Pastor’s Desk

Welcome to a great church – Melbourne West Church.

I have been greatly encouraged over the last 2 weeks as people have picked up on the mantle of prayer that I believe God wants to see over this church.

I’ve been saying that there are many differing types and ways of praying; personal, devotional, supplications, proclamation etc. But the prayer that we need to come into is the prayer of faith and power, the prayer that brings God’s will for a city/community into existence.

This way of praying requires a fair degree of faith and action on our part to actually believe that we are not just a bunch of people coming to pray, but that we are stepping up into something more than we normally are.

If you’ve come along to some of the prayer meetings we’ve had in this last ‘fortnight of prayer’ you’ll have heard me encouraging you to step up into an ‘office’, like a position. Into something that God has called us to be whilst in this way of prayer.

I’ve encouraged us to pray out of the office of ‘prophetic & apostolic’. When I say the prophetic, I don’t mean “Thus saith the Lord”, I mean that we pray prophetically, declaring what we know the will of God to be in terms of the church vision.

When I say the apostolic I refer to the fact that it is the apostolic that builds churches, that breaks through in the spirit realm to establish God’s kingdom on this earth. It is the apostolic that makes a way for the lost to come into the Kingdom of God.

It is my hope that by the end of 2007, not only will we have a building, but that we will be a church that has taken on the responsibility of prayer. That we will see prayer as a calling/office to be embraced, and not a burden to be excused.

Become a ‘church’ prayer, become something more than you are now.

Pastor Larry Blackmore