God is mighty. Like I was reminded when He called me out a month ago, He is MIGHTY. At the time I had no idea what the next step He had for me looked like. I was imagining all kinds of crazy things, yet what He put on my heart was nothing like I expected.
For a few weeks now I have been reading a book called Red Moon Rising, which is about a 24/7 prayer movement that started in England unintentionally. Almost as soon as I started I felt the Lord calling our squad to pray like that. Yet, last month we were all spread out, and I didn’t have any sort of a solid vision, so I went before the Lord and He told me to sit on it a while. After that I occasionally prayed about what exactly the Lord had in mind (if He wanted a continual month of prayer, a week, an overnight, etc…), but I couldn’t seem to get a definite answer. However, when we got here to Honduras it seemed perfect. Our entire squad was here and there was a large meeting room where people could camp overnight if they wished. Still, I was very nervous. No one else had mentioned anything about feeling the Lord directing them towards continual prayer, in any fashion, and worship seemed the main theme of the month. So then I started to fear that maybe the opportunity had been missed and that no one would be on board.
However, not four hours later the Lord slapped me again. I was reading in my tent and the Lord just impressed upon me, clear as day, “If you do not step up and do this now, I will prompt someone else to. Start with just 24 hours.” Wow. After how nervous I had been, you’d think I might welcome someone else to stand up and do it, but I just felt this sinking feeling. I knew that if I let this pass me by that I would be missing out on a huge blessing and opportunity for growth and intimacy with the Father; that I would not be standing up and being who the L
ord called me to be, but would shrink back into the shadows. That put courage in me, and spurred me to action. Immediately, after I had resolved to do it, the idea of a prayer room entered my head and I began looking for a quiet place on the property (a rather difficult feat), and the means, to build.
I talked to one of my three squad leaders that evening and received amazing confirmation. She told me that the other two squad leaders had felt the Lord really moving them on prayer. One of them had just recently had the idea for a prayer room, but no peace in his spirit about building one, and the other had really felt the Lord telling her that we needed to do at least an overnight of continual prayer, but also had not felt peace about actually planning it. So not only were they behind me 100%, but really excited about what the Lord was doing and that He had used them to confirm it.
After that (although still nervous about speaking to everyone), I had complete confidence that this was what the Lord was asking me to do. I went out, bought materials to make a tabernacle type of prayer room out of sheets, and asked for volunteers to help with the project (without telling them what it was). I had only asked for four, and about 8 people ended up helping. I am so thankful for them, as they are the reason for many things in the prayer room, as well as being invaluable to its construction. At the end, it looked very different than I had originally pictured, but all the better for it.
When it was as well constructed as we could make it, we prayed and I prepared to bring it before the group at dinner. It went so much better than I had even hoped for. The squad jumped on it with no hesitation. In about five minutes every slot (2 people at a time for hour long slots) was filled, including
the dead of the night slots, except for the very last hour. So at 9:30 we headed out for worship and prayer, to dedicate the prayer room to the Lord. The first slot began at 10, but we ended up staying out there as a group until 10:30. It was amazing, and while there we decided to have the very last hour be group prayer as well.
I cannot tell you how amazing it was. I wasn’t up all night watching everyone of course, but no one missed their slot, no one. I am actually the person who had to be awakened because I didn’t have an alarm clock and had the 3 am slot, but I am so glad I took that hour. My friend Anjali and I went out to pray together and it was wonderful. We were both so tired, but once we got out there, we got on the roof of the prayer room and just started talking with God, both individually and together. It is one of the best nights I have ever had. I had been worried that the time would pass slowly and that I would be tempted to watch the clock, but the first time I even looked at the clock it was 4:03, and 30 seconds later the next two people arrived. I also think it is amazing that not only did everyone volunteer for a slot (and some people took 2), but that God placed the right people together. Anjali and I prayed out loud, and usually together, but the next two to come in immediately plopped into the divided section and stayed silent. Can you imagine if we had been mixed up? It reminded me that God is God. Not only does He move people to build prayer rooms, but when to pray and with whom.
So, that is the story of how my first week went in Honduras. It has not ended. Many people came up to me later, thanking me for being obedient, and I still look out during the day, especially at dusk, to see several people on the roof of the prayer room. And while the wind often knocks things over, I just go and repair them, because that is how the 
enemy is. He tries to destroy what the Lord has built, but we are called to never give up and to continue the work regardless of if the enemy tries to destroy it every day, week or hour. This is a place the Lord has built, and is consecrated to Him, for both our squad, the squad coming in next month, and we will pray it remains for the one coming in July. I know the Lord is going to use it to spur great things, and many to greater intimacy with Him, including myself.
As for our squad, we begin another 24 hours of continual prayer Saturday night, and will do so the two Saturdays after as well. We could greatly use your prayers for every Saturday, and for the rest of the week, that we remain vigilant, as the enemy is at work attacking this ministry hard. The Lord has called us to be a people of prayer, and I encourage you to obey Him in everything He might be directing you to do. It is always worth it and you will be amazed and humbled by what the Lord does.
I will leave you with the verse the Lord gave my teammate Liz, which leans against the wall of the prayer room:
“I have posted watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no rest, and give Him no rest, till He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.” – Isaiah 62:6
