For our second country in Eastern Europe, we have the ATL month. Ask the Lord. It is a time where we get to pray into what God has for us, a nation He would like us to go to, not necessarily a nation decided for us by the World Race. The World Race is actually eliminating this after our squad. So we were grateful to have one last ATL time. Our time was condensed to 10 days instead of one month. Our team prayed into it and felt led to go to Prague, Czech Republic. We spent 10 days there. Now we are in Moldova to finish out the rest of month 10.
In Prague, our mission was to be a part of an IHOP. International House of Prayer. I didn’t even know they had these in other parts of the world. Our contacts actually started it. Our contacts were amazing! They are from Texas and moved to Prague many years ago and then recently began an IHOP. I had just been exposed to these for a short time in the states and thought they were amazing places of worship and prayer. To attend one in Prague was amazing!
When we arrived we met our contacts and were given a mini history about Prague and the Czech
Republic. One thing really stuck out to me about sowing and reaping. I know it about my personal life, but this was a new level of seeing it with a nation. What gets sowed into a nation, good or bad, just like our lives, will be reaped continuously generations later until it is stopped. She explained that because of communism and all the informants placed in the nation, many people began to close off and didn’t talk to each other. The government would say free speech, but if someone, including your neighbor, disagreed with you or did not like what you had to say, they would just turn you in. Or often times, the person was in fact an informant. This sowed a distrust into the land. And people just stopped really opening up and talking to each other. Still, generations later, there is a distrust and a lack of talking freely or sharing your heart with others. What was sown into the land decades earlier is still being reaped today. People are closed off. There is a hardness amongst the nation. And often we don’t even realize that we are reaping something that we shouldn’t be. These people are reaping a way of life that God does not want them to reap. We sow things into this world. I pray we grow even more aware of this. I pray we sow good things into our lives, our children’s lives and our friend’s lives.
