Prayer Ministry

Prayer Ministry... some call it street evangelism,  I believe though this was more prayer ministry.    Our class had a unique and blessed privilege today to go out into the streets of Down Town Waterloo and pray for people.  Tuesday we had someone come into class and spent 3 hours teaching us all sorts of "strategies" for approaching and talking to people.  During his talking he used the example of when we ask someone if there's something we can pray for them for they say they have nothing. Then we ask them if their could be one miracle in their life today what would it be. In his example he said "world peace" and then the 'people' shoved the rest off. He then asked this imaginary person if he wanted to know peace and they said that just the world needed peace.   I happened to use a very similar response when I got to be the person someone talks to during our practice time.   This morning we had someone else come and teach us a bit more for about an hour.   Then we prayed and asked God to show us what or who to look for as we walk the streets.  God showed us all a number of things, and we made a big list of them all.  Many of them that God spoke to different people were about the same person or ended up being the same person.

For example God showed me (and another classmate) to look for a man in a suit with dark sunglasses, He also showed one of the leaders to look for something fancy, and another one of my classmates a lime green car.  Also God had shown someone to look for something with the pancreas.  When one of the groups was walking out on the streets they saw a man with dark sunglasses waring a fancy suit.  As they were questioning whether that was they guy God wanted them to talk to or not a bright lime green car drove past.  That was the answer, and they got to really talk to the guy and pray for him.   As they were praying for they guy, one of the leaders, being lead by the Holy Spirit, prays that him or someone in his family will be healed of their cancer in the pancreas.  Immediately the guy stopped with a shocked look on his face and asked, "who told you that?"  When the team told him God told them that he replied, "no, who really told you that?"  Again the team told him that it was God.  He kept wanting to know "how God told you that".  They were able to show him the list of things that God had told us to look for, the man in a dark suit and pancreas and such.  And so the man was absolutely amazed by it and the conversation went on

Anyways we split up into 4 teams of 3, each team had two girls and one guy.   I was in a group with Jasmine and Janette.   Through the hour to hour and a half, we were privileged to talk to 9 different people.  So we were dropped off at an intersection and we reviewed the list of things to look for and then started off in prayer.  As we were walking we past a Toyota parking lot that had a lime green car in it.  Since our list of what God had shown us to look for consisted of a lime green car, a parking lot and a building with large windows (all of which this dealership had) we walked around the parking lot for a bit.  As we were walking in, I noticed a purple car (God had just shown me the color purple to look for).  But after a bit, we didn't feel like there was anyone here that God was calling us to go pray for, so we left.  On the way out I noticed another purple car - odd.   We walked up the street, but as we got close to the end, we all felt that God was saying that we missed something back behind us.  Not wanting to miss someone God wanted us to pray for, we crossed the street and headed back, keeping our eyes open for something else on the list.   As we got close to where we started we felt that we were still missing something.  God told me to go back up the street again and again until we find what He was showing us.   So we crossed the street and headed back up again.  Right after we crossed the street I noticed another purple car sitting on the edge of the Toyota parking lot.  So feeling God was calling us back to the dealership, we headed back.  As we were walking into the parking lot, and older couple was walking out, the wife had a yellow jacket on (which was also on the list) and we all felt that we should go talk to them.  So we did and when we asked them if there was something we could pray for them for the said no, and when we asked about a miracle, the wife replied "peace in the world".   Long story short, we then asked her if she wanted to know peace in her life, and she replied "peace in the world is what we need", then they left.  Almost exactly as the practice had gone two days ago.

We, Janette, Jasmine and I, also got to meet someone named Chris, who is an artist and was telling us about a miracle he had with his art.  He also recognized Janette from somewhere and Janette had said that he looked really familiar.  We got to spend some time talking and praying with him.   Then we prayed for a lady crossing the street in a pink shirt (also on the list).  Then we met a guy waiting at a bus stop.  By this time it was starting to sprinkle outside.   The guy's name was Ali.   While talking with him we found that he knew nothing about Jesus and wanted to learn more about him.   As we were talking to him we saw his bus coming down the road.   I had asked him if he wanted a relationship with Jesus and wanted to accept Him into his life and he said yes! But as we were about to pray for/with him to make that decision and explain it more to him, the bus came and he left.  Fired up, we continue to pray for him and I believe that he did give his life to Jesus today praise God!!!   We then continued down the streets in the rain, it was a downpour by now and we were drenched.  Everywhere we walked we prayed and declared and claimed, the streets we walked, for Jesus.    We then came to a gas station and noticed two men and went and talked to them.  The one was an atheist, but he never really finished his answer on why, except to say that he was more on the science side of things.  After praying for those two we continued on and we felt that both of the men accepted what we told them and really needed to hear it, but they just weren't ready to accept Christ.

We then tried praying for a lady on the street, but she said "no" and "no" and left, same as the older man we tried talking to just up the street.  

After it all we all (all 4 groups) got together in a Tim Hortons and shared some of our stories and debriefed.  

Yes this was an awesome experience, but it was more than just an experience, it's something I would like to do again.  Before going out I was scared, fearful and worried.  But I prayed for words to say, courage, boldness and for God to take away my nervousness and well Almighty He sure did.   He continued to remind me of what He's been telling me the past few weeks, "I am with you, you have nothing to fear."