October 26, 2008

I'M GOING TO LEAVE THIS ONE UP FOR ANOTHER WEEK BECAUSE I THINK UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES IT BEARS REPEATING.
I get a lot of emails every week as you can imagine. I do my best to respond to them. Sometimes it's difficult to respond to everyone but I try. Today I got a bit of a disgruntled one. Those are few and far between but they come now and then. There's nothing wrong with that. It's important that as a community we remain in relationship with each other and part of that is the freedom to actually communicate. The essence of the note was the idea that I don't seem to really care about the upcoming elections in the United States. That I, in fact, basically said I didn't care. This was a bit confusing so I'm going to use this space to state exactly what I thought I was already communicating.

I do care. A lot. So much so that I've spent the last month praying for it over and over. The primary focus of launching the WindFarm is wrapped around it. I'm not trying to force our United States elections down the throat of this worldwide community but nevertheless I do believe this election has a bearing on the whole world in one way or another. I also think it carries weight in the Body of Christ and the Kingdom of God. So let me be clear....I care about it. What I don't care much about is partisan politics. If you're following the debates, the talking heads and the rhetoric what you will find is an ongoing and systematic marketing job geared to polarize you one way or the other. That's not a bad thing in and of itself but if you get lost in the rhetoric you get lost altogether. I realize there are issues. I totally get it. I know that some issues are near and dear to believers in Jesus. I see that. What I'm not going to do is use what God has entrusted me with to become a voice for anything other than the King and the Kingdom. I haven't suggested that you do anything but engage in fervent and passionate prayer. This we can all agree on. I've suggested we set aside our personal preferences, agendas and passions and focus on, "Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth."

Here's what I believe. God has given us a measure of discernment. He has not given us the global ability to look upon a man or woman's heart and know it fully. He has also not given us the ability to know the full extent of the future. Those things are His domain, He is sovereign. We are not. Rather than engaging in the frenzy that is being stirred all around us for the next few weeks we should probably engage in fervent and passionate prayer that God will reveal to us our role in all of this and that ultimately His Will gets done regardless of anything else. How many times in the Bible do we see God doing things that accomplish His Will while fundamentally confounding the wisdom of man? A lot. I don't care if McCain-Palin win any more than I care about Obama-Beiden winning as long as God's will is done. I have a preference. I am continually checking my heart and motives. I am continually laying my preferences and desires down. My prayer is that the Kingdom comes and that God's Will is done in all of this.

To that end let me ask you to put November 3 on your Calendar. At 10 PM Central Time (11PM Eastern, 8PM Pacific and various times around the world) we are launching the first WINDFARM VIRTUAL PRAYER GATHERING. Be there. You will be able to call in and pray. You can chat with your brothers and sisters. We're going before God and praying for His Will to be done the next day. Follow this link http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dailyaudiobible/2008/11/04/DAB-Radio. It will take you where you need to go. You may want to go there and register early so that you have no problems when the time comes. My guess is there will be hundreds and hundreds who participate. I look forward to seeing you there. It's a big moment in our history as a community. Don't miss out.

Onward Comrades,

Brian