I want you to know that God is a God who fulfills dreams and visions when they are ones that He has given to us. Just as He fulfilled His promise of a son to Abraham and Sarah, taking it upon Himself to make that which seemed impossible, possible, so He does for us.
I recently experienced this beautiful miracle
in my own life. Something that I was “pregnant” with in the Spirit came to
fruition in a miraculous, unexpected and marvelous way.
A little over 3 ½ years ago the Lord gave me
vision for a house of prayer that would be called WOWHOP (Watchmen on the Walls
House of Prayer). The vision for this house of prayer is that it would
ultimately be 24/7 and that the prayer going up from it would be exclusively
for the peace of Jerusalem, Israel and the Jewish people. It would be filled
with a combination of worship and intercession. I saw that it would be a place
where we could help fulfill God’s prayer request for 24/7 prayer in Isaiah 62:6
& 7: I have posted watchmen on your
walls, O Jerusalem. They will never be silent day or night. You who call upon
the Lord, give yourselves no rest and give Him no rest til He establishes
Jerusalem and makes her a praise in the earth.”
A small group of us from my Messianic Jewish
Congregation began to pray for Israel in the “upper room” of our congregation
every Shabbat after services. Then a door opened where I was invited to lead
worship/intercession for Israel at the University of Minnesota House Of Prayer
(UMHOP) on Monday evenings. Many of our little band of intercessors would come
faithfully and regularly to pray for Israel there as well. We prayed there for
a year every Monday evening, while still praying on Shabbat. Then, I was asked
to lead a worship service in Buffalo, MN and the lovely woman who had invited
me asked that I come every Thursday to her storefront and lead
worship/intercession for Israel. So we had 3 worship/prayer times for Israel a
week.
All the while, with no obvious way to go
about it or get it done, the Lord kept the vision for WOWHOP alive in my heart
and mind. Our little band of intercessors would often pray for that time and
place only the Lord knew about, but we prayed in faith that He would bring it
about.
A Messianic Rabbi in our community suggested
my name to a visiting missionary from India to lead worship for his services.
The woman who oversaw his ministry, Lisa, was a lovely woman and we connected
heart-to-heart immediately.
Later on I invited her to be a part of a new
woman’s prayer group that a friend had just begun, so we began to fellowship
together bi-weekly. This prayer group knew about the vision for the house of
prayer the Lord had placed on my heart, and would often pray into it.
I had been through a lot in the way of
receiving ministry for generational curses, and doors opened for me to do
teaching on spiritual warfare. As a result, people began to ask to meet with me
to pray for them over generational strongholds in their lives. I would invite
them to my apartment and a friend and I would team up to pray for people and
saw wonderful breakthroughs in their lives.
Lisa heard about this and told me she had
some offices available in the building she and her husband owned in Long Lake
for us to use for that kind of prayer. I finally visited the building a couple
of months later…exactly 3 ½ years to the week that we had begun praying for
Israel. The offices were perfect for the prayer ministry; and then I went
around the corner of the offices into a 1000 sq. ft. space that Lisa had told
me another vendor in her building was going to be renting. But, now she told me
that person had backed off from renting it. It had been vacant for 2 years. We both saw
that it would be perfect for WOWHOP and she and her husband donated the space
to us to begin the house of prayer.
WOWHOP officially opened on May 20th,
2014. We had forty people come that
first night to pray for Israel. The numbers aren’t always that high, but it
doesn’t matter if there are forty, fifteen or five…the Lord is always SO present
and SO leading us in strategic prayer by His Spirit.
I wanted to share this testimony with you to
strengthen you in your faith to believe for those things He has planted in your
heart, even as you faithfully do those things He puts in front of you. (I have included pictures of the
beautiful WOWHOP space the Lord has so graciously given to us.)
Til next
time,
Shalom!
