We need a place to stay in Germany, Big Philly says ‘’Check out the 24-7 prayer website, see if anyone’s praying in Germany’’ So we do, and they are. We rock up to this church about an hour from where were and wait outside for the brother of this guy that we spoke to on email to meet with a youth group and talk to them before they embark on a week of prayer. Random?
As people start to show up, and we engage in conversation it soon becomes clear that this is the first time they have run a week of prayer!!! Some have no idea what to expect!!! What a privilege to be placed by the very hand of God into this situation we spend the best part of an hour with around 20 young people tentatively preparing to pray. We share from experience of prayer, prayer rooms, boiler rooms and what God is doing around Europe. We tell about the lessons we have learned, about relationship with the father, about listening, about compassion and beginning to see the world through the very eyes of the one who conceived it all. And not forgetting, we talk about the next step. We explain about the importance of taking the prayer out of the prayer room, being the answers to the prayers and responding to
the heart of our Father. Random? I don’t think so. When I wrote about being pieces on a chessboard little did we know those same words would come again to fulfilment the very next day. What a privilege it is to be part of God’s chess game, to move in the way he moves us, to respond and to be used.
Maybe we will never see these guys again, but we pray that that all they will remember is two weird smelly guys came, but God spoke, prayer happened and a town was turned.
Not to us, God, but to you be the glory (again). Amen
As people start to show up, and we engage in conversation it soon becomes clear that this is the first time they have run a week of prayer!!! Some have no idea what to expect!!! What a privilege to be placed by the very hand of God into this situation we spend the best part of an hour with around 20 young people tentatively preparing to pray. We share from experience of prayer, prayer rooms, boiler rooms and what God is doing around Europe. We tell about the lessons we have learned, about relationship with the father, about listening, about compassion and beginning to see the world through the very eyes of the one who conceived it all. And not forgetting, we talk about the next step. We explain about the importance of taking the prayer out of the prayer room, being the answers to the prayers and responding to
the heart of our Father. Random? I don’t think so. When I wrote about being pieces on a chessboard little did we know those same words would come again to fulfilment the very next day. What a privilege it is to be part of God’s chess game, to move in the way he moves us, to respond and to be used.Maybe we will never see these guys again, but we pray that that all they will remember is two weird smelly guys came, but God spoke, prayer happened and a town was turned.
Not to us, God, but to you be the glory (again). Amen
How cool. What an awesome experience.
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