This past week has been eye opening, encouraging, invigorating, convicting, and challenging. We had a debriefing meeting a few nights ago and thought you might enjoy hearing some of the things we learned and that have changed us.
London provides an opportunity to rub elbows with the nations. This could easily be a place for revival that shakes the world.
His people are in this city! They are a remnant, but they are here!
There are more languages in this city than in any other city in the world.
We have seen how powerful prayer is...and how much we desire to immediately see fruit of our labor and have something to show for our prayers, as if it depended on us instead of God. We were challenged to truly believe God is sovereign.
We recognized how Christianity is often just a thing we do on Sundays, not who we are. We saw the vast presence of Muslims here and realized that we as believers often do not visibly stand out like they do. Our neighbors and coworkers should be able to see the difference in the way we live, act, respond, etc. We ought to look different and not blend in so well with those around us.
We want to learn to share Christ with others NATURALLY...not as part of a program, but part of our lives and as an overflow of our gratefulness to Him.
We each mentioned one person who had impacted our lives that we would mentally take back with us to pray for and some to continue to be in communication with them.
We learned that God is purposeful in our lostness. The times we intended to go one way and lost our paths were the times when God had people he anted us to interact with or pray over. We know you were praying for our steps to be directed and that was a very clearly answered prayer.
We must be passionate around people we are afraid to be passionate around.
One of our members was here last March and she enjoyed seeing the power of prayer from her last visit being answered specifically that young children would come on a future trip. The children's feet allowed us into MANY conversations and locations we would not have otherwise been able to enter!
We were challenged over and over again that our prayers were of utmost importance, much mores than our words to or around others. This was a difficult lesson for many of us to learn and grasp.
We all expressed a desire to pray and walk purposefully in the Spirits guiding at home in our neighborhoods and where the Lord daily guides our feet. Please hold us accountable in this.
One last note, Laney asked that you pray for her. She is now throwing up and can keep not even a sip of water down for the last twelve hours. We change hotels tomorrow, so please pray she can gain enough strength to do this.
From Winston
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