This past Sunday, I had a prophetic word from the Lord for our church – a really rather unusual thing for our church and even for me. The gist of it was this: “I am the Lord your God, and since I am Holy, this place is also Holy. I make this place Holy by my Presence.”
This is at the community center where we meet, and have been meeting since we started a year and a half ago. The place where we can only rent for two hours, which, with set-up and tear-down, means only a one-hour service. Yet, the Lord is saying He is comfortable in that place, because His people meet there to praise Him.
So, for a follow-up, today for the women’s prayer meeting at our house, I really felt from the Lord to emphasize that we are not looking to rent a building so that we can be a church. That we are a church now.
And even beyond that, we need to seek God for a building, not so that we can have a nice place to connect with Him and each other, but so that we can serve our community from there. This is the only reason we need to add a building to our already formed (but still in process) church.
Feels good to say that. The people who make up Pearl Vineyard are already a church.
