Michigan Camp Meeting 2022: Knowing the Time

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

Prayer

Gem Castor

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You are about to enjoy a presentation recorded at the 2022 Michigan Conference Camp Meeting held at Cedar Lake, Michigan.

We pray that the Lord will bless you as you listen.

Thank you so much Lord for not giving up on your people.

Lord I ask in a very special way that may you anoint us with the anointing of the Holy Spirit.

And as we share about, I share about your goodness.

Lord I ask that may it will be your words.

You're not being, You hide me behind your cross.

I may not be seen or be heard, but Jesus and Jesus alone be seen, be heard, and lifted up and exalted.

Lord, once more we ask, Please teach us how to pray.

We ask this in the loving and precious name of your son Jesus, all your children say it.

So, friends, you might be wondering, what was my history?

So when people calls me pastor caster I tell them I'm just a caster not a pastor.

Friends I'm born in a Seventh-day Adventist home.

No more you hear whose parents are Adventist.

Great, great, great grandparents are Adventist.

So like fifth generation, fourth generation?

So I'm a third generation Adventist and for me, when it comes to prayer, I did not give so much value in prayer.

All the while I thought that prayer is just for those who are about to retire.

For those who have spent their energy and strength and no more energy to work for the glory of God.

And that was my view on prayer and how the Lord changed all of that.

How the Lord somehow destroyed my misconception of the power of prayer.

And friends, if you have known me, if you have seen me running around, you can see that I'm like an energizer bunny that goes around.

And for me before, prayer is a waste of time.

And it's quite interesting that I'm now in the prayer ministry, isn't it?

But the Lord somehow showed me a beautiful revelation of his power that there's so much more that we can do when we stop and pray.

And there's So many things that are wasted actually.

Our energy is wasted when we do not spend time in prayer.

When we do things without the Lord's leading, it's actually a waste.

And I'll talk more about that in the next session.

But a beautiful testimony that somehow changed my perspective about prayer.

Remember I told you that I was born in the 70s, I don't think so, but at an early age, I was already involved in the youth leadership.

At the age of 13 and 14 I was already part of our of our youth a wife and leading out the small group of people until it became like the district and until the conference so I was leading up the conference a youth revival and the enemy is not happy when he sees young people work for the glory of God and in my passion to do these things when the disappointment happened I was too I was too frightful to accept it.

Make long story short, I want to give up on God.

It got to the point that I wanted to leave this ministry and I was not involved in the prayer ministry yet.

It was the youth ministry and I was about to leave it and I'm thinking Lord is this what we do to people who give themselves for you.

Make long story short, I was angry at God.

And 1 time, while I was focusing on my own misery, on my own pain, A friend of mine, this lady, by the way this is not a love story, this lady told me, Gem, can you join me for a faith camp?

And by the way, faith camp as well, it's coming here in July, July 20 to 24, here in this area.

And brother Gem, if you're listening I'm already promoting it.

Friends it's coming in this area so that that faith camp 1 of the prayer leaders she's not part of faith camp she's just an attendee she's just invited she's been just been promoting prayer and she has been living a life of prayer.

This woman, this precious woman, and she came and said, Jen, join me, lead out prayer.

Lead out prayer with me in the prayer room.

Friends, I tell you, during those moments, I did not even pray for like 5 months.

How can you say no to this very nice woman?

She's just a wonderful, wonderful person.

And to Make long story short, we were there in the conference and she was giving testimony on the pulpit.

She was telling people about how a lot of people were blessed by the prayer room.

And This person shared about 1 girl who was not wanting to go to the prayer room and somehow the Lord convicted her to come and she was just thinking, I'm here to prove that God really doesn't hear prayers.

She was like me, also bitter and this girl in her 15 minutes stay in a prayer room the Lord somehow broke her heart she began crying she began weeping and friend she stayed in the prayer room that day for 3 hours the next day the next day friends she stayed in the prayer room 8 hours before she left the conference she was already calling her church members.

She was already establishing a prayer group.

Another person has experienced the same thing.

While I was listening to the testimony, I was not inspired.

I'm thinking, 8 hours in the prayer room?

I'm thinking, what am I gonna say to the Lord?

Have you experienced that in just like 5 minutes you're all prayed out?

You're looking at your watch you're thinking you have prayed for like 1 hour and you pray only for 5, 6 minutes?

I'm thinking, Lord, how is this gonna happen?

And remember, my heart was not in tune with God.

If we need to go somewhere when we're experiencing all those crazy things, it should be in his presence.

We should not be going somewhere else we should be going in his presence the friends I have my niece with me and my and that friend and We were there in the prayer room, my first session of United Prayer.

And I'm thinking, I was there, I don't even know how to talk to you Lord.

So while we were kneeling down, I was just praying prayer, just to be polite.

And remember the prayer, you pray short prayers.

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06 Experiencing Jesus Through Galatians

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