I’m a terrible PowerPoint man!
There
I said it and feel much better with life now I’ve said it.
I’m at the UK Salvation Army Territorial Prayer Gathering in Swanwick Derbyshire. I haven’t been around the SA Prayer network for about four years. So I was amazed to see how many people were at the event.
About 130 or so.
Now
When I was last involved in the Prayer network, these things would attract usually between 30 and 60 people.
There has been growth.
And
It reminded me.
God once spoke these very words into my ear.
“Where there is prayer there is growth.”
I’ve seen it time and time again.
Where prayer is relentless, numbers grow, understanding deepens and spiritual lives grow.
I hear so many Salvationists saying to me this “The Salvation Army will never recover from Covid.”
I always ask, “really?”
But
It is too often said in the context that it’s kind of over for us as a movement. There will be no further growth.
Hey
God is the master of the impossible.
And
In plain sight, The prayer network in the UK has undeniably grown, and that is so counteractive to the notion it’s over for us and we are slowly sinking into the sea of the past.
Hey
Where there is prayer there is growth.
The key is and always will be prayer.
Sitting in this building this morning, not doing very well with the PowerPoint, my mind went back to the two ladies in the Hebrides that prayed relentlessly back in the day and caused a revival of epic magnitude.
Where there is prayer there is growth.
It is so amazing to see the Prayer Network in the UK growing.
Let’s not give up.
Let’s not subscribe to the notion that Covid has stolen our progress.
God can do more than we dare dream or imagine.
Let’s start talking growth.
Let’s start a positive wave of the power of prayer.
Blessings
