Starting today the 18th of May, there is a prayer campaign – 40 days of prayer – for the purpose of renewal of the United Methodist Church, and I pray for the whole church. It is being facilitated by Ben Simpson, who has organized forty young clergy authors to write prayers, then to organize themselves and others to be in prayer for direction, confession, and purpose.
I am blessed to be able to include these prayers within my weekly radio devotions (see the page with links).
I see this as an important ministry as we near the end of the Easter season, as we celebrate and remember Christ ascending, calling the early church to wait for the power of the Holy Spirit….and to pray! They were to wait and pray, so that they might be given direction and purpose. As we move towards the Day of Pentecost may we be open to the power of the Holy Spirit, that it might convict us, mold us, and call us forward into renewal and transformation.
God, use us and these forty days to ignite a fire of purpose and vision! Amen.
