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'Light beacons of prayer across the UK'

God is calling us to prayer to "make space" for him to speak and move, says General Secretary Lynn Green as she launches call to prayer

Baptist Union General Secretary the Revd Lynn Green has invited Baptists to join her in lighting beacons of prayer across the UK.

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Explaining that God has been speaking to us from Isaiah 43:18&19, she said she now has a "clear sense that God wants to do a new thing and he is calling us to prayer to make space for him to speak and move."

She senses that God wants to light beacons of prayer, "beacons of prayer that are people inspired to pray and seek the Lord, not with our own agenda but simply that we might draw close to Him and open ourselves and our churches to him so that he would have the freedom to move amongst us and through us by his Spirit."

Lynn believes this is a word for the church in the UK. 'But my first role is to devote myself to prayer for God's new thing and to call Baptists to join me in beginning to light these beacons of prayer,' she said. 'I shared this with Baptist Steering Group last week and they also feel that this is God's word to us now.'

To help facilitate this call to pray she has created a new blog – called Beacons of Prayer – where she will be regularly posting short passages of Scripture she will be using to inspire her own praying.

'I hope that they may help others to join us as we pray together,' she continued. 'I have no idea where this will lead but I am being obedient in taking the first step and trusting the Lord for what comes next.
 
'So please follow the blog – and quite simply, pray!'
 

To find out more and view the Beacons of Prayer blog, visit: www.baptist.org.uk/beacons



 

 

Baptist Times, 17/06/2015
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