February 11, 2007

The story continues to develop in really rich ways. As we indicated before, Asbury College has been pursuing this work of unceasing prayer prior to our getting involved. As we discovered each other, a great spirit of co-laboring emerged. For some months now we have been meeting together on Monday nights for worship and prayer. In the most recent weeks we have been gathering in a new place. We have managed to secure what was formerly the Larabee-Morris Conference room, in the dormitory by the same name, as the new home of the Asbury House of Prayer. It's a perfect place. This is the place where the seminary originated-- the first building. Here is the place where the seminary crossed the street from the college. It was a moving scene just a few weeks back when a group of college and seminary students walked together from a College classroom over to the new prayer room at the seminary.

So we are finding our way forward together. Really we aren't finding our way. We are being led. There is such a spirit of prayer that seems literally to flow from the Word of God in these gatherings. This movement holds much promise and strikes many as the seedling of a treasured vision. Could it be the the old story of Asbury happening again in a refreshingly new way?

This text emerged last night in the meeting in the most profound and stirring way. It's from the Song of Songs.

See! The winter is past;
the rains are over and gone.

12 Flowers appear on the earth;
the season of singing has come,
the cooing of doves
is heard in our land.

13 The fig tree forms its early fruit;
the blossoming vines spread their fragrance.
Arise, come, my darling;
my beautiful one, come with me."

here we go. . . . .