Single Minded Love

Tonight we prayed that we would love each other deeply.

We are willing to confess that we do not love each other as we ought. We are praying that God would give us the grace to love each other for reals. The Bible says that they will know that we are Christians by our love. Our prayer is that the people of Meadowood would see something so unique and so sincere about our love for each other, that it would cause them to question everything they have ever known about love. We want to break down their world view and replace it with a world view in light of Christ and the redemption of the world.

Our hope is that we would be so united towards the single mission of proclaiming the Gospel, that we can't help but to be united in mind and action. Like, if our apartment was flooding, we would not be divided, we would not take time to delegate leaders, and we would certainly not be distracted by meaningless things. We would be so focussed on accomplishing the goal of stopping the source of the flood, and then riding the apartment of water.

We want to be so focussed on the Gospel that the things of this world are but mere shadows in the corner. We want to be so consumed with the grace of God and His love for us and consumed with everything that He is, that we will naturally work together because it is the only way to bring about our one desire.

We are begining to recognize that the forces of evil are working against what God is doing in His Church at Meadowood. Satan is trying to cause dis-unity in us. But we recognize it. And we are praying against division by praying for single minded love.

I am saying all of this to you who are far away so that when these prayers are answered, you may praise our Father who is near to us all.