Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets
service of the poor.
–Mother Teresa
This month I have found my prayer closet. It involves an iPod
with worship music playing in my ears and walking around the house praying to
the Lord. It doesn’t sound like much, but it’s a prayer closet nonetheless. I
have learned over the years that prayer is key to bringing heaven to earth.
There was an urgency in my spirit to pray because of the things I have seen this
month (as you read in previous blog entries) that took me on a journey with the
Lord. I began to ask questions that I never had a reason to ask before. My
heart was awakened to see the injustice that I have been longing to see but
never dared to open my eyes to before.
I see a nation in turmoil.
I see a nation that doesn’t understand the Father’s heart of love. Tanzania
is a nation that has distorted the image of God, a nation where the women are made
to feel as if they are worthless creatures. They are a corrupted people, who take
justice into their own greedy hands. They are a people who cannot see grace
abounding around them, or that God hears their cries and will answer them too. What
Tanzania need is prayer, people who will intercede on the behalf of the nation.
What I also see is a lack of teaching about demons and the
spirit realm. There is a need for people to truly understand their authority
and know how to cast out demons. There is a need for a freedom ministry, to
bring deliverance and healing for the nation of Tanzania. There is a desperate
need for counseling services, to bring hope to the countless women battered by
their husbands so they can know there is a way out.
My question to you is this,
Do you understand that every
single person in this world matters to God?
That Christ’s love requires us to
do something?
For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that
one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who
live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was
raised again.
-2 Corinthians 5:14-15, emphasis added
In the words of Mother Teresa, “Love has no meaning if it
isn’t shared. Love has to be put into action. You have to love without
expectation, do something for love itself, not for what you may receive. Love
in action is what gives us grace. We have been created for greater things…to
love and to be loved. Love is love-to love a person without conditions, without
any expectations. Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace. To
love, it is necessary to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from
selfishness.�
Will you be a part of the unstoppable force that will break
the silence of the enemy over this nation and over the world? Actions speak
louder then words.
