Walls

Walls are in the news today. There are sea walls, firewalls, Great Walls, prison walls, emotional walls, and handball walls.

Driving through the North Indian state of Jammu-Kashmir we saw a tall wall on the left side of the road. It is just South of the town of Druz. It has neither corner nor door, but just stands there as you drive by. When asked about the wall, our guide laughed and explained that the Pakistani snipers are high in the mountains on the other side of the wall hoping to poach an Indian soldier or a tourist.

There is a wall in the old city of Warsaw that held me in rapt silence for over an hour. It was the wall of the Warsaw Ghetto and, still bullet pocked, it holds the names of those who were stood against it and killed by the Germans. Having read about it as a teen, I was stunned at its stark reality.

Just after seeing that wall, I found myself standing before the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, bobbing my head and reading prayers in Hebrew which I had not done since Bible school. There is something very special about that wall.

Take advantage of the spring in Colorado and stop in at the Jericho Center, home of Every Home for Christ. There you will find Agatha’s wall. Named for a wonderful intercessor, Dr. Agatha Chan, and built by EHC in response to a revelation to its President, Dick Eastman. This is a true prayer wall. It is made of Jerusalem Stone and within its chambers are prayer cells with state of the art techno-links to all that is going on in the world. You can occupy one of the “gaps” as Dick likes to call them and, in one hour, pray for every nation on earth.

Agatha, a friend to both the Geppert and Eastman families, truly inspired us to build prayer walls in the 19 districts of her beloved Hong Kong. We influenced churches to take up the call and build a wall of 24 hour prayer for this gateway to Asia. They have responded and we are seeing an unprecedented move of the Holy Spirit as churches work together to change the world.

Resource flows as from the high watch towers of prayer God speaks to those who love to serve Him. The watchmen on these prayer walls have dual function: to hear from God, and to proclaim His word over the nation.

Though these are not literal material walls, we have climbed to the top of the highest building in Hong Kong and declared it to be one of the prayer towers.

“Well,” you say. “That is great for you and the other missions people; but, I am not going to Europe or the Middle East in the near future and Hong Kong is not on my viewfinder.”

While I do feel bad that you can’t go and see these places, I do understand. What about your local high school? Do you think a wall needs to be built there to keep the drugs and violence out? Or how about your local member of the US House of Representatives? Don’t you think a wall should be built around them? And what about your local church and your beloved pastor? Don’t you think a wall of protection should be built around them?

Just go on over there and take a walk around and build a wall in the Holy Spirit. Let each step be a block and each prayer the mortar and build that thing. If you go, it is a prayer walk. If a friend goes with you, it is a prayer ministry. If a group goes, it is a prayer movement. Look at that, you can start a prayer movement.

But, if you and some friends pile into a van and head out to Washington or your State Capitol, look out—you are starting a nation changing movement that will build so many walls the enemy will never be able to get to those protected by your prayers.

Got an attack on your kids? Build a wall. Got an attack on your health? Build a wall. Got an attack on the youth in your town? Build that wall.

You are a wall builder.