Prayer Services

Last night I was at my church until 4:15 in the morning. We had a Night Watch Service of prayer which had started at 7:00 the evening before (so we went for nine hours and I was there the whole time). We worshipped God and had different members from the congregation lead in various aspects of prayer such as thanksgiving, intercession, and praying for specific needs.

We've also been fasting throughout this past week, and during the week had two prayer services in the mornings, one during the evening and services every day during the lunch hour.

Tonight a gentleman name Dolu Ashani led us in the session on "praying for specific needs." He told us to make a list of ten things we want God to to do for us in the coming year. Dolu encouraged us to think big; pray to "achieve uncommon success." My list included salvation requests for family and friends and requests for God to move within various aspects of our local church. However, Dolu encouraged us to pray for ourselves. I prayed that God would establish me as a professional artist working in my own studio this year (this blog is a testament that I've been praying for this specifically for several years now, although it's been my desire for many, many years since I graduated from art school). I'm not giving up. People during the service were prophesying that we were experiencing an "open heaven."

I also requested to take take a trip to Israel to photograph the country, and to take various digital communication courses at nearby school of technology.

I'll just mention these three specific requests for now (art career, trip to Israel, studying digital communication). The rest is up to God.