Joshua 5:13-15 describes with only a few words one crazy encounter Joshua had on the eve of battle.
They were looking to overthrow the great city of Jericho. While Joshua apparently needed loads of encouragement at that point he may have thought they already had it in the bag. He had a promise of the land, he had a plan, he had a strategy.
You know, I’m mainly writing this for myself.
As our who are we page says, it’s important to take stock, to properly process lessons as they come and to celebrate all God does. You may even find some of this useful and/or thought provoking too.
Without further ado:
I can’t emphasise the importance of prayer enough. If prayer is communion and communication, literally everything flows out of prayer. The universe, for instance, is the overflow of the constant communion of love flowing through the trinity, and through the communicated Word life came into being. The same is true now: life flows from the throne of God.
The 16th century scholar and Presbyterian minister Matthew Henry said “whenever God is about to do something truly great, He first sets His people a praying!”
It’s always been my vision to see a diverse network of simple, small, virile and flexible house churches/communities. That’s why we were keen to start hosting our own Sunday morning congregation a few months ago:
Jesus has been on my case about getting this prayer room sorted, and maaan, I’m getting inspired about it.
Thankfully we can come to Jesus unscrubbed but this room needs some work.
I got hold of a decent dehumidifier for £5 on Facebook marketplace (there’s some v decent stuff on there, check it out), and slowly the mushrooms growing on the floor are losing their habitat.
Can’t wait for all the murals, scribbled prayers, candles, carpets, peaceful moments, arms-in-the-air worship, writing, listening, reading, escaping, returning, artwork, asking, curtains, cushions, incense and whispers.
If you’d be up for lending us a ✋ getting it all set up please let us know.
Can’t wait to spend my first proper hour of prayer here with God.
Gosh, we have a blog? Who knew. It’s been so long since I updated and so much has gone on.
Firstly, we spent three weeks enjoying bemoaning Andy and Sam’s absence as they were off with a team on a missions trip in India with Multiply Christian Network. They had three weeks of teaching English and visiting various ministries: watch the India video diaries here.
