Piotrków-Trybunalski, Poland
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
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First Prayer Meeting
This weekly prayer meeting at 5:30 pm on Wednesdays is specifically focused on warfare prayer over the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski. In attendance tonight were our missionary friends, a Polish couple who are believers, us and one other young lady, also a Polish believer. We discussed with each other what God has been doing in our lives this past week, especially in the area of hearing from Him on warfare prayer points, with our spiritual map of PT in front of us. I had told them all that I was praying for each one of them this week, that God would speak to them, giving them words specific to our upcoming prayer walk downtown this coming Saturday.
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After our discussion time, we went to prayer. It was an awesome time of prayer. After the we had all prayed for a while, we discussed if the Lord had revealed anything to anyone. The Lord gave one of us a verse, Psalm 24:7, which reads, “Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.” Along with the verse, God showed us that we need to pray at each one of the roads leading into Piotrków-Trubanlalski, Poland, and that these were the “city gates.” We need to pray specifically that nothing will hinder the King of kings, Jesus Christ, from entering this city and having His way here.
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Someone else had a vision. They saw a verse from Scripture written on cards. The verse was Romans 5:20b, which reads, “But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.” He saw these cards with this verse written on them placed all over the city. And then these cards began to bloom and blossom like flowers over the entire city. Praise God! Looks like I will be getting some of these cards ready for this Saturday. I’ll write them in Polish, in case the demons here can’t read English.
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Second Prayer Meeting
This weekly prayer meeting is at 6:30 pm on Wednesdays and was very well attended this week. It was my turn to go to this meeting tonight, and I must say that the power and presence of the Holy Spirit was felt as prayers from the hearts of His saints were uttered heavenward to the throne of God, like a wonderful aroma of incense. I love hearing prayers in Polish. They are lovely. At this prayer meeting, everyone gives prayer requests, often about things going on in their families and ministries, that we can bring before the Lord.
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Before we all began to pray, Jan (pronounced “yawn;” he is a man, not a woman named, “Jan”), gave us a verse from Scripture that had spoken to his heart this past week. It was Jeremiah 33:3, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” I felt that this verse also speaks very much to the heart of what we are praying for over PT. In fact, after the prayer meeting, someone told me that they also felt that way and that I should read Jeremiah 33:3-11. I just read that passage and these verses stuck out to me concerning our spiritual warfare efforts in this city:
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Jeremiah 33:6, “Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.”
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Jeremiah 33:8, “I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me."
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Jeremiah 33:9, “Then it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them.”
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I am hanging on to these verses for this city. Also, when I was praying during this prayer meeting, I felt that God was showing me something that had to do with our previous prayer meeting about praying at the “gates of the city.” It is something that John the Baptist had said about his role in Jesus’ coming. It is Matthew 3:3b, “Prepare the way of the Lord and make His path straight.” In Jesus’ time, when a king would enter a land, he would send out forerunners to go and clear the roads that the king would enter the land by of any rocks and debris, so that nothing would prevent the king from entering the land. I believe that this is what God is doing with this small remnant here in Piotrków-Trybunalski. He is sending us as forerunners to spiritually remove any obstacles that would keep the King of kings from entering this city and having His way.
.
First Prayer Meeting
This weekly prayer meeting at 5:30 pm on Wednesdays is specifically focused on warfare prayer over the city of Piotrków-Trybunalski. In attendance tonight were our missionary friends, a Polish couple who are believers, us and one other young lady, also a Polish believer. We discussed with each other what God has been doing in our lives this past week, especially in the area of hearing from Him on warfare prayer points, with our spiritual map of PT in front of us. I had told them all that I was praying for each one of them this week, that God would speak to them, giving them words specific to our upcoming prayer walk downtown this coming Saturday.
.
After our discussion time, we went to prayer. It was an awesome time of prayer. After the we had all prayed for a while, we discussed if the Lord had revealed anything to anyone. The Lord gave one of us a verse, Psalm 24:7, which reads, “Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.” Along with the verse, God showed us that we need to pray at each one of the roads leading into Piotrków-Trubanlalski, Poland, and that these were the “city gates.” We need to pray specifically that nothing will hinder the King of kings, Jesus Christ, from entering this city and having His way here.
.
Someone else had a vision. They saw a verse from Scripture written on cards. The verse was Romans 5:20b, which reads, “But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more.” He saw these cards with this verse written on them placed all over the city. And then these cards began to bloom and blossom like flowers over the entire city. Praise God! Looks like I will be getting some of these cards ready for this Saturday. I’ll write them in Polish, in case the demons here can’t read English.
.
Second Prayer Meeting
This weekly prayer meeting is at 6:30 pm on Wednesdays and was very well attended this week. It was my turn to go to this meeting tonight, and I must say that the power and presence of the Holy Spirit was felt as prayers from the hearts of His saints were uttered heavenward to the throne of God, like a wonderful aroma of incense. I love hearing prayers in Polish. They are lovely. At this prayer meeting, everyone gives prayer requests, often about things going on in their families and ministries, that we can bring before the Lord.
.
Before we all began to pray, Jan (pronounced “yawn;” he is a man, not a woman named, “Jan”), gave us a verse from Scripture that had spoken to his heart this past week. It was Jeremiah 33:3, “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” I felt that this verse also speaks very much to the heart of what we are praying for over PT. In fact, after the prayer meeting, someone told me that they also felt that way and that I should read Jeremiah 33:3-11. I just read that passage and these verses stuck out to me concerning our spiritual warfare efforts in this city:
.
Jeremiah 33:6, “Behold, I will bring it health and healing; I will heal them and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.”
.
Jeremiah 33:8, “I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me."
.
Jeremiah 33:9, “Then it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise, and an honor before all nations of the earth, who shall hear all the good that I do to them.”
.
I am hanging on to these verses for this city. Also, when I was praying during this prayer meeting, I felt that God was showing me something that had to do with our previous prayer meeting about praying at the “gates of the city.” It is something that John the Baptist had said about his role in Jesus’ coming. It is Matthew 3:3b, “Prepare the way of the Lord and make His path straight.” In Jesus’ time, when a king would enter a land, he would send out forerunners to go and clear the roads that the king would enter the land by of any rocks and debris, so that nothing would prevent the king from entering the land. I believe that this is what God is doing with this small remnant here in Piotrków-Trybunalski. He is sending us as forerunners to spiritually remove any obstacles that would keep the King of kings from entering this city and having His way.
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Christian Young
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