have failed to love one another well in the past  3) regain the grace of being vulnerable before one another and our heavenly Father. Getting to this point of honesty and vulnerability is no small challenge for two fully-human and opposite gender partners!  One of the secrets of attaining to higher levels of spiritual authority and the accomplishment of Christ's will and ministry in and through us as a team is to discern the ceiling of limitation we seem to hit and then "back up" to set an environment around our souls and our relationship that sets the stage for a future breakthrough. We have experienced some breakthroughs over the last year in this arena of agreement in spirit and harmony in prayer.  We have also seen the results in the circumstances of our lives that witness to the intervention of God's power to do some things "above and beyond what we could ask or think" (Eph 3:20).  A simple daily practice that we believe has helped set the spiritual atmosphere for these things to occur has been to get up early and listen to the Word of God together by accessing www.youversion.com and really tuning in.  A reader even reads to us.  (Don't you just love some of the new technology that is at our fingertips.  We drink our morning joe as we listen!)  We signed up for a daily reading...it's really user-friendly and you can get a free phone app too.  Sometimes we discuss what we have just heard and sometimes we simply pray together in response.  Even though we still have had areas of life and marriage that are not fully settled, we have witnessed how the Lord has gone into action on our behalf to help us in our weaknesses.  We all know that it is impossible to please God without faith...but "faith happens"...as we hear and assimilate the Word of God (Rom 10:17).  This is a profoundly simple thing that God has invited  and challenged us to do.  With this kind of rich environment of Jesus' words increasing both within and about us, God himself will provide for us all that we need to please him from the inside out. Heb 13:20-21 (ESV) Now may the God of peace who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. Through Christ, Michael & Terri Sullivant with grandson Jonah (Leawood, KS)   follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Rock Tribe- An international spiritual family called to reclaim Christ's kingdom by serving as a catalyst to help revitalize and reform the church, plant new churches, and transform cities for the glory of God.   Rock Tribe Intl PO Box 472 Ft Collins, CO 80522

All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved. Acts 2:44-47 Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Daniel Fast 2012: Day Thirteen Dear Family of God, Over the past 8 months, we have become more spiritual than ever in our lives of 34 years.  It's overwhelming, really.  And, why is this?  For the first time, it has been revealed to us what it truly means to be spiritual.  God lead us to a small spiritual family here in Laramie, WY.  It is through this family that we have learned what it means to connect with other believers.   We are from all different backgrounds, but have the commonality to:  1) love God and give him glory, 2) love Jesus, and 3) be heaven bound.  That is, heaven on earth.  That is what being spiritual means:  living in heaven right now on this earth!  By doing this, Shane and I have literally experienced God and have felt him change our lives personally, as parents, in our friendships and have learned what it means to be children of God. I think the thing I love most about our small spiritual family is that we are all real.  We are not afraid to admit when we have messed up.  We all struggle.  We can share these things with each other because we want to learn how to better serve the Lord.  The only way to do that is by loving Christ in each other.  I am reminded by the verse from 1John 1: 5-7:  "God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.  If we claim to have fellowship with him, yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth.  But if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his son, purifies us from all sin."  Our small spiritual family fellowships together so we can learn how to be lights in Laramie. Before we connected with this family, Shane and I were very dry in our lives and kept saying to each other, "There has to be more to life than this."  And there is.  Now our cups runneth over. To God be the glory! Shane, Letha, Tayler & Ty Buller (Laramie, Wyoming)  follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend  Rock Tribe- An international spiritual family called to reclaim Christ's kingdom by serving as a catalyst to help revitalize and reform the church, plant new churches, and transform cities for the glory of God. Rock Tribe Intl PO Box 472 Fort Collins, CO  80522