Invitation of the King [Josh]

I was privilieged to be a part of a prayer meeting to "birth" a 24/7 prayer house in kaohsiung where pastors, their wives all got together to pray that God would allow for the 24/7 house to have a place of their own, and it was a powerful experience being in the presence of the Lord!

During the prayer time, pastor jim got a youtube video from the Lord if you will and I want to pass it along to you.

a Invitation of the King

He (pastor jim) saw a beautiful young girl who loved to dance. This girl would dance all the time, flowing dances of great beauty. Then one day the king saw the girl and came up to her and invited her to dance with him in the court. This girl was ashamed and thought that she could never dance with the king, that she wasn't worthy of dancing with the king. But the king insisted and the girl relented. As they started to dance together, the girl was nervous and shuffled around, stepping on his feet and trying to go fast to get it over with. But the king led the girl at his pace. It was awkward at first, with the girl trying to go at her own pace, but eventually she settled down and danced a beautiful dance with the king.

We are like the girl and that we don't realize that what the Lord wants to do is just dance with us. We are ok doing thing on our own, our own pace, our own time and in our own manner, but when it comes to doing things with the Lord we find that we start condemming ourselves and thinking that we aren't worthy of God's work, or that we need to be better. When we finally start to dance with the king, we find ourselves trying to still do it on our own pace, our own time, in our own manner, but God has His pace, His time, His manner. And when we start working in sync with God, not trying to make things happen on our own, the dance becomes beautiful and what God desires.

We spent 2 hours praying and interceding for the prayer ministry. And let me tell you, I haven't wept for the church like this in a long, long time. The Lord is just putting the burden on people's hearts here in Kaohsiung and I'm so excited to share more stories with you very soon!

-- JoshChen - 11 Jul 2009