Red Moon Rising Quotes

“A prayer room is first and foremost a living room—a place where the Father waits for his children to come and climb into his arms.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: Rediscover the Power of Prayer

“Everyone prays,’ he pointed out. ‘Even non-Christians pray. The difference when Christians do it is that they are climbing into the lap of their heavenly Father.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: Rediscover the Power of Prayer

“So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“It's more important to know whom you are called to be with than what you are called to do.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“Amid sparkling creativity, spectacular innovation and unprecedented wealth, growing up in the West means for many a sense of alienation and a craving for intimacy, authenticity and hope.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“greatest theologian of the twentieth century, Karl Barth, said that ‘to clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world’. And”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: Rediscover the Power of Prayer

“The day we start taking credit for the fact that he answers prayer we are in deep, deep trouble.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: Rediscover the Power of Prayer

“God brings his presence ‘into the house’, and we are called to release it back out into the world or the blessing will die.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: Rediscover the Power of Prayer

“Revolutions begin in the streets with the dispossessed -- never in the corridors of power.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“Zinzendorf. . .asked God to remind him of Christ's suffering whenever he might be inclined to wander away from his first love.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“Inevitably, the Enemy will do anything to divorce prayer and proclamation - to stop the evangelist praying and the intercessor evangelising. Why? Because the two combined are explosive!”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“In prayer we inhale as God breathes his new life into us, and then in evangelism we exhale to breathe God's life upon a dying world.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“. . .prayer can detonate mission.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“…prayer without action is just religion in hiding.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“To be a Christian is to live positively and not destructively, to make ugly things beautiful, and to make chaos meaningful.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“If our prayers for others mean anything at all, they cannot be cloistered away all the time in sanitised environments. Standing in the gap for the oppressed may well mean that it matters where we pray and how we pray, and that our prayers for the poor are worked out very practically.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“God is mobilising an army, but it is a broken army that marches on its knees.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“…what if the call to pray is a call to bleed as well as to receive blessing?”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“Here's the question: Will we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts too? It'll mean more tears, more listening. It may even be the reason why so many of us struggle with our own personal burdens and heartaches - God is allowing us to feel the pain, to be weak and broken so that our prayers have power.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“I'm coming to the conclusion that to be used by God we must be weak and foolish rather than all-conquering heroes. I reckon God is sick and tired of people posing as overcomers with permanent grins, as if they somehow avoided the Fall and went hang-gliding instead. He needs us weak and childish to be used by him.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“Herald the weirdos!
Summon the losers and the freaks.
Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes.
They walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed by these children of another dimension.
Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden.
And this vision will be. It will come to pass; it will come easily; it will come soon.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“The opportunities presenting themselves to us at the dawn of the third millennium are no longer those of the great post-war stadium rallies. Our opportunities are those of the information age, global connectedness and the postmodern search for community, authentic spirituality and social justice.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“… start by calling God 'Father' (Luke 11:2). That's the key to prayer.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room as Jesus's hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually: to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with his ears with every waking moment.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“[A prayer room is] a place where we can experience peace so that we can make peace later. A place where we can accept forgiveness so that we can live our lives as priests at work. A place where we receive our Father's acceptance so that we can love even those who laugh at us later in the day.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“…intercession is impossible until we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts as well.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“God uses young people again and again to help restore and shape the destiny of nations...Young people stand at the heart of the salvation story.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“Waiting on God, according to Scripture, is not a passive, vacuous state but rather an active process of asking, seeking and engaging with his Spirit.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“God is not a mindless dispenser of demolition techniques; he is looking for relationship with those who dare to trust him against all other odds.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation

“I feel like God is waiting to see if I am waiting. If he just flooded in with answers and guidance right now, I would not have changed; I would not have learned to wait and trust without the answers and without a road map for the future. So I'm kind of glad that God was silent, because I actually want to wait; I want to prove my mettle to God. I don't necessarily want ease and instant anything any more.”
― Pete Greig, Red Moon Rising: How 24-7 Prayer Is Awakening a Generation