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Call to Prayer
Helen Harray, 18 February 2015
As Richard and I talked through the Annual Plan for 2015, we felt a real sense of call to prayer as our first base this year. We recognize our need to know what’s on God’s heart to enable us to ‘go to grow.’ We thoroughly believe that mission, ‘going,’ serving, comes out of a prayer-centred relationship with Jesus. Without this foundational
relationship we so easily fall into busyness and trying harder, and we get tired and discouraged.
So firstly our call to prayer is to be in a relationship. One of friendship and following Jesus. As the prophetic word last Sunday said: You are programmed to be like Me; to replicate Me in every aspect of who I am. You are the image of who I am. We are joined as one. Savour the moment. (there was more but this is the essence of it.) In our call to prayer let’s not try harder to pray longer or for more but to seek the One who we belong to and to savour the time with Him.
Secondly our mission as church begins and ends with prayer. We make progress on our knees. You can never do more than pray until you have prayed. So out of our relationship comes the prayers, the compassion and the words or groans that partner us with God in His kingdom coming.
Let’s keep these two things in mind as we hear and respond to the call to pray.
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