Prayer Week

Our Church is wrapping up our week of prayer (well five days of prayer anyways...)

It has been marvelous!

God has been stirring my heart to be with Him in prayer, but also that our community must be established and maintained by prayer and worship in God's presence. It is wonderful that we do good deeds, but so does the Red Cross. We are not called to be the Red Cross, but rather the Body of Christ. Our good deeds must flow out of His guidance...

And so, we began to discuss this as a Church, and to my great encouragement, the women and men of this community have responded with passion to this call to prayer. We have come to a place of great hope in our journey as a people. We now have a group of people who are saying "Yes!" to God in ways that speak of deep conviction and a willingness to repent from a whole heart.

We began our monthly prayer meetings 2 weeks ago with a night of prayer and worship and we rented an art-space here in the city for five days (we had to choose between five days now, or seven days a month from now, and thought it prudent not to wait) and have been gathering from 5-10pm to worship and pray.

The first days have been spent praying largely for our city and the issues it faces; as well as asking God to open doors for us to be apart of the change we believe God is bringing to Buffalo. Last night, however, we spent several hours praying over each other. God wants to pour out His mercy and goodness on those outside of the Church, how much more does He pour out blessing and delight upon His people?!!?

I was filled with strength watching people lay hands on each other and pray God's will and God's word over brothers and sisters... God is knitting together a people! I also had the opportunity to be prayed over...

...don't worry if you missed out, we will pray over you yet!