The Attack

Today has been an odd day.  I woke up extremely tired and exhausted.  However, I pushed myself to make visits and then head to the office to work.

This afternoon, my blood pressure increased greatly.  It left me feeling dizzy, confused, vision blurred, and a bad headache.  I did good to make it home for dinner.  I knew that it was getting time for prayer meeting at Bridges of Hope Fellowship and I really didn't even want to go.  I went anyway, even though I had no intentions on staying for the service.

When the service began, I sat on a stool and laid my Bible on a music stand beside me.  I felt horrible and couldn't get my words to come out right.  I wanted to just leave.  That's when one of our men, Tim Mears, spoke up and stated that they needed to pray over me first before we started.  So, everyone gathered around me at the altar and anointed me with oil.  Afterwards, I sat back down on the stool and noticed that my strength was increasing rapidly and I immediately began to feel much better.

The service continued with me reading Philipians 4 and leading the people to think on praise worthy things in our lives.  We shared lots of praise reports and the fact that there have been 60 professions of faith since January 1st of this year.  It was truly a celebration!  Afterwards, we began different seasons of prayer led by different lay people in the church.  After a moment of silence, the Holy Spirit instructed me to begin praying for and asking God for the nations, so I did.

As I began praying for the nations, I begin to speak to the strong man and the strongholds to be broken and come down when, immediately, it was as if someone grabbed me by the throat and cut my prayer off.  I couldn't speak at all.  I knew immediately that I was under a strong demonic attack.  I then felt pain all over my upper body and knew that I had to get to my Bible and I laid my hand upon it.  Natalie, Dewayne Summers, and David Clayton rushed to my aid and immediately began praying over me and for me.  Others in our body said they literally saw a handlike figure around my throat and said that my face was blood red and that I was struggling.  Finally, I was able to break through the attack and pull down those strongholds and cast out the powers of darkness.  Following the breakthrough, came a holy boldness to speak the Word to our people.  Then, to close out the service, we all gathered in a circle, held hands, and we all prayed together in one accord.  It was both, beautiful and powerful.  The Holy Spirit of God fell upon us during that prayertime in a most powerful way.  Praise God!

Church, get ready for God to do some amazing things in our midst as we're about to see the Spirit of God move like we've never experienced Him before.  God has BIG plans for Bridges of Hope Fellowship and the people of Warren County.  It's time to rejoice and blow the trumpets as we march into the thick of battle!