When someone refuses prayer
The west's material wealth belies a deep poverty of soul and heart that makes it, Europe in particular, among the "poorest" people in the world. Last Saturday saw a group of us taking the Father's love to the streets in the Spanish town of Los Barrios. With clues in hand we walked across this cute Spanish town around 15 minutes away from Gibraltar, and sought treasure among the hurting, the broken, the really "poor" of the 1st world developed Europe.
After following the clues for a while the group eventually came across the person they thought really resembled the one that the clues pointed to - to the disappointment of everyone present, he politely declined the offer for prayer. Sadly, a supernatural intervention and healing is so alien in our modern western culture that for many "prayer" is a bunch of religious baloney - powerless mumbo-jumbo that conjures-up images of dead church services that they were forced to attend as a child.
We are committed to reaching out and spreading the love of the Father among these needy ones. We are convinced that love will find a way where there seems to be no way. We are sure that as we leave the church's walls and we step out in faith to be used by God, He will respond in power ushering-in a manifestation of His Kingdom here on Earth as it is in Heaven.