This is the second in a series of three posts about the February 2020 fasting and prayer weekend held at our church. During our fasting and prayer sessions, it is usual for the Holy Spirit to speak to us through Pastor Praveen. The first post in this series – “Who is for the Lord?” – is a summary of key points from the February sessions. This second post contains detailed notes from the two Friday sessions and will benefit readers who want to delve deeper into what the Holy Spirit spoke. I did my best not add to or comment on what was said. I will follow up with one more post containing my notes from the Saturday sessions.

Friday AM

God told Pastor Praveen that 2020 will be different: There will be great revival all over the world and He is going to use everybody – everyone who is praying. God will help us. He is saying to everybody, “Get up.” He died for everybody. Not just a few people.

Recently, God told Pastor Praveen that He will use him primarily in India and Africa. Afterward, someone told him about a dream he had that provided Pastor Praveen with confirmation of what he had heard from the Lord. The dream was set in Africa . It was a really hot day – too hot. Everything was dry, like a desert. In the dream, the man was hanging out laundry to dry in his yard. Then Pastor Praveen came up to him and told him to take the laundry inside because rain was coming. The rain would change the landscape – lots of fruit. The rain is revival.

Pastor Praveen also told of a dream he had in which a man had hanged himself with a chain. Pastor Praveen walked up to the dead man’s body, which was covered by a sheet. Pastor Praveen’s wife was standing behind him. He asked, “Why did he die?” Then Pastor Praveen took the sheet off the dead man who opened his eyes, asked, “What happened to me?” and got up and walked away. The setting was in Africa. He recounted another dream that was set in India. In this case, a woman had died. She had been on oxygen for a long time, but the oxygen was no longer helping, so the caregivers had disconnected it. Pastor Praveen reconnected the tube to the oxygen and the woman started breathing. This is Pastor Praveen’s calling – Africa and India.

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God told Pastor Praveen that He will raise up youth in missions beyond our imagining. The pillar of fire has come upon us.

Friday PM

In 2020 God will give special favor to everyone –“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him (1 Corinthians 2:9).

Pastor Praveen told a story from his youth. Before he went to Saudi Arabia when he was young, he had a small financial company, but he went broke. He borrowed money from a bank but went broke again. Because he had no money to repay the loan, creditors were calling him. His mother sold her jewelry and gave him the money so he could go out of the country and find work. He found a job in Saudi Arabi, but did not earn enough money even to repay the interest from the loan. After he had been in Saudi Arabia for three months, he received word that His mother had died. He was extremely distressed, but was not able to go home for her funeral because his employer would not give him time off. It was at this time that Jesus appeared to him in his room, called him from the darkness into the wonderful light, and told him that He would send him all over the world for His purpose.

Meanwhile, the creditors continued to call his home in India, which angered Pastor Praveen’s brothers because they felt that it was shaming the family to have creditors calling. They yelled at Pastor Praveen about it. Pastor Praveen started selling his blood to a blood bank in order to make loan payments.

One day, he was talking to a coworker about his financial difficulties. The coworker told him, “How can you live owing that much money? I would commit suicide.” But Pastor Praveen looked to heaven to the One who called him, and sang a portion of the hymn, “How Great Thou Art:”

“When Christ shall come with shout of acclamation

And lead me home, what joy shall fill my heart

Then I shall bow with humble adoration

And then proclaim, my God, how great Thou art

Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art

Then sings my soul, my Saviour God, to Thee

How great Thou art, how great Thou art.” (Lyrics by Carl Boberg, 1885)

God took Pastor Praveen from the dust and soon, he was manager of the company with 1,400 people under him. God creates everything out of nothing. Just look to Him. Those who look to Him are radiant; their faces are never covered with shame (Psalm 34:5). He will never stop His work half way, but will accomplish His plan in your life.

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God wants to breathe on us. Wherever you set your feet, you will possess the land. Keep the Light in your life; He will help you. Don’t ask, “Where are you God?” Better to go back to Him. If He doesn’t seem near, you went too far away from Him. Pray, “Draw me back to you. I want to walk with you.” This is how God trained Pastor Praveen. We must be with Him – that is our calling. God is reminding us of this. Otherwise we will not know where to go or what to do. Stay in the light so you can see the pathway.

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How long can the enemy stand against you? God can change times and seasons in a night. Aaron’s staff not only budded, but blossomed and produced almonds (see Numbers 17). Aaron’s enemies were covered with shame. The importance of prayer during times of distress is the Holy Spirit’s message to us. Take your staff and stretch it out with authority in prayer. Do not be afraid or discouraged – be still. Don’t sleep.

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Pastor Praveen told about his first vision of heaven. He had told the Lord that he wanted to see a small part of heaven. He only asked to see a small part because he did not feel worthy to see more. In the vision he was standing in a line with other people. He and the others were wearing clothing made of light and they were standing in line in front of a very narrow door, with only a small crack in the center to enter through. There was a man standing ahead of him and another standing behind him. The man ahead of him, stuck his face into the crack and his whole body went through the crack and he thus entered through the door. When it was Pastor Praveen’s turn, he stuck his face in the crack and then heard a loud voice, “I am the way.” He told Pastor Praveen, “You wanted to see a part of heaven; now you have seen Me.”

Stay on the narrow path. Enter through the narrow door – Jesus. Wide is the way that leads to destruction.

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Pastor Praveen said that the Lord told him that those who are not praying will not be part of the revival – only those who are praying.

Also, this will be a year of special touching of our children. Beyond imagining. Everything will change in our lives and all over the world in the lives of God’s children.

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Pastor Praveen spoke on the topic of fasting and prayer. We must prepare our hearts. We have been fasting and praying many years. This year, God wants to give beyond our understanding.

There are two kinds of bondage: that which comes from the enemy, which God will break, and that which we bring on ourselves, which we must break. We cannot always blame the enemy.

Isaiah 58 discusses what true fasting entails. We must “loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke (Isaiah 58:6). This is how God is asking us to fast and pray – to break up the unplowed ground (see Hosea 10:12). Then springs of living water will come out of us (see John 7:38). We “loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke,” by changing our attitudes, thoughts, and speech. We must control our minds, tongues, and heart or God cannot work. We must delete something from our lives tonight. With negative talk, we bind ourselves. Be careful before you use your tongue because you hinder your anointing and special gifts. Repent tonight – God wants to pour out His Spirit on us. Read Isaiah 58. This is why many Christians are going through dryness. Repent and ask the Lord for help and He will help you to break up the unplowed ground and to “loose the chains of injustice.”

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When Jacob was dying, he blessed his children by faith. But Levi received a curse instead of a blessing (see Genesis 49). Yet, when Moses returned from meeting with God on Mount Sinai and found the Israelites worshiping a golden calf, it was the Levites who rallied to Moses for the Lord (see Exodus 32:25-29).

We read in verses 25 and 26, “Moses saw that the people were running wild and that Aaron had let them get out of control and so become a laughingstock to their enemies. So he stood at the entrance to the camp and said, ‘Whoever is for the Lord, come to me.’”

Pastor Praveen said that the Levites looked at one another and said, “We are cursed by our own father, but we can go to God and be for Him.” They surrendered before the Lord. Their father had cursed them, but the Lord had chosen them (see Numbers 18:1-7).

When God told Moses how to distribute the land (see Numbers 34), no mention was made of the tribe of Levi. Instead the Levites received all the tithes in Israel and God told Aaron the Levite priest, “I am your share and your inheritance,” (see Numbers 18:20-24). Likewise, God is our inheritance. Any curse on us or our families, even from generations ago, God will remove.