Today, we brought Africa into God’s House. We call it “God’s House” as we step through some curtains which we call “Curtain of Time” - we step into Eternity, where the Lord answers our prayers. We did a procession today and this time we brought Hong Kong, Africa, and Israel into God’s House and we placed them all in their own “room” in God’s House. Each of the children got around the map we had for each, laid their hands on it, and then they were asked to pray first for Israel, then for Hong Kong, and then for the countries which they had selected from our sheets for the various countries of Africa. Sometimes the children cannot think what to pray, so I told them to “bless that country.” Some of the children are working on hand-writing books of the bible. One child is working on Malachi. One of the mothers just finished the book of Obadiah. So when they get a book completed, they are awarded a book-marker certificate. When they get all 66 books written, then there is a greater reward at the end. One of the children came up to me and had memorized Psalm 121, which is one of the scriptures we have on our chart to memorize. I had him recite it for me and he will get a star on the chart for the completion of that. I will not list all of the prayers that were prayed for Africa today, but some of the prayers that were prayed for the country of Africa today were:
Sean - “Father, I pray that these countries would have your peace. Show them miracles.” (Guinea, Burundi, Kenya, Central African Republic)
Sam - “Father, bless these countries with peace. Bless them that they will not go hungry.” (Lesotho, Burkina Faso, Libya, Liberia)
Jessie - “Father, bless these countries. Give them peace. Let them know you.” (Mali, Mauritania, Cape Verde)
Long Long - “God bless the people to have good health, peace, and happiness (Gabon, Ethiopia)
Ivan - “Father, help these countries that they experienced growth, that they have plenty of food and rest (Malawi)
Simeon - “Lift the name of the Lord, lift the name of the Lord, lift the name of the Lord, lift the name of the Lord” (Simeon is an infant - he had hold of the two countries that he was praying for and as we said ‘lift the name of the Lord’ his mother was lifting Simeon over her head each time - he was laughing - and all of the children started hollering the same thing - it was a very anointed time with Holy Spirit laughter) (his countries were Congo, Republic of Congo [Zaire])
We started to learn a new song because once the song is learned, we will learn actions to it about the nations. They will put on nations costumes. “Our hearts, our desire, is to see the nations worship….” When I introduced this song I said, “This is a new song, but not a new song, but new to us.” The Holy Spirit swept in and I just about fell on the floor behind the keyboard. It was very powerful. And then joy swept through the place. We then did a procession, bringing all of these countries into God’s House. Each child had either a country, a flag, or a banner of some type, along with the mothers, and we did a procession with them them into God’s House and then all put our hands toward the middle of a circle and hollered out the name “JESUS!!!” and then gave the Lord a clap offering for about a minute. Then we sang the “Joy Song” exhuberantly with some of our youth leading the song as I played it on the keyboard. It was a very powerful time.
At the end of the time, all of the children were instructed to write down the names of their countries and to remember to pray for them this week.
