The 10 Days Story (Part 5)

From 2008-2009, there were four formative 10 Day retreats that still shape the movement today.  Jonathan and Gregg discuss miraculous happenings, God encounters, mistakes made, and lessons learned from these early efforts.

Shortly after the life-altering experience of the first 10Days retreat in 2007, Jonathan heads back to Yale to hear first hand from the Fijian "Healing the Land team", a team of revivalists seeing entire towns and villages transformed by the presence of God.  The similarities between their strategy for village transformation and 10 Days encourages him that 10Days is intended to be a city-transformation blueprint.  During 10Days Pentecost in 2008, God "comes to town" in America just as He did in the Fijian villages with signs and wonders and...rain. After hearing stories of transformation, they are now actually living out one of their own.

Jonathan shares the process of learning through trial and error what it really means to "mourn" and what God meant when he said that "My people will mourn before I return".  This mourning is not burdensome--it is not full of condemnation towards ourselves or accusation against others.  It's focused on what we have lost and what we lack both personally and corporately and rooted in a deep longing for the Lord's Return.  As he would powerfully experience at the end of 10 Days in 2009, the end goal of Godly mourning is Joy!