Thursday 10 February 2011

Breaking through!

Wow, it's been a crazy couple of months since my last post.  Sorry about that...

In our church this year has been named "the year of Breakthrough!"  There have been a number of things seeming to hold us back for a long time now and we decided that this year as a church we are going to pray like we've never prayed before to seek God to change our situation.  We realize that only Jesus makes the difference, not how clever we are or how experienced we are!  Only by trusting in Jesus will any of our mountains move.

Our verse for the year is:
"Show me your paths, Lord, and teach me to follow" Psalm 25:4
So we have been praying and God has already been moving...  This may sound a bit odd but one result of our praying is more prayer.  As we have turned to pray under the inspiration of Breakthrough people are really starting a hunger for prayer.

People are meeting to pray and fast together (before we've even preached on fasting, that is this week!!)...
"Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working." James 5:16  
People are confessing their sins together and praying for healing.  I used to think James 5:16 meant find a righteous guy and get him to pray for you because his prayers will be effective.  Now I realize that when you confess your sins to each other you are made righteous (1John 1:9) and then YOUR prayers are effective.  Our hunger for prayer, created a hunger for righteousness and confession and this has created a dynamic powerful prayer life among us already!

And a bunch of us are meeting every Sunday evening after church to pray together for the community around Cafe Church.  Those prayer meetings have been passionate and powerful!  I feel like as a church we are learning to pray all over again!

These are exciting days for our church plant and wider church family... Even if nothing else starts to happen (and I believe it will) this year is already amazing!  Breakthrough has already happened in the most important place it can... Our prayer lives!

And the secret... being desperate for Jesus!

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