Portugal and stuff

I had a very impacting time in Portugal, it is hard to explain all that we did since the main focus was prayer. We prayed for specific peaople and places and asked God what he had on his heart and did what he asked. We had done a lot of prayer and research before we went, which i really enjoyed, so we went in with a fair amount of knowledge of the status of Portugal and it's history.

So we know that people are made with a particular identity and Satan often attacks the specific things that God places in us, does this also work for a country? Can Portugals emphasis on the arts and history as discoverers be things God placed there and things that they struggle to hold onto because it is attacked? Is Scotlands struggle with violence and worthlessness a direct result of Satans attack on our creation as Warriors of Gods Kingdom?

Recently we have had a lot of teaching on the Kingdom of God, lots of us went to Dundee yesterday to hear teaching by Dr Atif, a monk who has focused a lot of his life on discovering what God means by a lot of the things he says and looking at the early church and what they practiced and why. It was very interesting and slightly confusing! We also had teaching this morning from Andy Hall on The Kingdom of God and Authority and Power used together. Food for thought, definatly. (Andy's teaching were recorded so if you want to hear them i should get the link in a while so let me know)

Lots of thoughts all over the place today!