Praying at the Wall
Posted: Monday, June 11, 2007
- written by jerry golden

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Western Wall of the Temple Mount today.

6-11-07

Today Connie and I had the time to go to the Western Wall of the Temple Mount and pray over and place a few hundred prayer request in the crack.  Monday and Thursday are Bar Mitzvah days at the Wall so it is always crowded on those two days.

Because some have asked me about this part of the ministry I will give the following reasons.  In the early 80’s for about three weeks one winter I had the duty while in the IDF to guard the wall mostly at night.  While there I felt the Ruach Hakodesh move on me showing me the importance of this Wall to Him and the Jewish people.  I begin praying there and every time I could feel the Ruach Hakodesh (Holy Sprit) move in a very strong way.  After I ended my IDF duty Connie and I began coming to the wall regularly and praying, and started offering to bring the request to the supporters of this ministry with us.  So we have been doing this for well over 20 years.

We have seen and heard so many wonderful reports as a result of this effort to serve others.  Healing of all sorts and many relationships healed.  Finances and businesses made whole as well.  We simply enjoy doing it and the added blessing of serving others is wonderful for us.

We pray over every prayer request when it comes in, Then Connie prints them out unless they are to larger in that case she writes the drift of the request with the name and we take them to the wall with us.  We pray over them again when placing them in the cracks of the wall.  Some time later that month the Rabbis at the Wall will collect the ones they can and take them to the Kidron Valley and pray over them again and then bury them.  

So for those who didn't know, now you know.  But I want to make it clear we do not believe you have to go to the Wall in prayer to reach God, but it is a place where God said His Spirit will dwell perpetually forever.  And if you're Jewish and you have ever prayed there you know that God never lies, and you felt His presence in a very real way at this Holy Place.

 

Shalom, jerry golden