From 1 – 7 September 2025, more than 2175 prayer rooms ran in 132 nations, all joining together in 24-7 Prayer’s first-ever Global Week of Prayer. This is just one of the countless stories about what happened.

One team in a prayer room in Bali, Indonesia, experienced an extraordinary story of God intervening in a man’s life when he needed it most. Read it in their own words:

“He was not invited by us. But he was clearly sent by God.”

This morning, just as we finished our team prayer and were about to consecrate the prayer station to the Lord, the door suddenly opened. A man walked in. He was not expected. He was not invited by us. But he was clearly sent by God.

He approached one of our teammates and asked a simple question.

“Can I pray here?”

The answer was yes. Always yes. This space does not belong to us. It belongs to Him. So he stepped into one of the prayer stations and began to cry out.

When he finished and was ready to leave, we asked if we could pray for him. He agreed. But then he opened up his heart and shared words that broke us.

He was afraid he would take his own life

He had not gone home for four days. He was exhausted. He was broken. He was afraid that if he stayed at home he would take his own life. He confessed with tears that what he needed most was peace from Jesus.

In that moment, we could have prayed for him. But instead we asked him to pray to God first, to lift up his own voice and cry out to the only One who can save. And right there in a converted church sanctuary in Bali he began to call upon the name of Jesus. His voice trembled. His tears flowed. And the presence of God filled the room with power and tenderness.

As we prayed over him, his weeping grew stronger. His body was shaking under the weight of grace. It was as if death itself was losing its grip on him. When we finished, his face had changed. He looked at us and said he felt better.

He’d been turned away

But the story does not end there. Earlier that morning, before he came to us, he went to his own church building to pray. The doors were locked. The security guard turned him away. A man desperate to live, desperate to encounter Jesus, and the place he thought would welcome him sent him back to the streets.

So he wandered. And by the sovereign hand of God he arrived at our prayer room. Outside he asked a friend if this was a church and if he could pray there. The answer was yes. And he walked in.

This is not about us. This is about Jesus. Jesus met him in that room. Jesus sought him out, drew him close, and poured peace into him when he was at the edge of despair.

I cannot escape this thought. If the church exists only for locked doors and scheduled services, then we miss the very heart of Christ. But if the church opens wide the space for the broken, the suicidal, the weary, then the gospel becomes real and alive here and now.

Bali is not easy soil. But God is showing us again that He is the Shepherd who leaves the ninety nine to pursue the one. He will find the one, even if it means breaking into our ordinary schedules and interrupting our prayers.

The kingdom of God advances not through polished programs but through open doors, surrendered hearts, and the raw power of the gospel.

All glory to God.

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