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We had one of those "spontaneous combustion" prayer meetings today. We started praying and it was tough to stop. I feel a groundswell of spiritual momentum that is tough to put my finger on. It's tough to put into words, but I've always wanted God to do something in me and in NCC that is unexplainable and uncontrollable and uncontainable.

Pentecost was unplanned. You can't plan Pentecost. You can only pray Pentecost. That is the kind of thing that I want to see happen. I want our strategies to be more than the best laid plans of man. I want God to do something that is unplanable.

There is a great story in Luke 5 where the disciples have been fishing all night and haven't caught a thing. And Jesus tells them to move the boat and drop the nets. I'm sure the disciples loved that. They were professional fisherman. Part of me wonders if part of them thought, "You stick to teaching and we'll handle the fishing." But they did what Jesus said and it says they "caught such a large number of fish that the nets began to break." They actually had to signal another boat to help them haul in the fish.

Here is my take on that passage. Jesus did something uncontainable. They couldn't handle the catch. That is what is a picture of what I've internally dreamed of and prayed for.

I sense in my spirit that we're on the verge of something uncontainable!