Emily Adomanis

My car broke down. That was awesome. If you happen to have one of these laying around…

…and know how to install it into a ‘97 Acura 2.2 CL…that would be nice.

Apparently it’s going to cost me close to a thousand dollars. I don’t deal with car stuff very well. My car broke down on Saturday night and since then I’ve been laying in the fetal position on my bed. A coworker actually got his mechanic father to call me about it. I’m so pathetic. I can’t wait until I have to figure out how to get it to the mechanic tomorrow morning…man just talking about this makes me want to go to sleep and sleep and sleep until some man who knows how to fix cars comes and marries me.

We had Thanksgiving at the Offutt/Adomanis/Brewster household this year. I’ve never been away for Thanksgiving…which was sad. Luckly I have the best friends in the entire world. I made Apple Pie. It was delicious.

I’m coming home soon (Dec 19th). I’m very excited about it. I don’t really know what else to say. I’m just very very excited. I’m going to wear sweats and hang out at my parents house and play cards the whole time.

So life has been a little crazy since I got home from Florida. By crazy I mean I’ve been laying in the fetal position on my bed. Things will be normal on Monday…I hope…I think Roni is starting to worry…

oh I do have a lot to talk about though…I know everyone is excited about that. At least the two people who read this nonsense…and I’m pretty sure those two people share my last name (plus Bill P). Well…Colin too. I’m not sure if he’ll read this one though…there’s nothing for him to disagree with. I’m just kidddding. I’ve officially entered into the craziness of 3am.

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Go see Bella if it is playing near you. It is the best movie of the year. Hands down.

Florida was great!The Eleven Conference was amazing. I got to spend a lot of time in the little prayer room there, “the furnace”. The Lord really touched me in that little room. I’m so proud of Lee Weeks and the others being faithful in the place of prayer when it isn’t popular and isn’t easy.Allen Hood brought it. I’m in awe of the spiritual leadership I have over my life right now. I’m so thankful. Sometimes I just want to go up and squeeze Allen or Mike Bickle or any one of the many teachers and preachers that I get to enjoy on a regular basis. I’ve never met a more humble group of people in my life. They live for the glory of God, not man, and I appreciate that more than anything. So as much as I enjoyed my time in FL…especially the beautiful weather…I love being home. I realize when I’m gone how much I love and miss the prayer room. I’m even willing to live in freezing cold weather…and that says something.go here:to listen to the whole conference online. Message 1, 3 (part 1 & 2) and “the Mercy of the Father” (skip to the 30 minute mark) are Allen Hood. Everyone needs to listen to them…right now. Go. They are possibly the best sermons ever.It was awesome being able to be with some of my favorite people for the past few days. I can’t even begin to go into all of the little adventures. All I can say is I’m very happy that I get to see them all again in less than two months. It’s really sad…the camera was forgotten, hopefully I’ll be able to steal some pics from friends.It’s time for me to get back to work…go listen to those sermons!GO!

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. God does nothing but in answer to prayer. — John Wesley

I picked up E.M. Bounds On Prayer. It is like a million pages long and 8 font…yet every word is so rich. I’ve been doing quite an extensive study on intercession and prayer…there will be a blog soon about it. Until then, read this and get stirred up…

“Only glimpses of the great importance of prayer could the apostles get before Pentecost. But the Spirit coming and filling on Pentecost elevated prayer to its vital and all-commanding position in the gospel of Christ. The call now of prayer to every saint is the Spirit’s loudest and most exigent call. Sainthood’s piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

Where are the Christly leaders who can teach the modern saints how to pray and put them at it? Do we know we are raising up a prayerless set of saints? Where are the apostolic leaders who can put God’s people to praying? Let them come to the front and do the work, and it will be the greatest work which can be done. An increase of educational facilities and a great increase of money force will be the direst curse to religion if they are not sanctified by more and better praying than we are doing. More praying will not come as a matter of course. The campaign for the twentieth or thirtieth century fund will not help our praying but hinder if we are not careful. Nothing but a specific effort from a praying leadership will avail. The chief ones must lead in the apostolic effort to radicate the vital importance and fact of prayer in the heart and life of the Church. None but praying leaders can have praying followers. Praying apostles will beget praying saints. A praying pulpit will beget praying pews. We do greatly need some body who can set the saints to this business of praying. We are not a generation of praying saints. Non-praying saints are a beggarly gang of saints who have neither the ardor nor the beauty nor the power of saints. Who will restore this breach? The greatest will he be of reformers and apostles, who can set the Church to praying.

We put it as our most sober judgment that the great need of the Church in this and all ages is men of such commanding faith, of such unsullied holiness, of such marked spiritual vigor and consuming zeal, that their prayers, faith, lives, and ministry will be of such a radical and aggressive form as to work spiritual revolutions which will form eras in individual and Church life.

We do not mean men who get up sensational stirs by novel devices, nor those who attract by a pleasing entertainment; but men who can stir things, and work revolutions by the preaching of God’s Word and by the power of the Holy Ghost, revolutions which change the whole current of things.

Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter; but capacity for faith, the ability to pray, the power of thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one’s self in God’s glory, and an ever-present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God — men who can set the Church ablaze for God; not in a noisy, showy way, but with an intense and quiet heat that melts and moves everything for God.

God can work wonders if he can get a suitable man. Men can work wonders if they can get God to lead them. The full endowment of the spirit that turned the world upside down would be eminently useful in these latter days. Men who can stir things mightily for God, whose spiritual revolutions change the whole aspect of things, are the universal need of the Church.

The Church has never been without these men; they adorn its history; they are the standing miracles of the divinity of the Church; their example and history are an unfailing inspiration and blessing. An increase in their number and power should be our prayer.

That which has been done in spiritual matters can be done again, and be better done. This was Christ’s view. He said “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.” The past has not exhausted the possibilities nor the demands for doing great things for God. The Church that is dependent on its past history for its miracles of power and grace is a fallen Church.

God wants elect men — men out of whom self and the world have gone by a severe crucifixion, by a bankruptcy which has so totally ruined self and the world that there is neither hope nor desire of recovery; men who by this insolvency and crucifixion have turned toward God perfect hearts.

Let us pray ardently that God’s promise to prayer may be more than realized.”