Walking with the Holy Spirit
In the beginning of the month, the leaders told us that a few of us would be doing a prayer walk every morning before ministry began. And friends, I have never even heard of a prayer walk and felt super intimidated by it. I was thinking there is no way I can focus my mind for that long to pray, especially with all the distractions around us. I imagined a prayer walk to be extremely awkward and silent…yikes. To sum it up, I was NOT looking forward to it. So after a few days of hearing about the prayer walk…I finally went on one. And just like I expected, it was weird. My first prayer walk experience was all the awkwardness I expected it to be. I felt a lot of negativity towards it and did not want to go back but luckily, I did not get what I wanted. My next prayer walk was the start of something so beautiful. It was the start of me feeling so alive in the Spirit.
So as we were walking, I asked God to see with His eyes. I began by just thanking God and praying to feel what He feels. And out of nowhere, I began to feel this heaviness. My chest felt like it weighed 20 pounds and I was out of breathe. I did not understand this feeling and did not know who it was coming from. Was the heaviness from the Spirit? Was the heaviness from the darkness? I did not know what I was fighting, but I knew I was in battle. I asked some of my squad mates if they felt the same and guess what? THEY DID and they were wondering if anyone else felt the same! It was wild.
And this was just the beginning.
I have gone on many prayer walks since and y’all, God is with us.
Time and time again, the Lord has allowed me to feel the heaviness of the spiritual war going on around me. I began to really question this heaviness and wanted to receive wisdom over it. I asked a squad leader their wisdom behind this and He said something that stuck with me.
He explained it as two fists colliding. One hand was the Holy Spirit and the other one was the spiritual darkness around me. THEY ARE IN COLLISION and God has allowed me to feel it. It is SO COOL and I feel so armored by God.
Yesterday the Lord did something so cool during a prayer walk and I am so excited to share it with you guys! So on Sundays, they do a voluntary prayer walk and it is basically whoever wants to go. So y’all already know I volunteered to go! Haha! 6 of us began our walk and I asked the Lord to let me feel the spiritual battle we were walking in. And guess what!!! I felt nothing. And I had to be okay with that and praise God anyways. So thats whats I did. I just hummed worship music and thanked God for all He has been doing in me and through me. And then…out of nowhere…
BOOM.
I felt like I ran into a brick wall.
My chest fell and my heart sunk.
It felt like I could not catch my breathe
and I said to my fellow squad mates,
“Did anyone else feel that?”
Most people responded with a “Kinda” (at first) but one person also felt heaviness, just in a different way.
But the Lord stopped me.
He literally had me walk into a spiritual wall and as a team, He wanted us to go into battle.
We all looked up to see the building that caused the Holy Spirit to literally stop us in our tracks and no kidding, we were in front of a building that was for psychic readings.
We walked into a battlefield.
This building was also very close to a park that holds a lot of witchcraft in it. We knew God wanted us to stop. He wanted us to fight, in the Spirit, against anyone who has been held captive by this false god. He wanted us fight this battle through prayer. So that is what we did and as we began to pray, my squad mate felt her stomach turn upside down. After she experienced this, this man came up right behind her to walk into the building that is holding the psychic readings. She began to pray for that man. This man had a complete stranger praying for his soul to be saved. And after we experienced this AMAZING encounter with the Holy Spirit, another squad mate talked about how the Lord had highlighted someone and she knew deep within she needed to pray with this woman. And God is SOOO COOL! Because we ran into this woman on our way back and prayed for her. And then another woman who was standing right next to her asked where we were going and we then had the oppurtunity to invite her to church AND SHE CAME!!!
Prayer walks have changed my heart in a HUGE way and I truly believe the Lord is doing a huge thing in me. He literally stopped me to pray. He had me walk into a wall that could not be seen by human eyes and this reminds of the verse,
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” Ephesians 6:12
THIS IS SO COOL!!!
