PREPARING FOR THE EVENT
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By attending the LIFEQUESTWEEKEND, you are making a huge investment in your future and in those who will one day follow in your footsteps.
This time away from the routine and busyness is critical in your pursuit of God. To get the most out of this retreat, don’t wait until the last minute to prepare yourself. And most of all DON’T TAKE IT LIGHTLY!
44 LIFE-CHANGING HOURS! GET READY!
Prepare your mind and prepare your heart — be attentive to it.
Watch for God’s hand in your day. In our experience, He’ll be working to prepare you for what’s coming, raising issues, questions, feelings, reminding you of things from your past, etc.
PAY CLOSE ATTENTION.
Watch out for the enemy’s work. Here’s a few things we see regularly as we plan for the event:
- Busyness (Life will feel extra busy — intentionally create moments of quiet here and there)
- Relationships (Relationships will seem more tense than usual — hold off on big decisions and big conversations until after the weekend)
- Anxious/Unsettled (You may experience more fear, fog, drain, etc. than usual — try to remove things from your plate. And, use the Prayers and Pause below to help.)
- Detached (You may feel detached from others and God. That’s ok. Don’t let it throw you. Lean into it — ask God to intervene — nurture your connections. The Prayers and Pause below can really help with this.)
To help, we’ve included suggestions (below). These will help you unplug from the “matrix” and ready you for the time ahead.
PRAYERS
This is the MOST important resource on our site. The enemy of your heart does NOT want you to find LIFE and he does not want you to attend LIFEQUESTWEEKEND! So pray. Use the “Daily Prayer” (or one of the other prayers below) as a weapon against the enemy… and as a means to draw closer to God.
- Download PDF copies of prayers or listen online or download MP3s
- Daily Prayer
- Daily Prayer (Extended Version)
- Daily Prayer (Head of Household)
- Prayer to Receive Jesus Christ as Savior
- A Bedtime Prayer
- The “Life” Prayer
- Prayer for Breaking Curses
- Prayer for Inner Healing
- Prayer for Sexual Healing
- Prayer for Freedom from Habitual Sins
- St. Patrick’s Breastplate
- And more
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- An AUDIO version of “The Daily Prayer” from the Wild at Heart website can be found here -> [LISTEN]
GET THE “ONE MINUTE PAUSE” APP!
The FREE PAUSE APP helps reconnect and restore your connection to God! By guiding you through a number of topical reflection-modules, the app leads you in recentering your whole-self back to God. We’ve found this app to be a LIFE-SAVER! Honestly. This has helped more than we can put words to. You’ll choose from 1m, 3m, 5m, and several 10-minute guided experiences with God, targeted at exactly what you need in your time with God. It also has a “30 Days to Resilient” track with meditations that track with John’s book, RESILIENT. The app is put out by John Eldredge and the Wild at Heart team.
RECOMMENDED READING
Everything starts here. Everything we teach on and believe is founded on this book — God’s word!
There’s no better place to start preparing for this weekend than to spend time with the God, here.
Have you read the book Wild-at-Heart? It isn’t mandatory for attending, but we can tell you from first-hand experience that it is the best way to prepare yourself for what you will experience. [Book]
If you’ve already read Wild-at-Heart — consider reading it again. Read the updated version. My first time reading through it was good… but God used even more during my second time through. And, if you have not yet read Wild-at-Heart — read it.
This retreat is based on “Wild at Heart Boot Camps” hosted in Colorado by John Eldredge and the Ransomed Heart team. These retreats are based primarily on the concepts found in Wild at Heart. You will get more out of the retreat if you already have this information under your belt and have already begun to allow it to sink in. But more importantly… you should read this book because it sets the stage for an awakening.
We will use the concepts in Wild at Heart as an outline to walk you into the next stage of your masculine journey. (And by “Masculine Journey” we mean the journey that you as a man are on, whether you knew it or not. It is a journey requiring specific information and action that can only be found in the company of other men.) We will intentionally step into the issues that face us as men… and we will find that life will be better, we will be better, and our lives will never be the same again.
EPICThis is a short book, but really great. [Book | Kindle]
Life, for most of us, feels like a movie we’ve arrived to forty minutes late.
Sure, good things happen, sometimes beautiful things. But tragic things happen too. What does it mean? We find ourselves in the middle of a story that is sometimes wonderful, sometimes awful, usually a confusing mixture of both, and we haven’t a clue how to make sense of it all. No wonder we keep losing heart.
We need to know the rest of the story.
For when we were born, we were born into the midst of a great story begun before the dawn of time. A story of adventure, of risk and loss, heroism . . . and betrayal. A story where good is warring against evil, danger lurks around every corner, and glorious deeds wait to be done. Think of all those stories you’ve ever loved—there’s a reason they stirred your heart. They’ve been trying to tell you about the true Epic ever since you were young.
There is a larger story And you have a crucial role to play.
Jesus said, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” That’s the offer of Christianity, from God Himself. Waking the Dead will help you find that life, see the fierce battle over your heart, and embrace all that God has for you. [Book | Kindle]
Also, Fathered by God, It’s Your Call, Becoming a King, Walking with God, as well as resources at Wild at Heart and Become Good Soil and our blog LoveGodLovePeopleLiveFree.com.
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LIFEQUESTweekend is a ministry modeled after John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart Ministry and his team (Bart Hansen, Craig McConnell, Morgan Snyder). We at LIFEQUESTweekend are inspired, encouraged and trained to move forward into our calling and great missions by The Noble Heart (Gary Barkalow) and others.