Dear Saints:
Here is a long text message from a brother in Kiev. Sorry for its length. His name is Oleg:
I want to share my personal experiences. Every day we have prayer meetings 3 times a day and we pray for the Lord's interests, and not for the state or country to win.
A few experiences I would like to share:
Being here in the early days in such a situation, I was often scared, and I can also get lost in looking at the news that is happening in the country. The first days it was very difficult to live here because we could not sleep properly because we heard strong explosions from bombs. I tried to pray and call the Lord, but it didn't help me much. But when everyone in the meeting hall began to gather for a general prayer meeting, it really helped me to rise up and not worry about this whole situation. We thanked God and sometimes even forgot that there was a war going on, but we felt that it was just a conference with about 35 people participating.
After several days of prayer and meetings, I woke up in the morning and I was very depressed and had no desire to go to the meetings! So I missed 2 meetings (morning and afternoon), also I want to say that because of this, other saints also suffered because they could not sing hymns with a guitar (it so happened that I play the guitar here) I felt very bad and in the end, I realized that this is exactly the attacks of Satan! I shared with one brother that I don’t want to sing hymns or pray and I don’t have the strength to do this and what he answered was salvation for me, he said - “if you don’t have the strength to do this, don’t do it, the whole body of the Christ is praying for you all now, just standstill.” After that, it calmed me down a lot and I think they were praying for me, and a little later I received grace and I had a great desire to go to the meeting. It was wonderful. In this situation, now my brother is in Kharkov at war (he is 19 years old, his name is Ilya), this city is the most shelled in Ukraine at the moment and of course, my family and I are worried about him. Every day we pray for him and everything seems to be fine. But yesterday at 2 o'clock in the morning he wrote to me that they were being heavily shelled with rockets, and I was very much in shock and in great despair. I began to pray to the Lord in great despair and the Lord showed mercy and came to me. I can testify that I was One Spirit with the Lord at that moment. I just called on the Lord for a while and after that, the Lord showed me that all the power that the Lord has, also belongs to me, and I had a full realization that I now need to talk to Satan at the moment. My prayer was like this - Satan listen to me now, I know that you are already defeated, I know that you have no right to do what you want, the Lord has already defeated you, I have the power, I have the Lord, and the blood of the Lord, I have there is a weapon against you, you are not able to resist now. Right now I forbid you to attack this place where my brother is, all the missiles that fly there, they will not hit, you have no right to do what the Lord does not want, get out you and your forces now! Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus. After this prayer, I felt complete peace and peace in my whole being. After a few minutes, I asked myself the question - how is it that I have complete peace EVEN IN MY MIND (I did not have a single thought). I had complete peace, satisfaction and I had no doubts because I know what the Lord was saying. In the morning my brother wrote to me and said that everything is fine with them, and they are holding on. ...Exercise your spirit! We all who are in this meeting room have peace in relation to being here. Several brothers here have a feeling that because we are here only because of this, Kyiv has not yet been captured! If you ask me what to pray for, I can ask for the following: Please pray for the protection of our minds, feelings, and will from Satan. Satan is now working seven times harder Please also pray that the Lord will strengthen us and continue to protect us as He does until today. Pray for those brothers who are now at war, and also for their families to have peace. I think that it is still possible to pray that the Lord would teach us to pray, on a deep level. Often I do not know how to pray and what to say, I just keep silent and say Amen to the prayers of the saints, we also do not need to forget that we are members of the Body of Christ, and our main goal is to be connected with the Head, and He can produce prayers that He pleases! Right now as I write this message I hear the sirens of an air attack (air raid attack), but inside I have peace and I am happy that I am a member of the Body of Christ and you all stand with us, in this situation we involuntarily grow much faster. - Lord, we love You! Thank you that we are part of your plan and now we are in. We are the center of the universe! Neither Satan nor evil spirits, nothing can take away from us the enjoyment of You! Be close to us even more, we want to live You so that we can enjoy You and You can enjoy us!"
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