There is one main thing which if we are without it, we will never be a worshipping church, neither personally nor corporately. That one main thing is prayer. It was always interesting to me that the way we said, "Let's worship," or "Let us go to worship," in the Shona language in Zimbabwe was: "Ngatinamatei," which literally means "Let us go to prayer". I thought this was rather telling because without prayer there will be no worship. Where there is no prayer in the Church, the Church will have no life, no power, no manifest presence of God among us.
In the very first blog we talked about how I had challenged the choir to pray for "igniting a passion for the presence of God". I asked them to pray for the personal worship life of First Family Members and for the gathering of the Body for worship every week. Since then we have asked First Family Members to join us in that praying. Some 70 folks, besides choir members, are praying for the worship life of our church. I am just simple enough to believe that God is going to do great and mighty things in the worship life of our church because God's people are faithfully praying.
Without a strong and continual commitment to prayer we will never see an "igniting of a passion for the presence of God". Together, may we be faithful to pray . . . and see God work!! mjm
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