Kreuzberg - April 15

Berliners were out in full number enjoying our first warm day in Berlin

As I am prayer walking all of Kreuzberg....I am simply walking up one street and down the other.  For most of this prayer walk, nothing was standing out; there were no impressions; and I was thinking, "What will I write in my prayer blog?"

This Canal runs through Kreuzberg and many were enjoying the sun sitting alongside the water.

As I approached Golitzer Park on the way back I happened to notice 2 men who looked like plain-clothes police.  I´m not sure how I recognized this, but I did.  They were across the street from the park and looking very serious and concentrated.  Then I saw a police van drive slowly down the street and as I crossed the street to the park about 6 police men were walking parallel to me and ready to enter the park.  I decided to sit on a stone just outside the entrance and watch.  It turned out to be a huge drug bust in the whole park.

As I sat there, I couldn´t believe that I had just been in the park yesterday praying for the drug-dealers.  Can the Lord asnwer that fast?  "Before they call, I will answer.  While they are yet speaking, I will hear.¨"  I didn`t pray that they could be caught or arrested.  I just prayed that the Lord would do something.  I had to believe that this was the something and that He would use this to bring men to Himself.

There were abou 40 police in all and as I sat there and watched I noticed that they were surrounding many areas of the park.  As I watched them search some of  the African guys I began to pray for the police and for the guys being searched.  The plain-clothes men across the street were searching someone as well.  I KNEW the Holy Spirit had directed me to that spot and I was called to sit there to pray and intercede.  I think I sat and prayed for about 25 minutes.  While sitting there I happened to look behind me and there was a man with a dog and the dog was sniffing in the middle of some black-berry vines.  He sniffed and sniffed.  The man pulled him away but the dog went right back up the small hill into the middle and began sniffing again and digging.  Suddenly, the man threw him a bone; called over another guy who dug out a baggie of drugs; and a police man recorded it.  I couldn,t believe that I got to see a police dog sniffing and finding drugs!!  It was pretty amazing.  I managed to snap a picture.

Amazing what dogs can do!

The cops are really hated in districts like Kreuzberg.  Drugs are so prevalent it is sort of like if police busted Woodstock!  So, I pray for them and I pray for the people who are so used to a lifestyle of no absolutes or morals that they can`t see their left hand from their right hand.  Sometimes the sin feels so deep and overwhelming that it seems impossible in our human mind to even begin to sort it out.  Yet I know that this is where and when God loves to move - in impossibilites!  Then only HE gets the glory.  Nothing is too hard for God and no life is too messed up or too far gone.  No city is too impossible to bring to repentance.

Police entering Golizter and interviewing people

To God be all the glory.

Gorlitzer Park