Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire

I read Jim Cymballa's book "Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire" several years ago which is an excellent book on prayer and the spiritual power behind praying churches.  By faith we started these Sunday night contemporary praise and worship services to reach out to the unchurched, the spiritually hungry and to those who are spiritually starving.  We also particularly wanted to reach out to younger families who simply don't come to church at all.  These small gatherings have been building momentum and God has been showing up in some powerful ways during these worship services.  But what I have found is these services have awakened and stirred something within my own needy soul.  Like so many ministers who go out into the community to minister to the forgotten and hurting, one often finds the forgotten and hurting ministers just as much back to those who came in the first place.  So I continue to be amazed and like a mother in labor, expecting God to do even greater things as we simply surrender all every week to God who is like a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29) or like like a fresh blowing wind (John 3:8).