Brick by Brick

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As the build-up to the 2012 Olympics continues there is a buzz in the air. What is it that God could do in the UK? How could He use this time and event to bring more people to Himself? How do we partner with what He wants to do?

These Games are not just important for England, because they are essentially the ‘European’ Games. With the Games now being spread more evenly across the continents, they probably won’t return to Europe for the next 20 years.

This is our opportunity.

The word on the street: Prayer

Our team, Forever, has been working towards 2012 for the last few years. As we have travelled, spoken with people and prayed, the thing God has said time and time again is this word of PRAYER. Prayer is the foundation. If we don’t get that right then nothing we try to build will stand.

It’s not just within YWAM that God has been calling his people to pray. Many other Christian organisations, across multiple denominations, have also been hearing this word of Prayer. Something is shifting, something is changing, and we are beginning to see God orchestrate a new move.

As a team, focused on this season of the Games and beyond, we asked God the question, “What should prayer look like in 2012?” As we brought our words together, we discovered that the answer was simple yet complicated. Not so unusual for God right?

And this was the idea. What would it look like if YWAM came together in prayer? What could happen if thousands of YWAMers spent time with God, listening for his heart, speaking life and expecting transformation in the UK? What could happen if we prayed; every week, every day and every hour of 2012?

The idea is simple. The scope is huge.

Brick by brick

Why the name brick by brick? Because we can’t do it by ourselves, we need each other. I can’t pray every hour and every day for 365 days. But I can pray one hour a day and add my ‘brick’ to the foundation that God wants to build.

In Ephesians 2:20-22 it says that God is putting us together, brick by brick, stone by stone, with Jesus as the cornerstone, building a home where He can be comfortable. I love this verse. Because it’s about God being welcome and it’s founded on Jesus and we all get to be involved.

It’s the same with this year of prayer. We can’t do this separate from Him, but with Him and in Him and through Him, to see this nation become one that welcomes God’s presence.