reveal Clockwise from top left; international volunteer workers at Centre for Spiritual Life Development (CSLD) pray for the world; Salvation Army officers meet at CSLD for the first International Prayer Leaders Gathering; Captain Young Kim (USA Eastern Territory) teaching Korean-style prayer at ‘Time to Be Holy 458’, an international youth holiness retreat prior to the World Youth Convention.
that God is more akin to a victimised widow than a powerful judge is startling. She embodies godly power in the midst of apparent powerlessness. Followers of Jesus are invited to take up the same stance: to draw on the power of weakness to overcome death-dealing powers through intercession, says Barbara Reid. We identify with the widow persistently challenging injustice, injustice meaning anything out of line with the perfect will of God. In their book Just Imagine, Major Campbell Roberts and Captain Danielle Strickland define injustice. ‘Injustice is sin, systems, powers and authorities that damage the world. Injustice is greed, desire and harmful practices and beliefs that diminish people and society . . . Social justice is about putting our whole lives behind the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, and partnering with him in redeeming the whole world.’ And so we thank God for his call to The Salvation Army. A call for nothing less than Salvationists to be on their knees before the one who alone can bring about a restoration of justice in the earth, even a holiness revival – A Global Call to 24/7 Prayer: A Day and Night Cry for Justice. This call is issued from the office of the General. General Shaw Clifton calls the Army around the world to non-stop prayer commencing on 1 January 2011. This is an open-ended call, inviting believers to focus their prayers globally on justice. You are invited to join in the day and night cry for justice, with the same spirit of persevering prayer honoured by Jesus in Luke
18:1-7. Sign up at www.SAGlobal247.org where monthly prayer topics and information will also be available. There is a spiritual readiness among us for this call. Additionally, the great need of the time in which we live and serve urges us toward day and night prayer. In Luke 18:8 Jesus concludes his teaching with the question, ‘However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?’ Jesus is looking for evidence of faith on the earth upon his return, in his chosen ones crying out to him day and night. May The Salvation Army be part of the faith that he finds. As we look to the future with vision infused by faith let’s dream God’s dreams, inspired by the Holy Spirit, who alone can do more than we can ask or imagine.
Looking ahead by faith Where could this Global Call to 24/7 Prayer lead? How might the world be different as a result? Just imagine the possibilities = Tens of thousands of believers will be praying – intentionally and intensively! = Prayer rooms will be actively utilised by every age group, by friends, soldiers, strangers, visitors, those coming to us in need, and by leaders. = Prayer rooms will be established as a permanent part of life in thousands of Salvation Army centres around the world. = Countless stories of people coming to know the love of Revive 7