Apr 30, 2017 – Prayer Focus
24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call – Sunday, April 30, 2017
“A CALL TO THE WALL…ONE NATION UNDER GOD!”
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Strategic Focus for Sunday
Purifying ourselves as He is pure…
As we launch out into our new assignment for the 24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call, for the fifth year in a row, Australian prayer leaders are urging Australians and 100 nations worldwide to join with them to pray and fast for five days for America, from April 30 – May 4, 2017. April 30th is America’s National Day of Repentance and May 4th is America’s 2017 National Day of Prayer. As Australia leads the world in praying for the USA, might we join our hearts and prayers to theirs, in a period of preparation as we launch out into this next 24/7 NSPC assignment…five (5) days of focused prayer culminating on Thursday, May 4th, our 2017 National Day of Prayer. Theme: “For your Great Name’s Sake – Hear Us, Forgive Us and Heal Us” Scripture: “O, Lord – Listen! O, Lord – Forgive! O, Lord – hear and act! For Your sake, O, My God!” Daniel 9:19
Wesley Leake, part of the National Day of Prayer team from Australia, said, “God has done amazing things in America since we began to pray and fast, but God can do greater things yet! We in Australia believe it is our turn to stand in the gap for the nation of America and pray for revival and transformation for the USA through prayer and fasting according to 2 Chronicles 7:14. The new Administration cannot bring revival to America, only God can do that. We in Australia are grateful for the protection that America gave Australia and the nations of the free world during World War II. The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought by USA in 1942, was the turning point in the Second World War for Australia. Thank God for America!”
Melissa Haigh, also part of their team, said, “Abraham Lincoln, on 30 April 1863 called for a Day of ‘Humiliation, Prayer and Fasting’ at a time of great national crisis by Governmental decree which said, “We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God…We have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness”. Haigh continued, “Unfortunately, today America is again in crisis because it has forgotten God. America is in great danger from within and without. The situation in Australia is not much different. We in our nation have forgotten God and we are paying the price for our rebellion.”
Warwick Marsh, from the National Day of Prayer team said, “We welcome Vice President Pence to Australia and are thankful for his strong Christian conviction, but we need what governments cannot do. America and Australia need revival and reformation. We need God. We invite you to join with us in five days of prayer and fasting for the USA.”
On this “National Day of Repentance”, we are being called to repentance and purification. For these next five (5) days, we will focus, as believers in Jesus Christ, on being set apart, cleansed of sin and intensifying our zeal for our King and his Kingdom. We will prepare our hearts and joyfully enter His courts with praise and thanksgiving, approaching His Throne with reverence. Our focus is on God Almighty, and we come with hearts of gratitude for a Love that allowed Jesus Christ to make atonement for our sins. Repentance is a privilege and should be a Christian’s daily practice. Our lifestyles should reflect His purity. Let’s read these scriptures, and repent personally and corporately for our national sins, and move forward toward our nation’s bright future in Him.
“Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.”
2 Corinthians 7:1
“Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.”
1 John 3: 2-3.
“For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age, looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works.”
Titus 2: 11-14
“Those I love I also correct and discipline. Therefore, be shamelessly committed to Me, and turn back.” Revelation 3:19
REMINDER: the 4 National Apostasies that brought Ancient Israel into bondage and captivity, all 4 of which are being committed here on a National level:
#1) The Slaughter of Innocents
#2) The Sanctification of Perversions
#3) Removal and Replacement of God Almighty from the Public Square
#4) Betrayal of the Throne of David (temporally Israel, spiritually Christ)
Additional Scriptures:
Psalm 51 The Repentance Prayer
Ephesians 5: 26-27
PRAYER: Holy God of Heaven and Earth, we humbly acknowledge our many failings both personally and nationally. Lord, may we not continue to take your grace for granted. Forgive us for our arrogance when we habitually practice presumptuous sinning which your Word calls “great transgression.” Please help us to see ourselves in the warnings within your Holy Word and not falsely think “thank God we are not like those other sinners.” On a national level, help us to realize that the worst holocaust in the history of all mankind, abortion, remains a monstrous and evil stain on our nation’s soul. Remind us that the “sanctification of perversions” is not some ancient temple practice but is currently being instituted throughout our land by lawless and godless judges with our tacit apathetic approval. Forgive us for thinking we can remove You and Your commandments from our public square through a false doctrine of “neutrality” and still retain all the blessings of Your favor and protection. Last, but not least, let us not betray Israel by insisting that they have their land divided. If we support the division of Israel, we become a Judas betraying The Throne of David working with the forces of darkness against Your Sovereign Kingdom. Fill us with a reverent and holy Fear of the Lord, a certain knowledge that what You say will always come to pass regardless of the plotting and strategies of mankind. Remind us that wise men still seek You and pour themselves out at Your feet because You are the Treasure we should seek. We pray this prayer in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Name above all names, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Amen.
(Adapted from National Day of Repentance materials)
https://www.facebook.com/TheNationalDayOfRepentance
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Hineni, Adonai! Here I am, Lord!
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The Battle of the Bride
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