Transformation

 You can define transformation with just two word, radical change. That is what our world needs. That is what our churches need. That is what people caught up in addiction to all sorts of sins need. That is what our local communities need. The times are dark, but JESUS IS STILL THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD piercing the darkness. 

We need transformation that cannot come from a home makeover show. The kind of transformation we need is born out of travailing prayer. It is born out of a desperate need for change in culture. Only God can bring this kind of change. Only God can turn sinners to the Savior. Only God can reclaim the backslidden to repentance. Only God can deliver the demon possessed and oppressed. Only God can awaken an apathetic church. 

God has transformed communities before. He did it in drug infested Calcutta, Columbia back decades ago. A group of believers became so burdened to pray that they organized prayer meetings with various churches. Huge drug cartels were arrested and brought down soon after. This served to fire up those prayer meetings to the point they grew to fill up entire soccer stadiums for evenings of prayer. Can God do that again? It would look different, but that is what we are after. Transformation. He absolutely can do that again. 

Be warned. To travail in prayer for transformation will mean intense spiritual war. The forces of darkness will come against praying churches. In Calcutta, Columbia, the leader of that prayer movement was shut down in murder on a sidewalk. It is a fight. Not a fight with military weapons and tactics. It is a spiritual fight with the weapons of prayer, fasting, scripture, and the gospel message. Those weapons are divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses of the enemy. [II Cor 10:3-4]

Transformation will not happen apart from prayer. [II Chron 7:14]  Even though Jesus said His house would be a house of prayer, truth is most churches and believers do not pray much. It is one of the weakest areas next to evangelism. I can see transformation in my spirit. So much so I can almost taste it. Transformation will take a miracle and God is in the miracle business. May we give God no rest as we pray and believe for transformation. [Is 62:6-7]