A Move of God Only Comes Through Prayer

The last Monday night of each month, we are trying to take more time for intimacy with God and spend time asking Him to send the power of His Spirit that we can fulfill his purposes.  We recognized this monday night was right in the middle of the Pentecost season.  Pentecost was when 120 ordinary people were encountered by the power of the Holy Spirit and were used by God to launch the church age.

These 120 again were just ordinary people who had gathered together for prayer.  The answer came as God equipped them and gave them a mission.  The first fruits of that mission happened then and there, 3000 were saved in one day.

With Acts 2 in mind we began to pray.  For us prayer begins with adoration.  We had a four song worship set.  One great song in that set was "Dance with Me".  This song quotes many verses from the Song of Solomon which is said to be the greatest love song ever.  Sometimes it is called the Song of Songs.   It is obvious, the people at Monday night prayer love to worship.  One of these nights we are going to have a night of worship for all of prayer.  It's funny because every once in while someone will say to me "Why do we sing on Monday nights, doesn't that take away our prayer time ?"  I get the opportunity to share with them how much worship through singing is prayer.  Prayer at its deepest core is relationship with God.  What better way to be in relationship with Him than to let Him speak words of love and adoration to Him.  I have found that this is the avenue that takes us to the place of His heart and He lets us know then what is on His heart to pray.

We opened mics tonight and let anyone with a prayer for revival or asking God to fill us come up and pray.  We spent about 15 - 20 minutes here.  I was so encouraged that many in their teens and college years were the ones praying for God to move in our city.

Prayer that stayed in my mind for the night: A prayer for another great awakening like the second great awakening, a prayer that we would seek revival not just for one hour a week at prayer but that we would have lifestyles of revival and another prayer for God to bring His light in dark places within us and our city.

Parker Foster shared about being a college senior and how he got sick and was out of the loop for over a year.  He talked about how he was broken in a good way.  God dealt with pride in his life.  He told of how he began to have a real relationship with God and not just a hobby of God. 

The hour went much to quickly.  We had our prayer teams come up and saw people waiting to be prayed for.

We do understand that a move of God can't be generated by us, but that we can call out to God and ask Him to move mightily among us.
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12 people committed their lives to Christ this past week.  That is why were here.  Sharing these numbers never gets old.