Testimonies from the Prayer Room
This semester we have been doing some things different when it comes to how we approach prayer in our Discipleship Training Schools and School of Worship. Typically we will break schools up into intercession groups that will meet on a weekly basis to seek the Lord together. These groups meet each week to give the Lord time to teach us how to pray. We spend time waiting on the Lord to speak to us and tell us what He wants us to pray for. It is always an awesome experience to see students learn that they can hear the voice of the Lord.
This semester, in addition to our normal model, the Lord has also given us a new strategy. Two afternoons a week we come together in the prayer chapel at YWAM Tyler and we spend an hour simply ministering to the Lord. We usually start out with a time of worshipping the Lord with singing and declaring scripture. We will also take time to corporately meditate on God’s word. We will let the Lord show us what scripture He wants us to base our prayers out of and then we ask God to come and give us revelation about His character and His heart for us and the world.
God has been so faithful to respond to the prayers of His children as they hunger and thirst after Him. Over the course of this semester, I have seen the Lord’s presence increase in intensity with each passing meeting. The Lord has lead us and taught us by His Spirit each week. One meeting in particular, I felt the Lord continue to urge us to aggressively press in to worship Him. He had me encourage the class several times to press in pass the resistance of their flesh. So often we grow weary of prayer because we lack the discipline of pressing through our fleshly desires to quit. As we continued to press in in worship and prayer the room was suddenly filled with the Joy of the Lord. The students broke into authentic high praise that lasted for a good 10 to 15 minutes. These students were shouting and dancing before the Lord. His Spirit was empowering them to worship with out shame or any fear of man. It was amazing.
Almost as suddenly as the Lord’s joy entered the room, His peace entered the room. It was as if the Holy Spirit flipped a switch and brought the whole group to a place of peaceful silence before Him. As we sat there in silence before the Lord, I heard His Spirit whisper to me that this was the place that ministry flowed from. He was telling us that ministry in His kingdom comes from the place of resting in Him. He had also taught us that sometimes it takes perseverance and discipline to get our hearts in a place of rest before Him. He had us push and push for 30 minutes of aggressive, concentrated worship and prayer before He released His joy in the room. Sometimes we have to press through the resistance of our flesh in order to really trust and rest in Him.
In this place of rest, He had me ask if there was any of the students that had come in with burdens or heaviness. Then we divided up around those students and their peers began to minister the hope and encouragement of the Lord to them. It was amazing. People were set free from the bondage of a lifetime of hurts and frustration. God brought a new sense of identity and revealed His great love to them.
We also had a word of knowledge that God wanted to heal someone’s right wrist. Two people responded to the invitation for healing and God healed both of them right there on the spot. Amen. God is so faithful. One of the students whose wrist got healed had crushed her wrist in high school and had never regained full mobility of it. While the students were praying for her wrist, it began to pop on the inside and 100% of her mobility was restored.
I praise God everyday for the privilege of helping to lead these times. He has taught me so much about prayer and the way His Spirit moves. I hope this short testimony has been as encouraging to you as it has been to me.
God bless,
Kurt
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