That day after day, five days a week, week after week, from about the last two weeks of November in 1942 to the twenty-third day of February in 1943.
So I’d say, “I trust the Holy Ghost Who is living inside me to give me utterance to pray about this and anything else that God wants me to pray about.” And I’d spend the rest of the hour praying in tongues. I’d be finished praying what my mind knew to pray. Now, in about 15 minutes, I had said everything I knew to say in English. And so I pray that there will be a greater manifestation of these gifts than we’ve seen before.” But it seems to me that there ought to be more manifestations of these power gifts: faith, gifts of healings, and working of miracles. We have an ample manifestation of revelation gifts. We never have a service that doesn’t have a tongue and interpretation. “Lord, we have an ample manifestation of the vocal gifts. “Lord, we thank You for all the gifts and manifestations of the Spirit: the three revelation gifts-the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, and discerning of spirits the three power gifts-faith, gifts of healings, and working of miracles and the three vocal gifts-prophecy, divers kinds of tongues, and interpretation of tongues. But I would simply pray in English to begin with. Sometimes you have a leading, a burden, to pray in certain ways and along certain lines. Toward the end of November of that year, I’d get up between two and four o’clock in the morning, Monday through Friday, and go into the living room to pray for an hour. No! They will come as a result of our praying!īack in 1942, I was the pastor of a church inĮast Texas. But they’re not going to come just because God decides, “Well, I’m going to bless this one and that one.” And great and mighty things are going to happen more and more. Great and mighty things have happened in the past as God’s people have prayed. It also helps us usher in wonderful moves of God. Great Things Happen When We Pray in the Spiritīeing led by the Spirit does more than avert trouble in our lives. Many terrible things would never happen if folks were really led by the Spirit. If Spirit-filled believers would follow His promptings and become prayer-conscious, many problems wouldn’t happen.
Learning to pray when the Holy Spirit leads us would avert many dangers. What if we hadn’t yielded to the Spirit? Those men could have died! All eighteen men were safe!” Hallelujah!Ĭan you see why it’s so important to pray when the Spirit leads you to pray? What if I hadn’t prayed? I had the whole group at Healing School pray with me. And when they went in there, they couldn’t believe it. We had two phones, one near each of us, so we both answered. My wife and I went to bed, and at 1:30 in the morning, I already got it! He’s all right your father will be all right.” I said, “There’s no need to pray at this point. I started laughing right on the phone because I suddenly realized whom I had been praying for earlier that day. This young lady was calling to ask me to pray. They were in fear for the lives of all those men. The men were still trapped, and the firemen had not been able to put the fire out. About three o’clock that afternoon, there had been an explosion in the Texaco refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, and the young lady’s father was caught in there with 17 other men. Praise God! I knew that whomever it was I was praying for, I had the victory.Īt 9:30 that night, I got a telephone call from a young lady whose mother had been a great supporter of this ministry for many years. I mean, I was praying in tongues, and I prayed earnestly that way for at least 45 minutes. I have this burden to pray, so let’s all pray now.” I knelt down to pray, and by the time my knees hit the floor, I was in the Spirit. So I got up and said to the crowd, “Folks, I have to pray and pray now. Somebody’s near death.” I just sensed in my spirit that someone-I didn’t know who-was near death. To pray now! Somebody’s life is in danger. Quietly, I said to myself, “I have to pray, and I have Suddenly (and that’s the way the Holy Ghost moves-suddenly), a burden came on me to pray. One day as the offering was being received, I came walking into the little auditorium where we held Healing School, and sat down on the platform. Often, I would stay in a room by mysĮlf and pray before coming out to take over the service. Then, they would turn the service over to me. The musicians would sing a little bit, and we’d take up an offering. Back in 1979, we began holding Prayer and Healing School on the RHEMA campus. I want to share with you one particular experience from my life of a time when I was led by the Holy Spirit to pray.