Unity

Last night we had a total breakthrough in unity. Yesterday morning things seemed to be a mess--there was disorganization about who was supposed to be where and when, what time dinner was at, people frustrated, there seemed to be gaps in the communication between the different levels of leadership. Something had to change, we all knew.

Several people started receiving the same vision from God: There were holes in our armour of God letting the firey darts of enemy pierce through. Individually many of us had our armour on, but as a group, our shields of faith were not edge to edge, overlapping, and as a result there were gaps where the attacks of the enemy could penetrate.

But the Lord was busy writing 1 Corinthians 12:12 on our hearts: For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ.

Individually the Lord had been bringing the HSE1 leaders and outreach managers the vision of why we were here--that this isn't just about "going on practicum" or practicing servant-leadership for three weeks--God is giving us an opportunity to be part of a much bigger vision, a vision bigger than the Festival of Life even, a vision of uniting the entire body of christ. God is going to give us incredible opportunities here--Poland is fertile ground, both in how green the city is, as well as how ripe the souls are to the calling of God. But how can we unite the body of Christ until we unite our own group first? The leaders started by getting together and meeting over pizza and communicating about the vision of why we are here.

And then we stopped what we were working on and took the evening last night to take a walk through the countryside of this beautiful city that God has brought us to, and dedicate the evening to prayer, and the leaders shared with the rest of us that vision. And in doing so, we gave God the chance to unite our hearts, to bring the big picture of what we are doing into each of our hearts so we don't feel disconnected from why we are here, and helping us to focus on the big picture rather than on the individual tasks at hand.



And when we got back from our prayer walk, we discovered even those who were not with us in the flesh had been with us in Spirit.