Church prays for shopping centre
Pastor Trevor Berry and his congregants went to Dainfern Square to pray over the shopping centre. However, this is something that they often do.
Pastor Trevor Berry from H2O Ministries International believes that illegal activities and other things that negatively attack society should also be attacked through prayer with the help of the police. That is why on Wednesday, 19 July, Pastor Berry and his congregants went to Dainfern Square to pray for the shopping centre.
“We are working alongside Douglasdale police. What the police have acknowledged is that they are having a major battle with fighting crime not just socially, and culturally but also spiritually. You know, they could be in crime but the society is made up of different structures. So, they wanted us to use the weapons we have and that is the bible, prayer, love, and encouragement.”
He told Fourways Review that some of the assignments they were given as a church include ‘Adopt-a-Cop and pray for them, help them in whatever way we can and be wherever they allow us’.
Pastor Berry explained that this is not the first time his church go to shopping centres to pray for them because it is part of their “Divine Intervention Approach” initiative.
“We do this once a month. So, it is not only in Dainfern but different shopping centres and crime hotspots. We have been asked to pray against business robberies, house break-ins, carjacking, online crimes, and gender-based violence. Therefore, we target different hotspots once a month and then we pray.”
He said they went to Dainfern Square on Wednesday because some of the church members live in Dainfern and needed a dose of prayer, “In fact, the community requested it and the area is not on the police list as a crime hotspot.”
He told us that they chose prayer as part of the solutions to crime because ‘we deal with the spiritual aspect of the crime. We only see the physical aspect of the crime but prayer is very important in the invisible realm. So, what the police have realised is that they can not fight this battle without God and they want His help. We get together, and ask God to help and be with us, you know God see things worthy when people are called by His name, humble themselves and refrain from their wicked ways, and pray. He will hear them from heaven and heal their men’.
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