One of the important things in our daily life here at G42 is our prayer life. Every morning before classes begin we proclaim Kingdom in this place. We prophesy LIFE into our community, our day, and our journeys. We are all here for a reason and we seek that out each morning before anything else can steal our attention. It’s a beautiful thing to walk in as a community as well as an individual.
You see, life is all about WORDS. Now, I’m not talking about words as man’s wisdom can comprehend, but rather, a simple WORD is how life comes about and it is how life came about. It’s the simplest, greatest mystery that I’m now finding my world wrapped up in. In our human minds we are constantly looking for logical sense of this world. The mere thought of God creating everything we see, touch, taste, hear, and smell out of nothing is difficult for our finite mind to grasp! Matter has to come from somewhere, doesn’t it?! The world we find ourselves in was set into motion by a mere WORD. And that word, birthed LIFE. (John1:1-4)
Paul encourages to “Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and build up one another with all wisdom, and as you sing songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.” (Col. 3:16) When Christ walked the earth, he set the example that we are to follow. As he ministered he spoke LIFE into things that were dead. Demons left at his command (Mark 1), the mute and deaf were healed (Mark 7:31-35), and the dead were raised (John 11) to name just a few. Sure he laid hands and such as well, my guess is that was to demonstrate that it didn’t matter how “unclean” all were acceptable to receive his love.
As followers, we too can speak things into existence. I’m not talking about money to appear in your bank account (which God can do, and most likely would do if you truly needed it); rather to speak LIFE to invade where a dead place exists. Furthermore, we are called to bring order to the chaos.
We have recently moved to a new villa. This place is our new home, classroom, and community center. It’s beautiful! This morning, before our first class we spent 30 minutes wandering around the whole property claiming it as God’s Kingdom, his dwelling place. What that means is that we prayed life, blessing, and love into this place. We dedicated it to the Lord for his Kingdom to come. Here at G42, we believe we are the manifestation of Christ. (1 John 4:1-6) We are filled with the Holy Spirit and have authority over any entity not of God!! We don’t know what has gone on in this villa before we got here. We have no idea of the pain, joy, LIFE or death here. So we prayed!
Once we finally stand up for what we believe, next, we must learn to SPEAK UP! We can’t stay silent anymore. We all know what happens when we stay silent and don’t proclaim…we go right back to the Garden where Adam stood back and watched. We have to speak words of love, encouragement, peace, truth, and joy into one another’s lives. We are the ones to bring change to this world. It’s about asking God for the inheritance (Matt 9) for his Glory. With all our being, we must ask for the nations; There’s no doubt that when we pray and boldly ask for them he’ll begin preparing us for the nations. It FIRST starts with US… that is, with YOU. From there it’s contagious. It goes right outside your front door and spreads further and further into your city, province, country eventually consuming the world.
