The first day of ministry here in Nepal we went out into Kathmandu and prayer walked around a part of the town. I’m still pretty new to prayer walking so I was nervous and excited to practice it some more and grow in the wisdom God reveals to me about prayer walking and the power it holds.
In Ireland we had gone to a class on prayer walking and the guy teaching it told us how he does it a lot in the town he lives in. He also told us that the first year he prayer walked through the town there weren’t any young adult suicides. Which is really amazing because young adult suicides have been pretty high in Ireland. We also heard stories of how the crime rate was dwindling on the streets people have been prayer walking on. The local police noticed the change and so now they get with the people and ask them to prayer walk on certain streets that have high crime. Because of these peoples faithfulness the crime rate was dwindling. It’s amazing to see God work.
So this month I went out just trying to listen to God and see what He points out to me to pray for. As I walked the streets we passed a fence and I heard a small child crying. I felt led to pray for the child for healing and comfort. I also prayed protection over that child and that the child would grow up feeling God’s presence and seeking God’s face. I prayed for comfort for the child as well and not long after saying amen the child quit crying. Grant it you can argue and tell me I will never now if the child just stopped on it’s own or if God truly did come and wipe the tears from the child’s eyes and comfort the child. And you would have a good argument from the world’s perspective. But from the perspective God’s been giving me of late I believe He truly did comfort that child, whether He used another human being to provide that comfort or whether He used His spirit I’m not sure. But I do believe and I’m starting to believe more.
We continued to walk and I continued to pray and feel closer and closer to God as my Father and me talked to each other.
As we were walking God drew my eyes to a young girl kind of to the side in the back of an ally coming out of a curtained room with two older men waiting outside for her. I just felt led to pray protection on this young lady against human trafficking and against evil. I felt I should pray true love over her and that she may some day know the love that her heavenly Father has for her. I don’t know for sure if those were just weird random thoughts that just popped in my head or if that was actually God revealing those words to me to pray over that little girl. I probably will never find out, but that’s okay. One of the lessons I’ve been learning through out my life is it’s better to be a fool for Christ than to hold back and miss out.
