Brrrrr.....

Here is my new winter coat!

Well, there is good news and bad news with the winter weather. First the good news, I survived the rain and it wasn't too cold! The really cold weather did not come this past week, but the rain definitely came. It was wind Lubbock style, wind that will knock you over. But rather than the West Texas dust in the wind, this wind blew rain. I'm telling you, it rained and rained. Wow! And then it rained some more and the wind blew the rain in every direction. But it was not so cold...until tonight. Tonight the rain stopped but it is sooo cold. Now for the bad news, apparently this was only the beginning. The cold is yet to come, the real abundant rain is yet to come, and the wind is yet to come. This was a small intro into Cape Town winter. As I say this I am sitting in my living room looking out the window at the most beautiful view I could ask for with mountains right outside the window. But I am shivering in the cold, bundled up in a jacket and blanket and socks and fuzzy house shoes. Brrrr.... But I think tomorrow the sun will return and I will have to keep waiting to see exactly what this winter here is all about. Praise God it hasn't gotten really cold yet, that leaves me with more time to pray and ask God to prepare me!
But, in the midst of the rain this was a wonderful weekend! I spent the weekend doing things at the House of Prayer. On Friday night we had all night prayer with a church from a local township. About 10 church members came to the prayer room here and prayed from 11pm until 5am the next morning. The church members were from all over Africa and most of them very new believers. We got to pray with them and build them up in their walk with God. It was fantastic!!! Then, on Saturday I got to go with the HOP to help facilitate prayer at a local church praying for the city of Cape Town. Awesome!

Next week will be a very busy week!!!! I will be working with Eagles Rising (community program) to prepare for a team from Lubbock Christian University that is arriving on Saturday to spend 10 days helping at ER. Also, the HOP begins the 10 days of extended prayer leading up to Pentecost Sunday and the Global Day of Prayer. Just as the disciples sought God in the upper room for ten days leading up to Pentecost, the Global Day of Prayer initiative encourages people all over the world to focus on fasting and prayer for ten days before GDOP. At the HOP I will get to help with facilitating a lot of corporate prayers times during this time beginning on Thursday. There are normally 4 corporate prayer times during the week when anyone can come join in, then most of the prayer hours in the 24 hour House of Prayer are filled with an individual person praying by themselves. During the ten days leading up to GDOP the HOP will have more than double the amount of corporate prayer times plus setting times throughout the day and night when groups of people will be praying together. If you can, look up GDOP on-line. It is so awesome how God has put this together. This initiative was started by a South African business man who owns a construction company. Now, every year people all over the world pray. The number of nations represented has increased each year. This year every nation in the world will be represented except for a small island off of Canada, but there are still a couple of weeks before GDOP so maybe a church on this island will sign up before Pentecost Sunday. But this year will be the biggest prayer meeting that has ever been held on the earth with all these nations praying together on the same day. Wow! Now that is something to get excited about! Check in your community and see if a church near you is hosting prayer on Pentecost Sunday so that you can be a part of this largest prayer meeting that has ever taken place on the earth! And if you happen to know anyone living on a small island off of Canada, let me know!