24.....3?

Hello everyone near and far. So many things have happened since the last blog it has been truly incredible!!! The major event I am most exited about was our three days of day and night prayer (24/3) to kind of officially consecrate our hearts and our vision to the Lord of raising up a day and night house of prayer in Belfast. It was incredible!!! We did it on the last weekend of Feb./ first weekend of March, so the 27th, 28th, and 1st and 2nd. We started at 8 AM on Friday morning and went until 8 AM on Monday morning. We split it up into shifts and had corporate meetings at 8 o'clock every night. The presence of God was just so incredibly real, and it continued to get stronger as the days went on. We had 8 or 9 different people who spent 15 or more hours straight in the prayer room at one time or another throughout the weekend!!! There was such a peace and a grace to wait in the presence of the Lord. It was so amazing to be walking around this busy city in the midst of all the whirlwind of activity and craziness and then come into this place of stillness and peace and strong presence of the Lord. The corporate nights were amazing as well, we just came together and worshiped the Lord and cried out for ourselves and for our city and the nation. The Lord just kept drawing different people everyday, on Saturday night my friend Ned from the Traveling community came, and on Sunday night we had several friends from the Falls area as well as people from all over East Belfast. Anyone who knows the history of Belfast and Northern Ireland will know how incredibly powerful that is, that we had people from the west, from the east, and from the travelers coming together in the city centre worshiping and praying for unity and peace!!!

There has definitely been some backlash from the prayer that has been going up all over Belfast and Ireland lately. In the last week, 2 British soldiers and 1 policeman have been shot by dissident republican groups claiming to be part of the IRA and trying to stir up the troubles again. So far they have had no luck, Sinn Feinn leaders have come out and condemned their actions and called the men who perpetrated them traitors to Ireland. So please keep praying this is such a crucial time in Ireland. The Lord is raising up an army and satan hates it, and is stirring up his own army. We are praying Zech. 9:11-13 over Belfast and Northern Ireland at the moment. That the Lord is stirring up the sons of Zion against the sons of Greece. It is becoming increasingly so very obvious that what is going on here is such a spiritual battle, we already know that from scripture but there are just times when the curtain is "pulled back" if you will, and you are allowed to look into things more for what they are then for what they appear, and the Lord is really releasing a grace to see things for what they are at the minute.
I will update with more information about how things are going and different aspects of life here as soon as possible.

Until then, please continue praying for us, it is so intense here at the minute.

Evan