I’m thinking of the many Church sanctuaries, homes and houses of prayer where, in hushed tones, the “saints” have gathered (some for decades) to implore God to “visit”, to “send” to “move” in their midst. Faith-full pray-ers. You and I both know a lot about this because we are/have been “one” of them. Nothing “bad” about that. Let’s keep it up. Perhaps not so much the “hushed tones…”

However, I was really taken by the following quote recently shared by a FB Friend:

“I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!” (William Booth, Founder/Salvation Army)

It brought to mind this scripture: Romans 8:19 “ For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.”

Some translations say that creation is “groaning” as they wait for the sons (and, yes, daughters) to be “manifested.”

I’ve always seen that scripture to mean that the lost are in pain and waiting for us to show up and “be” what God has created us to be, the “manifesters” of His glory in the earth. In other words, they are waiting for us to MOVE!

First/foremost we do “move” in prayer but, we are also to be “moved” by prayer. We are to be moved from our knees, from our pews, from our “self” and from our fear to actually “manifest” or “get out there” and not only “do Church” but “be the Church” to those who are perishing.

Let’s “get a MOVE on!”

Mary