National Day of Prayer & Worship - Wembley Stadium 2012

 


 
 
I was thrilled to be part of the National Day of Prayer and Worship at Wembley Staduim last weekend. For one thing it meant I got to go to Wembley! Which was an added bonus, but most importantly it was a fantastic time of UNITY - the National church was there, 40 000 of us, with one common purpose: to pray and to worship God! The walls of doctrine and prefered minstry styles were stripped away and we all jumped in together: CHURCH as it should be - the CHURCH as I've never seen it before!
 
My spirit just kept saying 'Yes! This is how is how it should be!' Not necessarily in a staduim of on such a massive scale (although that part was fun!) but THE church, TOGETHER! God's church.
 
There were many testimonies of things God had done during last Saturday just from within the min-bus load of people from our church who made the journey to Wembely for the day - I can only imagine what 40 000 other Christians had to say, how many things God had brithed, how many flames were fanned, how many new things inspired, how many battle-weary were refreshed!
 
It is amazing what God is doing in our nation, in the British Isles! Come on UK church! The time is now! Let's get together and boldly pray for our neighbourhood, our towns, our cities - let's be the hands and the feet of Jesus to a dying and hurting world. Only we can do it - it is what God made HIS church to be!
 
Watch the video above for a flavour of what the National Day of Prayer 2012 was like. I wrote the song in the background 'Our Father' and you can find a free chord chart for it here. Check out the National Day of Prayer website for more info and amazing stories from the event.
 
If you went to the event, or just want to add your own comments even if you didn't - please join in anc comment below!
 


Comments

  1. Bob Blake4 October 2012 at 14:20

    Glad you all had a great time,and yes you were, buzzing on Sunday'

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