August 31, 2008

This isn't going to make a lot of sense until you listen to the August Review podcast. Then it will get very interesting :)

What is this “WindFarm Prayer Initiative” thing?

In a nutshell WindFarm is the focused prayer ministry of the Daily Audio Bible Community.

Right now it’s a conversation and you’re invited to be a part of it! A forum has been created to start asking some very focused questions. Some of this will be philosophical while some will be practical. It’s clear that God has called his people to pray. I could write pages of verses to support that. It’s also clear that the DAB community is a praying bunch. We’ve been praying for each other since day one. What would it look like if we began to be a little more organized about it? A little more unified? We’re about to find out.

Can you imagine tens of thousands of people praying in agreement with God’s will for something specific in His Kingdom? How about millions? Prayer changes things. Don’t breeze by that as a cliché’. Prayer changes things. That means together through prayer we can fight injustice, change the weather, destroy strongholds over empires, crush the forces of darkness and bring the Kingdom. That’s pretty big talk but I’m not making this stuff up. It’s in the Bible. I think this means we don’t have to be helpless. We can unite in prayer and change things.

Between now and the end of the year we’ll sort this out and implement what grows organically among us. For now I believe we’re supposed to do a couple of things:

Pray for the coming elections in the United States. This is not political propaganda and this is not partisan. PRAY FOR GOD’S WILL. Pray every day. Pray, “Thy Kingdom come in this land. Thy will be done in this coming change of power as it is in Heaven.” Do this every single day between now and November 4th (1 Tim 2:1-4).

Pray for the mission work of the Daily Audio Bible being launched in the coming months. Pray for Daily Audio Bible Spanish, Hindi and Mandarin Chinese that in these native tongues God’s Word will speak for itself simply and purely. Pray that all interference that would hinder the spoken Word of God in these large regions of the world be broken and that light will come flooding into these areas because the Kingdom is invading (Matt 24:14).

In addition to those prayer requests let’s talk.

What can we do that would be effective as a community to inspire unified prayer both on our own time and then at times collectively together? How do we do virtual prayer like we're doing virtual community?

Onward Comrades,

Brian