I can remember when I was much younger - in my teens - praying around the altar or in the prayer room and my pastor's wife or pastor would come around and just lay their hand on my head or back or whatever and pray a short prayer and then just moved on. I liked that because you knew that they cared about you but they didn't stay there forever and totally distract you from receiving from God or interrupt what God was doing or what was happening between you and God at that time and place.
What I
DON'T like is when people feel they have to hang on and hang on and hang on to you and go on forever when you're just wanting to spend time alone with the Lord.
You don't want to be rude of course but you feel like saying ... "Will you
PLEASE just move on and leave me alone?!!! Thank you very much!!"
LOL!
So I try and be sensitive. God is the One who does the ministering. Sometimes He ministers through people speaking a word of encouragement or word of knowledge or wisdom or whatever, and that's fine!
But you need to use some commonsense and wisdom and know what's appropriate when.
And what about when you're in travailing or intercessory prayer and people think you're burdened because of discouragement or something! And again,they come along and stay and stay and stay and try to pray you through! Arrgghhh! LOL!!
The problem is we don't have enough of that sort of thing {travail and intercessory prayer) happening in churches anymore for people to know that's what's going on. Sad, it is.
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