The Importance Of Prayer In Nicaragua

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”-Mahatma Gandhi. This summer I spent two weeks in Nicaragua on a missions trip. It was the best trip I have ever taken and the most rewarding. I met so many people there who are now my friends. I learned so much about the importance of my life and how much I can do to help. I also learned how important prayer is. I was at first hesitant to sign up for a missions trip. I knew when I put my name down it wasn’t something that I could change my mind about at the last second. It would be final. I went to the meetings and learned about the trip. I had to raise $1600 dollars to be able to go. That is a lot to raise for someone my age. Most of the worry I had was if I would …show more content…
That was difficult for me. I do not like mornings, but it was for prayer so it was good for me. They called it intercession because it was a time to ask God to intercede and move in people's lives. Prayer was in a room in the middle of the small campus. They set rows of plastic, white lawn chairs on each side of the room with a large open space in the middle to divide men and women. To begin one of the teachers would tell us what or who we were praying for. Someone would have a guitar and we would sing songs in Spanish and a little English. After that we all sat down and Dora started praying. Whoever wanted to pray stood up and began speaking. The students had been doing it a lot longer than I so they stood up with a confidence I was jealous of. They prayed with booming voices as if God was hard of hearing and it seemed like they would explode if they didn't get the words out fast enough. It was an incredible thing to be apart of. Each day they spent time pouring their hearts out to God before even eating breakfast. One of my regrets is that I never stood