Notice to Christians: Will the Church rise up and contend with Christ in prayer?

This is a challenge to every believer in the church. As I've started out on this journey of prayer, my faith is more and more challenged. Looking around, there seems little obvious reason to believe God for change such as the ending of abortion, the toppling of evil forces within governments such as in Zimbabwe, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Algeria, Egypt, South Africa and more.....but God still issues the call and has made promises of His Kingdom coming to the Earth. Actually it's already here. The Kingdom of Christ wars with the Kingdom of Darkness. God breaks in daily into the lives of the oppressed. He's moved for His Heart is full of mercy. The Light cannot be put out by the darkness.

What if the entire world-wide church was in perpetual corporate prayer around the world? We hold our global day of prayer once a year - as if God should miraculously change our world in a day.....as the old saying goes "If the whole of China jumped at the same time the earth would shake..". What if the church of Jesus did that every day - not just for global change or the global "shizam" - but in love-sick worship for the Living God.

I'm issuing a challenge - dare to believe God for macro-level transformation. You will find that the struggle will challenge you and press you into Him. As you struggle you're forced to become more dependent on His strength. It becomes wonderful to be weak - and your mind becomes more fascinated with Him. This is the object of true Christianity. Prayer is just the vehicle to get us there. I'm wrestling to be hungry enough to actually do it.

Dare to Believe the Father for change. Listen to the mp3 by Lou Engle on our "Resources" page. Take up your Sword. It's not like you need to live out of this place of strength out of default - but let's believe enough to actually do it. Most try it and stop. I don't want to be found in the sleeping and slumbering majority.

Mission to Cape Town, South Africa

Hi there, We will be on mission to Cape Town, South Africa starting early November 2008. I (Robert) just got back from a weeks training with Desert Stream Ministries - receiving healing and training to become a more wholesome healer in sexual / relational brokenness. Oh.....what a week. I am by no means now suddenly qualified. At the same time, Christ qualifies us by the strength of the testimony God gives through His work of progressive healing in our lives. We are all sinners - saved by Grace - but some just need a lot more work!!

All this to say we are excited and by no means "ready" to head out to South Africa. We will likely be there for at least a year and half.

Our main vision for this time is to serve the local church and therefore extend the Kingdom by means of innner and physcial healing and daily prayer / intercession. The context that we will be doing this in is work-in-progress. We have some opportunity so far - but the details are being worked out.

Please pray for energy, grace, major financial covering and provision - and for God to break in miraculously on every level as time marches on toward Nov 2008. There is much to organize in this time - such as our house rental and much much more.