…prayer without action is just religion in hiding.

…what if the call to pray is a call to bleed as well as to receive blessing?

Herald the weirdos!Summon the losers and the freaks.Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes.They walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension.Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden.And this vision will be. It will come to pass; it will come easily; it will come soon.

Here's the question: Will we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts too? It'll mean more tears, more listening. It may even be the reason why so many of us struggle with our own personal burdens and heartaches - God is allowing us to feel the pain, to be weak and broken so that our prayers have power.

In prayer we inhale as God breathes his new life into us, and then in evangelism we exhale to breathe God's life upon a dying world.

Inevitably, the Enemy will do anything to divorce prayer and proclamation - to stop the evangelist praying and the intercessor evangelising. Why? Because the two combined are explosive!

. . .prayer can detonate mission.

…intercession is impossible until we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts as well.

The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room as Jesus's hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually: to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with his ears with every waking moment.