We have been in a season of losses in our church. Serious losses, painful personal losses. And we are grieving still. The loss of beloved members is real enough but when you become aware that there is other death as well, it really hits hard. I feel this death. Something has died that is hard to define or put a finger on. It is spiritual in nature. It seems to affect most of us a bit and some of us a whole lot. I am one of the whole lot.
I am spoiled. I do not like death because I have tasted life and find it incredibly intoxicating and fulfilling. Spirtual life courses through me and I am alive in my spirit because of my faith in Christ. I am unsatisfied and grief filled when I am in the presence of even a smidgin of death.
My church needs a fresh wind of the Spirit to blow through. The Body is hurting. I am praying. Please pray with me for the life of the Spirit to refresh and renew our fellowship. Pray for me too that I may be part of the blessing and not part of the death. And I want to pray for my brothers and sisters who feel this same pain and long for renewal.
"Father, please grant to us in your mercy and grace, a fresh annointing, a new sense of life and power, a breath of life. Help us to hear what You are saying. Help us to respond to Your leading. Help, Lord, help. In Jesus Name. Amen."
