Maranatha

Today was the beginning of a journey to start praying in and claiming the university and campus for Jesus this summer. I am planning on every day i am working at philly over the summer to head out and pray in the reaping of a mighty harvest that awaits us in this new season of student work in the city.

On the first day of this adventure I was joined by the wonderful Tim Maiden. We went over a few ground rules;

1. We go as Children of God
2. No Striving, we will let Holy Spirit do it
3. Have Fun
4. Stop and bless/pray for/help anyone the Holy Spirit points us to especially the poor

We started by reading some scripture, praying and enjoying the Holy and heavenly presence of our Father in heaven. I am increasingly convinced that simply His presence is the key, wether we are at rest or out breaking in the kingdom, He is the one who does it. We are hungry for revival and the only way we will see it is if His presence becomes manifest.

I believe it was wesley who said, I simply set myself on fire and let the world watch me burn. In this whole process it is not about putting in lots of effort and hard work in the hope we may see Him come. He dearly loves us and his presence his touch in one moment can set our hearts at rest and transform any situation. He does it, only Him, all Him. We are just in the process of putting that into practice in all the student places.

After a wondeful time in His presence we wandered off to Encliffe student village. On the way however we went past crookes valley church, the big derelict one on crookesmoore. I have for a long time felt the Lord leading me to pray for it to be returned to its intended purpose, to be a home for his family. As we walked up to it some people were in there looking around so we sauntered in as nonchalant as you like. In fact, so nonchalant we nearly got locked in!!!

As we stood and prayed there the Lord showed us the place filled with students hungry for His presence, worship raw and powerful, His presence come in so much power no one could stand for the weight of His glory! We prayed in faith we would see it.

After thinking we had actually been locked in and realising the door was just closed we headed up to encliffe student village. We only made it as far as the grass in the middle and here we stayed in worship. Just as there is a battle won in the old testament which was won by worshippers going first and worshiping, so we felt that we win the battle for this ground by worship.

So we prayed maranatha, Lord come, Jesus come. Jesus come.