The Necessity of Synchronization – Part I

I came across a video on synchronization that started a session of compounding insight. The video was on the eventful grand opening of the London Millennium Footbridge on June 10, 2000. The bridge was designed by a team to look sleek and almost floating, without big vertical cables. Its unusual design made it more flexible sideways, matching the natural walking rhythm of people. Because it’s light, it vibrated a lot when many people walked on it together creating synchronous lateral excitation.  A video from its opening day shows people swaying side to side in sync with the bridge’s movements, often shown as proof of this synchronization.

 

If people walking across a bridge in step can compromise its physical structure, what can the church bring down in the heavenly realms when synchronized in prayer?!

Synchronized prayer and fasting isn’t new. The Old Testament contains numerous examples where God’s people were synchronized in prayer and fasting:

 

• Esther called all the Jews to fast for three days before she approached the king (Esther 4:16).
• The prophet Joel called for a sacred assembly and fasting in a time of crisis (Joel 2:15-16).
• King Jehoshaphat gathered all of Judah to seek the Lord when faced with invasion (2 Chronicles 20:3-4).
• Ezra called for fasting and prayer at the Ahava Canal before the dangerous journey to Jerusalem (Ezra 8:21-23).

 

In each of these cases, the synchronized spiritual actions of God’s people were followed by heavenly intervention. This pattern continues in the New Testament, confirming that there’s a special power in unified, synchronized prayer.

 

But is the body in sync?

 

Jesus’ prayer for believers to be “one” as He and the Father are one (John 17:21) speaks to a deep spiritual unity that reflects the oneness in the Trinity. If the Church, as the Body of Christ, is not synchronized with one another and heaven, it would certainly hinder the power and flow of God’s work through His people. In fact, this disconnect could explain why the Church sometimes struggles to see the fullness of its spiritual authority manifest in the world.

 

The Church is meant to operate in harmony, like an orchestra or an army in perfect formation. Each member has a unique role, but they must move in sync with the Holy Spirit’s leading for the full effect of God’s will to be realized on earth. Paul, in 1 Corinthians 12:12-27, emphasizes this when he speaks of the Church as a body made up of many parts, each functioning together. The disunity between believers—or between believers and heaven—would be like different parts of the body not receiving or responding to the same signals from the head (Christ). Now, if the Church is out of sync, fragmented, or operating without this alignment, it could lead to a lack of spiritual power, as unity in the Spirit is necessary for the fullness of Christ’s authority to be exercised. In this sense, synchronized prayer, service, and alignment with heaven could very well bring down barriers and unleash the power of God in ways we’ve only glimpsed. Just as synchronized marching can break physical structures, synchronized spiritual effort in prayer, worship, and mission—aligned with the Father’s will—could indeed break spiritual strongholds and open the way for heaven’s purposes to manifest fully on earth.

 

This reminds me of the walls of Jericho in Joshua 6, where synchronized marching (accompanied by shouting and trumpet blasts) caused the city walls to collapse through divine intervention. The physical act of marching was synchronized, but it was faith and obedience that triggered the supernatural event. In a similar vein, synchronized prayer aligns hearts and spirits with God’s will, creating a powerful force capable of breaking down spiritual strongholds. Imagine how the focused intent of believers, like synchronized soldiers, amplifies the spiritual authority of their prayer. Jesus teaches in Matthew 18:20 that “where two or three gather in my name, there I am with them.” If a small group can wield that level of power, the potential of large-scale synchronized prayer can have devastating impacts of the kingdom of darkness, bringing down entrenched systems of spiritual resistance in cities, generational curses in nations, or even political strongholds. Spiritual battles, much like physical structures, can be dismantled when a focused, synchronized force is applied and sustained. The battle is already won, all we have to do is proclaim it as the voice of many waters and we’ll bind many strongmen.