AUGUST 4 & 5, 2007
I've got a simple Messages About Purpose and Strategy for this week. If you came to a worship service last week, you know that I asked some tough questions about where we place our trust. Are we willing to wait on God, or do we march to a different drum beat?
I'd like to be confident that the evidence reveals that we really do believe that this is God's church and that we recognize our dependence on his supernatural power to achieve eternally significant results. When Dayspring first approached me about coming here, I read a history of the church that was on the Dayspring website at that time. It sounded like prayer played a fundamental part in every season of the church's growth. The article was startlingly disclosive about Dayspring's tough times, but the emphasis throughout was on the church's dependence on God's power, accessed through the practice of habitual, passionate prayer.
Were you there in those early days? Many founding members recall this emphasis on humble prayer. I'd like to do more than read about such times. It is time for revival. Let's become people of prayer once again and see what new thing God has in store for us. I want to join with you and cry out to our Father that we need his power to do his work. I want to ask him to manifest his presence in wild ways here. I want our church to come alive and be different than what anyone can find in this world. Let's ask God to bring glory to his name by drawing people to himself. This starts with us.
I'd like to be confident that the evidence reveals that we really do believe that this is God's church and that we recognize our dependence on his supernatural power to achieve eternally significant results. When Dayspring first approached me about coming here, I read a history of the church that was on the Dayspring website at that time. It sounded like prayer played a fundamental part in every season of the church's growth. The article was startlingly disclosive about Dayspring's tough times, but the emphasis throughout was on the church's dependence on God's power, accessed through the practice of habitual, passionate prayer.
Were you there in those early days? Many founding members recall this emphasis on humble prayer. I'd like to do more than read about such times. It is time for revival. Let's become people of prayer once again and see what new thing God has in store for us. I want to join with you and cry out to our Father that we need his power to do his work. I want to ask him to manifest his presence in wild ways here. I want our church to come alive and be different than what anyone can find in this world. Let's ask God to bring glory to his name by drawing people to himself. This starts with us.
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