Binding Ourselves to the King

Financial Prayer Team,

Every day this week I have let my thoughts go back to Sunday morning in the 360 room. Did you see the picture the team posted? Of everyone knelt down? After worship we collectively postured ourselves before the King we were there to honor. Then collectively we listened to truth about the good King and how we are his beautiful kingdom. Collectively we walked the perimeter of the room, as a body, communing with him through relational conversation. We talked to him about the state of our own hearts and lives, and stood shoulder to shoulder with members of this Kingdom to share their most basic needs, truest desires and honest expressions, as we prayed over the notes on the Lord’s Prayer boards. 

The Holy Spirit moved freely among us and many lingered in the room to sit together and continue to pray over one another. 

We took scribbled notes and snap shot pictures of these prayers with us and they have been on our hearts and lips this week.

When I was little, my extended family and I would sing this song, which is an expression of what is happening among us as a community when we bring our individual selves into this collective family. 

Bind us together, Lord
Bind us together, Lord
With chords that cannot be broken

Bind us together, Lord
Bind us Together, Lord
Bind us together with love

There is only one God, 
There is only one King,
There is only one Body, 

That is why we sing…

This week I have looked back over my prayer board pictures and recalled this family gathering and experienced the binding together even at the distance of my daily life. 

The leadership council used the majority of our get together last week to be toured through the renovation project. Dale gave us a run down of where we are in the financial aspect, Ryan filled in visionary details of what is to come, and we stood on Holy Ground as our imaginations and prayers began to align with God’s heart for our church family and the building we call home.  

As the prayer team, let’s keep talking to God about the members of our family, and our own financial situations, that are represented in our church. As we are unified in community, we reach out and care for one another and for our building. Just as we stood together to pray on Sunday, we stand together to give, we stand together as witnesses, we bind ourselves to the good King. 

With Love, 
Sommer