Have you ever gone on a prayer walk? Me neither till last Sunday night. I wasn’t sure how it should work or what it should look like, but we did it anyway, we walked in four groups, taking four different routes from the Q1 building in Surfers to the Surfers Paradise sign in the mall.
When we got there we huddled, all 42 of us and prayed for the city. What I didn’t realise is that as we were praying, many people who were in the mall began to wander over, get on tip toes or climb on surrounding constructions to see what we were looking at. Turns out we were just focusing on Jesus.
Interesting isn’t it… that when we get out of the Church building, get together as a Church, and focus on Jesus, that the rest of the world wants to get in on the action, and look at the one we’re looking at.
From Q1 to Cav Ave Praying
Further to this on Sunday afternoon I asked a whole bunch of people around Australia and overseas to pray for us. The request was simply, “please pray that God would go before us, with us and behind us.” Then last night Mum called and said that they had been praying for us in Church, and that she had a vision of a legion of Roman Centurions forming a group ready for battle, with their shields protecting them on all sides. Mum shared this at Church and the response given was that someone else had a similar vision, except that, that one battle unit divided into four smaller battle units. It was at this point in the story that I told Mum, ‘that’s exactly what we did, four groups, not one, walking through the city.’
So God really was before us, with us and behind us.
