Prayer (From Rebecca!)

Hey everyone here's more from Rebecca our inspiring writer! :)

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Dear g-zoners! Hope that your souls are prospering! I had an inspiration to write yesterday while waiting for my supervisors to give me work (I’m doing an internship now and it’s quite interesting except that i have to wear painful heels) I thought I’d share some experiences that have caused me to go spiritually these past few years.

My friend once commented to me about speaking in tongues, she said that it feels very repetitive after a while. I admit that when I just started speaking in tongues, I was very conscious of whatever I was saying and sometimes felt that they were simply blabberings from my mouth. It was not until I attended Pst Troy Marshall’s session in bible school last year that I got a breakthrough (I was blessed to be able to attend bible school for a few months). He is a very disciplined and anointed man of God and he said he’d pray strongly in tongues whenever he drives alone in his car, there was even once when the police pulled over and asked him what he was doing. Then he got everyone to pray strongly in tongues for what seemed like a long time (many people were breathless, including me), and to imagine that as we pray rivers of living water flow from our bellies and are released as a heavenly language through the utterances and the words we speak from our mouths. The second encounter was when we broke into small groups to pray for one another and I was very impacted by my friend Xin Lian’s fervent prayers, the power and presence of God came and it was really tangible, I decided that I wanted to pray like her. James 5:16 says the effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

It wasn’t always easy for me to pray an hour everyday, lots of things crop up at the last minute, but one day the Holy Spirit told me that praying is not just a thing that Christians do, but it is also beneficial to our souls. Sometimes we go through life and there might be things that affect us that we are not even aware of (layers of resentment, bitterness, hatred, unforgiveness etc might build up) it is only when we come clean with Jesus, that He melts away all the hurt and pain and shows us a better way and we find that we are renewed in the spirit and mind and become more like Jesus with each passing day.

So I pray for all of us, that we will set aside this precious one hour of our time to spend with our dear God everyday, no matter what happens, no matter how busy or tired we are, no matter what horrible things might have happened to us in the day or how satisfied and happy with life we are to get into His presence. I pray that God will speak to us during this time, that it will not be dry, but it will be well-oiled and we will have an encounter with Jesus.

Get into His presence today and I believe if we cling on to Him not just today but everyday, our zone and church will definitely experience great growth!