I actually love this blog, keep up the good work!

The only time I remember anyone being told to wait and pray in the bible is Jesus telling the disciples after he left and before the holy spirit came.

Maybe God likes us to be proactive, even if its hit-or-miss sometimes.

Moses reaches the edge of the Red Sea, all the Israelites behind them, the Egyptian army on their tail, and he lifts up his hands and starts praying. And God says (in the NIV or NASB or one of those): "Why do you cry out to me? Tell the people to move forward."

But in the Living Bible, God says, "Quit praying and get the people moving!"

And sometimes we need to do just that.

"It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees" Midnight Oil

"There's no more need for sorrow if we get off our knees to pray" The Housemartins

I stopped listening to Petra in the 80's but the Oils are still regularly featured. I only had the Housemartins on cassette. I miss them.

I believe in prayer, but I definitely have (though somewhat timidly) more of an activist spiritual temperament (by the way Gary Thomas's book Sacred Pathways is a valuable read – and with that I've exceeded my quota of elipses!!!) so I'm with Alex. I wish I could be more like Jonothan and his armour bearer.

Actually, I think it would be great if we could develop some kind of symbiotic relationship between activists and intecessors. Not that activist shouldn't pray, or that pray-ers shouldn't act, but that we each recognise the validity, God-given calling/passion and value of the other, so that activists feel strongly supported in prayer, and intecessors can recognise and celebrate some of the answers to their prayers in the work of activists – instead of hyper-spiritualising everything and making activists feel inferior and unspiritual for not being there every Tuesday night bored out of their brains and not feeling at all inspired and close to God through the same routine of spending 40 minutes talking about what we're going to pray about then, the first person praying about all of it, so everyone else thinks they've got to pray about all of it too, even the stuff they don't feel at all strongly about, so the final 20 minutes feels like 2 hours…
maybe this rant should end now.

Nicely played.

I also wanted to tell you I just finished reading the first part of your book that you emailed and it’s fantastic. I really hope you get published one day. It’s a message we all need to hear. Let’s rescue sex!