Heal Dimapur takes the city by storm

Dimapur : “This is history in the making,” commented an elderly woman attending for the very first time the Heal Dimapur prayer meet on Tuesday. Heal Dimapur concluded the year’s last prayer meet with a fresh call to pray united prayers and to a lifestyle of repentance. Over two hundred gathered at the super market complex in front of Hotel Saramati including a few elders and young children. Speaking at the meet one of the core members reminded, “This is a spiritual warfare,” referring to the prayer movement. And therefore it is essential that people unite together in prayer regardless of the different denominational affiliations.

Heal Dimapur is inspired from II Chronicles 7:14 in the Scriptures that says, “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” This passage is also the foundation of what heal Dimapur hopes to achieve- that is the healing of the land.

“We need to pray in unity and we need to turn away from our sins,” a core team member reminded. “And as Christians we are the people of God, and when we do these two things we believe God will keep his word and heal the land. That is the vision of Heal Dimapur.”

Speaking with conviction the core member said, “Whatever problems we see in the natural world is because behind those problems there are spiritual problems, therefore we need to deal with the spiritual problems first if we want to see healing. There are a lot of people tackling the problems in the natural world but what we (Heal Dimapur) want to do is to go behind the scenes and tackle those unseen spiritual invisible forces. So what we are doing is spiritual warfare.”

He however reminded, “Spiritual warfare is not an end in itself. Spiritual warfare in itself does not bring transformation, what brings transformation is only the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the gospel that will bring transformation and change. Through prayer we want to pave the way for the gospel to come in and bring about transformation and change in this city.”

The passion at the prayer meet was evident as the gathering cried out in prayers for the healing of the land. “I am amazed to see so many young people who are so concerned for Dimapur,” said a passerby who later joined with the congregation. He added, “It is heartening that the young people are coming forward and initiating this movement, we all want to see healing come to Dimapur.”

The gathering, divided into two groups went for prayer walks around the super market complex. As they went along singing and worshipping and lifting hands in prayer, many people including the residents of the area looked on with curiosity.

“These young people of Dimapur are taking the city by storm,” said a senior citizen who watched the young people from across the road. On being asked his opinion about this movement he said, “I don’t know what this is going to achieve, but I have been inspired looking at their passion and concern over the negative things happening in our society.” “I hardly pray, but looking at them, I was inspired to pray. I hope we see brighter days for Dimapur town,” a shopkeeper at super market observed as prayer walks were said by the youths. Another attending the prayer meet for her first time said, “It was refreshing, I’m glad I was here.”

After the prayer walks the groups assembled together and said thanksgiving prayers. Heal Dimapur further informs that the next meet will be on February 6, 2009. During the month of January the core team members will be attending a prayer retreat for which the team requested prayers from all. Earlier Heal Dimapur expressed gratitude to Deputy Commissioner Dimapur, the Media, Crescendo, Mezzaforte Sound and everyone for their support.

Heal Dimapur does not belong to any one church or organization and has a core team of 7 members coming from different churches and ministries. It is a movement where concerned people have come together to pray for the healing of society. The core team is instrumental in organizing and mobilizing Christians in Dimapur to pray for the healing of the land.

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