I’ve always felt Edmonton was an ‘altar of incense, a city of prayer.’

THE SONG AND THE NATIONAL ANTHEM: I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit as I was praying and singing in the spirit with a group of people. During that time the Lord took me on an aerial flyover of the province. It was exhilarating and left me pondering what the experience meant. That afternoon we went back into prayer and again I started singing in the spirit and again I was experiencing a similar “flyover” of the province. I asked the Lord “What is this?” He said this is the song of Alberta. Every province, every city has a sound and a song. The song captures the sound. Every province has this. When each province discovers its song and sound and when they unite together it becomes my true national anthem.

Some of this thought was shaped by two encounters I had in 1984 & 1985. In 1984 I had a vision of the city church in prayer at the Kinsmen Fieldhouse - all of us praying through parts of the Lord’s Prayer. The next year, 1985, I had a vision of the whole city as one singing songs to the Lord. My personal vision: Edmonton encountering the glory of the Lord. An aromatic city where the church is an altar of incense, a house of prayer for all nations.