What Now?

John Weisman shares with the re:Turn crew about the importance of knowing Jesus.

So it is late Sunday night, actually early Monday morning and I am reflecting on the re:Turn gathering yesterday. I am excited about what God did in our hearts, and I believe that yesterday was a foundation stone in building a stronger presence for prayer over our city and our region. I will try to write and give an update about what happened early this week, but tonight I wanted to address something that has been going through my mind.

For the past month, we have been focusing our prayers and making preparations for the sacred assembly yesterday. In the past few days leading up to the gathering, my heart began to wonder if what we were doing would move beyond a prayer gathering, and into a prayer movement. It seems that my spirit is asking a logical question, “Now What?” As I prayed yesterday, and as I listened to the prayers of others that were praying with me, I believe my heart found it’s answer. I believe it has C.H. Spurgeon who once said that “the answer to prayer is more prayer.” I believe this is true, When we respond to God’s invitation to pray and seek His face, it creates a hunger in our hearts for more of Him. I think of how David grew to a place where he said, “My heart and flesh cry out for You…”

I feel as if my heart has been reawakened to the awareness of God through prayer. I believe that the very foundation stones in my heart have been firmed up, and that a heart that was well on it’s way to room temperature is growing hotter by the day. I expect that it could ignite at any moment. “Now What?” Now is not the time to back off of prayer and fasting. Not for our nation, region or city, and not for ourselves. We need to pray for revival to come to our land again, but we need to wholly give ourselves to crying out for personal revival.

I dream of living in a culture of faith that draws people into the presence of God by it’s very existence. I long to be a part of a community of Jesus people that love each other in a way that impacts the lost. It is in my heart to be a part of a movement that would give birth to many movements that would touch the nations and bring worship to Jesus.

So where do we start? Where do go from here, from this prayer of returning? “Now What?” There is no such thing as a movement that never moved, so for me, I feel like “re:Turn” was one step, and now it is time to take another. It is time to continue to pray and call others to pray as well. Not that prayer would become our focus and an end unto itself, but rather that by and through prayer, we access the presence of God. That we learn to live out of His presence. That we cease form all our striving and make Him our priority. That through worship and intercession, we cultivate a place in our hearts that is fit for the Kings habitation.

It is time to seek the Lord with all of our hearts, to believe that if we will seek Him, that we will find Him. It is time to pray some ridiculous prayers, and step out in faith. Please join with me as we journey to return. It is more than a prayer gathering. One step at a time, it is becoming a movement.