Crazy paving praying - FUSION begins tonight!

Crazy paving is mad… by definition I guess :o)
It all looks so dishevelled and unorganised, as though each broken piece was never meant to go together, and yet they make very nice paths! (If you like that sort of thing).

The same can be true of the way we pray. Honestly!
“The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know.” 1 Tim 2:1 (Msg)
Just because one person prays standing up with their arms in the air (and there is nothing wrong in that!) doesn’t mean you have to, or that is the only way to pray. Sing, dance, walk, paint, write, whisper, think, drive, hum your prayers! Every one of them!!!

“Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray - not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it.” 1 Tim 2:8-10 (Msg)
When we use everything God has given us (including our crazy creative inclinations) He is delighted and takes pleasure in our prayers. Our prayers are described as golden bowls of incense in Revelations; when we release ourselves to pray ‘every way we know how’ it is like a beautiful fragrance to God. He smiles, distracted with delight by our prayers.

This is what FUSION is all about. We long to enable people to pray for Newport every way they know how. To enter God’s presences with a diversity of prayers. Then, having been changed in His presence (because how can we remain unchanged after spending time with God?!), we go out taking redemptive change into our city.

If you would like to join the Fusion team in serving Newport please mail me fusionevent@fsmail.net.