Worship and Prayer Night | Surrender

Hi Folks – over the last number of months I have felt God drawing us into a deeper faith, a deeper embeddedness in his constancy, and the picture I’ve used is that of being immersed in the constant steady but powerful flow of a river. God is drawing us to a deeper and more constant faith which will allow us to flow peacefully through the changing and often turbulent landscape of our lives; To find stability in him through all the external and internal instability we often experience.  But this sort of thing isn’t gained just by thinking about it, we need to do something and, even better, do something together. Now of course the constant and regular patterns of meeting together around Worship and the Word is a key to this, but I’d also like to devote a special prayer and worship night to this: A time for us to lay ourselves down before God, a decisive gesture of surrender, for us to bring all our desires, our concerns, our plans, our whole lives, and baptise them as it were in that river of God’s presence – to embed ourselves in God’s presence and purpose, and to seek together a deeper connection with God’s Holy Spirit.

You know, (if I may push this metaphor…) when a whole lot of people jump into a body of water together, the water level rises and becomes deeper for everyone. That is the picture I have of our opportunity here. Our togetherness in seeking a deeper experience of God is the key for each one of us to experience this individually.  I’m calling us again to this place of prayer and worship, please put this night aside, Wednesday 25^th October at our Barrabool Campus, and let’s wade in together. – Pastor Matthew Jacoby