As I was praying-over and trying to prepare some hand-outs for distribution at a recent conference, I was trying to keep them concise and non-to-wordy… and as I was pondering what to put in them, I was asking the Lord, “Father, convince ME again of why we are doing what we’re doing!”  If I am called to gather believers in the place of corporate prayer, then is some of the responsibility of CONVINCING them to come on my shoulders?

So, here I was, pouring over Scriptures and revelations that the Lord has burned in me, trying to decide what would be the most convincing.  Then I remembered something I had written in my prayer journal a little over two years ago, when I was pondering a similar question, “Lord, why do you want me to help establish a house of prayer & worship in the river valley?”  After a time of similar Scripture searching and pondering, I shifted gears into worship and then into trying to just be quiet and listen to the Lord.

Crystal clear, the voice of the Lord pushed through my attempts to calm and quiet my soul:  ”Because I deserve it.”  Wow.  Why would I try to encourage believers to gather together to pray and to worship the Lord on a consistent, maybe even eventually 24-hour a day basis?  Because He Deserves It!

So as I sat here a few days ago, planning those printed materials, the Lord reminded me of that, and broke through my striving and just said, “Aaron, you don’t always have to have some powerfully worded, verse-packed, no-room-for-reproach reason for calling people to pray and to worship me… I DESERVE IT!”

During the Eyes Open Conference at Crossroads this weekend, I was there with my three beautiful children early to help the IHOP worship team do their soundcheck, and we got their early enough that the Prophecy Rooms were still going on, and a friend asked me if we wanted to go receive ministry.  I was hesitant, because it was just me and an 8, 7, and 5 year old - and I thought, wow, this is going to be a fun ride for the ministry team.

Anyway, all of the words the three prophetic team members were right on, specific, and confirmed things the Lord had already spoken to Robin and I about ourselves and our children.  One of those words over me (which is why I mentioned it here) was basically this:

Aaron, the Lord is so delighted in the gift that you are giving Him.  It’s like when one of your children is at school and has a craft time, and decides to make something for you, and when they bring it home and give it to you, and you ask them why they made it, they just say, I was thinking of you, Daddy, and I wanted to make something just for you.

I want us, His children, to make this thing for Him.  Like David, I am consumed with establishing a house for the Lord on the earth where He can come and where His children will be in constant, day-and-night worship and prayer before Him.  Why?  Because He deserves it.

This weekend, a team from the International House of Prayer - Kansas City ministered to the region… with permission, I intend to post a few short audio clips that encapsulate some of the key messages that the Lord was speaking to the river valley.  The resounding word the Lord was bringing to me the entire weekend, starting during the set-up time through personal conversations with some fellow believers who were there serving from the the host church, was the necessity for what we are doing with the Rend Your Heart ministry and the regional intercessory worship gatherings we have been facilitating the last 19 months.

Most of you know of the incredible unity that exists between the various prayer & worship ministries in the region, namely The Burn - Fort Smith, Crossroads Church, New Wineskins Ministries, and Rend Your Heart (yes, I’m still vacilating between that name and “Pray River Valley”).  Because one of my personal, primary motivating revelations is that of Jesus’ intense desire for unity among believers (John 17:20-26), I always process my own motives and vision through that filter: is what I feel impressed to do already being done by another believer or ministry, and should I just serve with them?  Should we all just head over to Crossroads where the Lord has amassed so many phenomenal, devoted, and faithful intercessors?  Should we put all of our proverbial eggs into the same basket?

The resounding answer is… Maybe!  Okay, not really.  The real answer is, what is the Lord asking YOU to do?There is a need for equipping of intercessors and worshippers in the river valley, and Pastor Damon and the believers at Crossroads are doing that, and doing it well.  Thank you, believers at Crossroads, for your faithfulness and vision that goes back even before God’s orchestration of bringing Damon & Lisa to our region.  Thank you, Damon & Lisa, for your obedience and yourselves!

There is also a need for intercessors and worshippers in every single congregation throughout the river valley - believers that have already been planted, some from birth, into varying church-families.  Some will get uprooted for a season to go and soak and get equipped to return to the congregations to which the Lord has destined them.  Some must stay planted where they are at, and let their roots go deep - even when it’s dry - their roots will have to search out the streams.

That is one of the primary things the Lord has asked us (Rend Your Heart) to do in the valley:  we are to be a stream of living water, an oasis in a dry and thirsty land.  We are a place where believers who are faithfully plowing and sowing in other ministries can come to be refreshed through fiery worship and fervent prayer. Who are we?  We are believers from many churches in the region:  Heritage Church VB, Crossroads Church Alma, The Current VB, Butterfield AoG VB, First Baptist VB, Grand Ave Baptist FSM, City Christian Fellowship FSM, Victory Temple FSM, First Methodist FSM, Mt Olive Church VB, and I know I’m forgetting some.  These are just the congregations represented on the stage almost every week.

Could we be this same stream and serve this same purpose from inside a specific congregation’s facility? Theoretically, yes - and, eventually, Yes! There will be many streams and deep wells all over this region in homes, in church-buildings, and in buildings devoted to prayer, worship, and outreach.  This is what the Lord has asked us to do - and we’re running… we’re digging… we’re soaking… we’re burning.

Will you come and join us this Saturday from 6pm to 9pm at the prayer room located on the corner of Alma Blvd and North 20th St in Van Buren?

Here’s a little “take away” from this past Saturday night (May 30th, 2009): Jesus is inviting us to come out of our self-created refuge and run with Him on the mountains of our guilt, shame, addictions, personality flaws, and entangling sins.  Those things that are hindering our love for Jesus aren’t what is actually hindering our love. Huh? Yeah.  Our fear of being with Jesus in spite of those things is more of an obstacle than those things themselves.

That fear, which is really shame and guilt, brings to light the real issue: a lack of knowledge.  But, I’ll address that in another article, soon.

Our dear friend and prayer pioneer, Katie Howell, was leading us in prayer through Isaiah 64.  I was about to paste some of it in here, but wow, the whole thing is so powerful and relevant to this topic.  So I encourage you to open your Bible and dig into it (or check it out here: http://www.blueletterbible.org/Bible.cfm?b=Isa&c=64&v=1&t=NKJV#top).  Anyway, as she was praying through it, and we began to sing these very Scriptures, the Lord tied “the mountains” mentioned in verses 1 & 3 to the mountains of the Song of Songs chapters 2, 4 & 5.  Jesus, our Bridgegroom, leaps and skips upon the very things that hinder and scare us. He even invites us to come and dance on them with Him.  But, just like the shulamite, our fear (chapter 2) and our immaturity (chapter 5) keep us from running with Him in victory over the obstacles that are hindering our love.

Just like in Isaiah 64, however, the Lord is wanting to shake those mountains.  He desires to burn-up and consume every thing that hinders our love.  Yes, just like in verses 4-9, the Lord does expect us to do our part, to try and desire, to live righteous - pleasing before Him, but He understands (v.6) that our own contrived righteousness is still just “filthy rags”, and ultimately, it is our dependence on Him and what He did on the cross, and our attempts at “running after and with Him” that will allow us to be purified by Him, and bring us into that right place of relationship with Him - in victory over the mountains (the obstacles) that kept us “in our room”, shut-off from the type of relationship with Him that He desires.

Don’t hesitate when He comes to draw you into a place of deeper love with Him - despite your flaws. Sometimes, when we do finally decide to respond, He’s right there waiting for us (Song, chapter 2&3), but sometimes, it’s going to make things a lot more painful (Song, chapter 5).

“Draw me after you, and let us run together.  Though I am dark, you say I am lovely.  I will rejoice in You, and be glad!  More than anything else that competes for my affections and brings me comfort and joy, I will remember You and the true love that only You can give!”  (Song 1 & Hosea 2)

What is the significance of “the spirit and power of Elijah”, and why do many present-day believers feel like it will be released again?  Wasn’t John the Baptist the fulfillment of this prophecy found in Malachi 4?  The angel that visited Zacharias (John’s dad) even quote that exact passage.

“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord - and he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse.” Malachi 4:5-6

“Your prayers have been heard… you will have a son… he will be great in the sight of the Lord… filled with the Holy Spirit… he will go before the Lord in the spirit and power of Elijah ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children’… to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” Luke 1:13-17

First, it is important to note the Holy Spirit inspired words of Malachi, “before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.”  The phrase, “the day of the Lord,” and especially when it is combined with words like great, terrible, dreadful, and awesome, usually point clearly to the second coming of the Messiah (books of Isaiah, Ezekiel, Joel, Zephaniah, Acts, 2 Peter, etc). This brings up an important revelation that Lord gave me (that should have been really obvious, but it just recently hit me with its weight): the Jews expectation of a warrior-messiah, coming to overthrow tyranical secular rule and establish His righteous government on the earth was not mistaken.  The Old Testament prophecies clearly describe this coming of the Lord, and so does the book of Revelations.  However, there are a lot of prophecies describing the coming of the Lord that the world has already experienced, when He came as the sacrificial lamb (e.g. Isaiah 53).  They just had “the comings” out of order.

His next coming will be great… and awesome… and terrible… and dreadful.

The Malachi prophecy points to BOTH comings of Jesus.  The methods have not changed.  Their is nothing new under the sun, and there is little need for cultural relevance.  The problems of fatherlessness are the same from generation to generation, and compound over time.

We need Abba Father to send this spirit and this power to the fathers and mothers on the earth today.  We need a generation of John the Baptists… of burning and shining lamps who will remove themselves from secular pursuits and call a region, a nation, a world back to their heavenly Father.

A post entitled “Spirit of Elijah - What?” will be coming soon, to describe what a generation of “Johns” should look like.

Every week, we try to rally people in our region together to pray and worship - and we always encourage them to try to “pray the Word”, instead of just praying completely out of their own brain!  You wouldn’t believe on how many levels it helps to know that when someone is praying it is directly from the Bible, and hopefully very near to the original context.  To absolutely ENSURE the context is correct, we really encourage people to pray “The Apostolic Prayers”.

Really, there’s no reason to capitalize The Apostolic Prayers, because it’s not like they are their own little book or body of work.  This way of writing it, that even comes-across when speaking the phrase, may be the reason we are asked so often, “What do you mean by ‘Apostolic Prayers’?”  Simply put, apostolic prayers are the prayers prayed by the apostles in the New Testament.  Of course, most of the apostolic prayers are penned by Paul, but there are many more, too.

Now, of course, there has to be exceptions, that make the name not-quite-so-simplistically-accurate.  One of those exceptions is that the prayers of Jesus are often grouped into any compilation of apostolic prayers, too.  Why some, and not all?  Well, the real reason most prayer people use this compiled list of prayers is that they are prayers whose target is the Church.  So, for example, the last part of Jesus’s prayer in John 17, when He prays, “not only for those whom [the Father] has given me, but also for those that will believe,” we like to include those prayers in our reportoire (if you will).

Check out the power in this statement:

When we pray the prayers found in the Bible, for the same people the prayers were being prayed…. WOW!  We can KNOW that we are agreeing with the very prayers of God!  The Holy Spirit inspired these prayers to be written.  And Jesus is sitting at the right hand of the Father praying for the saints at this very moment.  Why not be assured that the prayers we are praying are directly from God!

So, that’s it in a nutshell.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Per Anthony’s request, here is a link to the compilation that we have adapted from the International House of Prayer - Kansas City for use in our local intercessory worship meetings: Apostolic Prayers.

In a world full of self-help and performance-driven evaluations it can be difficult for a believer to really embrace that they need other people - it is a requirement; it is the Church… it’s the way “a body” is suppose to work.

Okay, so, this is a blog, so I get to be informal and personal, right?  Well, here it goes.  The last several regional prayer gatherings I’ve been missing something.  We’ve been short on singers, so then it feels like I have to sing more, which means I have less time to try and listen to the Lord and feel comfortable with what I’m about to sing.  I’ve also not had clear vision on prayer topics in advance, so I wasn’t able to really come prepared.  And, as usual, we end up with a new mix of musicians every week, and sometimes I’m thinking, “Man, it would nice to rehearse sometime,” but, ya know, we’re pulling people from all over the region, and we’re trying to “be a blessing” not a burden on any of these musicians and singers… but, it’s just difficult to feel like you’re doing things to excellence, when everything is flying by the seat of our pants.

But, each and every week, I am blessed and amazed by the Lord and the way His Body works.  So, yeah, I may not have the songs to sing one week, but, Paul Howell does; Thank you, Lord!  I don’t have to be the one who can keep everything flowing and always has the song when someone else doesn’t.  I may not have the prayer topic, but the people in the room show up with things on their heart, and Matthew McSpadden leads us like a seasoned veteran.  And, the musicians, wow, the Lord has really blessed us with guys and gals who can just show up and flow.  Sure there’s other things we could do if we rehearsed, but, man, these folks are good.

Wouldn’t it be nice if our congregations worked this way, too?  Where one man didn’t have to have THE WORD every Sunday.  (Don’t get me wrong, praise God for gifted teachers and preachers - Lord, give them Your Word every week.)  But, wow, how nice would it be to be in a congregation that really worked together like the Body Jesus intended.  A place where a pastor could really be a pastor and take care of, and go get, people and pull them together to see them fed, sheltered, and taken care of.  They wouldn’t have to also try to be the teacher, the evangelist, the prophet, and the apostle.

Or where the administrator isn’t getting knocked for not being merciful enough, and the intercessor isn’t getting bashed for not being evangelistic enough…

Lord, mature Your bride.  Call us to, and equip us for, the exact place you have for us in Your Body.  Let us not think more highly of ourselves or our callings than we ought, and give the hidden parts even greater honor.  Thank you, Father, that none of us need to be “self-contained”, because You have connected us, and made us inner-dependent with one another - Your Church, Your Bride, Your Body.  Amen!

How many of you remembering hearing the word, and many phrases including the word, “Deeper” A LOT starting about 10 years ago? It was prayed; it was sung; it was cried-out… well, I think the Lord is about to answer that request, but it isn’t going to look (or feel) like people thought it would.

As I was praying and singing through Jeremiah 17 last week, the Lord really highlighted the part about the need for our roots to “spread out”, and the context in which that happens.

“Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord.  For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be anxious in the year of drought, nor will cease from yielding fruit.”

If you’re from the Fort Smith river valley region, you’ve probably heard a commercial from a local “turf care” company talking about the best way to build a strong, healthy lawn.  They recommend that you totally soak your yard with like 2 inches of water, and then don’t water it again for quite a while.  This forces the grass to send its roots down deeper, as it stretches forth to keep trying to get at that last bit of water from the previous soaking, since above the ground it is getting totally baked by the heat.  Now, I didn’t just take a seriously major bunny-trail because I’m excited about the proliferation of lawn-care techniques: there’s a spiritual principle here.

Graciously, the Lord will absolutely SOAK US from time-to-time.  Also by His grace and wisdom, He will withdraw Himself and allow the heat to be turned up… He’ll allow the drought to come and linger.  That is the only way for us to “Go Deeper”.  If we’re constantly getting a little watering, our roots will never go very deep, and we will never be very stable or very durable.  We see it hear in Jeremiah, we see it in the Song of Solomon, chapters 3 and 5.  He lavishes, and then leaves.  Sometimes we pursue and find Him quickly; sometimes He’s nowhere to be found - or so it seems.  But, in those times, will we keep stretching out towards Him - the Living Water?

During these prayer times the Lord spoke to me, “I am about to answer their prayers to go deeper.  The roots go deeper when the heat comes.  The heat is coming.  Oh how I long for their roots to go deeper and spread out towards me.  Stand and pray for them, that they would endure the heat.  Make your own fruit, that I have given you by my Spirit, available to help sustain and encourage others when they falter.  Keep your leaves green, by making sure you, too, are stretching deeper, so that you can help shade the weary from the heat.  A shaking is coming; The heat is coming - before that all consuming fire, and before that all consuming shaking, because I desire that none should perish, but be strengthened with might, by My empowering grace.”

Join us as we pray for the strengthening, equipping, and edification of the Bride of Christ in the river valley.

Wow! It’s been over a month since a post - that’s unusual… but the Lord has been doing so much in the Fort Smith River Valley these last several weeks: 3 Great “Pray River Valley” gatherings, a really awesome “The Burn - Fort Smith”, several National Day of Prayer meetings, and a great weekend with our friends Doug & Rita Roberts.

First off - HIS WORD!  What a great time we had on Sunday, April 27th.  I got to lead worship for a group of about 80 1st thru 6th graders as they led the congregation at Heritage Church in Van Buren, Arkansas in worship and in reciting 26 verses from memory (A to Z).  The excitement in me when I hear children speaking scripture, especially scripture committed to memory is unbelievable.

I went straight from there to the Van Buren courthouse where about 100 believers from all over Crawford County gathered to “read the Bible in an hour.”  Slips of paper were distributed that contained chunks of scripture for each person (or family) to read aloud.  All of the slips were picked-up, and the Word of God was proclaimed aloud IN ITS ENTIRETY from about 2pm to 3pm.  Surely His Word will not return void, but accomplish that which it was sent forth to do.

A youth pastor in the area approached me about getting the “Apostolic Prayers” that we use during a lot of our intercessory worship (harp and bowl type) prayer gatherings for use with his youth group that night, and I hear that they spent a good portion of their youth service that night praying and reading scripture aloud, too.  I LOVE IT!!!  His Word is going forth all over county!

Then, this last weekend, Robin and I invited some friends of our in to hang-out and do some ministry with us.  Doug & Rita Roberts brought some incredible authorative teachings and prophetic words to many individuals and to our region this weekend.  We are continually blessed by their revelation of the true Body of Christ, how we should function in-and-through Kingdom relationships, and what in means to “be in Christ”.

Our last Pray River Valley meeting turned more into “Preach River Valley” (haha), but “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” and the Lord had a lot of incredibly important and meaninful things to say over the church in the river valley.  Doug shared a solemn word about “the abortion of the fathers” in our region, and how the Lord is wanting spiritual fathers to step-up in our region, and that we should be calling out more for the fathers to arise then for just the Bride to awaken and arise.  He described a picture the Lord was showing him over our region: a spider web.  That this is how the church was functioning at the moment… more like spiders building webs and trying to capture as many people as possible - but how spiderwebs are all about one thing: “feeding the spider”.  And if competing spiders get onto each others’ webs, only the strongest spider will survive.  Unfortunately, that is not spiritual strength or maturity prevailing, because this whole organization and scenario is a soulish one, and not a spiritual one.  What the church is SUPPOSE to be about is feeding and strengthening all of the individuals who gather - not capturing them to “feeding the spider”.

A group came down from the House of Prayer in Siloam Springs, Arkansas and prayed and worshipped with us.  What a faithful group: WE LOVE YOU!  One of the brothers shared a wonderful picture that the Lord was giving him that was both for Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley.  (Our recording stuff wasn’t online, so I’ve asked him to write it down for me, so I don’t mess it up… so I’ll put that up later.)  Thank you, so much, Lord, that Your house will be called a house of prayer for all nations, and that You join together those who heart is turned to You through prayer, and that no competition will ever arise or persist in this beautiful expression of Your body.  Let us be a picture of unity for Your Bride.

Gals and Guys!  The Lord is SOooOOoo pleased with the faithfulness He is finding in Arkansas.  He looks to-and-fro for a man who will stand in the gap for his land.  He is finding them in Arkansas, and will hear our cries, leave a blessing instead of a calamity, heal our land, and cause His light to break forth like the dawn!  Thank you, Lord!

So maybe everyone else in the world has made this connection, but today during my lunch-time intercessory worship set, I was singing and praying out of Song of Songs chapter 5 and the Lord opened up something to me in His Word:  the closer we get to Him, and the more set-apart we become, the more He will call us back out into the world to share with others about Him… granted, I already suspected this and even encouraged it, but –BAM– it’s different when the Lord gives it to You rhema-style.

2   I sleep, but my heart is awake;
  It is the voice of my beloved!
   He knocks, saying,
   “Open for me, my sister, my love,
     My dove, my perfect one;”

We see in Chapter 2, that the last time the Beloved groom asked the shulamite to come away with Him to go and bound over the obstacles and establishments of the world that she did not go because she was afraid.  But then she realized her mistake and went running after Him and ran with Him.  This time she has a different excuse:

3   I have taken off my robe;
   How can I put it on again?
      I have washed my feet;
    How can I defile them?

This is the main part the Lord opened up to me.  What does her/our robe and washed-feet signify? I believe one application of His living and active Word here is this: 

The robe represents the white garments He gave us that we like to wear when we’re out among the world - but, too often when we’re at home and comfortable, we strip back down to our filthy rags.  Then, it’s too much trouble to have to “put the face on” again to go back out with people - and, honestly, most of us don’t really want to go out in the first place.

Then there’s the washed feet.  If being comfortable and a bit dirty isn’t a good enough excuse, let’s approach it from another angle.  Well, I’m already too clean to go back out where it’s dirty.  I’ve set myself apart from the world, and have been progressing from glory to glory… why would I risk being tempted, or getting sick (physically, spiritually, anything)?  We’re suppose to be set apart, right?  Let the lost come to our church buildings… surely they can see our steeples, right?  I will not defile myself again.

I could also see both of these things as being subtle enticements… the bride was trying to encourage intimacy with the groom, hoping that they could just stay in the place of intimacy, and not go out into the world.

The Groom is calling His Bride out! 

But let me be clear: you will have nothing to give of eternal value if you do not spend time and invest yourself into getting to know the Lord, His heart, His mind, His affections, in that intimate place of prayer and worship.  But, just like in the Song of Songs, there are cycles of spending personal, one-on-one time with our Groom, there’s times of just doting over one another (giving and receiving affections), but then there are those times of going WITH the Groom to show-off your relationship and to tell everyone about The Messiah, your Groom.

The world WANTS to know our Lord, but they’ve seen too much of us, and now they’re full of reserve, doubt, even hatred, and cynicism regarding our Groom.

The Daughters of Jerusalem

9   What is your beloved
       More than another beloved,
     O fairest among women?
  What is your beloved
     More than another beloved,
      That you so charge us?

Now the Bride could have went arm-in-arm with her Beloved to show Him to the world and draw people to Him… but, even though she missed that opportunity, she still went, and now she still evangelizes: 

The Shulamite

10   My beloved is white and ruddy,
    Chief among ten thousand.
16   His mouth is most sweet,
   Yes, he is altogether lovely.
     This is my beloved,
      And this is my friend,
    O daughters of Jerusalem!

Lord, help us to never lose the reality of the great commission, but help Your church regain and rightly walk-in the reality of the greatest commandment - that we would genuinely love You with all of our heart, all of our soul, all of our mind, and all of our strength.

Watchmen, intercessors, worshippers, Mary’s - share Your beloved with the world.

Evangelists, teachers, pastors, preachers, Martha’s - make the greatest commandment more important than the great commission (or at least equal).

Hello, Family!

I pray that you and your family were rocked by the realities of this past Holy Week… the Lord drew me back into Isaiah 53 for about 3 weeks leading up to Easter, and would hardly let me sing or think about anything else in my personal devotion times – What a paradox-paradigm in which we have to live and breath and find our being: that He was ‘a man of sorrow and familiar with sufferings’, and was also ‘anointed with the oil of gladness more than his companions’…. and that WE are to ‘fellowship in his sufferings’, yet be filled with ‘joy unspeakable’… This is something that the Lord is going to do this year in the place of prayer all over this region.

He is going to teach us how to fellowship in His sufferings and to come together solemn, with fasting and weeping, crying out and condemning… AND (not BUT)… AND still He will ‘make us joyful in his house of prayer’.

I invite you to join with people from all over the region at The Burn this Saturday at Living Way Four Square Church on Hwy 71 S, just south of Ft Smith. It will be from Noon until Midnight. Come to the Burn ready for personal prayer and devotion, and/or to enter into agreement with the prayers being sang over our region in an environment that we believe is much like it was in the tabernacle that David built when he appointed the singers and musicians to minister before the Lord day-and-night.

Here’s a reminder of our consistent Saturday rotation (that we’re simply refering to as “Pray River Valley” — just so that when I have time to work on our regional prayer website, the domain name will be the same as what we call it (www.prayrivervalley.com)).

First Saturday of Every Month
Crossroads Church
250 Rudy Rd, Alma, AR
Prayer Gathering: 6pm - 9pm (drop-in)
Intercessory Worship Training Classes: 3:30 - 5:30pm (RSVP to me, please)

Third Saturday of Every Month
Heritage Church
1604 Pointer Trail, Van Buren, AR
Prayer Gathering: 6pm - 9pm (drop-in)
Intercessory Worship Training Classes: 3:30 - 5:30pm (RSVP to me, please)

Fourth Saturday of Every Month
The Burn - Fort Smith
(locations and times will vary)

There are also many prayer meetings going on in congregations all around the area. Get plugged into yours, and be sure to visit others. I believe the Lord is going to use the prayer movement in a mighty way to establish unity in the Body of Christ… go connect with someone. Personally, my wife and I are praying, worshipping, and doing devotionals every Monday - Thursday at Heritage Church in Van Buren from 11am to 1pm.  Drop in anytime… sometimes musicians are playing and singer live, and sometimes we’ve got worship playing (like the IHOP Webstream) and we’re praying or doing devotionals — come on in!

Manifest Blessings!