Our story in Red Moon Rising - just a little red book - has traversed the globe over these past 7 years.  To the people of China, the phrase "little red book" has a completely different meaning - it refers to a book of slogans and sayings by Mao Zedong, China's infamous Communist Party leader from 1935-1976.  Much can be said about Mao's Communism, but one thing that's certain is that it has cleared the deck in China for a different kind of revolution to take root.  Does the story in Red Moon Rising have a part to play in the Chinese revolution of the Kingdom of God?

 

I was in Guildford, England, in December 2005 for a prayer meeting, and a friend of ours who was there proclaimed, “24-7 prayer is going to break forth in China…I hope you realize that.  When I walked in here tonight, I saw 24-7 open in China, 24-7 with this DNA. You’ve gotta get ready for it.”  Before that, in September in Germany, after we introduced all the nations present at the 24-7 International Leaders Gathering, I saw a picture of myself walking through the doors of the auditorium, with a bunch of Asians coming in with me.  It was a powerful encounter with the Lord, and I felt like He was saying that I’ll help open a door for Asian people to walk into our values and DNA, into this 24-7 family.
 
Our time in China this summer only confirmed these words, and out of the 6 trips I’ve made there, it was the most powerful, most potent, most fruitful time we’ve had there to date.  The 24-7 stuff was incredible – there was so much life around this little red book Red Moon Rising, around doing 24-7 prayer on universities and with the underground church.  Altogether we did three 24-hr prayer rooms on universities and a 3-day prayer room with the underground church.  This prayer from a Chinese student says it all - "Thank You for giving 24-7 a chance to come to China."
 
Actually, I have quite the story from the prayer room with the underground church – the pastor of this church wanted me and another girl to help some of his students set up the prayer room.  We did so, and he invited me to return to spend the night in the apartment with the women who were going to cover the night shift.  I took my good friend along, and what happened through the night gave us an experience akin to that of many Chinese underground church leaders – as the two of us white foreigners ran from the apartment at 4:30am by order of the Chinese believers, we ran face to face into some uniformed Chinese policemen.  [It’s illegal for foreigners to be with the Chinese in any religious meeting that’s not registered with the government, and a 24-7 prayer meeting breaks all the boundaries.]  It was a Heavenly Man sort of experience, though, where the police looked right past us and we left down the elevator, and they only questioned the Chinese believers briefly and then left.  I was seriously scared – legs-shaking kind of scared!  No ramifications came of that encounter to the Chinese church, though, praise Jesus.

I’m working out how we can get Red Moon Rising translated into Chinese - and I really believe it’s going to happen. Pray for this! God is accelerating things in China among young people with church-planting, universities, and prayer movements.  This dream of God's for 24-7 in China is gripping me deeply, and I have a strong sense of destiny in the middle of it all.