Clap Your Hands, All You Nations
Yesterday Catherine and I decided to take a roadtrip to a little country hick town called Boerne (pronounced Berny) to go to a church called Faith Bible. It was an hour and a half drive - very beautiful driving through the hillcountry. When we arrived we were told to follow the highschool group (I am not sure what that was supposed to mean), so we had Bible study with their highschool group. We began the study by playing a very biblical and sophisticated game called “Big Booty”. Hm. I am not sure if any of you have played this, but I had not before experienced it and I really liked it. The teacher had a thick Texas accent and the kids were pretty distracted. But we got to talk about Paul, and it was awesome to know that there are people in a little old country town that love Jesus. Yes, the game was definately called Big Booty.
Today a small group and I have started praying through “Operation World” which is basically where we stand in the gap before the Lord and plea on the behalf of every country in the world. The book gives specific spiritual issues in each country and we just go for it. Today we started with Papau New Guinea. I have never done something like this structurally and corporately as well as consistently. It is already teaching me discipline.
God is calling us to pray. We are going from the age of the Church to the arrival of the Kingdom Age, full force and for the duration until He comes back and then after.