JOIN US FOR SECOND WEDNESDAY WORSHIP
SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH
FRONTLINE DOWNTOWN
11:30 AM - 1 PM
Second Wednesday Worship and Prayer is an anchor point in the life of Frontline Church, and anyone is invited to participate. It is a place to worship and pray, wrestle with decisions, receive prayer for healing, intercede for the lost, and find a moment of delight with God's people. Intercession is the church’s offering of prayer through Jesus for God to save the lost, right injustice, and shape the world. Scripture puts mysterious and beautiful emphasis on the prayers of God’s saints for the world. The church intercedes on behalf of the world around it through prayer. This is one of the primary ways God’s people labor alongside God in the world. The intercessory prayers of the saints invite God to shape history, push back darkness, demonstrate God's power, and bring salvation to those far from him. We invite you to join us every second Wednesday of the month from 11:30 AM to 1 PM at our Downtown congregation to pray and worship.
Early in 2020, our worship leader community felt a deep burden for more experiences of the presence and gifts of God. In September of that same year, our core worship leaders from each congregation began meeting on the second Wednesday of the month to pray, worship, and practice the presence of God with one another. We hoped to grow in our ability to sense what God was doing in the moments when we slowed down and cried out to him. We also wanted to spend time encouraging, comforting, and building up the body of Christ as we risked and practiced the gifts of the Holy Spirit. As this group began to experience the presence of God, we opened up the gathering to others in the worship community, staff, and anyone who wanted to attend.
As a church, we want the anchoring practice of prayer, worship, and gifts of the Holy Spirit to continually do a formative work in our hearts, the church, our city, and our world. We want to stand before the throne of grace, not just for the benefit of people in the room, but to change the world around us. We want to see dead hearts come alive. We want to see the sick healed. We want to see the addicted set free. We want to see revival in our city. When we gather, we are asking, seeking, and knocking on the door of Jesus, our King of the Kingdom without end, to break in and move in power among us.
Second Wednesday is not the start of something new; rather, it follows in the footsteps of prayer movements within church history. One example is the prayer movement of the Moravian community of Herrnhut in Saxony. Beginning in 1722, a young German follower of Jesus named Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf began to take in protestant refugees, many of whom were Moravian Pietists. Zinzendorf led gatherings to teach about Jesus, study the word of God, pray, and sing together. One night in 1727, the community decided to pray all night long for revival in their midst. They prayed in small groups for an hour at a time. This night of prayer grew and turned into an around-the-clock prayer movement that lasted for 110 years. This came to be known as the Hundred-Year Prayer Meeting.
Over those years, the Moravians saw salvations and the supernatural power of God, sent missionaries across nations, and inspired prayer movements worldwide, many of which continue today. However, the practice has changed; these are the types of burdens we want to carry for our church and our city when we gather to pray and worship.
In Jesus, God reconciled us to himself, marked us with his presence, gave us to each other as family, made us people of a particular place and time, and invited us into his mission of bringing his Kingdom to earth. There are many creative ways to engage mission, but perhaps the clearest and most timeless means of engaging mission is through intercessory prayer. Something powerful happens when we step out of praying for ourselves and begin to pray on behalf of the world around us. When we intercede, it brings people, places, and purposes into the presence of the God who can move mightily on their behalf.
We participate in God's mission through intercession, drawing near to his heart. God loves to seek and save the lost. He loves to draw near to the poor in spirit. As our hearts are stirred with prayers for the lost, the poor in spirit, and the needy, we find that our heart starts to beat for the same thing our God's does. And those prayers are powerful! This kind of prayer results in salvations, freedom from addictions, hope for the depressed, healing for broken minds and bodies, and prodigals running home.
When we go to intercede, we can first look to Jesus, who is at the right hand of God, praying for us at this very moment. Jesus taught us to pray by leading us through the Lord’s prayer in Matthew 6. He taught us how to posture ourselves as he fell to the ground with tears in the garden and cried, “Not my will but yours be done, Father!” Hebrews states that when Jesus was on earth, he prayed with loud cries and tears and was heard because of his reverent heart. Prayer is the kind of work that changes the world, and Jesus is our great model.
Second Wednesday Worship and Prayer is an anchor point in the life of Frontline Church, and anyone is invited to participate. It is a place to worship and pray, wrestle with decisions, receive prayer for healing, intercede for the lost, and find a moment of delight with God's people. I recently had a friend struggling with depression who placed themselves in the middle of the room and did not say or sing a word, but let God work through the people around them to lift them. Some of our team set Second Wednesday Worship and Prayer as a time to fast and pray for the upcoming ministry in the church. Whatever state your heart is in, or the season of life you're walking through, the invitation is to tie yourself to these anchor places of prayer. We invite you to join us every second Wednesday of the month from 11:30 AM to 1 PM at our Downtown congregation to pray and worship.