This is what I got from my inbox in Facebook so I just want to share about it. :)
Sometimes we wonder,does anything really happen when we stand in the gap to pray? Here's a story and if you type "standing in the gap stories" in Google you will find lots of them.
So I just want to encourage all of you,please don't stop praying and please keep the momentum to pray growing.
Enjoy the story.
Standing in the Gap
1. Her husband is a pastor of a church. He had been counseling a medical doctor who was suicidal and who was at his rope’s end. Alice did not know about this man when all of this occurred.
Alice said she went by herself to Home Depot one day. She said she was just going about her normal shopping when all of a sudden she receives a closed vision from God the Father. A closed vision is a vision that God gives you in your “mind’s eye.” An open vision is where the vision is giving directly in front of you and you see it with wide-open eyes.
In the vision that was given to her by God in her mind’s eye was Alice seeing her husband sitting behind his desk at the church and a man walking in with a gun. Alice gets an immediate knowing from the Holy Spirit that the man with the gun is going to attempt to kill her husband.
Alice then gets an immediate knowing and prompting from the Holy Spirit that she is to immediately stand in the gap for her husband since he has no idea that this attack is getting ready to come his way and to go into intercessory prayer to stop it. Alice said she actually started praying right there in the middle of Home Depot.
She immediately checked out with what she already had in her basket and then went straight home where she got down on her knees to continue the warfare praying. She said she was praying in the Spirit, using both her gift of tongues and natural English. She was quoting battle verses against the man with the gun, against the demons who were operating behind the scenes influencing this man to kill her husband, along with quoting the battle verses directly back to God the Father asking Him to move in on this situation.
She said she continued to pray until she felt a release from the Holy Spirit that she had prayed it through and that God had heard her prayer. She said she felt the burden of the Holy Spirit lift from her and that was how she knew she was done praying. She didn’t say how long the entire prayer lasted, but if I were to take a rough guess by the way she was talking, I would say it lasted anywhere from 15-45 minutes.
2. After praying to God on all of the above, she said she waited awhile before calling her husband. When she called her husband later at work, she asked him if anything strange or out of the ordinary had happened to him that day. He then proceeded to tell her a very dramatic story that had just occurred.
He said he had been working with a medical doctor who had been suicidal and was not making much progress with the man. The doctor was not saved. That day the doctor came into his office and told him a bone-chilling story. The doctor had just come from a motel. He had a gun in his motel and was planning to come over to kill him and then he was going to kill himself after shooting this woman’s husband dead right there on the spot in his office in the church.
However, as the man got ready to leave the motel to do all of this, he all of a sudden “forgot” to bring the gun with him! When the doctor came into the pastor’s office, he broke down and told the pastor exactly what he had just been intending to do. The power of God then moved in on the man and Alice’s husband was able to get the man saved right there on the spot!
The doctor then gave his life to the Lord and apparently God was then able to get the man straightened out. However, one year later the doctor died of natural causes. However, since the man got saved one year earlier in his office, both Alice and her husband feel that this man is definitely in heaven right now.
As a result of Alice’s perfect obedience and willingness to be used by God with this type of heavier prayer assignment – she literally saved three lives that day – the physical life of her husband, the physical life of the doctor, and the spiritual life of the doctor since he got saved that day and thus made it into heaven when he died a year later.
Had Alice not been open to being used by God in this dramatic fashion, both her husband and the doctor may have died that day and the doctor could have ended up going straight to hell. Her reward is the fact that she saved the doctor’s immortal soul from an eternal death had he gone through with what he was planning to do in that motel room. She had also prevented herself from becoming a widow had her husband been killed that day.
I do not think there is any question that it was God who made this man forget to bring the gun with him when he left the motel that day. This is what you call God “running interference” to keep something bad from happening.
Saturday, May 8, 2010
STANDING IN THE GAP
Posted by ezra at 3:18 PM
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