The Hidden Power of Prayer and Fasting: Releasing the Awesome Power of the Praying Church by Mahesh Chavda

Author:Mahesh Chavda
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780768424102
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 1998-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Arrows of Pain, Arrows of Triumph

There is a cost that comes with the call and the anointing of God. When we finally acknowledge that our lives are not our own and that we have been bought with a price, then everything changes. We begin to feel the urgency of God moving us inexorably to our particular part of the harvest fields.

I remember the driving urgency I felt when ministering to hundreds of thousands of people in Central Africa where the HIV and AIDS viruses have infected more than 1 in 4 adults and an untold number of children! In some cities in the region, more than 7 out of every 10 pregnant mothers tested positive for either HIV or AIDS and were very likely to pass the fatal disease to their unborn babies during gestation, birth, or breast-feeding.1 Many of those people were dying, and the Spirit impressed on me the urgency of delivering the gospel of life to them before their lives ended.

When the passion of God flows so strongly to the lost and hurting, His servants must sometimes make difficult decisions and take arrows to the heart to obey their Lord. This has happened to many of God’s servants over the centuries; it happened to me while I was conducting five crusades in the island nation of Taiwan, the Republic of China.

I was told by Christian leaders in Taiwan that if the regular churches in that nation saw two people come to the Lord in a year, there was great celebration. We were seeing hundreds come to the Lord every night during those crusades! Although the spiritual battle in the heavenlies was one of the most intense I had ever witnessed in my life, we were still seeing the harvest being gathered in miraculous ways.

Right in the middle of all this glorious victory and demonstration of God’s power, I received a devastating phone call. My older brother was seriously ill. He had never married, but had literally sacrificed his own career and life to take care of my mother and to raise me and my little sister after my father died. He had poured himself into us.

I had prayed for my brother two and a half years earlier after he became seriously ill the first time, and God had miraculously sustained him and raised him up. This time he was near death in London, England, and all I could do was communicate by telephone from the other side of the world. I wanted so badly to take him in my arms and tell him that I loved him. I wanted to say, “Thank you for taking care of me so faithfully.” All I could do was press on. The crusades I was conducting had been advertised for one and a half years. Hundreds of people were flying in from Singapore and Hong Kong. Thousands of Chinese people were being saved in the process—people who had never heard the gospel with power. Then I received word that my brother had died.

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