It is hard to believe it has been seven days. In many ways they feel like a blur. The night started in the prayer room. That is a good place for it always to start.
God has used Sherman and Tammy to pull out so many powerful songs from the past. When I hear them, I am taken back to encounters with God over the years. Those songs still have life in them and the Atens have the life of God in their hearts when they sang them. Many worship ministers can play and sing all the right notes. That does not mean their heart hits all the right notes. With Sherman and Tammy, you know they are leading worship as an extension of their own private worship we just happen to get to sit in on. Each night has been different with a different set of songs to minister in a fresh way. What God has used them to do is far beyond what I can describe. It is one of those things where you would just have had to be there.
Connie Wright gave her testimony tonight. A testimony about not playing the piano for 40 years and God calling her back to that ministry and opening that door at Spring Creek. She said she was nervous, but I could not tel.l She daily gives God her yel. God used her powerfully. She is a blessing to many people and helps me immensely with many projects.
I shared from Genesis 18:1-17, Gen 21:1-3, and Romans 4:17-24. All about God giving promises and praying in faith tenaciously until God does what He said He would do.
I felt a specific leading for the invitation tonight. I felt a call to ask those watching online to share prayer requests through Facebook. I promised I would pray for each request sent by name before going to bed which I did. What an honor to be trusted with those. We cut the camera and live feed off at that point.
We spent the rest of the invitation asking people what they needed prayer for and having people pray for them. I am not sure what time we started this. I do know when the service ended, the clock showed ten minutes to nine. Nearly two hours in God's presence and it seemed barely an hour to me. We prayed for lost people tonight and their salvation. We prayed for spiritual awakening. We prayed for the removal of demonic influences. We prayed for health concerns. We prayed for believers who have backslidden. There were many prayer requests. The temple got saturated in petitions and intercession tonight.
At the end, I talked about the tug of war in my heart concerning whether God is done with the revival meetings or whether He still has work to do. The in person attendance has not been great all week. That has not dampened the enthusiasm nor the thick presence the Spirit of God among us. That has remained consistent in every service. I do not know if that translates into people's homes as they watch online. I pray it does. At this writing, there have been over 200 views of the service tonight. Since I have been at Spring Creek, we have never had 100 people in attendance. That amazes me that so many watched on a Saturday night! The numbers have been similar all week. There is some kind of ministry there. We are still learning how to be more effective at it.
Those over 200 are joining us and are participating. They are right along with us in song and the word. Now, if they were all present in person there is no way we could dismiss what God is doing. Since we cannot see them or how God is working in each of them we get discouraged. I see barren pews with my eyes. I see fatigue on many of the people showing up. I am blown away so many are tuning in live or watching the service later. I pray God would spread it. It has been a long week. The work of God has been good. We are praying about what God wants us to do going forward.
We asked Sherman and Tammy to stay with us through Sunday morning. They graciously accepted. We all wait in anticipation. It will be day eight. We have asked God to make it evident what we are supposed to do going forward. Now it is off to bed before I get up early to prepare the message for in the morning and to seek His direction and will for these meetings. I believe He will guide in both situations.
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