Someone is Praying
Is it You?
How long has it been since you talked with the Lord? How long has it been since you prayed in travailing prayer? How long my friend since you prayed though for a loved one or for a complete stranger and petition the Father on their behalf? I have a wonderful experience I would like to share that happened to me about a week ago.
I look for blessings in my life so I therefore receive loads of them daily as the Lord heaps them upon me . I do not have a day that goes by that I cannot find great joy in the simple things of life or learn lifes lessons as I go about the Fathers business.
I attended a Sunday night service at my daughter Amys church to hear an old fashioned revival preacher. He had humor as well as a wealth of knowledge as I listened from the very back of the church pew against the wall. He preached on Hell is Real my Friend. He shared how we all should have the desire to come to the alter and feel and hear and smell the sounds of hell. We should be sensitive to the sounds or cries of a brother, sister, mother, dad, mom as they cried out in agony from hell. He wanted us to smell the smoke the burning of flesh of lost loved ones as they burned eternally in the pit of fire prepared for the devil and his angels. We should only feel a little of the torture and it would make us run to our loved ones and those all around us and share the good news that Jesus came to die for us that we might live eternal life with Him.
At the end of the sermon different ones went to the alter including myself as he mentioned come and feel the pains of hell for that loved one who is lost in the world. I personally feel that every Christian should have that burden for others and intercede to the Father on their behalf that they may come to know Him before it is forever too late. I felt those pains only a touch but painful yet the same as I smelled the smoke and heard the cries of my loved ones who are lost. I interceded to the Father on their behalf that He would draw them to him with His Holy Spirit and save them from this terrible place. God is able to answer this petition and I feel He will as we lift our loved ones up to the Father in prayer daily. I have seen friends saved and I have seen the Father working in my family and loved ones and I know that Heaven is real also. I have eternal life in Him and it is hidden in Him so I know that I will not have to be tormented in this terrible place someday when God takes me home. You see I have eternal life and I will only die physically but spiritually my body is alive and well in His presence. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord. Amen... Amen...
The sermon ended with maybe a dozen going forth and letting God minister His will and His love to them. I believe He showed me that I would not be in this terrible place but many would be crying out for they are lost and burning for ever and it is settled forever where they chose to go. Friend we can choose and we can be saved from this terrible place called Hell.
The minister than asked if he could have around the clock prayer for the three nights of revival. He was asking for volunteers by the hour as the held up their hand. I noticed from 12:00 a.m. to 1:00 it was hard to get a volunteer. I knew before he got to 1:00 to 2:00 that it would be the Lords will for me to pray at that hour. So when he asked several times for this time no one volunteered. I thought this is the time that the Lord has awakened me over and over to pray for someone and this was the time for 20 years that I was unable to sleep and it was a quiet time between me and the Lord as I took my every heartache to Him in prayer. My hand automatically went up as I knew it was meant for me for no one else seemed to volunteer at this time.
The first night I was so terribly sleepy as I tried to stay awake and pray as I continued to look at the clock. I paced the floor to stay awake. My husband was asleep on the couch not knowing that I was in warfare one room away as I prayed for loved ones to be snatched from the snares of satan. I did not know how I should pray other than the lost to be saved by the blood of Jesus. I prayed in the spirit as words would not come to me only agonizing for the souls as the Holy Spirit petitioned the Father on my behalf as well as whom ever needed to be brought to the throne in prayer. I looked at the clock and it was 1:45a.m. I lay down and closed my eyes for just a moment and the next thing you know I looked over and it was 2:00. I became very sorrowful and heavy in my soul as I had fallen asleep those last 15 minutes. The story of how Jesus asked His disciples to pray with Him and to tarry here with Him as He prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane came to me. He came and found them sleeping and He asked, What, could ye not watch with me one hour? I knew how Jesus must of felt when He saw me fall asleep and not watch and pray for one hour with Him. I knew it was important the job I had agreed to take in praying for someone. I had failed and I was very sorrowful in my soul. I then decided to pray for 15 more minutes and make sure I had prayed a full hour for a lost soul. I also wanted to please the Father as He received my petitions for my loved ones. I got up and got a drink of water and begin walking and praying for the next 15 min. I jumped in bed thinking all was well with my soul and the Father continued to have me pray for 2 more hours as I was troubled even more so for the lost.
This continued the next three nights until Wednesday night and it was as automatic as an alarm clock as the Savior awakened me at the appointed time He wanted to come into my presence. I would awaken and look at my alarm clock and it was almost on the dot of 1:00 a.m. I would smile and say Lord I will stay wake one hour with you and it always turn into 2 and 3 hours for I felt that something powerful was happening somewhere and to stop on 2:00 would cause someone to be lost. I had to pray through and I did and I felt the presence of the Lord even the next day as I was reminded to pray at different times. Even though the revival is over I still am awoken at different times since to pray for loved ones.
I thank God for these appointed meetings He arranges for me. I am most blessed as we converse one on one. I know you may think how can you converse with the Lord. My friend, He drops bible verses which is His word into my spirit that I may not have thought of until I talked to Him in prayer. It seems as He fills my mind with His word at this time and comforts me with His spirit of peace and gives me a calming rest as He stills the waters. I know He has heard my prayer for He bears witness with my spirit that all is well and He knows all about it and heard me before I even called out to Him. He knows everything we think or are going to say to Him, before I even open my mouth. I should be careful not to ask amiss but be specific and to the point and He takes care of all the details in follow up as He intercedes to the Father for me on my behalf. I am so glad to know that some one prayed for me at one time and even now for I believe I was drawn the Father by His Spirit as my mother prayed for me at different times when I was astray. He came after me like that one little lost sheep and took me in to the fold with Him as my Good Shepherd.
Children of God, little lambs, pray for one another and see how the flock grows as we are led by the Precious Lamb of God, The Good Shepherd!
I pray that somewhere, someone, is lifting my name up to the Father at this very moment as I feel His presence so strong in my times of trial for I am truly settled and at peace because someone or even my own prayers has brought this about. Lord I praise you and thank you that you have heard me or someone in their time of need. To God be all the Glory.................
Written By Karen {Barnett} Armstrong
January 29,2001