One great beauty of the Catholic church is their organization that supports people who live there life in community and give themselves to prayer. In the protestant world each one needs a worth greater than community and communion with God. If I plan and prepare for a one hour meeting, then I am a minister. If I give hours in intercession for others, I am lazy and need to get a job. After all I can always pray. But is it now the time for communion to be restored?
I feel such a pressure to earn money, have a good job and develop a platform to minister from. Yet I must tell you that when I stand and offer prayers for unknown people in unknown pain, when I give my self to God and feel His hope flow through me to those in need, suffering, isolated, rejected…. Even though I have no scorecard to verify my labor, even though I have not means of testing my fruitfulness, I hope in Christ that I have not lived in vain.
The hours I spend with God trying to find a place in this world that embraces me. Why should I seek a place to rest my head. Am I enough like Christ that I too suffer rejection in this life? Am I so off that the Bride rejects my folly, my stupid ways.
Dan 9:3 So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.
What does that look like in 2007 in America? IHOP touches the nations, but will Peoria IL open up and receive? Will priests, singers, musicians and intercessors be a part of the life of God’s Bride in Peoria?
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