I Remember Prayer Meetings III

After we had spent some time teaching on prayer and giving the young people here in North East, MD opportunities to pray in our Youth Services on Wednesday night. We really began to have a break through in prayer. Our services were often punctuated with exuberant praise and worship from the youth group.

This led to more teaching and some directed prayer to encourage the young people not to be satisfied with just crying and having God touch them. But we pushed them to pray for specific needs and situations they were aware of in the lives. We had them to voice their requests so we could pray a united prayer with them. Then when the need was met we had some fantastic testimonies coming from our young people. Theses testimonies simply increased our faith and we prayed on.

At times we had tongues and interpretations and God moved in a mighty way. The services and messages were geared to stir us up to a closer walk with God. They also reminded us how much we need to pray until we see results. Far too many people simply pray and then that is it.

They really don’t see results because they really are not concerned enough. But when we look at the scriptures and see that we are responsible to “our world” to share the “good news”. We realize that we need God to help us and lead us on a daily basis.

This type of teaching and preaching helped to lead the youth into intercessory prayer. There were a lot of services when the youth were scattered all over the fellowship hall where we have youth service and they would be weeping and travailing for the souls of their friends and others to find God. Some times this would go on for over an hour after the message was finished.

I have seen a lot of times when the service for the adults in the main auditorium was over and the parents would come and look in to see what their young person was doing only to find them prostrate on the floor travailing and talking in tongues.

This began to happen even on Sunday Services in the main auditorium. Our youth were so desperate to stay in touch with God they simply stayed in the altar until they got what they felt they needed from God. This had a marvelous effect on the church family because the youth actually brought the Spirit of God to bear in the services. It was an exciting time! This led to more outreach efforts that were quite exciting which we will share later! Keep praying!! Prayer works!!