Wednesday, 23 December 2009
Thursday, 17 December 2009
"Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. Behold, I am with you heart and soul"
"...It may be that the LORD will work for us, for nothing can hinder the LORD from saving by many or by few..." (1 Samuel 14:6b)
As everyday goes by, we are continuing to be shown this absolute truth. We have entirely no work of our own hands to boast in, and only God to lean on.
We, along with Mark and Lizzie, have always had a sense that London would a be a 'revolving door' so-to-speak, and concerning the church, it has been. God brings and He sends, and we see it as an amazing thing that we are able to build relationships with people here, share in the beauty of the gospel, and then see them either returning home or sent somewhere new.
As for us now, we as a church body are literally a handful of people... but we are truly encouraged to see that it is a group that has such an earnest desire and longing to pray! It is an amazing thing that with little exception, the entire church gathers to pray every week. It is because they have caught vision of the broken state of our city and the "hour in need of burning hearts, bursting lips, and brimming eyes" as Leonard Ravenhill describes. We have placed our all before Jesus; We laid our desires,wills, motives down on the altar; and our joyful response to God is to be the same as Jonathan's armor bearer...
"Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. Behold, I am with you heart and soul"
Amen?!
Pray that:
>God would do a great work here in London, a city of approximately 7.5 million people, through a surrendered church. Pray for the churches here that hold true to the gospel of Jesus Christ, that there would be a unity in God's people. We are a marginalized group, through and through, sociologically marginalized. We know that it has not been in times of popularity but times of adversity that the true Church has always triumphed(the book of Acts/Reformation/19th Century London...).
>That as the above passage goes on to say in v.22, that: "Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle." That men and women of God, that have disappeared into the 'woodwork', would be refreshed by the Spirit of God, encouraged to see a worshiping church that will not abandon this nation, and be so utterly moved by seeing the mighty hand of God moving and driving out the enemy, that they would stand once again and fight for the salvation of this city.
Will you please cry out to God for this small church and this great city?!
As everyday goes by, we are continuing to be shown this absolute truth. We have entirely no work of our own hands to boast in, and only God to lean on.
We, along with Mark and Lizzie, have always had a sense that London would a be a 'revolving door' so-to-speak, and concerning the church, it has been. God brings and He sends, and we see it as an amazing thing that we are able to build relationships with people here, share in the beauty of the gospel, and then see them either returning home or sent somewhere new.
As for us now, we as a church body are literally a handful of people... but we are truly encouraged to see that it is a group that has such an earnest desire and longing to pray! It is an amazing thing that with little exception, the entire church gathers to pray every week. It is because they have caught vision of the broken state of our city and the "hour in need of burning hearts, bursting lips, and brimming eyes" as Leonard Ravenhill describes. We have placed our all before Jesus; We laid our desires,wills, motives down on the altar; and our joyful response to God is to be the same as Jonathan's armor bearer...
"Do all that is in your heart. Do as you wish. Behold, I am with you heart and soul"
Amen?!
Pray that:
>God would do a great work here in London, a city of approximately 7.5 million people, through a surrendered church. Pray for the churches here that hold true to the gospel of Jesus Christ, that there would be a unity in God's people. We are a marginalized group, through and through, sociologically marginalized. We know that it has not been in times of popularity but times of adversity that the true Church has always triumphed(the book of Acts/Reformation/19th Century London...).
>That as the above passage goes on to say in v.22, that: "Likewise, when all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they too followed hard after them in the battle." That men and women of God, that have disappeared into the 'woodwork', would be refreshed by the Spirit of God, encouraged to see a worshiping church that will not abandon this nation, and be so utterly moved by seeing the mighty hand of God moving and driving out the enemy, that they would stand once again and fight for the salvation of this city.
Will you please cry out to God for this small church and this great city?!
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
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