Piotrków-Trybunalski, PolandSunday, July 12, 2009
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Praying At The Gates Of The City
It has been so great having Angie and Teri here with us this last week. One thing that Angie heard from the Lord back in 2007 was that she is supposed to come to Poland to pray. So in the continuation of our warfare prayer in the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski, Angie and Teri joined our prayer team as we prayed at the gates of the city.
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Earlier this year, as we were spiritually mapping the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski, one of our warfare prayer team members had a word from the Lord about praying at the gates of the city, along with a Scripture passage found in Psalm 24:7. We all gathered last night at one of the couple’s homes to gather for prayer and worship before we actually went to pray at the gates. Oh man, there was so much resistance in the spirit even as we gathered and began to talk about praying at the gates. I mean, some of us were experiencing painful physical manifestations, as well as sleepiness as we began our time together. One of the warfare prayer team members wasn’t feeling up to going and praying at the gates. There was just so much opposition. Even Jordan began to feel sick to her stomach. So we entered a time of worship and prayer, hoping to shake off the resistance. There was a release enough for most of us to take our places under the anointing of God. But it was getting late, and we knew we would only have time to pray at one gate. So we decided to wait on the Lord for clarity on which gate we should pray at.
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After spending time waiting on God, we discussed what God was revealing to each one of us. There have been some really neat prophetic things happening in our lives, and in this city. We had purchased our airline tickets to Mozambique earlier in the year, after praying for the Lord’s leading, and found that it would be 9 months that we would have spent here in the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski, Poland by the time we left. We had some words given to us having to do with this, concerning the fact that 9 months is the gestation period before a woman gives birth. We had felt as though our 9 month stay here was going to give birth to something in the Spirit, but weren’t sure what it was. Our warfare prayer team has been praying for the unity of all believers in this city, including some of the fringe groups that don’t have a church building, but gather for fellowship in homes.
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We have been doing a lot of ministry in Radomsko at the Pentecostal church for the last couple of months. Well just a couple of weeks ago, pastor Wiesław from Radomsko, invited our family to the church to meet about something that has been stirring in his heart. He really wants us to work with them, and even is hoping that our Africa plans might change in order that we might move to Radomsko and minister with them. But Wiesław really began to cast a vision that God had given him and the staff in Radomsko about starting a work in the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski. The thing is, he doesn’t just want to simply plant another church, but he wants to gather other pastors in the city, as well as other believers from these pockets in the city, to pray together, and work together for the sake of furthering the kingdom of God, not the kingdom of man in Piotrków-Trybunalski. Of course, there is very probably a church plant involved in this, a sister church to the one in Radomsko, but his vision goes beyond denominational barriers. This is what we have been praying for the last 6 months! He has begun to meet with others, and is pushing forward to begin this NEW WORK in Piotrków-Trybunalski. Perhaps our connection with this group from Radomsko, and there vision for PT, have something to do with our 9 month stay here. We definitely are sensing this connection.
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So as we prayed about which gate to pray at, it was looking as though it could be between the road that leads to the city of Łódź and the road that leads to the city of Radomsko, right at the city border of PT. Then one of the people from our prayer team that there have been a lot of floods lately in the south of Poland, due to the tremendous amount of rain we have had. And that the natural flow of water would be from the mountains in the south traveling north to the Baltic Sea, right through the southern gate of the city, coming from Radomsko through the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski. Wow! I also felt that I heard from God on this. I just began to thank God for the vision and heart for PT that those in Radomsko had. Then I saw the map of the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski in my mind, and I felt that we should pray at the southern gate, the road coming from Radomsko, and NOT pray at the other gates yet. I felt as though in the Spirit, this gate was to be lifted, or opened, and that the River of the Holy Spirit was to enter through this gate, and fill the entire city with the Holy Spirit, like a giant flood plain. Then, after the work of the Holy Spirit had been fulfilled in the city, that other people at a later time were to pray at the other gates of the city, opening them up so that the Spirit of God would flow into all other areas of Poland.
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This all ties in with what we have all been sensing about the importance of the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski being a key to the rest of Poland. Angie has been talking about the redemptive quality of the city since she has been here. We have concluded that the redemptive quality of Piotrków-Trybunalski is that it is a SEAT OF INFLUENCE, and the tainting of that quality by the Enemy is that it has been twisted into a SEAT OF POWER.
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We traveled to the southern gate, at the border the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski, and just as we got out, our daughter, Jordan, vomited on the side of the road, thus the resistance continued. Earlier this year, the word was revealed that we were to prophetically anoint the city gates with red wine and olive oil, as we were to “prepare the way of the Lord,” and “make straight the crooked paths,” that “the King of glory might come in.” What a powerful experience. Our group prayed and prophesied. Someone stopped and asked us for directions as we prayed on one side of the road, which we also saw as prophetic, as we pointed those people into Piotrków-Trybunalski. I felt as though in the heavenlies, that God wanted to change the name of the city from Piotrków-Trybunalski, which means “Peter’s tribunal” or “the judgment seat of Peter,” to the new name THE SEAT OF JESUS. Then we prayed over one of the people in our group, who we had a word that this person was a gate to the city as well. Then we prayed for Angie, where God did some cool stuff in her. Then we looked to the south and saw that it was a wheat field, and knew that the Lord was showing us that the harvest was coming to the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski. HALLELUJAH!
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So as we prayed about which gate to pray at, it was looking as though it could be between the road that leads to the city of Łódź and the road that leads to the city of Radomsko, right at the city border of PT. Then one of the people from our prayer team that there have been a lot of floods lately in the south of Poland, due to the tremendous amount of rain we have had. And that the natural flow of water would be from the mountains in the south traveling north to the Baltic Sea, right through the southern gate of the city, coming from Radomsko through the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski. Wow! I also felt that I heard from God on this. I just began to thank God for the vision and heart for PT that those in Radomsko had. Then I saw the map of the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski in my mind, and I felt that we should pray at the southern gate, the road coming from Radomsko, and NOT pray at the other gates yet. I felt as though in the Spirit, this gate was to be lifted, or opened, and that the River of the Holy Spirit was to enter through this gate, and fill the entire city with the Holy Spirit, like a giant flood plain. Then, after the work of the Holy Spirit had been fulfilled in the city, that other people at a later time were to pray at the other gates of the city, opening them up so that the Spirit of God would flow into all other areas of Poland.
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This all ties in with what we have all been sensing about the importance of the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski being a key to the rest of Poland. Angie has been talking about the redemptive quality of the city since she has been here. We have concluded that the redemptive quality of Piotrków-Trybunalski is that it is a SEAT OF INFLUENCE, and the tainting of that quality by the Enemy is that it has been twisted into a SEAT OF POWER.
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We traveled to the southern gate, at the border the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski, and just as we got out, our daughter, Jordan, vomited on the side of the road, thus the resistance continued. Earlier this year, the word was revealed that we were to prophetically anoint the city gates with red wine and olive oil, as we were to “prepare the way of the Lord,” and “make straight the crooked paths,” that “the King of glory might come in.” What a powerful experience. Our group prayed and prophesied. Someone stopped and asked us for directions as we prayed on one side of the road, which we also saw as prophetic, as we pointed those people into Piotrków-Trybunalski. I felt as though in the heavenlies, that God wanted to change the name of the city from Piotrków-Trybunalski, which means “Peter’s tribunal” or “the judgment seat of Peter,” to the new name THE SEAT OF JESUS. Then we prayed over one of the people in our group, who we had a word that this person was a gate to the city as well. Then we prayed for Angie, where God did some cool stuff in her. Then we looked to the south and saw that it was a wheat field, and knew that the Lord was showing us that the harvest was coming to the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski. HALLELUJAH!
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Christian Young
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