"Everyone we pray for cry..." said the son to my wife after a meeting in a neighbouring church where we ministered. And the Spirit was really present in that meeting as were needy people, many from the nearby "asientamiento", settlement, which is a place where very poor people build their small shacks on given ground. That the presence of God makes us cry seems to be a universal trait.
What also struck me that night was the power of the spoken word. God used just basic affirmations from the Bible to touch and encourage people. They were built up and comforted by the words that we spoke out.
Last Sunday I prayed for a young man in our church and also then spoke out some things I had felt for him. In our conversacion yesterday he remarked on how that had impacted him and we spoke at length about those things.
Spoken words have a magic of their own, they create something. That can be misused, like in the election times in Paraguay at the moment. But when they are spoken with love and truth they can literally change someones life!
It seems to me that's there's a basic lack of affirmation and nice words in the world. And there's even more a need to speak out the truths of the Bible over our lives. And if the Spirit fills them and make them prophetic, wonderful!
But, and this is the challenge, there's an ocean of difference between having a nice thought and speaking a nice word. And right there's the decider if we're going to be important people for our neighbour.
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