Facilitated
by: Dr Sam Tillery
Now, I like this! I mean, this is
the faithful ones out here on a potentially rainy, cold
night.
Let me tell you a quick story. A number
of years ago when I was in Latvia, I had introduced
to the believers there, prayer walking. They had never
done that before and it was spring time and they got
into it. We got into our cars and we went around the
entire city. It's the second largest city in the country
of Latvia. They got all excited. I kind of gave them
some instructions. We spent some time in a few different
key locations, and it really went over well.
Then, I came back the next year in
the dead of winter and they had been continuing to do
prayer walks in their city. I was just really excited
about the fact that they had taken that up and continued
to do that. When I got there, they proceeded to let
us know that a part of the schedule of this trip is
that we would be prayer walking that afternoon. Now,
this is the dead of winter, it's snowing, I mean, we're
talking well below the zero mark and the chill factor,
wow. The wind would just cut through you, and these
Russians, they are tough people. And so, we get out
in the middle of this and spent over an hour on a downtown
prayer walk around the city. It was just an incredible
display of their faith. They have been doing it for
about eight years now, so I learned that maybe one of
the instructions was to uh, well, rain or shine. I figured
that if they could do that, then we certainly could
and I thought well, if it is going to rain, then I've
got an umbrella.
We are going to have a great time
tonight as we fellowship together and trust the Lord.
One of the areas that we are going to go shortly, is
over in front of the restaurant, Flavor. The owner,
who I just met a couple of weeks ago, is a believer.
I asked him if we could come down and pray and he shared
with me some of the needs of the area, so he wasn't
sure if he was going to be there tonight or not, but
I got a whole list of notes from him. He may come over
and try to share with us about what is happening in
this whole area and the light that his business is bringing,
so I will share a little bit more about that a little
later on.
Let's open with a with a word of prayer.
Harry is going to give us a little
direction and we are going to go to a few different
locations and at different points break up into small
groups. Let's open in prayer. Father, we thank you for
this evening, and that we can gather in the center of
our city and lift her up to you. We are asking you,
Father to guide us tonight as to what we are to pray.
We come as different parts of the body of Christ, representing
different ministries and churches. Father, we come asking
that you would move in a way that you can and we just
ask Lord that our fellowship would be rich tonight as
we rub shoulders and pray together with those from different
congregations. So, Lord bless and guide this evening
we pray. For those who are looking on, may they see
something different and ask the reason for the hope
that is within. We ask these things in Christ's name,
Amen.
(Harry Skandera)
When we are here at the center of
town, I am always reminded about the destiny of our
city. Part of it is that it is a place of influence
and it's meaning, message and motivation is to be a
place where people find their destiny. If you look at
the history of what's happened right here in this central
plaza, there have been some very good things and some
very bad things.
We are going to pray into both of those
things tonight, both sides to the equation, but I wanted
to begin our prayer tonight in repentance. As you know,
it's Lent, a time for repentance. A time for stripping
away things out of our lives as we prepare in the forty
days before resurrection, for Easter.
The thing I always think of when I'm
here in this plaza is something that happened in the
1880's. There was a China Town in Santa Rosa and it
remained there for some time and used to be located
right over here where the Federal building is on the
other side of this block. That was the historic location
of China Town. At one time during the 1880's, a railroad
that was in competition with another railroad company
to see who could get the railroad lines into Santa Rosa,
primarily had Chinese laborers.
Well, they went bust and lost the race
and so suddenly the normal size of China Town and Santa
Rosa exploded with about 3 - 4 thousand extra Chinese.
The locals panicked and so they decided that they wanted
to drive the Chinese out, and as a matter of fact, there
were several political careers launched from Santa Rosa
around the whole idea of the 'Yellow Peril'.
If you ever study history and you
remember that, it kind of swept the nation and ended
up in the White House and ended up blocking Chinese
immigration for decades, that all started in
Santa Rosa.
The immediate and first time it ever
happened was after the railroad incident, and the board
of supervisors voted to dis-welcome all Chinese. They
put a sign across Mendocino that said, " All Chinese
must go. We mean strictly business", and was printed
in what is now the Press Democrat.
After that, the only Chinese that could
be found were right around the center of this courtyard
picking weeds so that they had something to eat. All
of the rest of them had been driven out one way or another,
and so, it was a terrible time in terms of the destiny
of the city, where we instead of reaching out to some
people, we panicked and went exactly the opposite way.
I believe that the roots of that lingered with us around
other ethnic groups and so forth, but at that time it
was definitely against the Chinese.
I would like us to just spend a few
minutes tonight breaking into smaller groups, asking
for the Lord's forgiveness for the attitude of the generations
that have preceded us regarding welcoming those strangers
and foreigners into our land.
This is a big issue today, because
of immigration and we really don't have a very good
solution. We know that God has a solution and this is
the kind of place where a solution could be found. It
is in our spiritual DNA in this place. This is a place
that is very diverse and we ought to be able to do that
in a redemptive way.
I don't know how to tell you to pray,
I just know that in that regard we have made a serious
mistake. You don't have to be a brain surgeon to know
that people shouldn't be out here eating weeds, because
there is no way to get any food or jobs. The other thing
that the local population did, the main source of revenue
were of course Chinese laundry and they boycotted all
of the Chinese laundry's and formed their own co-op,
specifically for the purpose of busting any chance that
the Chinese had to gain any economic welfare.
So, I would like us to break into small
groups and pray into that and pray for God's wisdom
as to what this might look like as we are able to welcome
people that come here.
(Prayer)
(Harry Skandera)
We mentioned a moment ago that in
this place, here in the heart of Santa Rosa, there have
been some very good things and some very bad things.
When we look over across the street here at the Exchange
Bank, I am always reminded about the Doyle's.
 Of
course, the original Doyle patriarch Manville Doyle
moved to Sonoma County settled in Petaluma and he had
a huge herd of horses. He was a member of a church of
good standing in Petaluma and when the Civil War broke
out, he was a Southern Sympathizer. The only real place
that was welcoming to Southern Sympathizer's was Santa
Rosa. Petaluma was distinctly a northern city.
So, he was asked to leave his church
and he then came to Santa Rosa and started a bank, The
Exchange Bank. The reigns of the bank were taken over
by his son Frank P Doyle
, and his son is someone who I believe really walked
in the destiny of this place. Frank Doyle had a son
that died when he was thirteen and so, he set aside
a trust.
They bought some property between
Matanzas and Spring Creek, which is now Doyle Park and
it was to maintain that place in perpetuity, and it
has of course. The other thing that it was to do, was
to establish a scholarship fund for local students at
the Junior College, and of course that is the Doyle
Scholarship
which has given out millions of dollars in scholarship
to local students and now is so large that they can't
give it all away every year. It is continuing to grow.
They can't even give the interest away. It is a huge
blessing and has greatly endowed the J.C., which is
of course, one of the better J.C.'s in the nation.
That came from a man, who out of his
grief and heart for coming generations, not only set
aside a memorial for his son, but set aside a fund that
would help young people for generations and it has.
The second thing that we remember about
Doyle is that he was very concerned about this whole
area, that it would become an enclave exclusively for
the rich and would be dominated by the very wealthy.
In his day, that was the timber interest, of course
this was the gateway to the Redwood Empire.
There was no bridge at the time, so
this was an isolated place that could very easily have
been and was beginning to be dominated by the timber
interest. He didn't want to see that and had a dream
that there should be a bridge across the bay from San
Francisco to open this whole area up. So that normal
and common people could have an opportunity and a life
with their families in this place, and that was really
the heart behind Doyle when he began to cry out for
the Golden Gate Bridge.
If you have ever driven into the city,
right after you cross the bridge, if you turn on the
street there, you are on Doyle drive. That was named
after him. He was the first guy to ever drive across
the bridge, because they wanted to honor him for that.
The Golden Gate Bridge exists today in big part, because
of a man who had a vision and who was very much, I believe,
in line with God's heart for this whole community.
When I see Exchange Bank, I always
remember that. It is something that I am personally
thankful for. My kids both went to the J.C. on a Doyle
scholarship, but I thought of a man who out of his own
grief was still able to not only have a heart for young
people, but for all people in this area, that could
birth a vision that would put out the Golden Gate Bridge.
We would like to break again into small
groups of 4 or 5 and we want to thank God for what was
done through a man that was in a place of pain and grief
and turned that to future generations. We are receiving
the blessing from his response to what I believe was
God's heart for this place. Who will be the citizens
of today who will bless the coming generations? This
is that kind of place and I think we can stand with
authority in this place to thank God and to call out
to him to raise up leaders like Doyle that will carry
a heart for others.
(Prayer)
(Harry Skandera)
I am passing around a brief outline
of how we are focusing our prayers here tonight.
(Sam Tillery)
If you could please gather in closer
to me to where I do not have to yell, that would be
great. I wanted to introduce you all to a new pastor
in town, Pastor Andy Springer and his side-kick, Rich.
They are here from Florida to start a church and they
have a team of about nine that have come with them.
City Reach Prayer next month will be
at Finley Community Center, where they are going to
launch their first service the day before Easter with,
"Easter in the Park", with children and things
of that nature, and so, that is going to be next month.
I did want you to welcome Andy and
Rich as they are here with us and just moved into town.
It's so encouraging, you all may not realize my background
and my church is a conservative Baptist church, and
so keeping in mind the words conservative and Baptist.
We hooked up, and Andy is from Independent Baptist and
so, the very fact that it is easier for he and I to
connect, but for the rest of you, that is a miracle!
(ha,ha,ha)
It's a blessing to see as we have
been praying for those that He would bring into our
community, that there would be the embracing of the
greater aspects of the body of Christ, so the Pastor's
Prayer Fellowship has embraced their lives and they
have embraced us. It is such a blessing to have them
here tonight, because this is so contrary to what their
tradition is used to, and so, they are in trouble.
This is a secret, no, I'm joking with
you guys, but it is a sense of what God is doing in
His body. The fact that we have had what we thought
would have been many reasons to separate. God is bringing
His church together in this city and county, to recapture
what God's original intention was for the city and for
it's founding father's.
In every aspect and as we have been
for six years now, moving around the county praying
and doing prayer walks in different locations, we are
seeing the complexion of this community change. We are
seeing people more open to the Gospel and responsive
to things, from governments to individual private businesses,
but we need to continue to press in.
I see Andy and Rich as an answer to
prayer, because that they have found us early on and
embraced that which is not necessarily common in the
part of the country that they have come from, so I want
to commend you guys for that process as we endeavor
to walk together with greater power and authority to
see many lives brought into the community. We are going
to move across the street, kind of in front of that
pool in front of the restaurant, Flavor, and I am going
to share with you some of the prayer requests from the
owner.
About two or three weeks ago, I was
having breakfast with another Pastor in this restaurant,
Flavor, and as I was walking out this man says, "How
was everything? Was it good?" I said, "Yes.
I have heard some things about your restaurant, that
it is very different. Can you tell me what is different
about it?"
I think that he kind of sensed something
about me, but he said, "There is light here."
So, I said, " What kind of light?" He said,
" Well, the Light of Christ."
I asked, "So, why are you here?"
He said, "We want to be light in this business
community and we want people who come into this restaurant
to feel a difference. There is not a week goes by that
someone doesn't say that there is something different.
There is a lot of darkness around the businesses in
this area, and so I have a burden to see my business
as an influence in the area."
He runs about 3,500 people through
a week that come to his restaurant. They used to be
hosting a Spanish Bible study upstairs, but that had
to cease, because some of the people were not legal
and they got into some trouble, but he wants to see
more of that happen. He really has a heart for the Lord
and wanted to be here tonight. I invited him and he
had a long day and had to take his wife way across town
and said that he would have difficulty getting back,
so I took some notes of some of the things on his heart
that he would like us to pray into.
His name is Stew Paderson. Have any
of you eaten at Flavor? How did you like it? It is very
good. His wife used to drive the bus for the kids at
Rincon Valley Christian School. Anyways, he says that
the culture that hangs around here is a lot of young
people who really need help, they need to know Christ.
He said that he sees a lot of drugs and alcohol and
that they serve wine and beer that goes along with the
meals, but that they are not like a regular bar, because
he feels like there are too many bars already in the
area.
He wants to help make the city aware
of this and make it more family oriented and more attractive
to a healthy life-style, so those are areas where he
sees a need.
There are also a lot of homeless around
and he has had an opportunity to witness to a number
of them. He has about 50 employees. They are not all
believers, but a large percentage of them are and they
understand their purpose in being light and the reflection
of Christ in serving folks, but also as a witness to
others who work with him who are non-believers.
He would really like to be an example
to other businesses in the area and how they do business.
He said that a lot of people in this area have found
that there is something different about his organization
and have inquired about it, and so he really wants to
be a testimony in the market place about this Court
House Square area. We want to pray that God would really
protect them.
The enemy does not want Christian businesses
to flourish and be light and especially believers who
don't want to be camouflage. He says that the restaurant
is definitely a platform for him to reflect Christ in
the marketplace. We want to pray not just that it is
blessed so he can make money, but so that the purposes
in his heart would be realized.
Let's pray together as a large group,
so just make sure that you pray loud enough that we
can all pray together and agree. Let's first pray into
God's blessing here and then into the other things that
he had expressed as far as the culture that hangs around
here and the darkness issues about this area.
(Prayer)
Help us Father as we pray now and
lead us.
Father, we pray for this man, his
wife and others who manage this restaurant that you
would keep his heart of integrity. Father, would you
let him be an example to his employees of benevolence,
goodness, fairness and generosity. God, would you give
him favor in the eyes of those who work for him and
his customers. Father, keep his heart pure and yoked
to you in a very personal manner. May he thrive in his
devotional life with you. Bless all that he puts his
hands to. Prosper him and may he be full of generosity.
Father, we pray a very simple prayer
for the believers who work at Flavors, that they would
pour into the non-believers and Lord, that you would
make the non-believers into believers, in Jesus name.
Father, I thank you that you have
called us and enabled us to be light in a dark place
and that where the light is, darkness flees, and I thank
you that his part is not just to be a good restaurant
with good food, pleasing to everyone, but his heart
is to reach the lost and be an example to those in the
market place as what a believer who follows You and
obeys Your commands, that they will see how You prosper
them.
Lord, we thank you for this man and
for the vision that he has. We ask that you would continue
to bless him, to guard him, to put a hedge of protection
around him and keep him from influences of evil. I pray
that he would not be overcome with evil, but that he
would overcome evil with good. Overcome with love, Father.
May love abound in that place and may everyone who sets
their foot in there, even the homeless that come around,
may the light shine so brightly to those that even pass
by.
Father, we pray that you would establish
divine encounters at this place.
Lord, we pray for the City Counsel
and others who make decisions for the various permits
and businesses within this center of the city. Would
You give them wisdom and direction to move with Your
plan. Father, where there have been blinders we pray
that you would lift them and position the body of Christ
and believers to bring influence into those decisions.
Father, as they consider bringing
this Court House Square together, we pray that when
that takes place, that you would place the right people
in those meetings behind closed doors, that will be
making decisions and plans. May it be governed and guided
by your Spirit. That men like Stew would be positioned
to have an influence, that Father, they could speak
into the lives of other business owners throughout this
area and be a clear reflection of you. May the light
of Flavor and it's purpose shine brightly and we ask
that you would assign your Holy Angels to stand guard
over this establishment, that it would walk in your
divine purposes and be a beacon for you. Supernaturally
protect it and move it forward in a way of great influence
to that which takes place in the future of this place.
Jesus, we are reminded in your word
that you said that it would not be on this mountain
or in Jerusalem that we would worship, but that the
Father is seeking those that can worship Him in Spirit
and in truth. You also said that if you tear down this
temple that you would re-build it in three days.
Lord, you want worship to go on everywhere.
You want Your Name, the Name of the Father to be lifted
up over all realms and all domains of society. You want
Your house to be built in every place. Lord, we ask
that Stew would increase in the knowledge and revelation
of Yourself. That you would increase him in worship,
fervent worship. Lord that you would give him revelation
of establishing an alter in his place of business would
be the house of the Lord.
That there would be a most holy place
where he dwells in fellowship with You, where he draws
others in his employment together with himself to worship.
Give him revelation of personal worship. A Royal Priest
in the market place. Take him further and beyond places
that he has seen. Lord, we know that you have said that
if salt loses it's flavor, that who will give it it's
flavor? We know that every offering is salted with fire.
God, we just want there to be such a purification of
this business, that it be the House of the Lord, that
it be a place of worship and that it stand out as salt
in this place. A preservation for the marketplace in
this area. Thank you Lord.
(Sam Tillery)
Ok, shortly we are going to move and
divide up between the two sides of the street here on
Mendocino. We will be praying across, facing each other,
that God would bring the city together, but for right
now, I feel like the Lord has prompted me to have us
pray for Ruth. Ruth, could we pray for you and some
of your physical challenges? Are you ok with that? (Ruth
comments, "Sure"). Ok, if you could just come
forward here and let us know how we can be praying for
you, that would be great.
(Ruth)
Well, I am going to have surgery in
either May or June for my right hip to be replaced.
I think right now that my biggest concern is job security
in the future and direction. I am a preschool teacher
right now, but I am not sure if I should continue that
up to my recovery or go into a different area.
(Sam Tillery)
It seems like Ruth is a little young
to have a hip replacement, so let's just pray into that,
that if that is what God wants, then that is what would
happen, but otherwise that God would bring healing prior
to that. I would like each one of you to all pray into
this for Ruth.
(Prayer)
Lord, we lift up Ruth and we lift up
David. We pray Lord that you would bring healing from
on high. We pray that you would establish healing in
the heart of our city, First in the natural, then in
the spiritual. God, we ask that the heart of this city
would find healing, in Jesus name.
(Sam)
I would ask if you could all pray for
my daughter, Marlene. She is going to school in Hawaii,
she is 22 years old and she has been having problems
and pain in her hips and side area, and surgeon's and
doctor's that she has been going to have not been able
to figure out what is wrong. I don't know if it is a
spiritual attack or if it is a combination, so if you
could all lift Marlene up tonight. She just came from
a surgeon tonight right before I came here and it was
just one more doctor who said that they didn't know
what was wrong. She has had all of the fancy scans and
all of that stuff, so lf we could just pray for her
that would be great. She loves Christ very much and
is a great witness there in Hawaii.
(Prayer)
Lord, we bring Marlene before you.
Lord, she is a treasure to your heart and Lord she belongs
to you. Father you have established this relationship
now with these doctors and surgeons and Father we implore
upon you, the God of all creation, Lord that you almighty
God and Savior would touch her from the top of her head
to the bottom of her feet, and bring total freedom and
deliverance, total healing, from the innermost parts
of every bone, joint, ligament and muscle.
Lord, that your Holy Spirit power would
run through her and bring this total healing for the
glory of your kingdom. Lord, we know that she is a spokeswoman
for Your kingdom, that she is not afraid to speak out
about You, and Lord, as you bring her to this place,
illuminate her words, let them be sure and hit the exact
spot and let salvation come forth, God. We place her
in your hands God, and we thank you for her. We ask
that you would water and rain upon her, Lord Jesus,
that the words of her mouth and the meditations of her
heart would be pleasing to you, that there would be
a trust element in her, Lord God. No fear, but total
trust in your deliverance and freedom, completely for
your kingdom.
Lord, we ask for your protection over
Sam and his whole family, as you have placed Sam in
working with Pastors Prayer and over this city, we just
pray that you would guard and protect his whole family
from any physical, spiritual and emotion attacks from
the enemy.
We pray for your healing and your protection
over these two women, Ruth and Marlene. God, bless Ruth
as she is out here walking right now in faith with us.
Lord, bless her for her faith and I pray that she would
see healing and blessing and we say that this spirit
of affliction must leave in Jesus name.
(Ruth prays)
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for
your many blessings, and I do pray for my healing, Lord
and I just ask for it and claim my healing Lord. I thank
you for what you have already done in my body and for
strengthening me and for continuing to do so Lord. I
do pray for Marlene and thank you that she is a bright
shining witness for you Lord and I just pray that you
would strengthen her body Lord, and for her healing.
I pray that you would take away any discouragement as
she is far away from her family and protect her whole
family, I ask this in Jesus name.
(Kathy Gillman)
I have been praying for the last three
weeks, I went off all of the allergy shots. Some of
you know that one of the possible meanings for the name
Sonoma is, valley of sickness, and since we moved here,
the past 12 years, my symptoms had just gotten thicker,
and thicker, and thicker. Almost to the point where
during this time of year I couldn't even go outside.
It was causing problems with those around me, because
if my kids even put the slightest bit of lotion on their
hands or something I would puff up. It got to where
I was even getting sicker after I had gotten my shot,
but it seemed like the Lord was saying, "Now is
the time". So, the doctors said that if I wanted
to test myself out, that now would be a good time, because
all of the trees are in full bloom and that I would
know in about 6 weeks, well it has been three and I
haven't had any symptoms or attacks at all. It may seem
small or insignificant, but I praise God and this is
a great gift.
(Sam Tillery)
Ok, we are going to shift gears before
we go over by both sides of Mendocino and I think that
it is important that as we are in the center of our
city, that we lift up a prayer for Israel and Jerusalem,
and I am going to ask Greg if he would give us a word
of direction pertaining to that and then give us a moment
to pray into what you share.
(Greg)
Well, when we for the peace of Jerusalem,
we have to remember that when Jesus, He spoke over the
city in Luke's Gospel, He said, "If you would have
known, even you, the day of your visitation and the
things that make for peace, and now", he said,
"they'll be hidden from you". But there is
a Messianic body in Jerusalem and they know the things
that make for peace, so when we pray for the Peace of
Jerusalem
, specifically, what are the things of Yeshua, Jesus,
that make for peace? If you can, just think and apply
a little wisdom and just think, "God, what specifically
can I pray that makes for peace for the body of Messiah
in the land, because peace can come to Jerusalem, because
there is a living body of Jesus Christ there in the
city." Let's think of the things that make for
peace and let's then pray into those things for Israel.
(Sam Tillery)
Go ahead and just speak those things
out as they come to you.
(Prayer)
Lord, I pray that you would anoint
our brothers and sisters in Jerusalem with forgiveness.
Father, you gave us specific commands,
that we should bless those who persecute us and to love
our enemy's and to do good to those who speak ill of
you. Lord, I pray that you would give grace to the Jewish
people and bless them with the words of Jesus, their
Messiah regarding the Palestinians, God, that they would
not grow bitter, that they would not return evil for
evil, but that they would replace evil with good, blessing
for cursing. Somehow, help them to be able to wash the
feet of those who persecute them, if not with water,
then with tears and prayers, whatever it takes Father.
We pray that love and goodness would triumph over evil.
Father, you said that you would keep
those in perfect peace mind is stayed on thee, and I
pray that you would cover over the apple of your eye
Lord, that you would turn their hearts towards you.
We pray that those who do not know the Messiah would
know Him and those who do know the Messiah would love
all of those in Jerusalem, Father, all of those who
are living there, that you would draw them to yourself,
that love would abound in Israel. Your heartbeat would
be known in Israel, Father.
Father, in whatever ways the body
of Christ in Israel has been isolated and divided, bring
them together in Christ. Father, may they embrace the
spirit of the law, not the letter of the law.
Lord, we here in Santa Rosa those
out in the nation that are Jew and non-Jew, we gather
to intercede for Jerusalem. It is in this intercession
where we are mediators. We bridge the gap between our
God and whatever may separate itself from Him, We come
to cry out to you, because of the blood of Messiah and
say, "Do not withhold the things that make for
peace. Jesus, you said that these things would be withheld
from the city, and that is a tremendous dynamic that
we cannot completely understand, but we as a Royal Priesthood,
a Holy Nation and a chosen generation. We ask that you
would forgive Jerusalem and restore the people. Do not
withhold those things that make for peace. You have
a body, a remnant of your people there in Jerusalem.
Would you not now give the things that make for peace,
reconciliation, brotherly kindness, unity, open homes,
hospitality, Lord, these things in your city of peace.
Would you give these things to them, to the body and
not withhold them.
 We
pray both for the leader and for the Mayor of Jerusalem Uri Lupolianski.
Father, because of the whole conflict that they are
in between Christianity and Judaism, would you come
upon this man with kindness and empathy and comfort
his fear, because of the generations of wrong doing
and give him such a kingdom dynamic, that he would allow
dialogue between his office and the office of believers.
May the message of the Gospel find it's way to this
mans heart and into the heart of the Orthodox and Judean
community. Lord, have your way.
(Harry Skandera)
Ok, we are going to move to the next
thing. This will be the final thing that we do tonight.
We are going to get half of us on one side of Mendocino
and half of us on the other side facing each other,
and we are going to call out to God to unify our city.
I don't know exactly what the Lord
has in mind. I do know that the center of the city has
been destroyed before. I do know that if you look at
any of the historic photographs, that the courthouse
was here in the middle of the city, which the city took
great pride in, we had a massive statue of Athena on
the top of this thing and it was just shattered. I don't
think that that was an accident. I think that there
is something in the heart of God that wants to see this
city come together and be of one spirit.
I think that we are the people to pray
that in, that this city's center would reflect the creator
and the created. I don't know what that would look like
altogether. I know that it is in the heart of God, but
that we have messed that up in times past. I there is
something that is meant to be here in the middle of
our city that is to reflect the Lord, so when we cry
out to God about that, there is a lot afoot right now
regarding this area.. This whole area is going to be
re-developed and this street is going to be all walking
area.
People are going to have to drive around
like they had to in the old days, and this will be some
kind of a central plaza, a very ambient area. It could
be a thing of great beauty and there is no reason why
it couldn't reflect the Lord, so let's pray into that.
It is happening and is on the heart
of the city fathers. They are talking to the Luther
Burbank center about having a center down here, kind
of like they do in the city, I mean there is a lot of
implications to all of this. As I was thinking of this
tonight, five years ago as Christians, we prayed a canopy
over this city.
We went to all four corners of it and
prayed this canopy of the Lord over our whole city.
Now, we are in the middle of that canopy and we are
asking for this to be united under God. So, however
the Lord would lead you, I do not believe that we are
going to be able to shout across the street, but I do
want us to split and cover both sides facing each other
and pray as you are lead. I encourage you to keep this
sheet of paper and continue to pray into this center,
the heart of our city.
(Sam Tillery)
When we are done you are dismissed
and remember that next month City Reach will be at Finley
Center. Thanks for coming.
(Prayers for the unity in
heart of the City of Santa Rosa)
We pray that the spiritual heart of
this city would come together. Seal, Father all that
we have been praying for a number of years. Concerts
of prayer, prayer gatherings and outreaches, that all
of these things that have been held and heard by you
Father, would spring forth fruit and that the commercial
and the governing heart would also be effected. Hear
oh Santa Rosa, the Lord your God is one and you shall
love the Lord your God with all of your heart, mind
and strength. Hallelujah, in the name of Jesus.Amen.
Special Thanks to Christelle Eddy
who transcribed this document.
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