Pray

1. Entrance

After the parking lot and the children’s park is the Reception through which you enter the Bethesda Prayer Centre. The Reception building also houses the Book Stall and the Administrative Office.

2. Pleasant Pathway

As you enter the portals of the Prayer Centre, you will witness a pleasant pathway. With its well-maintained gardens on both sides, the pathway is equipped with special sound and light presentation. Prominent display of scripture verses along the pathway build up the visitors’ faith.

3. Enchanting Cascade

Then you reach the enchanting cascade, which faces the main Prayer Hall.

4. Bethesda Prayer Dome

The Bethesda Prayer Dome comprises the central prayer hall and two rooms for counselling. The entire hall is wall-to-wall carpeted to be conducive for prayer. A Cross at the centre reminds of the Lord Jesus bearing on the Cross all our sins, bodily ailments, weaknesses, sufferings and sorrows. Prayer Intercessors are available for your prayer support at the Prayer Hall. They anoint people with oil and pray for them with burden for God’s miracle.

5. Stations of the Cross

On coming out of the Prayer Dome, you can take a walk around the Seven Stations of the Cross. Each station portrays the various stages of the final suffering Jesus faced before his crucifixion and also represents His glorious resurrection on the Third Day.

6. Vision Site

Then “Vision Site” signifies the very place a former security guard beheld the vision of Christ during the Centre’s construction.

7. Bethesda Pool

The Bethesda Pool (a replica of the Biblical pool in Jerusalem) is neatly laid to signify the healing power of Jesus Christ and His concern for the physically sick. We read about in the following verses in the Gospel of St. John:

“Sometime later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.” (John 5: 1-8)

It is to impress such healing power and compassion of Christ, which is true even today that a similar pool has been constructed here. During Bible times, an Angel of the Lord would go down the Pool of Bethesda and stir the water (John 5:4). The one who first stepped into the water that had been stirred would be healed, however severe his or her disease might be. To bring to remembrance that healing power of God, an angelic-being has been portrayed in the middle of the pool. We firmly believe that accordingly, even while you meditate and pray here, the Lord’s healing power, rising like a river from His Divine presence will fill your hearts and heal you of all your diseases, weaknesses and ailments.

8. Porches

There are 5 porches around the Bethesda Pool for those who desire to meditate and pray. On top of every porch is a representation of a dove symbolising the Holy Spirit. We trust that even as you meditate and pray, the Holy Spirit will descend and fill you.

9. Chairs

Comfortable chairs have been spread for you to sit and relish the lovely scenes around.

10. Book Stall

As you walk back, you can also drop into our Book Stall at the Reception for picking up the latest releases of audio, video, books prayerfully produced by the Dhinakarans and other memorabilia. You can also enrol yourself or your dear ones in any of the Jesus Calls Blessing Plans. Our Prayer Intercessors will be more than happy to assist you in doing so, besides praying for your needs with anointed oil.