Fire Fall Down

As is a common theme, the blog post is named after a song. This time from Hillsong United’s album ‘United we stand’. I’ve put the video from the album below for you to listen to. You’ll understand why I chose the title as you read the post…

This coming Sunday evening at Llandudno Youth for Christ we are having our brilliant prayer gathering.

We will be holding these on the last Sunday evening of every month.

It will be a great time to call out to God on behalf of all the young people in this area.

We will meet at Ty Llywelyn Community Centre in Llandudno and start at 7pm; praying for God to come and bring change to our communities.

This is not something to be missed. Prayer is essential in the life of believers.

Image never speaking to the people you love? Ridiculous isn’t it?

So spending time talking to God in prayer is a must. Relationship involves communication and prayer is just that, talking to God.

It is also what changes lives, communities and nations.

You just have to open the pages of the Bible to see how God moves in response to prayer. “I call out to the Lord, and he answers me from his holy mountain.” – Psalm 3:4

When Paul & Silas were chained in prison in the book of Acts Luke writes the following: ^“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.” – Acts 16:25-26

Wow!

Prayer opens doors, looses chains and set prisoners free.

When Elijah was facing off against the prophets of Baal, after he had given them plenty of time to implore Baal to answer them, and after he had made the task of lighting the sacrifices with fire by dousing the altar with copious amounts of water, the Bible tells us “At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: ‘Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.’ Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench. When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, ‘The Lord – he is God! The Lord – he is God!’” – 1 Kings 18:36-39

In the book of Revelation we read the following “Another angel, who had a golden censer, came and stood at the altar. He was given much incense to offer, with the prayers of all God’s people, on the golden altar in front of the throne. The smoke of the incense, together with the prayers of God’s people, went up before God from the angel’s hand. Then the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake.”- Revelation 8:3-5

Amazing and humbling that God takes our humble prayers and responds with fire from heaven. I love that image: God’s fire hurtling earthward in response to our prayers to bring change. To deal with injustice, to bring God’s refining fire to change and transform lives and communities.

So let us be engaged with the task of praying for the young people in Llandudno.

It all starts with prayer and we want you to join with us in this gathering and see God change lives.

Be blessed