A while back, I spoke to ‘The boss’ about prayer and what we had been experimenting with back home. How God had shown up as we prayed. How, God was meeting us, how he was moulding us and shaping us, and how we were had the privilege of once again walking in the garden in the heat of the afternoon with dad.
As time passed God himself built on the idea of prayer, of conversation with him. Before long we didn’t even have to push the point people seemed to be interested, intrigued even, in getting know dad once again.
But then, sometimes you think is it worth it, will it make a change. In the face of monumental poverty, in a place where the rich get richer and the ridiculously poor get shafted daily, wot difference will a few peoples feeble, faithless prayers make?
In comes the proverbial slap in the face.
And my feeble whispered faithless prayer, Evokes a thunderous, resounding, bone shaking "Amen!"From Countless Angels, from heroes of the faith, from Christ himself and He is the original dreamer The ultimate winner, Guaranteed
Tonight after a day of continuous nonstop prayer, in which every slot was filled and every person turned up for, on time! (If you know anything about Kosova culture you will be laying on the floor in amazement at right now) People simply discovered what it was to spend a little time with Dad, to see how he was, to be reminded of love, grace, peace and to be empowered envisioned and inspired. Polished off by a 3 hour communal corporate prayer bonanza I couldn’t help but smile, not coz I wanted to big myself up and admire what the west had done for this church, not coz the prayer room looked nice and pretty and not coz i wanted to look kool in front of my pals, (although all these things did briefly cross my mind, sorry God, really) But in the amazement of the chorus of angels, shouting screaming, cheering AMEN AMEN and AMEN to the simple prayers of humble servants, arm’s linked in unity calling for a change, for a turn of the tide for a beaten broken, pain ridden generation to know what it is to love and be loved. It is as simple as that.
In the well versed words of Jon Freeman/Pete Greg/the wired stuffed puppet things on the corsa adverts.
C'MON
As time passed God himself built on the idea of prayer, of conversation with him. Before long we didn’t even have to push the point people seemed to be interested, intrigued even, in getting know dad once again.
But then, sometimes you think is it worth it, will it make a change. In the face of monumental poverty, in a place where the rich get richer and the ridiculously poor get shafted daily, wot difference will a few peoples feeble, faithless prayers make?
In comes the proverbial slap in the face.
And my feeble whispered faithless prayer, Evokes a thunderous, resounding, bone shaking "Amen!"From Countless Angels, from heroes of the faith, from Christ himself and He is the original dreamer The ultimate winner, Guaranteed
Tonight after a day of continuous nonstop prayer, in which every slot was filled and every person turned up for, on time! (If you know anything about Kosova culture you will be laying on the floor in amazement at right now) People simply discovered what it was to spend a little time with Dad, to see how he was, to be reminded of love, grace, peace and to be empowered envisioned and inspired. Polished off by a 3 hour communal corporate prayer bonanza I couldn’t help but smile, not coz I wanted to big myself up and admire what the west had done for this church, not coz the prayer room looked nice and pretty and not coz i wanted to look kool in front of my pals, (although all these things did briefly cross my mind, sorry God, really) But in the amazement of the chorus of angels, shouting screaming, cheering AMEN AMEN and AMEN to the simple prayers of humble servants, arm’s linked in unity calling for a change, for a turn of the tide for a beaten broken, pain ridden generation to know what it is to love and be loved. It is as simple as that.
In the well versed words of Jon Freeman/Pete Greg/the wired stuffed puppet things on the corsa adverts.
C'MON
Steve you are doing stuff there that will knock their socks off as they see the rreality (can you say that?)of prayer when things start to happen.
ReplyDeletePress in - God will bless this. Do the real ground work, hard as it is, and more friut will appear.
I read something by Heidi Baker
“We look at what love looks like for the people that we are working with. For the Mozambicans if they walk 20 hours for water, love looks like a well, if they are hungry love looks like rice and beans, if they have no school, incarnational love looks like us building them a school and providing them a teacher. We say ‘help me God to know what love looks like and don’t allow me to stop when it gets difficult’ ”
Go and do likewise
John
Wow Steve exciting stuff.
ReplyDeleteCool to hear what's going on, amazing stuff. You doing an amazing job.
Keep walking in the garden,
keep pressing in.
Be encouraged that God is at work. We're also starting a 24-1 today in Macedonia between us and our sister community.
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