Piotrków-Trybunalski, Poland
Thursday, February 12, 2009
.
Spiritual Mapping and Prayer Walking
We are at war! Literally. Not a war waged against human governments or over oil prices. But a spiritual war for the souls of people. Specifically, people here in Piotrków-Trybunalski, Poland.
.
Every morning we spend time in worship and prayer before home schooling starts. The weapon of our praise is a powerful one! We sense the Lord strengthening our arms as a family for battle.
.
Today, after Polish lessons during the kid’s home schooling time, we put up a map of Piotrków-Trybunalski, next to a map of the region, and began spiritually mapping this city. As a family, we are starting with the area immediately surrounding the church (the church is marked in the picture with a RED push pin, the area of focus is with the square marked by the GREEN push pins). This is an area of approximately two blocks on the north, south, east and west of the church. We will prayer walk this area weekly, adding more and more areas on the map as we sense the leading to further the boundaries around the church.
.
Spiritual Mapping and Prayer Walking
We are at war! Literally. Not a war waged against human governments or over oil prices. But a spiritual war for the souls of people. Specifically, people here in Piotrków-Trybunalski, Poland.
.
Every morning we spend time in worship and prayer before home schooling starts. The weapon of our praise is a powerful one! We sense the Lord strengthening our arms as a family for battle.
.
Today, after Polish lessons during the kid’s home schooling time, we put up a map of Piotrków-Trybunalski, next to a map of the region, and began spiritually mapping this city. As a family, we are starting with the area immediately surrounding the church (the church is marked in the picture with a RED push pin, the area of focus is with the square marked by the GREEN push pins). This is an area of approximately two blocks on the north, south, east and west of the church. We will prayer walk this area weekly, adding more and more areas on the map as we sense the leading to further the boundaries around the church.
.
.
.
.
.
Today we started by praying in the church building itself. We anointed every door and window of the small chapel and claimed it as a safe place, praying against any demonic spirits that would try to hinder what God would want to do in the lives of the people who enter that place of worship every week (Maybe this has happened already, but we are new here and aren't sure, so we proceeded anyway). A verse came to us: Romans 16:20, “And the God of peace will soon crush Satan underneath your feet.” We proclaimed this out loud and pleaded the blood of Jesus over the church building. Wow! What a powerful time of prayer it was!
Today we started by praying in the church building itself. We anointed every door and window of the small chapel and claimed it as a safe place, praying against any demonic spirits that would try to hinder what God would want to do in the lives of the people who enter that place of worship every week (Maybe this has happened already, but we are new here and aren't sure, so we proceeded anyway). A verse came to us: Romans 16:20, “And the God of peace will soon crush Satan underneath your feet.” We proclaimed this out loud and pleaded the blood of Jesus over the church building. Wow! What a powerful time of prayer it was!
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
We headed out and prayer walked the area around the church. Our prayers were (and will be) focused on: (1) God loosening the grip of any spiritual strongholds in that specific geographical area, (2) God removing the blindfolds that the enemy has placed on people’s lives, (3) God preparing the hearts of the people to hear and respond to the gospel, (4) Opportunities for the Christ-followers here to share the gospel with the people in this area and (5) That the peace of God and the Holy Spirit would powerfully sweep through the area, into every home.
We headed out and prayer walked the area around the church. Our prayers were (and will be) focused on: (1) God loosening the grip of any spiritual strongholds in that specific geographical area, (2) God removing the blindfolds that the enemy has placed on people’s lives, (3) God preparing the hearts of the people to hear and respond to the gospel, (4) Opportunities for the Christ-followers here to share the gospel with the people in this area and (5) That the peace of God and the Holy Spirit would powerfully sweep through the area, into every home.
.
We would absolutely love it if you would pray over these five prayer points with us. Let’s do battle together. Scripture says something to the effect that just one of us can set a thousand to flight; just two of us can send the legions fleeing. What if a whole bunch of us were hitting our knees in prayer? How frustrated and scared would the enemy be? This last Wednesday afternoon we began praying together; some missionary friends and us specifically doing spiritual warfare together. This Sunday, we will be meeting with them and a Polish couple who are believers, along with our missionary friends at their house after church. We will be looking specifically at things done throughout the history of Piotrków-Trybunalski that may have opened the doors to the oppression and strongholds that have dominion here. Then we will seek God’s wisdom as to how to pray against these things, and even go to the places where footholds may have been established to pray. We will keep you filled on as this war progresses.
.
We would absolutely love it if you would pray over these five prayer points with us. Let’s do battle together. Scripture says something to the effect that just one of us can set a thousand to flight; just two of us can send the legions fleeing. What if a whole bunch of us were hitting our knees in prayer? How frustrated and scared would the enemy be? This last Wednesday afternoon we began praying together; some missionary friends and us specifically doing spiritual warfare together. This Sunday, we will be meeting with them and a Polish couple who are believers, along with our missionary friends at their house after church. We will be looking specifically at things done throughout the history of Piotrków-Trybunalski that may have opened the doors to the oppression and strongholds that have dominion here. Then we will seek God’s wisdom as to how to pray against these things, and even go to the places where footholds may have been established to pray. We will keep you filled on as this war progresses.
.
Christian Young
No comments:
Post a Comment