May 8, 2017 – Prayer Focus

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24/7 National Strategic Prayer Call – Monday, May 8, 2017

“A CALL TO THE WALL…ONE NATION UNDER GOD!”

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Strategic Focus for Monday

CONTENDING AS ONE…in prayer!

31 They finished their prayer, and immediately the whole place where they had gathered began to shake. All the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began speaking God’s message with courageous confidence. ³²During those days, the entire community of believers was deeply united in heart and soul to such an extent that they stopped claiming private ownership of their possessions. Instead, they held everything in common. ³³The apostles with great power gave their eyewitness reports of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. Everyone was surrounded by an extraordinary grace. ³⁴Not a single person in the community was in need because those who had been affluent sold their houses or lands and brought the proceeds ³⁵to the emissaries of the Lord. They then distributed the funds to individuals according to their needs.

Acts 4: 31-35

Pastor Ioan, along with our dear IPC (International Prayer Council) brothers John Robb and George McBane, who serve on the 24/7 NSPC Spiritual Advisory Council, has been in Herrnhut, Germany this past weekend with global prayer leaders from around the world. When Ioan joined us on Friday evening for the SHABBAT Celebration on the 24/7 CC line, he shared about the deep intimacy and powerful anointing he and the others there experienced as they met. The SHALOM of GOD enveloped them as they looked at the past and the future and rejoiced in the work being done by the Lord in each one! What true and authentic unity in the Body of Christ! ALLELUIA!

Just as with these global prayer leaders, in recent years there has been a huge emphasis on 24/7 Prayer Movements. It seems as if prayer and the discussion of prayer is everywhere. Prayer… much more prayer…is needed around the globe. There is still so much more to pray…so much for which Jesus continues to pray…the “harvest” and the lost.

May we ask together for His request in Matthew 9:37-38 and in Luke 10:2 as we approach His Throne daily.

Matthew 9:37-38 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the LORD of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

Luke 10:2 He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the LORD of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”

“The entire community of believers was deeply united in heart and soul.” Father, take us back to the place where prayer was our priority, and let us acknowledge it as our priority. (That’s certainly not a new concept).

2 Chronicles 7:14 …”If my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and heal their land.” As we pray this verse, our hearts unite in prayer, our souls are yearning to see You HEAL US and HEAL OUR LAND!

“Everyone was surrounded by an extraordinary grace.” Our God, with holy hands lifted up, we hear and acknowledge the cry of 1 Timothy 2:8 “I desired therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.” be fulfilled. May men in every place pray, without anger and without a shadow of a doubt, knowing You will indeed hear and answer our prayers!

Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ prayed in John 17: “I pray for them. I don’t pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. All things that are mine are yours and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. Holy Father, keep them through your name which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. I pray not that you would take them from the world, but that you would keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them, in your truth. You word is truth. Not for these only do I pray, but for those also who believe in me through their word, that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that you sent me.” May we be one, that the world may believe that you sent Me (Jesus Christ the Lord).

TIMELINE – History of 24/7 Prayer thru the Ages

A few years ago, ION Prayer shared the Historical Timeline for Prayer by Pete Greig and the History of 24/7 Prayer from IHOP Mike Bickle as well as Building and Repairing our Houses of Prayer… (see links below).

Here is a quick overview! Pray as the Lord leads, that the richness of each carries forward to our day and time!

First Millenium AD (Birth of the Early Church) Reeling from the events of the previous week, the disciples returned to Jerusalem, where ‘they all joined together constantly in prayer’ (Acts 1:14) They simple prayed and waited 24 hours a day, day after day in a particular room in Jerusalem, obedient to Christ’s command. Then, during the feast of Pentecost, God touched them with such unimaginable power that the church was born.

Follow the story thru the ages

Early Church 30 AD / Desert Fathers Egypt 300 AD / Sleepless Ones Turkey 400 AD / Day & Night Prayer Switzerland 515 AD-900 AD / 300 Years of Prayer Celtic Christianity 558 AD / 200 Years of Prayer Cluny, France 910 AD /100+Years of Prayer Count Zinzendorf & Moravians in Herrnhut (The Watch of the Lord)…Leviticus 6:13 “The fire on the altar must never go out. . .”

By 1776, the ministry of prayer of the Moravians impacted England & the Colonies: George Whitefield, John and Charles Wesley and Jonathan Edwards. Amidst this activity, The Great Awakening of Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield stimulated the formation of many of America’s great Universities, built so that believers all across the Colonies could send their young people off to college to find God.

At this time, there was a global mobilization of prayer. We are viewing history with the eyes of faith through the grid of past prayer movements, it is easy to find the correlation between seasons of intercession and the extension of God’s kingdom in the world:

He heard Ann’s life-long prayer vigil as she interceded in the temple night and day, a 24-7 Prayer Warrior! And when, after 400 years of silence from heaven, God gave us His Son it was, perhaps, in answer to the persevering prayers of people like Anna.

He heard the night-and-day prayers of the disciples in the Upper Room. And so, at a moment in time, in answer to prayer, he gave us the church.

He heard the prayers of Acoematae beside the Black Sea and of the martyred centurion St. Maurice in Switzerland.

He heart the continual chorus of intercession rising from those faithful Monks at Bangor in Ireland and Bobbio in Italy. And so, in answer to so much prayer as the Roman Empire decayed, a light shone brightly in the European Dark Ages.

He heard the prayers of the Moravians in Germany, the Wesley’s in London and Jonathan Edwards in Massachusetts, sending revival to England, Ireland and America.

He heard the prayers of a handful of young people in Blanerch, Wales and sent the great Welsh Awakening. Within 2 years 100,000 people had turned to Jesus.

He heard the prayer of the saints gathering night-and-day for three years at Azusa Street, scorned by the media yet baptized by God in power.

The Second Great Awakening…The Revivalists 1800-1899 -Camp Meetings which spurned more activity in the cities such as Spurgeon moving into the Metropolitan Tabernacle from the model of the “church-in-the-wilderness-woods” to preaching to 6,000 per week in the large cities of America. The backwoods of America was ablaze with perhaps a day like Joel had prophesied. Six days at Cane Ridge where the estimated attendance was between 10,000-25,000. This 6 days drew national attention and was one of the most reported religious events in American History. These days birthed the Circuit Riders Period of itinerant laymen who stopped in homes, under trees and in taverns! Each location had a class leader and 10-20 people in the “congregations”. No area was too remote. The pattern of earnest prayer reached into the most little known areas, and their reports rejoiced of how the Holy Spirit was moving around the globe. The Student Volunteer Movement began that would send thousands upon thousands out into God’s Harvest Fields.

The coming of the Third Great Awakening…The Modern Period: 1900-Present. We get to be a part of this season of God moving as He answers the prayers of the saints again. .. WILL YOU PERSEVERE IN PRAYER? Lord, rekindle our love for prayer as a Body of Christ…and teach us to pray for what is on Your heart…God-Centered… Spirit-Driven Prayers…in Jesus’ name. Amen

Submitted by Linda Bemis, International Orality Network – Sr. Associate – Prayer

Source and document links… “Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest”: https://ionprayer.com/2017/04/12/pray-therefore-to-the-lord-of-the-harvest-that-he-may-send-out-laborers-into-his-harvest-luke-102/

Historical Timeline for Prayer -Pete Greig http://www.getamericapraying.com/groupdocs/90_1409690952.pdf

History of 24/7 Prayer – IHOP KC http://www.getamericapraying.com/groupdocs/90_1409690915.pdf

Building and Repairing our Houses of Prayer http://www.getamericapraying.com/groupdocs/90_1409690846.pdf

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