Tenth Anniversary of The Breakthrough Prayer


October 8th 2011
The tenth anniversary of The Breakthrough Prayer
We celebrate with a poem from Theresa :
The child within you
Sweep your house clean, each moment,
Especially when night falls…
For will your house be there tomorrow?
We know not the time or hour…

Anger held tight; furious fists
Drive finger roots and nails 
Through the body, mind
And spirit map, binding it in.

Surrender to God’s Holy Spirit,
Embrace the ocean and without fear
And arms outstretched be carried through
The water to the salty depths

And give it ALL to HIM.

Who waits, within, without, longing
Through your grief, hidden,
Calloused by time, down the long
Lonely years of repression

To set the CHILD in you FREE

On bedroom carpet make your desert,
Where stars touching heaven, spill out
In startling clarity into the ubiquitous hush
Of His Presence…

Where each breath and tear and smile is heard

‘Ask and it will be given you
Seek and you will find
Knock and the door will be opened’
A guarantee from Him
Who was and is and is to come

Amen
We pray for the success of the world wide premiere of Voices From the Shadows today at The Mill Valley Film Festival.

We pray that it will make a breakthrough happen, that people will be shocked to see the neglect of people with ME and the reality of Severe ME, that it will change hearts and minds and bring much needed light to the truth of this devastating physical disease.

May Voices From the Shadows bring about a fundamental shift in attitude and integrity towards treating this disease with both the seriousness and funding needed to find a cure and to separate psychiatric fatigue from the neurological , multisystem dysfunction of myalgic encephalomyelitis.

We pray especially for the people involved in the making of the film and give thanks for their bravery in making themselves vulnerable in this way for the good of many.

We give thanks also for all the personal and medical breakthroughs that have been held in the power of the Breakthrough Prayer throughout the last decade ! Alleluia !

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