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I like the fire and the “umph” in the fellow brethren from my
village. Well am not quite sure what the motivation is but it must be of course
the hope they have in Christ Jesus.
Have you ever witnessed how they do their weekly meetings,
prayers , testimonies…etc; Praising Jesus after every sentence, for instance
Njitagwo Pauline, mwathani agochwo, na ndimuhonoku, mwathani agochwo,
nyumite murang’a mwathani agochwo.
My name is
Pauline, praise the Lord, and am saved, praise the Lord, am from Murang’a,
praise the Lord.
The Revered of the church has a default prayer style. Hold
the Bible with your right hand, hold it against your chest, pivot yourself with
the toes and start swinging, your eyes are tightly closed, lean forward a
little and call on God with all your strength.
In one of those weekly fellowships, brethren gathered
together for prayer. The church at that particular moment was facing a lot of
challenges due to the rampant persecutions by the non-believers.
The leader of the prayer meeting urged everybody to call on God since that is where they anchored their hope. All were in tears. ”Dear Lord help us! Save us from all these battles! Fight for us”, is all you would hear from the believers. They knew that the weapons they fight with are not carnal, but mighty through God in bringing down strongholds that set themselves against God.
Conclusion
time
They all gathered in a circle holding hands as a sign of
unity. The leader requested one of the new believers to conclude the prayer for
them, that is, to make a common prayer of unity.
He begun with a loud voice..
New Believer: ”Father in the name of Jesus… ”
Crowd: “Yeees”
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New Believer: “ We are before your presence today…”
Crowd: ”Ameen”
New Believer: ”praying that as you made the sun to stop when…
this man prayed, aaaaam mmmmm”
The new
believer could not remember the name of the man who prayed to God and the sun
stopped. He is now scratching his head trying to remember. The prayer has come
to a halt and everyone is wondering whats happening. One man decided to save
the day.
The man:”its Joshua..”
New Believer:” now since you know better proceed with the
prayers….”
He he he, this reminds me of the long prayers we used to make when i was in the country side; praying for food would take 30 min while the food is well already placed at the table.... Abbrrrrrrrr! the hunger, the smell, the torment.............. Though we never had the 'Umph" thing, the leader would go from praying for the country, to praying for those in Afghanistan to those in Australia including narrating to God the stories of what was going on in the neighborhood...... Agggghhh! Tumetoka mbali (we have come a long way)..
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anyway, my prayer notes tell me that prayer should be simple, honest (heartfelt) and straight forward
so that you dont end up frustrating the Aaameens!