The prayer ministry of Jesus unfolds in Luke, Chapter 6, verse 12.  It says, “And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.”  Well, there’s nothing sacred about praying all night.

Korea had all-night prayer meetings.  We’ve shared with many of you about the ministry in Korea.  Cho’s church is not the only one that has done this, but his, if not the original, is one that has these prayer mountains.  Places where people could separate themselves to seek God.  I can’t remember when Cho’s began, but it was somewhere in the ’50s when they began to pray.  They committed this area to the Lord, and they began to pray seven days a week 24 hours a day.  They’ve been praying since the ’50s, believing God to preserve them.  They are living with communism just across the border.  Seoul is not far at all from the DMZ.  The threat of an invasion from China at any moment.  The North Koreans weren’t the problem; it was China.  Same thing in Vietnam.  China has a lot of folks to spare.  I mean, the enemy just coming like a flood.  It’s amazing.  You hear some of the stories about the masses coming and we would run out of ammunition killing them.  They had more people than we had ammo in some of those conflicts.  So, they’re praying earnestly.  This is something that they lived with daily.  The churches were set up so that if that invasion came, all of the church records would be incinerated instantly, so that they couldn’t hunt the Christians down and persecute them.  Those needs will make you pray; amen?

Here’s where I was going with that.  We were talking about when we were over there a few years ago traveling around across the whole country.  I can remember one meeting we were headed to when you had to be off the streets by midnight.  I don’t know what it is today, but curfews back then were still pretty binding.  People just didn’t leave.  Where you were at midnight is where you stayed.  So, for the people that would come and pray in the evenings, many times, just had to stay there and would pray overnight.  It wasn’t necessarily piety that kicked it all off.  It was the law.  It changes things.  It makes it kind of interesting.

We rolled into that place just before midnight.  I can’t remember exactly the hours, but when we got there, they immediately took us to the platform.  We’d been riding for a good while in one of those little micro-buses.  For hours we were bouncing up the road, and when we got there they took us immediately from the van up to the platform.  So, I started preaching right about midnight.  I preached util about one or so and then began to pray for the sick.  God was doing some mighty miracles that night.  People just ran on the stage and trapped us against the back wall.  It’s a scary thing, if you’ve ever been in a situation with crowds like that, and you can no longer move.  I mean, it’s like the weight, the mass of people.  It’s an amazing thing.  We were back pressed against the wall.  Thankfully, they didn’t do what they did that time when we were in Haiti.  Then a very similar thing happened.  The police came in and started beating all the people that were coming for prayer.  That’s the kind of prayer meeting it takes faith to go to.