Prayer for the Anointing of Healing

In June 2016, the Lord spoke to me and told me, “After the summer there will come a season for you to pray for the “Divine Healing”. I thought that I would stand before God in intercessory prayer, by myself and without anyone knowing about this, as I had done for the past 20 years, for different matters that God had placed in my heart.

In the summer of 2016, God put in my brother’s heart, Dimitris, the desire to do a prayer conference, which in fact took place in November. In the conference, there would be 7-8 different themes and each person was able to choose for which he wanted to pray.

Since I was a young child, I had a burden for the theme of the “Divine Healing”, wondering why people couldn’t receive healing even though God’s Word says it. I myself was under an incurable disease, for which the Lord had not spoken to me, except for telling me “walk in the valley of the shadow of the death and I am there with you”.

So, when I started thinking which team to join, I wanted to go and pray for the anointing of healing. I felt the Holy Spirit urging me to go there, as well, but I was afraid.

Dimitris had asked us to give him a paper in writing with our decision. The deacons of the church had a prayer meeting that day and I had decided to go to another group (we were to give our decision papers at the end), however, when the prayer started the Lord spoke to me and said, “We don’t you dare go where you are afraid and where you know nothing about and let go to be led by the Holy Spirit?” I said, “Ok Lord, I will go to the group for the anointing of healing”.

In reality I wanted to go in a group and fall on my knees and intercede for the anointing of healing, but at the end of prayer, as we each said in which prayer group we would go, Dimitris said that I would be responsible in that team. That scared me because for 20 years I know how to pray alone. How was I now to pray and think about the other people? However, he said that co-leader would be Christos and that gave me some assurance about how things would follow along.

The conference started.

It was on a Friday and Saturday. In the prayer group “Anointing for Healing” there were more people than they were in the other groups and there were also people there that I saw them for the first time.

As we started to proceed in prayer, in my spiritual eyes, this started to take on a military form and some from inside the group would take military positions. Indeed, someone would say that this whole thing was out of my imagination, even though I knew that this is what I was seeing. Suddenly, Lena Lekka, who was in the team of guarding, supporting and covering the praying teams, sees the same thing. She saw this team march in military formation.

At some point in prayer, I put all these people together in front stand one next to the other and that was at the end of the conference.

After returning home, for the days that followed I was captivated and shaken by what I had experienced. I was thinking about it again and again and I was saying, “Thank you Lord”. As I thought that all had ended there, some expressed the desire to continue to pray for the “Anointing for Healing”. It seemed that the Lord was stirring this up and even though no other team out of the prayer teams of the conference didn’t proceed, we decided to meet every Friday to pray.

In the beginning, it was about a dozen of us, but soon enough we got to 7-8 of us that would meet regularly every Friday.

During the first times, I tried to discern the spiritual gifts of the people that had remained in the group. I discerned that they had very powerful gifts but no one had intercessory in them.

For me this was a matter of intercessory prayer that God was giving me to pray. I didn’t expect to receive gifts of healing or get healed. I knew that the Lord had called me to intercede about this. However, this time I was to stand with the other people, united as one before God. How was this to happen? I had to trust the Holy Spirit. And this is what I did.

With great attention, I would look at the people around me, and see that each would bring something in this prayer according to the anointing that God had given him.

One had proclamation, another faith, another intercession…

And the spirit of God was at work.

The first thing that happened, was that God started to tear down in us ideas, opinions even teachings, fears that we had from the past.

New things started to build from the spirit of God. As we stood before Him, His teaching was being built in our hearts and soon enough we started to realize that we were changing. The Lord spoke to us about repentance, cleansing and about true worship (not worship with songs) but worship, as an attitude of life.

As time was going by, it was evident that the Lord didn’t want to create miracle workers (people that would just place their hands and heal) but He wanted people that knew Him, people who knew the Lord.

He restored His name as the God who wants to heal.

So we reached the summer (August) of the first year. There were so many, new and important things that we had received from God and we didn’t want to stop.

The second year (September) more people were added and we became 21. It was a blessed addition from the Lord.

Soon enough the new people were incorporated and now new things started to happen from God

We were steadily praying for the “Anointing of Healing”, but we were seeing that God was doing His own route through His spirit. He was giving witness about this to His people and at the same time, He was working His own things.

The witness in my heart was that, as in the case of Gideon who went against the Midianites, the Lord chose 300 from the people at the end, in order to do His work but the victory would be for all the people.

God doesn’t want many but a few each time; so that every victory will manifested that it is exclusively from Him and not due to the ability and strength of the people. So he had called us to stand as representatives for the whole body of Christ.

This second year the Lord would bring something different every night.

There was one night that the love of God for the sick, the bound, the man that doesn’t know the Lord came in our hearts.

The Lord started to work an inner healing and to touch wounds in the hearts of people in the group and he started to heal them.

He brought in the surface the fact that he wanted to heal relationships. This was something that gave us assurance that now we had the authority to pray for this and to see results. And indeed, we saw many instances of such a divine healing. We saw the beginning of relationships that were non –existent for years, to start healing and completely change in an instant.

During the course of this prayer something important that was taking place was that we would gradually become less and faith would start to become stronger and stronger inside us about who the Lord is, and what He wanted to do and what were His ways and His decrees, which are a lot different from our ways and decrees.

Then came a period that according to the witness of God, we prayed in small groups one for the other. There were many surprises there as people that had no idea about what God had given them, started to have prophetic words for others, words of knowledge, words of wisdom and that was so therapeutic and regenerating for us.

Our prayer theme was always focused on the “Anointing for Healing”. When we got to the end of the year though, intercession was entering a dark period, the period when you pray while you see nothing. At that point, the group started breaking up. People got tired on the inside and each started to scatter here and there. Maybe this was because it wasn’t yet built in our hearts the fact that we were to stand and intercede and that each person in that group was important, called from God to have a specific and exclusively unique role in this prayer.

We left for our summer vacation.

I felt a great sadness in my spirit, but the Lord called me to stand and to pray for the group and for each person. This is what I did for about 3 weeks and the Lord spoke to me about what was going on with each person.

September came and we could start meeting again.

The Lord spoke to me and told me that I had to reveal myself fully as to where and how I am standing and whoever was to come along, to come otherwise go do something different.

So the first day that we met, that’s what I did. I revealed myself fully. First of all I said that I wasn’t healed like they were telling me and that if we don’t accept that we are not healed and say that we are healed while sickness is still on us, then what may we ask of God? Before God we must stand with the attitude, “Lord we don’t have, you give us.”

The day before the Lord had given me the verse from Deuteronomy 9:1-3: “Hear, Israel: You are now about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities that have walls up to the sky.  The people are strong and tall—Anakites! You know about them and have heard it said: “Who can stand up against the Anakites?” But be assured today that the Lord your God is the one who goes across ahead of you like a devouring fire. He will destroy them; he will subdue them before you. And you will drive them out and annihilate them quickly, as the Lord has promised you.”

This word had come into my heart. It had become one with me and from this moment on, I knew that I had nothing else to live but this. So, I said this to the team, I said that I wanted to sanctify the name of the Lord and go to the end whether I lived or died. Some left from the group that day. The Lord had something different for them. Those that stayed started to experience to know something new.

One day I felt the spirit of God to intercede inside of me for the group, telling me, “My children, allow me to teach you the movement of my spirit”.

The Friday that we met the Lord told me to do 3 things.

In the first part of the prayer, we were to pray for the movement of the Spirit of God.

In the second part, we were to pray according to John 13:33-35: “My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.  A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

In the third part, the Lord told me to make myself available to the body of Christ, which I did.

That night there was a movement from the spirit of God in a special way that I had never seen before. That night the Lord told me to pray that the gift of each person to be manifested and function.

Kyriakos came to pray for me. As soon as he touched my hand, the Lord told me to pray that his gift would surface. I started to pray. Kyriakos was silent, he couldn’t say a word. I was praying in tongues on the inside because I knew why I was praying. A long time went by like this and then Kyriakos started to pray a different prayer. He started to see prophetic images in his spirit and to speak them with his mouth.

The Lord told me, “You will see my Body become transformed and you will be amazed”. I cried before God for this, I cried out of joy, but “Lord who am I that you want to reveal Your body to me”? Lord, how I thank you.

Little by little as the spirit of God was at work and He brought us to 2 Chronicles 29:11: “My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him and serve him, to minister before him and to burn incense.”

We get to experience new days due to the movement of the spirit of God. The spirit of God bears witness in the hearts of people about what He wants, how we wants us to stand and to allow Him to be manifested and move between us.

And as we stand now and pray, the spirit of God speaks and one by one enters this intercession. And the spirit of God is at work until we all find ourselves before Him in intersession for the “Anointing of Healing” which is not only for us or our ministry, but is for every ministry that stand and prays in every part of Athens and Greece and beyond. It is for every believer, young or old, since the Lord didn’t just promise this to the apostles, prophets, teachers, pastors and evangelists but to each that believes according to Mark 16:17-18  “And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

We need your prayers, and if God puts in your heart the desire to pray for this prayer group. We need spiritual support as well as spiritual covering. May God bless you!!!

Ritsa Lekka