Day #4 – Hunger Week 2010

This week has been amazing and I can’t explain how amazing it has been to see the turn out for hunger week.  We have had over 50 people a night coming to pray, and over 60 people fasting ranging from 1 to 5 days.  All of this is being done just to glorify Jesus with our bodies as He leads us into this fast.  I have been so very blessed and thankful to be a part of this.

Over these last two days of the fast we are going to be focusing our prayers on the mission of God for us in this city.  We are saved by the Gospel, for the Gospel.  As Life Connection Church we have some real big disconnections between our inward professions and our outward expression.  Our prayer as elder’s has been that the knowledge of the Gospel would work itself out of us.  We have this power of the Gospel and we seem to be caging it.

“the Gospel is like a caged lion; it doesn’t need to be defended, just released.” – Martin Luther

I think I (we) try and protect people from the Gospel, if you know what I mean.  We try and cage it so that it is not so powerful, or we try and defended it because we see it as weak and that it does not have any power.  I am just praying that the Gospel would be lived in our lives in such a way that we have to answer questions to what has changed us.  I am also praying that we would not be ashamed to open our mouths and declare the Gospel.  I am praying for boldness and wisdom.  I am praying that His kingdom (rule & reign) would come and His will would be done on earth as it is in heaven.   We need a knowledge of the Gospel that is so deep and a zeal of the spirit that compels us to go.

Questions to meditate on…

(1) Do I have a passion from God to see people come to know Him?

(2) Is my life lived for myself or for His use?