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Published: November 12th 2005
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That is Daniel in the picture. I forgot to mention this in a previous entry but Karoline’s little brother, Daniel, is seven years old and can’t speak, or at least is limited to very few words. Last Tuesday evening Karoline’s home church had a guest speaker who wanted to pray for Daniel, asking God to help him talk. While they were praying Daniel started bleeding through his nose and mouth and started spitting blood. Once the prayer stopped he calmed down as was fine as if nothing had happened. The guest speaker said he felt like it wasn’t just a physical problem with the boy but was spiritual.
I will honest now (not that I am ever lying when I write, so I guess I will be transparent) and admit although I do believe the Bible when it comes to dark spirits or demons my mind has a hard time wrapping around that idea. I guess when you haven’t really experienced those supernatural things it is hard to understand. The guest pastor told Karoline’s mom that the church needed to fast for three days and pray for Daniel to be released from whatever was holding back his speech. For some reason the church wouldn’t stand with her
in fasting and prayer (only a handful would). Karoline spoke to me and said she was going to stand with her mom in fasting and prayer. I was already fasting that day so I told her I would fast with her (also I knew I only had that night to dance, that I would not be dancing on Thursday or Friday - so it would work out well). The first day of fasting we went to a coffee shop during lunch to pray together and read the Bible. When we were talking I thought of a verse in the Bible when the disciples were unable to cast out a demon and asked Jesus why. Jesus told them it was because some demons required fasting and prayer before they could be cast out. Like I said before I am not experienced in dark spiritual matters so I only pointed this out to Karoline because it is the only verse that came to me when I was praying and because it had to do with fasting as well. The fasting part was actually in a footnote. I know most people don’t pay attention to footnotes when they read but I guess that is something that has stuck with me since law school. When I looked it up to read exactly what it said it turned out that incident was about a little boy who had been mute since childhood (I hadn’t even remembered that part). It is in Mark 9:17 if you want to read for yourself.
Today the handful of people who were fasting with her mom all met at the church to pray over Daniel. Karoline and I stayed at the house and prayed here. After our PT Karoline and I went downstairs and decided to pray together. At first I was remembering how when we have corporate prayer for an hour it sometimes seems to go by really slowly. This is not all of the time because sometimes I am just drawn into God’s presence, which is really cool but I am not always “feeling” God and sometimes just have to obey and praise Him because of who He is despite how I feel. If it seems so slow when many are praying I thought since I was just Karoline and me praying it might not last that long but I was wrong. An hour went by so fast. It was crazy and incredibly cool. We just kept going back and forth praying from her brother, her family, our teammates, our team, the youth here and the youth of Eastern Europe. We both really felt God’s presence and that He was just impressing on our hearts different things to pray about. When her parents got back from the prayer meeting they told us that for the first hour they had to hold Daniel down because he was thrashing around and spitting all over the place, which is nothing like the sweet boy I’ve seen here at the house. Then they took a break and he just calmed down and even sat and his mom’s lap and let them pray a little while longer for them. I know that no matter whether this is physical or spiritual God has heard our prayers and will be like the persistent widow in Luke 18 who keeps asking for what she wants until He answers. It is us who limit God and many times we do not receive merely because we ask. I will let you know when this prayer is answered.
That reminds me, thank you for whoever answered my request for prayer for sleep. Suddenly at the beginning of last week I am able to sleep so well. It feels so good!
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