This is what happened last night at my personal home Bible study prayer group.
I just thought I would give you an ‘after’ the prayer-- report. Sort of like how after the “rain”—it can make everything feel fresh and rejuvenated? A time with 5 sweet gals and a candle lit room with no one but the presence of the Holy Spirit and Us. It was what I call a “SPA” experience. (I will explain in more detail at our TBS Bible study November 7)
Prayer, as awkward as it can be, is actually a rejuvenating and refreshing experience. All you have to do is enter in to His Rest.
Well, tonight was different in the fact that everybody held a prayer for each one in attendance. Let me explain.
On a piece of paper I requested that we each write down ONE prayer request, and place it in the bowl. We did that.
Later in the session after we prayed for missionaries—Whales and the Philippines
There was silence, and then I first began to pray over my piece of paper. Taking the focus off our own request, we each prayed over the request we held in our hands, out loud, one at a time. It was like someone was discerning your need and it was being spoken before a private group who determined to see this need met.
I have found that when you pray out loud for someone else it strengthens your prayer life into a whole other way of praying-thinking-speaking, especially when you are praying for someone else. Solely concentrating on someone else’s need in a moment is in fact, refreshing and rewarding.
Everybody’s prayer request has been prayed over—specifically and profoundly.
There was no extravagance in the prayers, they were simply sweet words of agreement to the Father about the request we each held in our hands.
It was powerful in the moment and much like a SPA experience, we all left the circle rejuvenated. You can never explain the presence of the Holy Spirit; you just have to enter into a place with Him. Have you?
Oh, and those ‘request’ now belong to the prayer giver to take home and keep praying over through out the rest of the Weeks ahead. (Along with the many request I have taken from individuals throughout the weeks prior) Only God knows what He will do with that prayer seed we planted last night. But I am certain He heard us and we will see the manifestations of those needs.
See, PRAYER is special and prayer is only for the ones who choose to enter into a New Experience with the Holy Spirit.
It is much like a SPA. Have you ever been to one, or had a massage? It’s the unknown and its uncertainty is exciting and though it can seem even a little creepy to think that someone is “getting into your space” in order to make you feel better, well, it’s worth the ache. So, I ask you personally, have you entered into prayer for an hour? Then I invite you and encourage you to come when you receive the invitation to do so. Not for me or anyone else but for you.
I love the SPA treatment. I look forward to the refreshing.
I will explain more about the word SPA, at our next T. B. S.
I PRAY you have a WONDERFULLY BLESSED AND PROSPEROUS DAY!
I pray you find a place of rest!
May I, if you would for a moment allow me to teach: Open your heart?
The Holy Spirit is a full fledge experience of entering into REST. Not the rest that many think about, like slumber, or laziness or sleep but rather it is an actual rest as in Isaiah 28:12 “To whom He said, “This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest, and this is the refreshing, yet they would not hear.”
The scripture above that one, in verse 11 it says; “With stammering lips and other tongues, He will speak to his people.”
Isaiah was prophesying that the REST was actually the tongues and stammering lips, which is “the SPEAKING.”
Don’t miss being filled greater with the Holy Spirit, written in the book of Hebrews --Hebrews 4:1. The REST which Paul is speaking about is the same Rest that ISAIAH prophesied about in the verse above. Only Paul says; “since a promise remains of entering into HIS REST, let us FEAR, lest any of you seem to have come short of it.” (This is the written Word, not mine.)
I do not want you to miss any of this WORD, and be absent of HIS presence toward our life. Like a luxurious SPA, the Holy Spirit is asking you to come in and take a place with Him.
Enter into HIS REST! Pray—Pray fervently---Pray in the understanding and Pray in the Spirit. Pray in the REST! Enter into HIS REST! Pray—Pray fervently---Pray in the understanding and Pray in the Spirit. Pray in the REST! Like my daddy used to always say; "SHAUNDI!!" A stammered word from the LIP of His people. When you pray, you just don't know what may come out of your mouth. I prompt and encourage you to take time to communicate with HIM!
Holly
