Jesus' Kingdom Advances!

World Prayer Assembly - Converge City Wide Prayer - Without Walls Glory Camp

Jesus is dancing, covering the whole room with twirls and graceful leaps, smiling and laughing, His face alight with love and joy, dancing a metre above our heads on an invisible floor as we worship Him and sing praise and hope and faith. This prophetic picture came as we were in a huge corrugated tin shed at our church camp, our "glory" camp; hundreds of us committing a long weekend to Jesus and to our brothers and sisters; committed, united, obedient ..

Is this a “today” picture of Jesus, head of the Church, His Body? I think so .. over three weeks there have been three events for the Church to come together to worship the God of all Creation and to pray:-

• World Prayer Assembly - Jakarta, Indonesia - 14 to 18 May 2012
• Converge City Wide Prayer and Worship - Perth, W.A. - 23 to 27 May 2012
• Church Without Walls Glory Camp - Perth, W.A. - 1 to 4 June 2012

Knit together .. every stitch a prayer

At each gathering there was agreement that the event was called for and planned by Our Father in Heaven, His Son Jesus and their ever-present Holy Spirit, and that God contributed by His manifest presence to all the preparations of the speakers, to those giving testimonies and those leading worship, to all the intercessors and to every delegate and volunteer. The three events were different in scope and leadership, yet they were remarkably similar in so many ways; they were 21st Century God events - Jesus in the World today. Jesus was present in all the sessions and presentations, during the many hours of worship and the countless hours of prayer and fellowship. Most people I spoke to attended these events out of obedience to a direct call from our Lord.

Our sense of unity, purpose, obedience, and progress was palpable. For myself, there is a certainty that Jesus’ plans are advancing tangibly in millions of lives, in families, villages, towns, cities and even in nations. Ministry groups are being given clear focus, direction and resourcing. Many new ministries, most tiny, some global, are being formed now, in real time.


Testimony after testimony proclaimed the worth and effectiveness of prayer: evidence was given of the clear and dramatic impact of prayer on crime, lifestyles and government directions. More and more Christians are moving beyond Church services and into the world, the marketplace. Prayer groups are springing up everywhere, especially in homes and workplaces, even in nations where Christian worship is prohibited!

Seven Scriptures were quoted and prayed again and again and again; seven Scriptures of promise calling for unity, for obedience and for prayer:

(2 CHRONICLES 7:14) if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
 

(ISAIAH 62:6-7) I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.

(HABAKKUK 2:14) For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

(JOHN 17:20-23) “My prayer is .. that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me”.

(ROMANS 15:5) May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus.

(EPHESIANS 4:3, 12b-13) Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace .. so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

(COLOSSIANS 3:14) And over all these virtues put on love, which binds everything together in perfect unity.

Amen.

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Bless Jesus.