Healing and Change in the City of Gold by Ingrid Palmary Brandon Hamber & Lorena Núñez

Author:Ingrid Palmary, Brandon Hamber & Lorena Núñez
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Prayers and fasting are practised among church members in their everyday confrontation with devil forces, including those associated with war times. The pastors in Pentecostal churches use the language of fighting when they speak of the need to destroy the devil responsible for the events in their past lives. In their prayers, the men literally fight the devil. Whisky Papa shared his experience, of how the pastor told him to be a “prayer-warrior” rather than a “war-warrior”. He says “I was told to pray without ceasing as Apostle Paul did in the bible and I am no longer experiencing bad dreams as before”. Praying in church against disturbing dreams often helps to not have bad dreams for about 2 days, after which the dreams will come back again.

Even though the church does not offer complete healing, it has become a space where these former soldiers find relief for their stress. For India Papa, the only way in which he feels a bit of relief is in church: I became a very devout Christian because the prayer became my tool. The prayer relieved me a lot because of what I have suffered in the military. You know when I prayed here I feel better, but you need to keep on praying because if you stop praying the stress will come again. Even those dreams that keeps on troubling me, when I pray I don’t really experience them the way I do if I don’t pray. Prayer is my key (India Papa).

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