HOLDING A PRAYER MEETING
I was brought up in a trinitarian pentecostal church, prayer time was indeed when the spirit moved too, at times! The general procedure however was to pay one after another as one felt led. I remember as a child praying for my first time out loud and standing up, its was heart thumping, nerve racking time, but I felt God as I pushed through. Later as a missionary in US I spend my first few years in Trinitarian churches, The charismatic, prayed in tong ues for an hour, everyone together. Every charismatic took this format, I felt it more a shouting contest rather an education and an edification. After I got baptised in the name, I visited many pentecostal churches, now this was an experience and a new one at that. Everyone prayed at once and prayed in English. This I enjoyed and found more uplifting and real. someone who felt the Holy Ghost would stand up and pray above the rest while the others continued to pray also. The whole format was liberating and engaging. Today I value the p