This is one of those rare moments when it seems like a spiritual high could last for an extended time. I have just finished a weekend with Lou Engle as he rallied the state of Alabama to prepare for TheCall in Montgomery on April 5. It began Friday morning when I drove to Montgomery for a meeting with a group of leaders who will be working to get the state ready. It was an amazing experience of prayer and preparation followed by a meeting with pastors and youth leaders from around the state. On Saturday morning our church hosted Lou as he shared with prayer leaders. It seemed that an anointing rested on Lou at every meeting I attended and as they progressed it seemed to rub off on me and those around me.
Several things stood out to me during the course of the weekend. On more than one occassion Lou spoke to the idea of the right to life movement being a legitimate successor to the civil rights movement. Interestingly enough, on Friday night in Montgomery on of the last remaining members of the old guard among the civil rights movment, Johnnie Carr, died. She was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s successor as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. It would seem that a new time of succession is at hand. In addition, one of our members who regularly engages in sidewalk counseling at the local abortion clinics in Birmingham had a particularly successful morning on Saturday. For some who read this it may not seem like much, but to me it was a confirmation from God that the time is now for Alabama to arise and be a spiritual leader in the nation.
So why do I say that it seems that this anointing or spiritual high will linger for more than a short season. Well, it is because with everyone gone from Birmingham, and with the Pre-Call rallies complete our Sunday morning service today had a particularly strong anointing. I believe that we have seen a breakthrough that is lasting and will produce much fruit in the coming days.
Several things stood out to me during the course of the weekend. On more than one occassion Lou spoke to the idea of the right to life movement being a legitimate successor to the civil rights movement. Interestingly enough, on Friday night in Montgomery on of the last remaining members of the old guard among the civil rights movment, Johnnie Carr, died. She was Martin Luther King, Jr.'s successor as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. It would seem that a new time of succession is at hand. In addition, one of our members who regularly engages in sidewalk counseling at the local abortion clinics in Birmingham had a particularly successful morning on Saturday. For some who read this it may not seem like much, but to me it was a confirmation from God that the time is now for Alabama to arise and be a spiritual leader in the nation.
So why do I say that it seems that this anointing or spiritual high will linger for more than a short season. Well, it is because with everyone gone from Birmingham, and with the Pre-Call rallies complete our Sunday morning service today had a particularly strong anointing. I believe that we have seen a breakthrough that is lasting and will produce much fruit in the coming days.
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There was an undeniable freedom/breakthrough in the Sunday morning service. I know that I personally had a spiritual breakthrough. Something that God had been dealing with me about and I knew somehow Sunday morning prior to service that He was going to usher me through the issue that I had been dealing with. Also my friend that helped serve Saturday at the mtg. had her first EVER open vision from God. There was most assuredly an annointing that "rubbed" off on us in just the one meeting that we were so blessed to be a part of. I fully believe and agree that this is history in the making and God hasn't come to show up, but HE has come to show up and show out....
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