Leaders Lead in the River I recently challenged my leadership team, our elders, and our workers, to try and learn what it means to pray as a leader. We're discovering some things already. - One leader has noted that people, who in the spring were experiencing great movements of the spirit of God, are under considerable attack today.
- Another noted that while he prays often, praying just ten minutes as a leader was a battle.
- I'm learning that without a plan to pray, I don't do a lot of praying.
Early this morning as I met in my Prayer Place, I learned something else. I had a vision (yeah, I know I don't make that claim often) of a strong picture of prayer unfolding before me. First, I saw prayer like I often see it.  Prayer was like trying to wade into a mighty river of circumstances that rages and flows and trying to get God to change the course of that mighty river to fit my hopes, my requests, my dreams, my wants, my desires (you caught the my thing, didn't you). There you stand struggling against the currents flowing by. AND. . . I admit, sometimes prayer is like that. Sometimes we do have to wade into such a river and pray for circumstances to change. BUT. . . Today I saw prayer different. Today I saw the river, that same mighty river, as a torrent of God's activities, God's grace, God's movement in the land. It was the river of life surging ahead, directed and ordered by God, turning and twisting according to His activities, His desires, His wants, His dreams. Today I saw prayer as wading into that river and being caught up and flowing with what God was doing in the land. Wow, did that change my prayer. Wade into the river. Rev. 22:1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb. The Man in the Window |
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