There was one night where me and my teammate Chelsea were walking around inviting people to church. Which is something we do every Sunday and Wednesday before services. We were walking around and approached this house. It is a house that, the church has been specifically praying for. It is a place where drugs and drinking etc. are so heavy. So heavy. We had prayed over this church the week before, and even then I wasn’t comfortable in that house.
This night, I was especially uncomfortable. We turned the corner and saw the house and I immediately said “I don’t want to go in that house.” So we walked up to some other houses and invited people to church. As we kept getting closer to this house, I knew we had to go in there. I knew that Satan was just trying to scare me away because he doesn’t want Jesus in that house. Plus, my teammate Chelsea was all pumped for Jesus and ready to go in there. So we made our way towards this house. We got to the sidewalk leading to the house, and I suddenly found myself unable to breathe. I was completely out of breath! But we continued on.
We approached the door and looked inside and saw three men drunk out of their minds. One came to the door….his name was Hank. (which he made sure to tell me multiple times) So we started having this conversation with Hank. Mainly just small talk. He wanted our names. We invited him to come to church and he said he couldn’t go because he was too drunk. The other two guys wanted nothing to do with us and basically just ignored us. So we told them we would see them later. And continued on with our church invites up and down the streets.
We walked up to a couple more houses and were able to invite some people. 
As we were heading back to church, me and Chelsea both decided that we needed to go back to that house and pray for them. That Jesus wanted to be known there! So we make our way back and the whole time I was just desperately in prayer for God to give us strength. To battle the darkness in that house.
So we walk back up to the front door, and the guys look at us like we are idiots. Haha And then a lady named Patsy walks up from the backyard and asks if we can pray for the house. I couldn’t stop smiling! We said definitely yes! And made our way into the living room for some full out Holy Spirit time.
The lady asked us first to pray for the house. So we stood in a circle with Hank and Patsy all holding hands and we prayed. So hard that I found myself squeezing the heck out of Hank’s hand. This is one of the first times that I have actually FELT the Holy Spirit moving. Me and Chelsea both experienced it. My hands were tingling, my arms felt heavy, my heart just wouldn’t stop racing, I literally just wanted to shout at the top of my lungs because I felt so filled with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit was present in that room at that moment.
Next, she asked if we could pray specifically for Hank. We of course said yes. We placed our hands on him, and as we were praying I noticed that Hank started to fall into our hands. In the middle of our prayer, this other man walks in the house. As we are praying, he gets in Hank’s face and says “Don’t listen to them! They are lying! This is f**ing bull****!” And on and on and on. He was shouting curse words at the top of his lungs. Calling us pretty much any creative cuss word he could think of. Cursing the name of Jesus. Me and Chelsea both just started praying as loud as we could “In the name of Jesus, you are stronger!” I said lots of other things as we were praying, but I have found it is hard to remember prayers when it is the Holy Spirit speaking through you. I started crying. I felt offended that he was cursing the name of Jesus like that. But the prayers didn’t stop. We got louder with prayer as he got louder with his shouting. This man finally went back into his room and slammed the door.
We finished our prayer with Hank. He told us thank you. And went back and sat on the couch. Next, Patsy asked if we could pray for the man that just cursed us out and shouted at us. Not going to lie, I was NOT feeling it. Dude, this guy was crazy! You could look into his eyes and see no life at all. To top it all off, this man’s name was Bedroom. Yes, Bedroom. We even asked multiple times to make sure we were right! I looked at Chelsea and could tell she was thinking the same thing as me.
Very reluctantly, we agreed to pray for Bedroom. So he comes out of his room, and just stands there and stares at us. Patsy said to him, �”these girls want to pray for you. Come here!” I asked him if it would be ok and he just stared at me. So I clearly just took that as a yes! You could tell he was super pissed to be there. That he did not want to be touched or even prayed for. You could tell that he was slightly possessed. That all light had just been drained out of his life by the darkness he was consumed by.
So we placed our hands on Bedroom. Chelsea placed her hands on his head, I placed mine on his heart. We asked him to close his eyes, and he reluctantly did so. We started praying, and as we were doing so I could just feel all the darkness being lifted from this man. I could feel the power of the Holy Spirit just pouring into him.
We finished our prayer with Bedroom. He opened his eyes. And to my surprise, they were full of tears. He immediately started shouting in tears, �”Thank you! Thank you Jesus!” And he started apologizing for the way he was acting earlier. That he didn’t know what was happening. He kept shouting �”It is so beautiful! Beautiful!” He gave us multiple hugs and just kept saying thank you.
Jesus has POWER over the darkness. He gives us the authority to stand up to the darkness and walk in light and freedom with Him.
The freedom that God offers is going to consume this community. And they are going to have victory over their past lives. We have a couple days left of ministry here. Be in prayer that it is a time where we are just pouring out the kingdom to these people whether that is through prayer or preaching or song, they will know the power of the kingdom. 
Darwin will be set free. In the name of Jesus.
