Day 1. Together.

In sixteen days many of us will meet for the first time as our massive throng descends on Atlanta for Passion 2010.  Today, we are over 20,000 strong and growing, with people coming from all across the nation and around the world.  Some are traveling great distances, driving for days to be a part of this gathering.  While others live so close they’ll be sleeping in their own beds during 2010.  Some have been praying long and hard for a visa, a “yes” from the powers that be allowing them to leave their nation and journey to Atlanta.  Others simply said “Ok” to a friend, and aren’t sure exactly what they’ve signed up for.  Tons have paid their way, while many are still waiting for that miracle to appear so they can join us.

People are coming from schools big and small, Ivy League, state universities and commuter colleges…and some are not in school at the moment, or at all.  Most love Jesus and want to live for Him, yet some are seeking, still unsure of what the whole story of faith is all about.  Some are confident, but many are filled with doubts.

Many are coming with loads of friends.  But some coming feel isolated and alone.  Some are coming with full hearts.  Others are limping in, shattered by life, self or circumstances beyond their control.  Many believe, but some feel faith slipping away.  Some are coming having tasted freedom from the stuff that wrecked their hearts.  Others are coming in chains, somehow unable to shake the things that hold them down.

A few of us are Passion regulars.  Most will have never been before.  Some feel their hearts are tight with His.  Yet, for others this is their last shot at whether this “Christian thing” really works or not.  Some are coming delighted.  Some desperate.  Some both.  But the beauty of it all is that we are coming together, not individuals attending an event, but sons and daughters running after His face and the healing that is in His hands.

Today, we begin our journey.  We are not alone, but one massive wave.  So, whoever you are, welcome.  You are reading these words with others just like you all around the world.  He is here.  We are here.  And we are His!

Passion 2010 starts here.  There is a place for you.

So, together we pray…

Father, thank you for linking us together as Your children, for placing us in an amazing family and for merging our hearts for a cause that is worth our all.  In these days leading to 2010 connect us and cause us to sense the “collective,” the Body, the Church, the movement that is Yours.  Break the pride of individualism and self that opposes Your kingdom, and together, reveal Yourself to us with power and grace.  We believe that You are everything, and because of Jesus, we are Yours.  Amen.

“For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom His whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:14-19

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