The Elim Prayer team celebrating at Limitless Festival 2025
 

Praying with a generation at Limitless

Sarah Whittleston shares how prayer created space for encounter at Limitless Festival

 

This year at Limitless Festival, I had the privilege of serving alongside Michael Reid from Huddersfield Elim on a team with about 35 praying people from across Elim. Our Enabling Team arrived prepared for one purpose: to pray with and for young people and to create a safe, faith-filled environment for encountering the Holy Spirit.

Across five days we stood with teenagers as they put their faith in Jesus. We prayed for freedom, purpose and healing. Sometimes that looked like quiet, reflective prayer. Sometimes it was a response during a praise moment. Always it was about making room for the Spirit to meet people where they were. We worked shoulder to shoulder with youth leaders who faithfully serve their young people every week, and it was an honour to witness light bulb moments, liberating moments and faith expanding moments.

One of the joys this year was seeing young people praying with and for each other. Our aim is not to hold prayer tightly but to encourage a culture where prayer flows. When teenagers begin to pray for friends and leaders, confidence grows and faith deepens. Many on our team went home encouraged, growing in their own life of prayer because they had seen God at work.

Behind the scenes an Intercession Team led by June Freudenberg prayed before, during and after the event. They carried every part of Limitless in prayer, asking the Spirit to lead and interceding for what was happening in the meetings and around the site. Their faithfulness strengthened everything else.

This is the heartbeat of Elim Prayer across the Movement. We come ready to serve churches, to stand with leaders, and to make space for people to meet Jesus. When prayer is welcomed, lives change. I am grateful to be part of a family that makes space for the generations and is so willing to join in with prayer.


This article was first featured in the Your Elim newsletter. You can read the Your Elim newsletter here, and sign up to the newsletter here.

 
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