Last week I attended the prayer school in FGAKL. I have attended 3 modules and I have to say although initially I would have never imagined for signing up for something like that but since the first day I attended, I just have to keep going back each day.
Never have I thought that it would be possible to pray (not the casual kinda prayers) for an hour but thanks to the prayers school it is really nice just to pray. Its as if there's drugs in it that keeps you going even though the next day is going to be a real torture to stay awake at work.
It was a torture alright as I try to fight off sleep even while I am in the train. I dropped a few stuff as I slept of while standing in the train and would usually look up to see stares at me. Probably thinking what's wrong with that gal. Nevertheless, I can say that it has been worth it. I do hope to be able to keep up the momentum.
I know I have a long journey ahead. A tough one I'll put it but as long as the Lord is going to be by my side I'm going to keep going and walking this journey. I'm glad that He will never leave me nor forsake me so He will with me alright. If I fall, I'll just stand up and continue on. May He keep me under the shadow of His wings.
One of the testimonies that was really inspiring that was shared by Alice and Mark Godwin, Read on .....
We count it a privilege to have been given the opportunity to pour out our lives for the nations through prayer. Thirty-six years ago we began our ministry in Bogota Colombia. During that time through many different circumstances the Lord gave us a passion for prayer and a calling to change the nation through intercession. We began to pray alone and then five university students joined us each day from 3:00 to 8:00 PM.
This began an adventure that changed our lives. During these intense times in God’s presence, He would show us precise things to pray for. Sometimes we would even see the results of our prayers in the Sunday newspaper. He showed us specific judgments that were coming upon the nation of Colombia. One of these was the eruption of the volcano Nevada del Ruis that exploded in 1985 killing over 20,000 people in the space of one hour. It was through these specific revelations that we knew we were in direct contact with heaven. Around this time God showed us five men that He wanted to raise up. He said, “Once they were in their place of ministry we would see “most of the body of Christ won in Colombia.” We prayed earnestly for these men.
Looking back three decades later we can vividly see the answers to these times of prayer. For example, César and Ricardo were just two instruments that the Lord has used to bring revival to Colombia. César and his wife Claudia helped found the G-12 movement. In 1996 when the revival came to Colombia he and his wife were attacked and repeatedly shot by Communist guerrillas. They had to leave Colombia and flee to Miami. During his two years of exile the Lord added to his already burgeoning church 32,000 cell groups. The Lord raised up another brother, Ricardo Rodriguez, who began to influence many people. Recently when they got together at Christmastime there were over 200,000 people gathered together to worship Jesus in the park, something unheard of three decades ago.
There were many others whom God blessed as a mighty revival descended upon the nation of Colombia. When we went to Colombia in 1976 there were less than one half of one per cent of the population who were born again believers. Today, according to the book “Operation World” twenty percent know Christ. It was this revival in Colombia that sparked men in South Africa to start the World Day of Prayer. They reasoned that if God could do this in Colombia why not in other nations of the world. This revival is also causing great transformations in both the politics and economy of the nation. Their GDP is growing at a rate that causes other nations to envy them.
When we look back we see that one of the main ingredients that brought revival to Colombia were small intense prayer groups gathering together in different cities who prayed until they possessed an open heaven and clear communications from God that motivated them to pray with even greater intensity.
