| The Power of Prayer...Sorry that I've been neglecting Xanga! I got a Myspace (romans8_38) and I hate it but I've become addicted to it, nonetheless!! I will get to the amazing part in a sec., but first: Emma, her mom, and I went shopping today for skirts and dresses for Nicaragua since we can't wear pants there. We got quite a bit of stuff! Yea! =D Are you ready for this?!!! It will blow your mind!
Last night I went to an intense prayer night with my youth group at church. It was only for those who were really interested- there were about fifteen of us there. This lady, Pam Hood, whom I've never met before in my life, but is one of the guys' mom's in our group, was the speaker. She and I introduced ourselves to each other before she gave the message. She was talking about the power of prayer and her son gave a little testimony of prayer in his life as well.
Mind-Blowing Part Numero Uno: Zach, the son, said that when he was in seventh grade, he had a really bad knee injury from playing basketball- his growth plates separated from each other so he had to limp and hobble around. He went to this Christian youth conference and they were all in prayer. The guy on stage was randomly calling out for God to heal people in the audience. Zach quietly prayed to himself, "Lord, I know that I don't have cancer, and my knee injury isn't a life or death thing, but I also know that you take interest in the small stuff. Could you please tell that man on stage to say something about You healing someone's knees, and then I'll know that You did it." AS SOON as he finished that last part of his prayer, Zach said that the man on stage stopped for a second and said, "There's someone here who's knees need to be healed; Lord, heal them!" And then all of a sudden, Zach said that he COULD FEEL HIS GROWTH PLATES SLIDING BACK TOGETHER and he went back to the doctor, and the doctor said that he was fine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Isn't that absolutely AMAZING?!!!
Anyway, so that totally blew my mind when he told us that, so I thought I'd share that with you. Now for MY amazing experience.
Mind-Blowing Part Numero Dos: So Pam started praying and after about five minutes she stopped, so everyone looked up, including me. She turned and looked directly at me and said while pointing to me, "Caitie, God has put you on my heart right now... you have compassion for someone or something. God says that you have compassion and I should pray for you!" I was like: ::jaw drops then nods head::. What do you say to that?! So she rushed over to me (and some other people did to) and they stood in a circle around me, putting their hands on me and praying for me- about something that they had no idea about!! I started tearing up because it was just so amazing!!! They got done and she looked at me and asked if there's something that really is sticking out to me about compassion, and I told her about how I really have a heart for witnessing to those in Hollywood- the celebs, and many people have been discouraging me, even though I have this burning desire to go there and reach out to them. -That's the only thing I could think about when they were praying for me!!! I hadn't told ANYONE about that at church before because this burning desire has only just come up recently! Now I know that this is from God and that this is His will for me!!!!! I'm going to Hollywood, guys! I have no idea how or when, but God will make a way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This experience was just so amazing because this lady doesn't even know me and she was so intense!! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!
Mind-blowing Part Numero Tres: We must've prayed an hour and a half straight through- the time flew though. About four or five people prayed for a girl in the group because her name came to their hearts and another guy said that the word "relationships" was coming to his mind for this girl. Right when he said that, she started crying. It was so from God!!!! A few instances happened like that. Another thing that was awesome: A guy for some reason prayed for Satan to just leave us and flee from us because we are so strong in Christ. There was power from God in his voice. Right when he said "Satan, flee," I felt this weight- this force I cannot describe repel off of me and I started shaking! Lately I've felt disconnected from God, but when he said "Satan, flee," Satan came out/off of me and now I feel so connected with God, it's amazing. I felt so free after he said that and I couldn't stop shaking. AHHH, GOD IS SOOOOO COOOOOLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! God bless!!!!
Love from your sister in Christ.
Today I thank God for: being able to have a close relationship with Him through PRAYER! |
