Pigs Will Fly: A Miraculous Cliche
This month my update will be rather brief because the details are frankly rather boring to read, but are still worth noting. The summary is this: God is faithful.
Each month, each week, and every day we taste and see the faithfulness of God. In April I had the privilege of turning 30, celebrating life with friends, going on an incredible prayer retreat to Wisconsin with Ally and some of our best friends in the world, and at the beginning of May preaching at Restoration Church, one of our partners from Adel, Iowa. In all of these things, we have seen the faithfulness of God. Celebration, rest, hearing his voice through the prophetic words of others, preaching a timely message to a part of the Body I barely know but have come to love deeply, and so much more.
In all of this, we have seen the faithfulness of God, and that has brought to mind the simple reality that while he HAS been faithful he will REMAIN faithful to the end and into eternity.
In prayer with Ally yesterday an image of pigs flying across the sky came to mind. While this is such a cliche picture it was a direct answer to prayer that I, frankly, am holding onto. Some days I feel like a pig. Yeah, a pig. Wallowing in the mud, and not too bright or beautiful. However, in Christ even when I feel like a pig, I can fly. This is so cheesy. I get it. But let this picture of the impossible thing happening to the unlikely creature spur you on as it has me. This is a picture I cling to as we pray, play, create, and build here in Denver because of the faithfulness of God.
Check out the sermon I preached at Restoration Church a couple weeks ago. The sermon starts at 42:45 if interested.
Prayer Needs
Pray for Nick, Jake, Dillon, Anna, Martha, Jess, Evan, Troy, Casey, Tracey, Kevin, Liz, Jeremy and Kristine. These are friends, coworkers, neighbors, and strangers (soon to be friends) that we hope become Family.
Pray for increased sensitivity to the Holy Spirit, how to fight the spiritual war as a Son and Daughter seated with Christ, and that we would be united in our marriage as a part of this fight.
Pray for Aksel, Flora, and Frances. One of our hopes is that they would experience a double portion of the Spirit than what Ally and I have or will receive in our lifetime. We pray for their souls and their wellbeing as we seek this insane endeavor.
Pray for unity in our ever-forming team! We want a bigger team, but even more, the right team. We now have two teammates who are hoping to move here this fall with at least one teammate in the city looking to join us.
Pray for the spiritual reality of the neighborhoods of Capitol Hill, Baker, Speer, Alamo Placita and Lincoln Park. These places are wealthy and affluent with lots of homeless people, but something they are both tethered to is addiction. There is a dark spiritual presence here that we are actively praying on the streets would be pushed back.
Pray for our neighbors. We have two couples on either side of us who do not know Jesus and are of course very okay with that. Pray for these two couples that we would show compassion to them, the heart of Jesus as gentle and lowly, and that their would be a supernatural encounter that they cannot ignore!
Pray for the longing and aimless souls in our neighborhood, Capitol Hill. We are praying that God would give us divine appointments with the poor, the homeless, the wealthy, the millennials, and anyone who resides in this area. Pray for healing, repentance, and renewal.
Pray that we would raise the final portion ($8,000) of our Phase 1 Goal. We don’t just ask you to give, but to pray that others would join us! We want a vast network of partners to be in on what God is doing for their own joy. We feel like we are sharing in the spoils of what God is doing when we gain new partners in any way.
Here is our reality:
236 Prayer Partners
2 team members (that aren’t a VW!)
$101,600 raised for Phase 1 (92% of the way!)
Here are our goals:
250 Prayer Partners
A team of 15 people by 2022
$110,000 raised for Phase 1 (Nov. 2020-Oct.2021)
