Welcome to the second year of the Daywatch, a monthly prayer focus for mindset change and the repositioning of the church in Europe. We  encourage further revelation and discussion through the Daywatch blog www.daywatch.eu Please try hard to blog if you can because we want to get an online community up and running, but if not you can of course email us on admin@passion.org.uk

There are two aspects to this months watch.

1. Can we please bring a strong recommendation to you all to take up a very helpful German prayer initiative particularly aimed at those praying for and living out the repositioning of the church?

They have begun 40 days of prayer and now taken the trouble to translate it into English especially for us all to use.  Please don’t miss the opportunity for 40 days of some great guided prayer that you can fit to your own life and diary.  If you would like to receive this then please let us know as soon as possible and we will send it you as an email attachment.

2. Here are some new questions about the Holy Spirit and some tentative possible answers.

Please respond!

1. What is the Holy Spirit for? How would you answer this question? Please try it in a sentence or two and enter it on the blog, or if you would rather email it and we will enter it for you.

2. Where is he heading, where does he want to be, where is his focus?

I'm thinking that if he is the carrier of the kingdom and if he is the Spirit of Jesus, then he is heading for the city, the poor, the brokenhearted, the captives, the blind, the crushed to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord (Lk 4:18). So his arrival may have been gathering centred and room centred, but his future direction and purpose has always been out among the rest of humanity (as with Jesus in Lk 6:11-38). So when they got together as at the end of Acts 2 this was only a staging post and the Holy Spirit was uneasy the longer it continued.

3. If he wishes to locate himself and the people of God out among the people, has this always been his long term focus?

Note the trouble Stephen got into with the established authorities and how clearly his words underline the Spirit's long term focus: for "the Most High does not dwell in human constructs" (Act 7:48). As a result they were scattered. Not I suggest so that more people could be gathered in Antioch but so that the church would go where the Spirit has always wanted to position them - in the world

4. So how does the Holy Spirit see revival?

Presumably along the exact same lines as he wishes for himself and the people of God; for the recovery of his proper preferred location in the world which is not in a gathered structure of some institutional location. So while he may meet us there, it is not where he wants to be in the long term and seemingly never has. There is no evidence that the upper room pleased the Lord any more than the gazing into heaven. Jesus had been giving instructions by the Holy Spirit about the Kingdom of God (Acts1:2) and the outpouring obviously impacted outside as if they hadn't even been in a room. Clearly they did not stay there long!

With love,

Roger and Team