Touching heaven, changing earth.

The above blog title is the song title and indeed the album title for Hillsongs 1998 church worship CD.

The lyrics to the song go: “We will seek Your face, Almighty God;
turn and pray for You to heal our land. Father, let revival start in us
Then every heart will know Your Kingdom come. Lifting up the name of the Lord, in power and in unity; we will see the nations turn; touching Heaven, changing earth.”

The whole focus of the song is to prayer.

Prayer and how it changes things.

How in pray we touch heaven and change earth.

If you want to hear the whole song, click here.

I chose this song for the blog post as next week at YFC, both locally & nationally, we are having a week of prayer; running from Monday 14th through to Friday 18th of November.  The prayer is going to be 24hr prayer, with people taking 1hr time slots throughout the period to pray.

This is a mini pre-cursor to 2017’s ‘Year of Prayer’ focus at YFC UK. Check out this video for more information.

Prayer is powerful; it changes not only the circumstances that are being prayed for, but also the person praying.

When Paul & Silas were thrown into prison, this is what happened when they prayed.

“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.” – Acts 16:25-26.

Let’s be bold in faith like Paul & Silas. Let’s pray earnestly to God and see the prison walls in people’s lives and in circumstances come crumbling down.

So, next week, please lift up the work we do at Llandudno Youth for Christ in prayer.

Thank you.