Here, There....and EVERYWHERE!!!

Hey everyone,

I hope you are enjoying 2010 and being majorly blessed in it as well. I have been running all over the place in the last month or so; what with trying to organize our wedding, continuing to establish the House of Prayer, and still maintain relationships with everyone it has been a very crazy time. That being said, things are really progressing along quite nicely. The wedding plans and legal documents (aka visa) are getting there, and there are several exciting things happening with the House of Prayer.
The Lord has been helping us put some more structure into place at the House of Prayer which is very exciting and encouraging. There have been several new people showing up lately and taking a serious interest in the vision the Lord has laid on our hearts for the HOP in Belfast. We are splitting our Thursday nights up into 4 specific prayer focus' each month. Something that has influenced us a lot is the so called "7 Mountain Top Strategy" which a man named Lance Wallnau (among others) really focuses on. The basic premise being that there are 7 areas or "mountains" of influence in society that shape and direct the nations culture. The 7 being: Government, Business, Arts, Entertainment, Family, Education, and of course Church. Lance maintains that as Christians over the past several generations we have tried to get everyone saved and then into the "Church" and out of the "World" or in other words all the other areas of influence in a nation. Because of this vacuum left in these important areas of society, the devil has of course put his own people up into positions of power and influence. I believe we can see the truth of this in our world today quite easily. Long story short, we believe that we should be praying into all these areas of society, and believing God for men and women to go into all these "mountains" and bring Godly leadership to the nations. So for every Thursday we focus on two of the "mountains" and then on the last Thursday we focus on the Church and Revival.
We are still going forward with having a prayer weekend the last weekend of every month, so our next big push is towards March's prayer weekend. A very exciting thing that came up last week in the House of Prayer as we were walking around City Hall and praying for it was the idea of some open air acoustic worship on Saturday's to minister to the young people that throng there on the weekends. Literally hundreds of young people show up in front of City Hall on the weekends and just drink, do drugs, and generally act crazy. So last Saturday we went down there and just started worshiping the Lord in the middle of all this mayhem. It was incredible!!! At least one kid got led to the Lord, one kid got healed, and several others got ministered to. By the end of it, we had lots of them asking us if we would come back next week. It was so exciting to see the Lord just begin to invade a place that is so incredibly anti-church and not interested in God. The Lord is really breaking our hearts for these young guys, and we hope to go out there on a regular basis.
As things get some more routine to them, I am going to try and update this blog on a more regular basis. Until next time, thanks for reading guys, and please feel free to leave comments or feedback.
Blessings,
Evan