The Sunday Mail
Men being delivered from spiritual bonds at the Men’s all night prayer hosted by PHD last week
Rarely do you see men letting out their emotions or fold under pressure in public.
Unlike their fairer opposites who are can literally tell you a story by their reaction to issues, men’s weak side is hardly exposed.
It is the same thing with worship in church. We are used to seeing women lifting their hands, kneeling, crying, shouting and doing all sorts of things because, well, because they are women – more in touch with their emotions and able to express how they really feel inside.
And when it is that part of the service called deliverance time, you know that a woman is more likely to surrender her life to Jesus than a man, sometimes walking down the aisle to the pulpit with wet cheeks.
It is almost natural to see women excited about an all-night prayer while their male counterparts almost always try to find excuses not to attend. Or if the men do attend, they are not as outwardly excited as womenfolk.
But the story was different last week when Prophet Walter Magaya convened a men’s all-night prayer at his Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries centre in Waterfalls, Harare.
And seeing men speak of their problems so plainly was a beautiful sight!
Whether it was a problem of a sexual nature or of finances, they went ahead and wrote down their demons on placards and presented them to Prophet Magaya.
When Prophet Magaya stepped up to the podium in prayer, where normally demons possessing women scream out in torment, there were men instead crying out in anguish for deliverance.
Some men struggled with their demons, which held them back from walking up to the pulpit, and they had to be carried there by female altar servants.
Talk of traditional roles reversed!
Others had to be tripped to the ground so that they would kneel as whatever it is that was tormenting them fought the Holy Spirit.
The men were screaming, vomiting, urinating in their pants, weeping, rolling on the floor, crying out for help or threatening Prophet Magaya for daring to challenge these demons.
We saw men being broken and rebuilt, standing up as new beings freed of their chains.
They knelt in prayer, jumped with joy, lifted chairs in dance and sang aloud as cancers, sexually transmitted diseases and other burdens were lifted.
“We need men and women to be in unison when we are praying. But men are not coming forth very much as women. I thought of creating an event which can attract them more as men and bring them to church hence this event,” Prophet Magaya said in reference to having brought secular musician Alick Macheso to perform on the night.
Men are tough creatures. But before the altar, we are all children of God.
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