If I were to characterize my time spent with the prayer team
at the General Conference, I would say it was an "Enoch time". It was
such a sacred time that I really do not know how to describe. There were three
wonderful weeks spent with the Lord. I simply did not want it to end and I did
not want to go back to my mundane activities. I think I now understand Peter
who said to the Lord: "Let us make here three tabernacles" (Matt.
17:4) and I have also finally understood in a very practical way what David
meant in Ps. 27,4: "One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek
after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to
behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple."
I have learned so much about Him, about prayer and
especially about intercession. And I think that I have understood a little
better the great controversy. I understood more of how important it is to pray
under the stage, where no one sees and knows what you are doing. I saw more of
how beautiful it is just to pray for people you do not even know and watch Him
work and intervene in miraculous ways.
I could tell you a lot of stories about how God miraculously
healed my physical sickness right after He healed my heart, how He brought new
team members to join us, how He opened doors for us to talk about and lead
united prayer in several churches in Maryland, how He opened the way for us to
have an all night prayer meeting in a church and made it a blessing for all who
came, how He blessed the meetings the the GC and everybody said that they could
feel the presence of the Holy Spirit, how He brought the leaders to their
knees, how He brought to the prayer room people I knew and I have never thought
they will come, how He strengthened us even though we woke up around 2:45 every
morning, how He opened the door for us to pray in the President's office even
though we have never asked for it. He did so many things and answered so many
prayers! I have named just a few.
But for me the greatest work is the one that He did on my
heart, the things that He revealed to me about Him and about myself. I think I
understand better now why Jesus said to the disciples: "Nevertheless do
not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rather rejoice
because your names are written in heaven." (Luke 10:20)
I will never be the same after this experience. My prayer
life would never be the same. I have learned so many things from the people I
have prayed with. I have left the GC with quite a few decisions. Some are of a
personal nature in regards to my personal prayer life. Others are related to my
ministry. One of the things that I decided is that I do not want to go to
another event where I am invited to lead a prayer room and have a workshop
without a prayer team and without serious prayer behind the stage before and
during the event. Actually, this experience convinced me that praying behind
the scenes is even more important than praying in the prayer room with people.
Another decision was to try to have an all night prayer meeting to the events I
am going to. The three all night prayer meetings that I have attended in the
last 3 months were so powerful and such a blessing for people, that I decided
to try and do it whenever possible.
I have always said that I would love to go back and live in
the jungle. But now, I changed my mind. I want to live in His presence,
wherever this would be. I think that I have tasted a little more of His
goodness, I have caught another glimpse of Him, I have beheld a little more of
His beauty and I want to "dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of
my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD."
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