PRAYER VIGIL VICTORY!
DO 2065
10/85
DAD'S LAMENT IN THE NIGHT!
1. SOMETIMES I AGREE WITH THAT NEGRO SPIRITUAL, "OH, LORD, YOU MADE THE NIGHTS TOO LONG!" I pray, I quote Scriptures, I call on the Lord & everything but I just can't seem to sleep.
2. THOSE ARE THE MOST DIFFICULT HOURS OF ALL, ABOUT 1 TO 5, because everybody is sound asleep & I'm all by myself & I really have to fight the Devil then, & he & all his forces & demons & archangels of Hell attack me at that time! It's the most horrible time of the whole night!
3. LORD, I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU DON'T GIVE ME SLEEP WHEN I NEED IT. I don't like to have to be awake at those hours, I like to sleep through those horrible hours! Those hours are the very horrors of Hell, I have to fight every moment to keep my sanity! It just is a horrible horrible demonic time! It's the time of "terrors by night", so why doesn't He deliver me from it? Why doesn't He give His beloved sleep so I don't have to fight such a battle all alone every night?
4. HE PROMISED HIS BELOVED SLEEP (PSA.127:2), SO IF AT THOSE HOURS WHEN I NEED SLEEP THE MOST I DON'T SLEEP, I GUESS I'M NO LONGER HIS BELOVED! He must not love me or He would let me sleep during those hours when I need it & I want it & I have the worst of all battles. It's terrible! I'm all alone & nobody is awake & nobody really can be awake. It's not that they don't care, but they can't stay awake all night.
5. HE COULD MAKE ME SLEEP RIGHT THROUGH THE NIGHT & HAVE A NICE PEACEFUL WONDERFUL VICTORY & GET UP IN THE MORNING! I don't mind getting up at 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning, but I would at least like to sleep until then & not have to endure these tortures of 1 & 2 to 3 or 4 in the morning. Why doesn't He give me peace & sleep during those hours? My God, why don't they pray I can sleep?
6. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT TIME I SLEEP OR NAP OR GO TO BED OR WHATEVER, I ALWAYS WAKE UP AT THOSE HOURS, the hours of torture, terror & horrors! It's the hours of Hell, that were apparently given to Satan to torture, plague & torment me!
7. IF I'M SO IMPORTANT, WHY DOESN'T HE LET ME SLEEP? Then I have to get up & I have to do His Work & fight more battles without the sleep! Maybe He doesn't desert me, but He makes me feel like it when He lets me go through that torture & that torment & that feeling of desertion! I really feel like I'm deserted!
8. MY GOD, I'M IN A TERRIBLE STATE! I must be the most miserable attacked man in the whole World! You don't know the Hell I go through, the mental & the soul torture that I go through!
FIRST PHONE MESSAGE!
9. (The following is the phone message from Maria which was sent on Oct. 3 to each Home throughout the World asking you to please pray for Dad on a daily basis. TYSM for your cooperation & your prayers!:)
Dear Family,
GBY! WLYSM! Dad is starting a new important project which will be a great blessing to us all. The Enemy, however, is really fighting him & he is finding it almost impossible to sleep at night or even during the day. We ask that you please get your Home together & have desperate prayer, & if possible, fasting for one meal for his sleep & against the attacks of the Devil.
Then, for the next two weeks, we would appreciate it if you would have a daily prayer vigil. This means that if possible, each adult in your Home should spend one hour per day in private reading & prayer for Dad, themselves & for the Family. Instead of everyone in the Home having this vigil time at the same time, it would be a blessing if you could arrange it, as much as possible, so that everyone is praying at a different time during the day.--A prayer chain!
Thank you so much! We love & appreciate you. Please pray for the victory!
Love, Maria
DAVID'S PRAYER WARRIORS!
10. (MARIA: WE'VE ASKED THE WHOLE FAMILY WORLDWIDE TO PRAY FOR YOUR SLEEP AT NIGHT & YOUR PROJECTS.) Oh, bless your heart! No wonder I've been sleeping so well! But I wish you wouldn't worry them so much, Honey. (Maria: They're having a two-week prayer vigil where each person in every Home is praying at least one hour a day for you.)
11. WHO PRAYS FOR ME IN THE WEE HOURS OF THE NIGHT? (Maria: All those on the other side of the World!) Oh, God bless them! TYL! I don't want to keep them awake. I wouldn't want to destroy their sleep, so that's a great idea, to have those who are already awake on the other side of the World pray for me! Oh, that's wonderful! I really really need that! TYJ! PTL!
12. (MARIA: I KNOW THEY'VE BEEN PRAYING, WE CAN FEEL IT!)--Amen! TYJ! (Maria: I think we are going to ask them if they can keep it up & not stop.) Oh, that's a great idea! We really need it!--I mean I surely need it! That would really encourage me to know that I'm not alone in these wee hours of the night that I stay awake when you folks are sleeping, to know that somebody somewhere is praying with me & for me & feeling for me & keeping me company in these wee hours of our night during the hours of their daytime. TYJ!
13. HONEY! THAT WAS A BRILLIANT IDEA! THAT WAS TERRIFIC! (Maria: When we get real desperate for you, we know that's the answer!) It must have been the Lord! It'll really help to feel that there is some prayer warrior somewhere praying with me when I'm awake in the night when the Enemy attacks me so furiously sometimes!
14. (MARIA: I KNOW THE FAMILY'S PRAYERS HAVE REALLY HELPED TO MAKE ALL THE ATTACKS WE'VE HAD IN THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS MUCH LESS SEVERE THAN THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN, & TO GET THE VICTORY!) I believe it! The deliveries have been so absolutely supernaturally miraculous! It's just been the Lord & their prayers. It's so encouraging! It's just like I can see them praying in South America & North America too! GBT!
15. DO WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE? ARE YOU ASSIGNING THOSE PRAYER HOURS BY COUNTRY? (Maria: Each adult is taking a different hour throughout the day from wake up till bed time.) So there are many of them praying for me. (Maria: Oh yes! If there are 15 adults in the Home, during their 15 waking hours one of them is praying every hour of the day, from the time they get up till the time they go to bed.) Really? So there's not just one, but there are many of them! (Maria: Yes, of course, the whole Family is praying.) Hallelujah!
16. OH, THANK YOU LORD FOR THOSE PRECIOUS PRAYER WARRIORS TAKING THEIR TIME & STRENGTH TO PRAY FOR ME IN THESE HOURS WHEN I NEED IT THE MOST, these hours alone with You, Jesus, when everybody here is asleep. Thank You for those who are still awake praying for me, keeping me company in prayer. Oh, that's so comforting! (Maria: So even though North & South America can't go East, they have a very important job praying for you.) They're going East if they're praying for me right now when I need it! TYJ! (Maria: And the people on this side of the World are praying during our day for you.)
17. WELL, I CERTAINLY FEEL THEIR PRAYERS. I KNOW THE LORD REALLY ANOINTS & GUIDES & INSPIRES IN ALL THIS WORK & these stories that I have to work on, which is a whole new area to us & a whole new means of attack! (Maria: And the Lord has helped us get such victories over these huge battles that we've had lately, a new one almost every day, since the whole Family has been praying.)
18. HONEY, I WILL NEVER EVER AGAIN FEEL ALONE AT NIGHT NOW THAT I KNOW THAT THEY ARE PRAYING FOR ME EVEN DURING THESE WEE SMALL HOURS OF THE NIGHT! How could I ever feel alone when I know all those people are praying for me! I feel such a responsibility to carry on & pray when I feel like I'm all alone with only the Lord, but it'll help to know that people are actually praying for me at this hour. (Maria: So if they don't do anything else, if they get ahold of the Lord for you, they're doing a big job!) Will you please thank them for me? (Maria: Yes, Sir!)
19. THAT'S ALL I NEEDED TO KNOW, THAT I'M NOT ALONE IN THESE HOURS OF THE NIGHT WHEN YOU FOLKS ARE SLEEPING, that there are some of our precious Family praying for me every hour of the night! I can't tell you how encouraging that is! All these years I have felt so alone at night when I'm awake & praying, fighting the Devil.
20. BLESS THEM, LORD, FOR THEIR SACRIFICE & BLESS THEM FOR THEIR LOVE & THEIR CONCERN & WILLINGNESS TO PRAY WITH ME.--At all hours of the day, Lord, when I'm working & doing Thy Will & preparing Thy Word, Lord, for them, but especially during these hours of the night when I've felt so alone. TYL!
21. HOW COULD I POSSIBLY FAIL WHEN THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE PRAYING FOR ME? I'm sure that's what has kept me going & kept me alive. TYJ! PTL! Amen! Just think, they're even praying for me when I'm asleep. That must be why I have such wonderful, beautiful assuring dreams! (Maria: He's multiplied His protection many times over because of their prayers.)
22. PRAYER IS SUCH A POWERFUL WEAPON! IT'S SUCH AN EFFECTIVE INSTRUMENT! My goodness! I don't think anybody realises how much prayer accomplishes! What's that old saying about that? (Maria: "More is wrought by the power of prayer than the World dreams of.")
23. OH, I CAN GO TO SLEEP WITH SUCH REST BECAUSE THEY'RE PRAYING FOR ME! You know, I used to think I was all alone & it was really scary & hairy, but now I know I'm not alone but there is somebody somewhere praying for me!
24. THAT'S MARVELLOUS! IT'S THE GREATEST COMFORT I THINK I'VE HAD IN YEARS! Thank you for starting that prayer chain, Honey! (Maria: So sorry we didn't do it earlier, Honey.)
25. I THINK THAT IS THE BEST THING YOU EVER DID FOR ME, TO GET ALL THOSE PEOPLE PRAYING FOR ME regardless of what hour of the day or night it is, & I really need it! Thank You Jesus! Bless their prayers, Lord, & honour their supplications! You promised, Lord, to bless the prayers of the righteous & honour the supplications of the poor, in Jesus' name. Thank You Lord for Thy mercy & Thy Love & Thy blessing! Thank You Jesus for honouring the prayers of Thy children to help me to survive & fight & live & die for You, Jesus!--In Jesus' name, we ask for Thy glory, amen.
SECOND PHONE MESSAGE!
26. (The following phone message was sent out to the Family Worldwide on Oct. 17 when Dad was desperately ill:)
Dear Family,
GBY! WLYSM! Thank you for being so faithful in keeping up your prayer vigil! Your effectual fervent prayers have been availing much! PTL! The Devil is enraged because of the impact of your prayers, & is attacking with greater fury than ever! Therefore we ask that you please, again, have everyone in your Home get together & pray desperately for Dad, who is seriously ill, & for his complete deliverance, as the Enemy is trying to destroy him & snuff out his great work!
Dad was so encouraged to hear that you're holding him in your prayers, & wanted us to pass on his personal request that someone in every Home take their prayer vigil between 9 & 10 PM each night, as due to the time differences around the World, it will mean that somebody in the Family will be praying for him at every hour throughout the day or night! The rest of your Home can have their individual prayer hour at whatever time is best according to your situation & schedule. We'd like to ask if you could show Dad your love & appreciation for all he has done for you, by making this prayer vigil a permanent part of your schedule. "If you're too busy to get alone with God & pray, you're too busy!" Your daily desperate prayers can pull him through this & future crises.
Love, Maria & Peter
9-10 PM PRAYER VIGIL!
27. THE LORD HAS ANSWERED OUR PRAYERS! PTL! Within 12 hours after this message was sent, the Lord, through your prayers, raised Dad up from his sick bed, practically resurrected from the dead, after having been flat on his back in bed for three days & nights! PTL! He never fails!
28. AS YOU CAN SEE, DAD IS EXTREMELY APPRECIATIVE OF YOUR PRAYERS & DESPERATELY NEEDS THEM ON A DAILY BASIS. Therefore, after seeing how much he counts on you, we know that you will want to permanently continue our prayer vigil. In fact, if someone in every Home prays between 9 & 10 pm every night (We chose this hour as we thought it would be the most convenient for the majority of the Family), it will mean that at every single hour of the day someone will be praying for Dad!
29. OUR FAMILY IS SPREAD AROUND THE WORLD IN EVERY TIME ZONE, SO AS YOUR PRAYER VIGIL ENDS, THEIRS IS JUST BEGINNING! And although it's 9 o'clock where you are, perhaps it's one o'clock in the morning where Dad is. As your hourly vigil ends & it becomes 9 o'clock in the next time zone, then it may be 2 o'clock in the morning where Dad is etc., so someone's always praying for Dad! You can either have the same person have their prayer vigil time between 9 & 10 every night, or you can rotate & have different people take the 9-10 prayer watch. The rest of your Home can have their individual prayer hour at whatever time is best according to your situation & schedule.
30. WE CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR YOUR HELP & COOPERATION IN THESE MATTERS. We who live with Dad see the answers to your prayers on a daily basis & we're so thankful for them!--Love, Maria & Peter (AMEN! GBY! TX!--ILY!--D.)
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