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| AYC Prayer Team |
After the experience from GC Annual Council I decided not to
do any more events without a prayer team and a lot of prayer behind the scenes
before and during the event. And God sent a wonderful prayer team of 7 people
at AYC, Germany. He did a miracle for one of the team members. She was not sure
if she could come. But He proved again that He is more powerful than Satan and
brought her. We spend a WONDERFUL time in prayer together early in the morning,
during the day and late at night. I would not trade these moments for anything
in the world.
The first night, after the program was done in the main
auditorium, we got together to pray for an hour. We thought that it will only
be our prayer team. Well, we ended up praying for two hours. As we were praying
9 more people joined us. The amazing thing is that 6 of them were from the organizing
team! Praise God for leaders who see their need of prayer!
Another amazing thing is that the AYC was an answer to
prayer for the local church. We have prayed for many months (since April) that
God will provide a venue for AYC. But it seems that every time they found
something and it seemed to be the right thing, the people canceled on them. It
was not easy for the organizing team to know that they do not have a place for
the congress. They even wanted to cancel the whole congress because they did
not have a venue. God allowed them to go through the dark tunnel with
apparently no light at end. And this united them in prayer. He provided the
venue right before it was too late. They did not really like the fact that it
was up North on an island, pretty far and isolated. But it was worth all the
efforts and all the waiting, all the traveling because this was an answer to
the prayers of the small church from the island who has been trying to follow
God and spread the Gospel. As I got to pray and talk to a few of them, I
realized that they are people of prayer. They have prayed for a long time for
help to spread the Gospel on the island and AYC was God's answer to their
prayers.
I was so impressed by a 12 year old girl from the island who
came to the prayer room right after outreach to pray for the people she met
during the outreach. Since our united prayer session was done and she was the
only one in the prayer room, we just had special prayer for her (for around 10
minutes). Later on she went to her mom and told her that she was disappointed
that we did not pray longer. How is that??? 12 year old girl... disappointed we
did not pray longer??? Praise God for parents who raise their children for God!
Another thing that I decided after the GC Annual Council was
to try and have an all night prayer meeting to the events I am going to. So,
when we got there, we asked permission to have an all night prayer meeting.
Permission was granted and we had an AMAZING and POWERFUL time in prayer until
2:45 in the morning. We had around 22 people join us which was a good number
considering the fact that even though the Congress started with 250 people,
some of them left on Sunday and there were only 100 something left on Sunday
night.
During the all night prayer meeting one of our team members,
Andre, left. I did now know where he went, but the next day he said that he
went to talk to the guards about God. He told me something that revealed to me
one more time the importance of intercession and prayer. He said that he had a
wonderful and deep discussion with the guards as long as we were were praying in
the prayer room. After we went to sleep around 3 AM they talked about
irrelevant things!!!
Well, God showed me one more time that He loved Germany and
He has many precious children there.
I came home determined not to go anywhere anymore. I had so
much work to do and I needed rest. There was a prayer camp that started the
very next day but since I did not hear from them, I thought that they did not
need me anymore so I was determined not to go. Well, they contacted me a couple
of days before the camp and insisted that I come. So I went. Boy, am I glad I
went???
God really blessed this camp. It was a small camp of around
25-30 people. But I was very blessed. It is so good to meet Romanian people who
are seeking for something more. We had 7 pastors join us and all of them loved
united prayer.
We had an all night prayer meeting, as well, and prayed
until 3 AM. Over 20 people came and prayed with us. It just showed me again
that I need to try to do an all night prayer meeting at the events I am going
to, if possible.
During the camp we prayed for the sister of one of the
attendees. She is not an Adventist and she is a teacher. Three years ago she
went with some students to the seaside. It so happened that two of them drowned
and she was taken to court. She has been going to court for a while and it
seemed that there is so much corruption and the others who should also be kept
responsible try to throw all the blame on her and even bribe her lawyer so she
had to change lawyers. Anyway, she had a hearing while we were in the camp and
we prayed for her. The hearing lasted for 7 hours. She called to tell us that
she felt the power of our prayers. She had peace the whole time.
Another thing we prayed for was the family of one of the
attendees. His brother got married more than a year ago against the will of his
parents and this affected their relationship. His mom simply did not want to
accept his decision and there was a lot of tension and fighting back and forth.
So we pleaded with God that He will take away the tension and mend the broken
relationship. Two days after the camp he texted me and told me that his brother
called his mom and that she told him that she forgave him.
It was amazing to see God brining together people from my
own country with a passion for prayer. As you know, I have not really done a
lot in my country because God did not open opportunities, but it seems that the
time has finally come. In two days I will be at the AMICUS congress where
we will have a prayer room and united prayer in the main meetings. We have been
praying that this congress will bring a revival among the SDA students and we
believe that God will do it. We have a good line up of speakers who are
passionate about God and mission work. Satan has put many obstacles in our way
but we are determined to go forward. He did many miracles and we are so
thankful for His love and care for us.
God is also preparing the way for IMPACT Scandinavia
(Sweden), an event where I am going at the end of December. I have been praying
that God will pull together a prayer team, even though I do not know anybody in
the Scandinavian countries. Last week I was impressed to ask a girl from the UK
(she is Romanian) who attended ARME UK to come and join my sister and I at
IMPACT. She told me that she cannot come because of her business (she owns a
health food store). Two days later she wrote back that she bought her ticket
and she is coming. Than I found out that another one of my prayer partners from
Germany is coming. Isn't God good? I knows that He has great things prepared for us there.
Sometimes I wonder how would my life have looked like had I not known and served the Lord. He is the reason I live and love life. It is
because of Him that I am happy. Had it not been for knowing Him, for serving Him, I
would be miserable. I just love getting to know Him better, being in His
presence, seeing Him showing up for us, changing lives and working in my own
life. I was thinking these days that if I were to die, I would die peacefully
because I know that I have not lived in vain. 
