It will not do


We had a great time today at the Divisional Prayer Focus Day. There was a very powerful moment for me when we were invited to allow God to speak to us personally and I felt his affirmnation and anointing.


There was also challenge. Isaiah 58 has been used in recent days by a number of friends as a prophetic call to the Salvation Army. The second part of verse 4 came to me very forcefully again today "You cannot fast as you do today and expect your voice to be heard on high."


And this message came to the people who had given up a Summer Saturday to pray for our division. We might have thought God would be grateful. Well I am sure that God is always pleased when his people turn to him and pray but the challenge was clear even to those of us who at least see prayer as a priority that we have not got to the place we need to be in praying for revival.


If we want God to move then something has to change in the way we pray and the way we live. The level of prayer on which we operate is not cutting it. The lifestyle most of us lead does not match our words but we blame God and ask "Why have we fasted and you have not seen it."


Kingsley whom I ministered with in the Ivory Coast is telling Christians all over the world that this year is a year when God's people must arise. We must get up from where we are and go to the place that God is calling us. Nothing else will do. (See www.igo.org.uk)

Arise shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. (Isaiah 60:1)


God bless


Carol