Hey Rhonda, and Phil,
I've had similar experiences. When I was a young newly wed I felt
strongly that I should call a friend and pray with her. When Sherry
came in to answer the phone, she found a fire inside and was able to
save her 3 year old daughter.
I'm blessed to hear other intercessors' experiences. Please pray
for my sons, Daniel and Daren.
They are feeling far from God, and they're quite wounded. I know God
has plans to prosper them, plans for a hope, and a future. Jerr.
29:11.
This list is a blessing.
Thanks so much.
Donna
On 9/15/14, Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Knowing you, Rhonda, I am not surprised of your experience. What you
> described is some definite indicators of your ministry as an intercessor.
>
> Phil.
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rhonda Partain
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 5:57 AM
> Subject: Re: When We Pray
>
>
> I've had a similar experience, only I was at home. I thought of a friend I
> hadn't seen in a few years, as I thought of her, I became so teribly sad, I
> was crying, really heart broken about something, something to do with her. I
> didn't know exactly what to pray, but still I prayed for her, for her
> comfort, that the places in her heart that were broken would be healed, I
> later talked to a mutual friend who confirmed that this friend was going
> through marriage issues and was considering divorce.
>
> Wow!! no wonder I felt so terribly sad. She and her husband are still
> together and trying to work things out.
>
>
>
> Rhonda
>
>
>
> From: The Electronic Church [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Phil Scovell
> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 9:35 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: When We Pray
>
>
>
> Church was very disappointing to me today because our church is starting a
> Sunday morning sermon series, and a Wednesday study by booklet and video
> series, on the topic of prayer. It was discouraging because this was the
> third week of the series and for the third time we were instructed not to
> accept the idea that we should receive answers to all our prayer requests.
> The pastor said at the beginning, that is, the week before the series began,
> that he did not always get his prayers answered and he did not know why. He
> admitted, basically, that he was in the dark about how to pray and get
> definite answers to ones prayers. Back in the 1980s, I was a deacon in a
> large Baptist church of over 1000 people. I was asked to preached several
> different times during the 13 years we were members. At a certain point of
> my life, I wanted to find out how to pray and know my prayers would be
> answered. Just about this time, the pastor, he was nationally known,
> admitted, as he announced a new series on prayer, that he personally could
> not recall the last time he received an answer to his prayers. I nearly
> cried. This man had been in the ministry 30 plus years and was obviously
> going to be no help to me personally in my quest to discover the truth about
> prayer. Now, today, it happened yet again. I awakened this morning, as I
> do every Sunday, with a single prayer request on my lips, mentally speaking;
> "Lord, let some miraculous thing happen in church today that will blow us
> away with your awesome power. Scare the be-jebers out of us with your
> everlasting presence." As I type this, I wonder what some would think about
> the times the presence of God has fallen on me as I prayed for someone and
> was so heavy with His holiness all around me, I got to my knees and fell
> face down in the aisle of the pews and prayed with tears flowing down my
> cheeks as a man's name came to mind the Lord instructed me to pray for. I
> yelled so loudly at times during a titanic spiritual battle going on in this
> man's life, I'm sure people could have heard me walking down the sidewalk
> outside the church all though all the windows and doors were shut. I
> pounded the floor with my fists and scream from so deep within me, I thought
> I might pass out. At times, I felt as though all the breath was being
> sucked out of my lungs and I gasped as though I were dying. The man was
> struggling for his life. Was I out of control? Some might think so but God
> as my witness, since this had happened to me before, I knew it was an
> intercessory prayer, and, yes, I could have stopped what was happening to me
> at any second, jumped up, and said, "God, what do you think you are doing,"
> but I didn't. I didn't because the man was in danger and Jesus at tapped me
> to be his voice in this man's behalf. Near the end of my prayer, I yelled
> several times, not understanding why, for "Someone to call him son," and I
> repeated it three or four times. Eventually, things subsided, and the
> presence of the Holy Spirit lifted up and away from me. I was exhausted and
> just lay their, feeling like an idiot, and big time embarrassed, until I
> felt I could get up and sit in a pew again. Soon our prayer meeting was
> over and a faithful Godly woman came over and said, "Phil, I want you to
> know, what you prayed about someone calling that man son is right on target.
> He had problems during his youth with his father and he has suffered
> emotionally as an adult as a result." I told her I did not know why I was
> saying it but I was hearing it in my head and I thanked her for confirming
> something I didn't know. By the way, when the Holy Spirit tapped me and
> said, "I want you to pray and when you do, pray for Jim." I didn't even
> want to pray for the man. He had caused problems for the church I was in,
> he'd tried taking over the church once, he and his wife would come and visit
> for awhile and then bail out and be gone for months, only to return again
> for a few weeks. Yet,, God loved Jim where he was and I got the privilege
> of praying a very unique and powerful prayer for him because Jesus said to.
> Now, I bring this example to your attention for a single reason. If I
> didn't believe God wanted to answer each and every prayer request I made of
> Him, do you think I would have let the Holy Spirit lead me into something
> that others would call stupid, unholy, and spiritually unethical for a
> church service? You see, I do believe, according to Scripture, and many of
> you have heard me teach on this topic from the Bible, that God confirms in
> His written Word, that He wants to answer every one of our prayers. And
> don't give me that garbage that God does answer all our prayers but
> sometimes He says, "No!" That straw man argument gives us a 50 50 chance of
> getting an answer and not getting an answer and that ain't in the Bible.
> Maybe I'll post more when I calm down a little, smile.
>
>
>
> Phil.
> Living His Name
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