Piotrków-Trybunalski, Poland
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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Prayer Walking
Yesterday, we were able to continue to engage in spiritual warfare here in Piotrków-Trybunalski, by going on a prayer walk with another missionary couple. We took a route that we had not yet taken. It was sort of a loop, north of our friends’ house. Once again, we believe that God’s favor was upon our time as we cried out to Him on behalf of this city.
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The neighborhoods that we walked through were those which in which poverty was evident; both physical and spiritual poverty. We prayed against a spirit of poverty in the area, and that the Lord would draw the people living in that area to Himself, as it is often at the lowest point in people’s lives that they search for God. We also prayed against a spirit of addiction, as we saw empty bottles of liquor strewn about the streets. We know for fact that this is a huge problem in Poland. It is really neat how the missionaries here that we work with have so many contacts in the city. As we would pass certain blocks of flats, our missionary friends would tell us stories of people with whom they have built relationships over the years. And so we prayed for these people by name. We also prayed over the schools and orphanages that we passed.
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We also had three divine appointments on this prayer walk. The first was with a lady who our friends knew. As we walked up to her to greet her, some Jehovah’s Witnesses were talking to her. We found out that they had been “proselytizing” her for a while, and we explained to her that they don’t teach the truth as found in Scripture, but have erroneous anti-biblical teachings. The JW’s took off as soon as we approached this lady. Next we ran into a man who attends our church here in PT. His place of work is on the way back to our friends’ house. Anyway, he saw us walking by out of the window and we stopped in to say, “Cześć.” Come to find out he wasn’t feeling good and was sick with some sort of cold or flu. We were able to pray for him and encourage him. Then, as we continued walking, we ran into a young man who I met on our first missions trip to Poland back in 2007. He is a young man who had given His life to Christ through the ministry of the local church here in PT, and even went on many trips with our team in 2007. He has since walked away from the church and we aren’t sure where he is at with God. I saw him across the street and he came across to greet us. I embraced him and got his phone number. He would like to meet with me after we get back from our road trip to the U.K. in a couple of weeks. Praise God! What a wonderful prayer walk in was, today, even though we were missing some of our warfare prayer team due to sickness.
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Prayer Walking
Yesterday, we were able to continue to engage in spiritual warfare here in Piotrków-Trybunalski, by going on a prayer walk with another missionary couple. We took a route that we had not yet taken. It was sort of a loop, north of our friends’ house. Once again, we believe that God’s favor was upon our time as we cried out to Him on behalf of this city.
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The neighborhoods that we walked through were those which in which poverty was evident; both physical and spiritual poverty. We prayed against a spirit of poverty in the area, and that the Lord would draw the people living in that area to Himself, as it is often at the lowest point in people’s lives that they search for God. We also prayed against a spirit of addiction, as we saw empty bottles of liquor strewn about the streets. We know for fact that this is a huge problem in Poland. It is really neat how the missionaries here that we work with have so many contacts in the city. As we would pass certain blocks of flats, our missionary friends would tell us stories of people with whom they have built relationships over the years. And so we prayed for these people by name. We also prayed over the schools and orphanages that we passed.
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We also had three divine appointments on this prayer walk. The first was with a lady who our friends knew. As we walked up to her to greet her, some Jehovah’s Witnesses were talking to her. We found out that they had been “proselytizing” her for a while, and we explained to her that they don’t teach the truth as found in Scripture, but have erroneous anti-biblical teachings. The JW’s took off as soon as we approached this lady. Next we ran into a man who attends our church here in PT. His place of work is on the way back to our friends’ house. Anyway, he saw us walking by out of the window and we stopped in to say, “Cześć.” Come to find out he wasn’t feeling good and was sick with some sort of cold or flu. We were able to pray for him and encourage him. Then, as we continued walking, we ran into a young man who I met on our first missions trip to Poland back in 2007. He is a young man who had given His life to Christ through the ministry of the local church here in PT, and even went on many trips with our team in 2007. He has since walked away from the church and we aren’t sure where he is at with God. I saw him across the street and he came across to greet us. I embraced him and got his phone number. He would like to meet with me after we get back from our road trip to the U.K. in a couple of weeks. Praise God! What a wonderful prayer walk in was, today, even though we were missing some of our warfare prayer team due to sickness.
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Christian Young
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