Shan's Prayer Journal

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For me, prayer is an intimate experience. I look forward to spending time with God and pouring out my heart to Him. While in prayer I can be myself; I am free to be me and completely vulnerable.

In one of our daily morning prayer sessions together, Tam spoke to me about joining a 40 day prayer challenge with a few ladies. She told me that the times for the prayer would be 3pm and 10pm daily for 40 days. At first, I was thinking to myself that there was no way I would be joining at 10pm, frankly, I love my bed too much. Also, the 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon seemed somewhat unrealistic. I basically shut the idea down before I had even given it a chance.

Jeremiah 29:13 says “You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart”. During prayer intimacy is built with finding Him, yet still I was putting my own personal boundaries on when this should be done.

 I was up watching something on Netflix on one of these nights and I became convicted in my spirit so I joined the line. I wasn’t sure what to expect, in fact I had no expectations, but the experience I had with these women over the 40 days was a spiritual awakening.

The thing that stood out for me was the level of vulnerability that was developed between the women on the line, even though we never met each other in person. We were strangers, but were connected in spirit and love. Many nights we were praying until after midnight, and we were back again at 3:00 p.m. the following day for even more prayers. I could not get enough prayers as we tapped into spiritual realms and interceded for each other daily.

God knew I needed this prayer group especially during this season.  Another thing that stood out for me with this group, was that all the women are from different denominations, but this did not impact us from praying and fighting for each other in the spiritual realm.

These are my sisters and as I continue to gather with them to pray even well beyond the 40 days, it has been refreshing and become a major part of my day. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled” Matthew 5:6.

May we make prayer a daily part of our lives. God shouldn’t be an option; He should be priority.

~Shan~

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