Monastic Order

Have you ever wanted to leave this secular life behind for the life of a Monk? Ok.... maybe that is not your life's ambition. But maybe you have thought that some peace and quiet would be good... even for a while so you can think and reflect in solitude.

Well... I am not sure about the peace and solitude part but there is now a way for you to join a Monastic Order online. The Knights of Prayer - Monastic Order is the very first Born-Again Christian Monastic Order founded in March of 1999.

The Green Monks ™ is an online order which is Ecumenical, inter/non-denominational and Protestant - for those who seek some form of Monastic lifestyle and/or community.

This is not just something to join and forget though, this is something a person should do after prayerful consideration.

Knights of Prayer Monks.

Bible Reading: Read one chapter of the Bible per day, beginning with the Gospel of Matthew.  You have just begun a new lifetime habit! Habit Number 1

Prayer: Set aside 15 minutes per day for personal time alone with God. You have just begun a second new lifetime habit!

Those interested in joining us in the Apostolic (Book of Acts) and Monastic tradition as we pray three of the traditional Hours of Prayer should take a look at: Daily Prayer: Praying the Hours. This is one of the requirements for Lay Monks.

Memory Verses: Postulant Lay Monks (First Year) (The Basics) Memorize The Lord's Prayer, John 3:16, The 23rd Psalm, and more!  A month by month listing for your first year.  Memorizing God's Word is now your third new lifetime habit!

Recommended Books: Know Why You Believe by Paul E. Little.  Reading good Christian books is Lifetime Habit Number 4!

Sharing Your Faith: Who with? Family, friends, acquaintances, strangers.  How?  Let them know you're a Christian, talk about the Bible, tell them how and why you received Christ as your Lord and Saviour; our pages are copyrighted, but you may print any of them out and use them as a witnessing tool, especially Plan of Salvation and Statement of Faith.  Sharing your faith once a week in some way is Lifetime Habit Number 5! 

The Memory Verses: 2nd Set, (Salvation), given above, all concern Salvation, and are excellent verses to use when witnessing (Psalm 100 is a psalm of praise, to help you in the growth of your prayer life).

Alms (Christian Giving): A portion of your income should be used to help support your Church, Christian Ministries, or however the Lord leads you as you go to Him in prayer.  Giving something weekly or monthly is Lifetime Habit Number 6!

Fellowship: Joining together with other Christians is Lifetime Habit Number 7!  (Dwight Moody, when asked why Christians needed fellowship, without saying a word, took a pair of tongs and reached into a fireplace with a roaring fire.  Pulling the red-hot, glowing coal out of the fire, simply held it in front of the questioner as the fire in it died out and it cooled down).  "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another, and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." (Hebrews 10:25).

Fasting: going without food shows our dependence on God, brings us closer to God, supercharges our prayers.  Jesus said: 'When you fast...'(Matthew 6:16) ...not if you fast.  "But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.' (Mark 2:20).  'It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.' (Matthew 4:4). Fasting is Lifetime Habit Number 8.  

A Biblical "total" fast is water only.  When people in the Bible fasted , they would still drink water.  You should not go without water: this could do damage to your Kidneys.  The Bible says of Jesus' forty-day fast in the desert that "afterward he hungered"; never that he was thirsty.  A "partial" fast can also be very effective.  A "partial" fast could be giving up anything for a while.  Chocolate, desserts, red meat, all meat, drinks other than water.  John Wesley thought that his Methodist Pastors should fast until 5:00 at least one day a week.  The Bible does not require of Christians any specific times or amounts of fasting.

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