Have we really considered that just two or three people in unity can be more powerful than the largest megachurch, or even the most powerful government on earth? The Lord Himself said it in Matthew 18:20: “For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.” Could there be anything more powerful than the presence of Almighty God, our Creator, with us? But why did He emphasize two or three rather than a megachurch or much larger gathering?
If there are more than two or three gathered, He will not be there. Why? This is a question that He put to me in 2014 when I had an all-day encounter with Him. He asked me this in relation to the Unity Conferences we had sponsored in the early 1990s. For these, we would only go to cities where a high percentage of the churches would unite to sponsor them. They had been great conferences, but they had left little unity in these cities. Why?
I was shown that if we had worked with one or two churches instead of so many, they could have bonded. However, we had so many churches that this could not happen, and even the Lord and His purpose for the city were lost in the crowd. It can be a noble goal to unite all of the Christians in our city, or in the world, but to accomplish this, we must start small, with just one or two others. Two or three believers in a prayer team that comes into unity can be the most powerful entity on the planet, and even more so in a city.
As Francis Frangipane taught in our Unity Conferences, “The rules of poker and prayer are similar: Four of a kind beats a full house.” So, why don’t we focus on small teams as we try to build effective ministries?
In Matthew 18:19, the Lord said He would give such authority to two people who agree that they could ask Him, and He would do it. The Greek word used to describe this unity was the word from which we get the English word “symphony.” This is no mere intellectual agreement on something. To become part of a symphony takes years of focus and devotion to the part, or instrument, we are called to play. This is one reason we’re told that it takes “faith and patience to inherit the promises” (see Hebrews 6:12).
If our devotion to having faith was joined to patience, we would be seeing more results. True faith is demonstrated by patience. The Scriptures verify throughout that anything that happens too fast, or too easily, is usually insignificant. If we want significance, it will take patience.
Consider the patience one must have to learn a musical instrument well enough to play in a symphony. After learning to play the instrument well enough, they must learn to synchronize their abilities with the others in their section, then with the rest of the symphony, with the unity a symphony requires. We would have to give great value—and a great part of our lives—to being able to do this. Would just the applause at the end of a concert be enough to motivate us to this kind of devotion? I think not. But to be part of making music that can touch generations could. How about making music that touches the Lord and the heavenly hosts?
Could it be possible for our worship to cause heaven to silence its worship to listen to us? With the glorious worship in heaven, is there anything we can produce on earth that could get heaven’s attention? Yes! Faith can. But this is not the shallow emotion that we often try to substitute for true faith.
I’ve had many visions and prophetic experiences that became great inspirations in my life, but one stands above all the others. I was shown a small, very dry prayer meeting of about twenty people. I was then shown the trials that those attending it were facing in their personal lives, and they were great. But these people were not thinking about their trials or needs, but rather the Lord’s. They were thanking Him for His goodness and were praying for the things that were important to Him. When they broke out into a song of adoration and worship to the Lord, He was so touched by this that He silenced heaven to listen to the worship of this little prayer group. They were out of tune and didn’t sound very good, but it touched the Lord, and heaven, more deeply than all of the heavenly worship could.
The Lord knows that those in heaven beholding His glory cannot help but to worship Him. He also knows how hard it is for us to take our attention off our own hardships to thank and worship Him. This touches Him in a way that we may never be able to do in heaven. Don’t waste your trials! Use them to worship Him. That is the faith that pleases the Lord.
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