Nathan Sack  05:08
One of the other things that came up was there’s a younger member there and the youngest member, they’re brought up that revival is in this room we kept talking about, you know, revival that this meeting really had a lot of different takes on a needed coming revival. But he brought up that revival is in this room, you know, what are we waiting for? There’s an outpouring in this room, what can we do from where we are at, you know, and then he had this, like God make something happen attitude. And I was like, you know, what we need the young people who are less patient about something happening. And we need the middle aged people who are more established, where they’re where they’re at, and they have families, and we need the people who have been around for a long time to help steward, the next move of God, we need all of it. It’s all of it, because we all share different takes on the same thing that God is doing.

Scott Stanger  06:09
I like what you said there, steward the next move of God or work of God, however you said it. But steward, He invites us into this place of stewardship with Him. Obviously, He’s the source of all this. It’s by His Spirit, His power, His mind, His sovereignty, and so on. But he invites us in to steward this thing with us. And, you know, we really don’t play a huge role. I mean, what does that look like to steward? We’re just, we’re kind of riding along in the chariot with Him. What does somebody who’s riding in the chariot do? Not much. The chariot driver is driving it, and they’re throwing the spear, and yada, yada, yada, but we’re in this chariot with Him to steward this journey with Him. And if you think about it, salvation, doesn’t cost us anything. It cost Him everything. It cost Him the life of His son. But revival does have a cost. It’ll cost us everything we get invited into. As Paul said, In Philippians, 3:10, I think we get invited into the fellowship of His sufferings. In other words, He invites us into a place of not only intimacy with Him to know what’s on His heart, but to experience what’s on His heart, and in through deep intimacy, but ultimately, intercession coming into that place where we can experience the grief that’s on His heart for our lost society, the grief that’s on His heart, frankly, for the current condition of the church. And so He invites, if you will, forerunners not elitist in any way, but somebody’s got to be first somebody walks through the doorway first, and everybody then follows afterwards. So He invites some people to come in, experience the intimacy with Him, the burdens that are on His heart, the fellowship of His sufferings, and then those become the, those become the catalyst for revival, as we lay our lives on the altar of sacrifice, you know, being poured out as a drink offering unto Him for our, our city, our families, our neighborhoods, our businesses, you know, every aspect of society. And and that’s really what God’s Relay race is, is about. It’s not just coming together and fellowshipping and it’s wonderful to experience that to the degree we are and prayer, you know, prayer warriors coming together and beautiful worship and so on. But there’s another level, this intercession and I, I talk about this a lot. There’s a famous 20th century intercessor, named Rees Howells from the UK. And he was he and those his students, he founded the Wales Bible college, he and his students were instrumental in being used by God in intercession for the military campaign of World War Two. Winston Churchill and then the political leaders and military leaders of the UK, called upon Rees Howells, and his team of intercessors, to be praying for the unfolding of the military campaign across Europe, the European Theater in North Africa and so on. And he talks about the gaining this position of intercession. In other words, entering into this place of intimacy and experiencing the fellowship of His sufferings to gain the position of intercession. And that’s really what we are after here. We don’t claim to have attained it in any regard. In fact, Paul said there in Philippians three that he says Listen, I don’t make claim to have attained this but I’m pressing in to get the mark of the prize of the high calling in Christ. And that’s what we’re doing, as we gather each month is gaining this position of intercession for God’s heart for the marketplace of Kansas City for the city of Kansas City, for this generation, the heart of America in this nation.