Sanctuary is about something larger than having prayer meetings. We are after His heart and want to know what He is thinking and feeling in this hour. God is stirring prayer across the earth. I hear it everywhere. Friends all over Winnipeg, across Canada, in the USA, in Japan, in Ireland and lots of other places say the same thing: God is stirring us to turn back to Him in prayer. There is a place for all of us as we press in together.
Sanctuary functions around the activities of worship unto the Lord and intercession for the city of Winnipeg. It is designed that all can be part of this in one form or another. I see three categories of involvement and believe that all of them are critical to what the Lord is building and setting in place in Winnipeg in this hour of history.
1. Some of you will join Sanctuary and see it as your primary church expression as you become part of this community and give yourself to serve in the building and functioning of this house of prayer. You are called by God to be here and we want to welcome you enthusiastically to bring your heart and passion to the prayer room and all that we do here.
2. Some of you will serve and function in Sanctuary while you remain in your home church. You feel a desire to give yourself to be an active part of this ministry to God and for the city. You can see yourself singing, playing guitar, leading worship sets, becoming a prayer leader for a 2-hr set and generally helping out in lots of ways. There will be many like you from all over the city that will come to serve and to give of their time and energy. You are critical to what happens here. It is your city!
3. Some of you will want to come and sit in the prayer and worship dynamic, enjoying God and praying for our city quietly and even on the mic at times. You are fully committed to staying in your home church but want to take in what God is establishing in this house of prayer. We may never even know your name. You will come at all kinds of different hours and slip out quietly, knowing your efforts were an offering to God first and foremost. You are very important to the prayer efforts in our city.
There really is room for all of us. The question is not "Am I called?", but rather "How can I fit?". Join us in gazing on the Glorious Son and standing for His kingdom in our city.
Brian
Ministry Director
March 21, 2006
March 04, 2006
A Welcome Letter
Welcome to Sanctuary. We are a house of worship and intercession dedicated to praying for the city of Winnipeg and ministering to God as we seek to know what is on His heart and mind in this hour of history. It is our firm conviction that we are in a time unlike any other and a call is going out to every man, woman and child to seek the Lord for the place in which they live. We stand for our city and extend the call to all others in this hour to find themselves before Him with honesty and wholeheartedness.
In Joel 2 we find instruction that is relevant for us today: stop everything and seek Him for He is gracious and compassionate and slow to anger. He does leave blessing and it is right to seek Him in this. Looking back to the previous chapter we also see events that speak to us in this time. The Lord is at the head of the army and great trouble is coming to the land. We are asleep in the West to our own hour of shaking, unconvinced that anything could ever touch us in our comfort. Yet, even now there is a stirring, a shift in our thinking, and it is calling us to seek Him like never before.
Winnipeg has a destiny in God and He will bring it to fullness before the return of His Son. But, He will have a people for Himself, looking only to Him and never unfaithful in their affections as they partner with Him. He will not let us remain easily distracted. He has made us for Himself and He will have us. And we want Him because of it. Psalm 27:4 says "One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple". This is a central vision of all that we are about at Sanctuary. It is our firm conviction that as we gaze upon the beauty of the Son of God we are changed and the prayers are empowered to see His kingdom come in our city.
We choose to dedicate ourselves to this end and extend the call across our city to all others that would join us in this solemn assembly. We pray the prayer of Revelation 22:17 with conviction and earnest hearts: "Come Lord".
Brian Creary
Ministry Director
In Joel 2 we find instruction that is relevant for us today: stop everything and seek Him for He is gracious and compassionate and slow to anger. He does leave blessing and it is right to seek Him in this. Looking back to the previous chapter we also see events that speak to us in this time. The Lord is at the head of the army and great trouble is coming to the land. We are asleep in the West to our own hour of shaking, unconvinced that anything could ever touch us in our comfort. Yet, even now there is a stirring, a shift in our thinking, and it is calling us to seek Him like never before.
Winnipeg has a destiny in God and He will bring it to fullness before the return of His Son. But, He will have a people for Himself, looking only to Him and never unfaithful in their affections as they partner with Him. He will not let us remain easily distracted. He has made us for Himself and He will have us. And we want Him because of it. Psalm 27:4 says "One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple". This is a central vision of all that we are about at Sanctuary. It is our firm conviction that as we gaze upon the beauty of the Son of God we are changed and the prayers are empowered to see His kingdom come in our city.
We choose to dedicate ourselves to this end and extend the call across our city to all others that would join us in this solemn assembly. We pray the prayer of Revelation 22:17 with conviction and earnest hearts: "Come Lord".
Brian Creary
Ministry Director
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