The Night Watch July 25, 2008
Posted by Josiah in Knowledge of God, The Night Watch, The Prayer Room.Tags: Fasting, God, Jesus, Knowledge of God, Night, Night Watch, Sleep, The Prayer Room
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Part of my struggle with being on the night watch thus far has been that I used to get up at 4am and now I’m not going to sleep until 4am. Mostly I’ve just been tired all the time. The last few nights have been a little easier.
I am starting to love the night again. I forgot what it was like to be a night-watcher. There is something about being on the night watch that I’ve never felt when doing “days.” Maybe it’s just the call on my life, or maybe God has a special grace for night-watchers. The prayer room just feels more alive at night to me.
The disciples asked Jesus, “where else could we go? You have the words to eternal life.” As night-watchers we say, “where else could we go? Everything’s closed.” By making my day start at noon and go until 4am or 5am, it just makes sense to live a fasted lifestyle.
Three days ago if asked how I could spend six or seven hours a night in the prayer room I may have said something about commitment, or that the knowledge of God is the most important pursuit in life, or that I knew God wanted me here. But there is more than that, I can feel God’s pleasure in the night so much more than in the day.
I don’t miss the first six hours of the day that much. Never thought very clearly until noon anyway. =)
-J
Dude, I’m thinking about doing ‘Fire In The Night’ next summer. Do you recommend the program? Can you tell me about it?
I assume you mean the internship at IHOP-KC. My brother did both tracks of that program a few years back and it changed his life. I tried to get into it myself, but was too young at the time. I went anyway, even though I was not officially in the program.
I thoroughly recommend both the FITN and all of the OneThing internships.
I don’t know how it has changed since I was there, but it used to be mostly prayer-room time. They had classes on prophecy and the end-times and such during the after-noon and evening, and then from midnight until 6am you’re in the prayer room.
It’s a lot easier to do something like that when there are fifty other people your age doing it with you.
If you’re considering the program already then you probably have already found their web site, but if not, it’s here:
http://www.ihop.org/Group/Group.aspx?ID=1000008937
-J