WE NEED YOU!

Today - we need your swords.

Quite a few years ago I was in a what used to be an old bar with a group of Jesus lovers who weren't ashamed to admit that without Him, they'd fall apart.  I stood and watched, as one woman left her chair and made her way to the front of the building where she began to sing with all of her heart, "Lean on me...when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend, I'll help you to carry on..." 

As she sang, others left their seats and within minutes there were dozens standing arm in arm singing that promise to each other.  After the song was finished they prayed, and I knew I had just been part of REAL church. 

Church is not a building, it's not programs, it's not professional worship and a perfectly crafted message - it's broken people wrapping their arms around other broken people assuring them of their unconditional love and continuous prayers. It's souls comforting other souls with the comfort they were once comforted with. It's a bunch of hearts reminding one another of what is true.  It's a choir, that's singing a desperate song with one voice to Jesus, the only one who can make the wrong right, the only one who can exchange the spirit of heaviness for a garment of praise, the only one who can muzzle the enemies lies and pierce the darkness with His light. 

We are the lady at the front of the church today.

Our hearts are the hearts that need you to come alongside us with your intercession.

We have been facing an onslaught from hell that is fierce and unending.  There are glimpses of relief, and we need your swords to help us push it back.  We know you are holding up our arms, but we need you to lift them up a little higher. 

Jesus is GREATER than all of hell - and we are holding unswervingly to the HOPE that is ours!!!  We are not of those that shrink back!!!  We are part of remnant that believes in what they do not see and still praises our God even when we don't feel His nearness.  Like David we talk to our souls and say, "Why are you so downcast?!?! PUT YOUR TRUST IN GOD!!!" 

But today - we are the woman at the front of the church needing her brothers and sisters to link arms with us. 

Today - we need His presence to overshadow the heaviness.
Today - we need His hand to reach down and bring us into a spacious place.
Today - we need your voices to join with ours to JESUS, The One who is enough, The One who never fails, The One who has promised to never leave us or forsake us, The One who is our strength and our shield.
Today - we need you to lift not only our arms, but your swords.
Today - we need you to fight back the forces of darkness.

We are choosing to live in the realm of "IT IS FINISHED!!!"
We are choosing amidst the darkness, to trust what GOD has told us has promised us in light!!!

Please sing with us...

Maurice and Sue