This month I told myself that I would work on prayer. Whether it was in intimacy in my prayer or in the way I listen when I pray. Let me just tell you that God has not held back on the opportunities in prayer.
My team and I have spent multiple hours in prayer in just these last five days. We have spent hours praying over each other for healing, courage, and strength. We have prayed for men, women, and children. We have prayed over our community and protection for it, because a lot of people don’t want us here. We have prayed during spiritual battles and during physical and emotional battles. Every day starts with prayer and every night ends with prayer. Honestly it would be almost impossible to go a whole day without some kind of prayer.
On one night in particular, actually our first night here in Pueblo Nuevo, Nicaragua my team and I were being attacked by some very dark spirits. These spirits did not want us here at all and were doing everything to get us out of here. That night we were in and out of prayer, worship and battling whatever was attacking us for around five hours. We were latter informed by our ministry host that this town is known for its witch craft. That most people around here either believe in it or practice some form of it. It was a hard realization for some of us that this was what we were stepping into.
In the midst of everything that was going on that night, I felt that I should get on my hands and knees and pray. I prayed over the community, the house we were staying at, friends and family, and my teammates. I also prayed that the Holy Spirit would enter the room we were in and I was not disappointed. I got up off of my hands and was just on my bended knees praying. My chest felt so light and so warm, my hands were shaking and my eyes could not open. There was only what I could describe as a warm comfortable presence around me. Our ministry host latter told me that the reason my body shakes while praying is that my body and soul can feel the presence of the Holy Spirit and is an awe of it. She says that when I shake while praying that the Spirit becomes more alive in me.
Five days. That’s all I apparently needed for the Spirit to come alive in me and be stronger than it has ever been before. Prayer is truly a powerful thing.
