Celebration for the Nations Update
March 2012

Why did the Lord say sing?
David determined that he would awaken the dawn with his songs:

I will sing and make melody! Awake my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn! (Psalm 57:7-8)

If we will awaken our own hearts to see who the Lord really is and sing to him, we too can call in a new day.

Celebration for the Nations
February 2012 Update

‘Rend your hearts and not your garments’ (Joel 2:13).

Joel spoke to Israel on the Lord’s behalf at a time of national devastation. The Lord’s judgement had come on the land, so that the harvests were ruined, and all that people had worked for had come to nothing. Today many of our economies are based more on manufacture than on agriculture, yet it seems to me that for many of our nations, the same locusts of God’s judgement are devouring our wealth and our lives. As God’s people we have the privilege and the responsibility to stand on behalf of our towns, cities, and our nations and cry out for his mercy.

Celebration for the Nations
November 11

Please use this update for prayer and preparation for the 6th Celebration for the Nations. We are part of a worship intercession for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on all flesh!

And when those who bore the ark of the LORD had gone six steps, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened animal (2 Samuel 6:13).

King David brought the Ark of God’s presence back to Jerusalem in great humility. He had tried to bring it back three months beforehand and made a disastrous mistake. Yet, he longed for God’s presence more than he longed for his own life, so risking everything, he sought God’s word and God’s way, and went to get the Ark.

Celebration for the Nations 2011 Report

The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him. The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name. (Exodus 15:2-3).

This was the song of thanksgiving and triumph that the Israelites sang as the Lord delivered them from slavery and brought them into their inheritance.

Preparing for Celebration for the Nations 2011

July 12th 2011

Very soon now we will all be together worshipping our incredible Lord who has freed us from sin and brought us into his Kingdom as sons and heirs of all his incredible promises! How can anything we do ever come near what he deserves? Yet he accepts us and is pleased with our worship.

Our longing is that Jesus receives the reward of his suffering. Amazingly we have the privilege to work with him and make sure his Bride is made up of people from every tribe and tongue and nation. No place is too hard for him, no heart too closed.

Celebration for the Nations
Update June 2011

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.
(2 Corinthians 4:17-18).

As we approach nearer Celebration for the Nations this year, the battle intensifies. We are dealing with unseen realities, spiritual powers that are trying to block the weight of glory that the Lord is going to give. However, we, like St Paul, fix our eyes not on our troubles, but on the Lord Jesus himself. Please pray especially for the leadership team . . .

Celebration for the Nations Update May 2011

May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah, that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations (Psalm 67:1-2).

When God’s grace and his shining face are towards his people, the nations know his saving power. The Lord is longing to pour out his grace to us. He is asking us to seek his face, so that we too may shine with that light that is in him. When John saw his face he said that it blazed like the sun in all its brilliance. The result was a revelation that is still unfolding 2000 years later. It is a blessing to every nation.

Celebration Update April 2011

Being a Voice
The voice of Jesus is described by John like the sound of rushing waters (Revelation 1:15). Later in Revelation, the voice of the overcoming Bride when she bursts out in praise to the Lord is again described as like the roar of rushing waters (Revelation 19:6). We have the same voice as our beloved Saviour! We are called to be God’s voice on earth. He has put the living water within us, and it is there to overflow to bless others. As we worship him the waters will break out!