1. Nepal
Thank you so much for your continuous prayer for Nepal and House of Prayer in Nepal. After the WPA, prayer activities have been ongoing on very strongly and it is felt this is the "most need for Nepalese Christian Community". Today, we had discussion with pastors and businessmen and praise the Lord that three prayer groups were formed. Businessmen's prayer day will be on Sunday, businessmen's wives prayer is on Monday, intercessors prayer is on Tuesday and Thursday, and there will be general prayer Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.
1. Please pray for us that a House of Prayer will be established in Nepal and for volunteer staff and rental funds.
2. Please pray for House of Prayer to be in every city of Nepal by 2020. I talked with many pastors about House of Prayer. All are agrees that this is God's vision.
3. Please pray for National Board and its members that it will be forming very soon.
Govinda and Sujita
House of Prayer,
Kathmandu, Nepal
2. Democratic Republic of Congo
In Gisenyi, a city in Rwanda next to Goma (DRC), I hold a meeting with church leaders to give them report about the WPA and especially about Children and Youth Programs and about Prayer in Unity. This same meeting is being planned in Goma (DRC). In Goma and in Gisenyi, we are about to develop Prayer Cells.
I believe a mustard seed is sown in this part of both DRC and Rwanda, and God is going to let it grow to a significant wave.
Gatimbirizo Nkundimana
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3. All Nations Prayer House in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Thank you for the encouraging report on developments of the WPA, and it will surely go further than any man can carry it. The Lord spoke to me that He will take me to 8 nations while I was there in Jakarta. Immediately after the WPA conference within a period of 40 days, that promise was fulfilled and miraculously provided for since I am a full time minister. It was as though I was carrying a torch and lighting fires to many churches to start praying. Amazingly I met one pastor in Switzerland who said he was also there in the WPA conference in Jakarta. Seeing the great cry and need of the people of God to pray, while returning from Europe, the Lord clearly said He wants me to establish a 24-hour prayer house in the city of Kuala Lumpur. I am believing God for the right place and connections and proceed in His timing. Please continue to intercede for the Malaysian revival children to adults must Watch, Catch, Match and March. Remain Blessed.
Rev. Paul Singam
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A practicing lawyer, Ruth Lew, another WPA participant from Ampang, Malaysia, also intends to start a house of prayer in this city which is part of greater Kuala Lumpur. Believers and leaders from several churches of Ampang just completed a Prayer Advance, August 31-September 1, with approximately 200 taking part. John Robb, IPC Chairman, was asked to speak for it on “Shaping the Future of A Nation through Prayer”, “Catching the Wave: Becoming a House of Prayer for All Nations” and “Investing in the Future: Raising up A Movement of Children and Youth in Prayer”.
It is very encouraging what the Lord is doing to bring churches and prayer ministries together into a united prayer movement in the nation. Some see this as a direct outcome of many Malaysian leaders’ participation in the WPA. Let’s pray that it will spread and deepen throughout the nation!
4. Solomon Islands National House of Prayer
After WPA in Jakarta, I was totally consumed with the passion to start new Houses of Prayer in our five Melanesian nations namely: Fiji, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. These HOP will become the National Power Houses for these nations.
I am a Solomon Islander missionary serving in Australia for 24 years. Now God burdened my heart to start the first National House of Prayer in Melanesia in my own country. Already more than 100 intercessors are praying every week in Honiara. I will move back to Honiara early next year 2013 to prepare the SOLOMON ISLANDS HOUSE OF PRAYER for our international launch in June/July 2013. I am over enthusiastic about this venture because it will represent the 'NEW WAVE' focusing on Prayer, Worship & Mission and will be fully accommodating the three generations, children, youth and adults as intercessors, worshippers and missionaries.
You are invited to join us next year in Honiara at the official launch of this first National House of Prayer in Melanesia.
I am passionately impacted by the WPA and give my whole life and ministry in spreading the me the 'New Wave' message.
Rev. Roy Funu
House of Prayer for All Nations
Sunshine Coast, Queensland Australia
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5. North East India
It was my great pleasure to have joined the World Prayer Assembly in Jakart. I can say that it was unprecedented historical prayer and intercession gathering in the Christian world...I am already involved 'prayer and intercession movement since 15 years, and we have a 24/7 prayer house in Siliguri, India. When I attended WPA, my focus was enlarged, especially among the children and the youths. Now I am organizing more prayers among the children and also among the pastors, leaders, and youths. Praise God that the 'new wave is flowing' to many nations, and it has to reach out all the nations before Jesus' 2nd coming. Hallelujah! We all coworkers are frequently praying for you and your team members to good wisdom and knowledge to bring His anointing and blessings among the several nations.
Ps. Jiwan Rai
Glory Place Prayer Center
Siliguri, N-E India
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6. Switzerland
It is good to hear from WPA headquarters and to know the New Wave is still spreading around the Globe. I heard about this event through Daniel Lim from IHOP Kansas City. I attended it and was so blessed and ignited with a new fire and faith to dream for Switzerland and Europe. I am dreaming that the Lord would bring such a gathering in Switzerland. God put in my heart to invite all the intercessors of the world to Switzerland and lift up Switzerland and Europe before God for a mighty visitation of God before His coming.
The WPA in Jakarta gave me such a faith to dream and pray and wait for His time. I am blessed, and we are praying fervently for this move. This January, the Lord enabled us to open up a house of prayer in Basel Switzerland. We are excited about the future developments; please pray for us. I am looking forward for the next WPA.
Larwin Nickelson
www.bete.net and Oikos International Church
It really took me by surprise. I was in Jakarta, Indonesia, for the World Prayer Assembly in May and was excited about hearing from prayer leaders around the globe. But by the end of the first day, God had pulled me completely off my focus and onto His. By the end of the week, I couldn’t wait to come back to the States and give myself fully to the task of calling our nation to pray as never before – to passionately pray for the forty days before our elections!
You see, during the course of that week, God sent six different prayer leaders from six different nations to tell me that they had been mobilizing their intercessors to pray for the elections in the United States! Wow, talk about convicting! If Christians in China, India, Egypt, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Great Britain were praying for our elections, how could we not? They then graciously posed this question – which I took as a challenge – “Are Christians in America praying?”
As I’ve shared this experience here at home, the response has been incredible. All across the nation, Christian leaders are issuing calls to pray before the elections. Whole denominations, para-church ministries, and individuals are developing powerful websites and tools that point believers to the critical role of prayer. The elections and all of the issues facing our country are obviously a huge touch point and a catalyst to ignite this growing movement to pray.
Ultimately, I believe that God is simply using what’s important to us – the elections, to accomplish what’s important to Him – mobilizing a praying church. His desire is for His people to humble themselves and trust Him to accomplish His purposes in His people. Accordingly, the call to prayer rolling out across the nation is not merely for God to help us select leaders for our country but is a cry of repentance and humility – a plea for revival and longing for righteousness to be established.
I’m convinced that the destiny of our nation is dependent upon the prayer response of the people of God! We must be a people who pray! The call to prayer that America’s National Prayer Committee and many other leaders have issued encompasses and encourages all of the prayer initiatives that we’ve seen the Lord raise up. Simply put, it is a call for all Christians to pray. No programs . . . no required curriculum . . . no big budget . . . just prayer!
As a leader in your church and community, I would like to personally encourage you to raise up a standard with me! For the 40 days between September 28th and November 6th, let’s allow ourselves, our friends, and our congregations to be challenged by the same question that I was asked in May – “Are Christians in America praying?” Let’s get the word out through every means possible, so that millions of Christians in America can join together and answer with one resounding voice, “YES WE ARE!”
May the Lord richly bless your efforts as you lead people to pray!
David Butts
President, Harvest Prayer Ministries
Chairman, National Prayer Committee
P.S. We’ve created a website called 40daysofprayer.net and have made some great tools available to help engage the millions of believers who will be praying for our nation the 40 days prior to the elections – and beyond. Desperate for Change (http://www.40daysofprayer.net/resources/desperate-for-change) is a powerful, non-partisan, Scripture-based prayer guide to use.
Purchase copies of Desperate for Change (http://www.40daysofprayer.net/resources/desperate-for-change) for you, your small group or congregation. The books are available right now so click here to place your order (http://www.prayershop.org/40-Days-of-Prayer-for-America-p/pin-bud-bk-002.htm). Even though online delivery is inexpensive, we’ve found that more people will pray with a hard copy in their hands!
The content of this guide will also be available free of charge online during the 40 days (September 28 - November 6). Receive each day's entry via email/RSS feed. You can sign up today. There are two different sources that will be running the entries during those 40 days: Connection (http://connection.harvestprayer.com/), the daily devotional of Harvest Prayer Ministries (http://www.harvestprayer.com/) and our Blog at this website (http://www.40daysofprayer.net/blog/topic-articles). Click on a link and sign up to receive them. Feel free to put these links on your website and tell others about it via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/prayforelection) or by email.
Note: We would deeply appreciate your prayers for the USA between now and the national election on November 6 for the 3 Rs - revival, righteousness and right leadership.
A woman in Burma spoke to CSW about the horrific devastation the Burma Army has been wreaking on her village. The soldiers have been torturing, raping, and killing the mainly Christian civilians in Kachin State – and leaving churches in ruins along the way.
Burma’s ruling military junta is trying to convince the world that they’re making the country more peaceful and democratic. And it’s true that some changes have been made. But while rape, murder, and destruction of churches is taking place in Kachin and other states, the full story is clearly very different.
Churches Occupied and Destroyed
“Villagers had stored some of their property in the churches, thinking that the church would be safe, but the Burma Army troops took whatever they wanted...They stayed in the church for three days and destroyed almost everything – the leaves for the roof, personal property - and they burned down houses near the church.”
Helen (not her real name) had already fled to a refugee camp by the time we spoke to her. Her village had been invaded by the Burma Army with the troops occupying and destroying both the Roman Catholic and Baptist churches. “We never loot or destroy or disrespect Buddhist pagodas, but they do this with our churches.”
She also told us about the soldiers stealing money and possessions from the villagers. A heavily pregnant nursery teacher had saved 500,000 kyats (US$500) for the baby’s birth, but the troops robbed her of this money. When she pleaded with them to return the money, they gave her back a little but kept the rest.
Continue to pray that the reforming process going on in the central government will be extended to all parts of the nation so there will be an end to this ethnic conflict and mistreatment of minority peoples like the Kachin.
North Korea has been hit by flooding again with a lot of devastation and hardship. The South Korean Red Cross has been providing some relief along with other organizations, but it is still very difficult. To make things more complicated, there are major changes occurring in the economy from wages replacing food distribution in some places to distribution centers selling food. There is also serious inflation in relation to Chinese currency and the price of rice. At the same time, the North Korean central bank has been trying very hard to gather foreign currency, even to selling rice for hard currency.
While we do see economic reforms under way, it is a very difficult time. We can probably expect to see more changes as the new leadership continues to establish itself and look for ways to improve the situation. Keep North Korea in your prayers as it goes through all these changes.
Law Professor John Inazu writes in the USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-08-20/HHS-mandate-contraception-evangelicals/57168668/1) that when it comes to the Obama contraception mandate, “The legal challenges implicate an interest that all of us – Catholics and evangelicals, religious and non-religious – should value and safeguard: the right of private groups to dissent from the prevailing state orthodoxy.”
His wonderfully descriptive phrase – “prevailing state orthodoxy” – Is saddening. In a republic where personal virtue is the foundation of our political order and which rests, in Michael Novak’s wonderful phrase, “on two wings” – biblical revelation and natural law, law that is self-evident and accessible to everyone – the idea of there being a “state orthodoxy” is jarring. Yet such orthodoxy exists, which is why the Obama Administration is insisting that Evangelicals and Catholics cast away their consciences (we won’t, by the way).
When the federal government steps in to mandate that persons with reasonable, historic, and deeply held moral convictions must violate them in order to comply with a state dictate, Christians must echo the words of Peter in Acts 5:29: “We must obey God rather than men.”
Prof. Inazu concludes, “the right to differ protects moral choices that lack government approval.” Amen. But, as he would agree, that right is not just one that exists within the mind. For it to be a fully realized right, it must be allowed to affect the choices we make in civic and political life. In other words, adherence to a belief while complying with a legal limitation on the capacity to act on it is the moral equivalent of junk food: it brings us temporary respite from hunger, but no enduring benefit.
It is not enough that, in its great wisdom and compassion, the federal state does not interfere with the function of our minds as long as this function remains limited to the space between our ears. True conviction – what one believes is of value in time and eternity – means concrete and visible action in the public square. It’s government’s job to protect this right, not diminish or squelch it. As Prof. Inazu notes, “Evangelicals and Catholics need not shudder at the prospect of being politically marginalized. After all, Jesus did not. But political marginalization does not require political passivity. And one means of resistance is asking courts to protect the ability of private groups to dissent from state orthodoxy.”
So, we will ask, fight, and stand. But, by God’s grace, we will not give in.
FRCBLOG.com (Family Research Council)
Another good resource for Praying for the USA and its leadership: http://www.presidentialprayerteam.com
Vision:
Global connection at the same time of many Christians (and others) in a common prayer for humankind and its urgent needs every day from 3.00 – 3.05 p.m. Greenwich time – to form a wide channel between God and humanity in order to increase the love and power from God on our planet and thereby unitedly support the manifestation of His will for us and the transformation of our world.
Strategy:
1. You who want to join the SEPTIME to pray for humankind on a Biblical foundation seek at the time given a quiet place wherever you are – in the kitchen, bedroom, fields, etc.
2. Pray for one to fine minutes (or more) for the urgent needs of mankind – whether globally, for your region, city and/or friends and family and what else is on your heart. The targets of prayers you can get from the news of the last week for the respective field of prayer and/or find your own prayer targets.
3. The time for prayer is chosen because of the facts that most people in the world have holiday on Sundays and most people are awake at the suggested time of the day, except for the Pacific Area (around 7 a.m. in the western North and South America, 11 p.m. in eastern Asia).
4. It is recommended that your prayer starts with the Lord’s prayer, then followed by the specific prayers in the Name of Jesus.
5. No network for further directions should be needed. The message of the SEPTIME prayer could be spread through congregations, Christian media, social media and other ways that the Lord shows us.
About SEPTIME:
In the Sweden-prayer, we have some good experience of prayer in distance when we meet “in the Spirit” and many of us then recognize a “wind of prayer”. Last year, I understood that the Lord told me that this form of prayer could be used worldwide, and I got inspiration to write the concept of SEPTIME. I think it might work for people to have a short regular prayer time where to join brothers and sisters in Christ in prayers for mankind, for the nation, for the city/village or what else God puts on our minds. I have a picture of an electrical very thick wire, consisting of many, many little threads transporting the power. Maybe a global prayer will work in a similar way.
The Arab Spring takeover of Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood has run amok, with reports from several different media agencies that the radical Muslims have begun crucifying opponents of newly installed President Mohammed Morsi.
Middle East media confirm that during a recent rampage, Muslim Brotherhood operatives “crucified those opposing Egyptian President Muhammad Morsi naked on trees in front of the presidential palace while abusing others.”
Raymond Ibrahim, a fellow with the Middle East Forum and the Investigative Project on Terrorism, said the crucifixions are the product of who the Middle Eastern media call “partisans.”
“Arabic media call them ‘supporters,’ ‘followers’ and ‘partisans’ of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Ibrahim said. Ibrahim also says the victims can be anyone, including Egyptian Christians.
“It’s anyone who is resisting the new government,” Ibrahim said. “In this particular case, the people attacked and crucified were secular protesters upset because of Morsi’s hostile campaign against the media, especially of Tawfik Okasha, who was constantly exposing him on his station, until Morsi shut him down.”
Ibrahim said extra brutality is reserved for Christians, but the crucifixions are because of Islamic doctrine and are required by the Quran. The time and other details about the crucifixions were not readily available.
Center for Security Policy Senior Fellow Clare Lopez cited chapter and verse from the Quran to explain that crucifixions are not simply normal for Islam, they’re demanded.
“Crucifixion is a hadd punishment, stipulated in the Quran, Sura 5:33, and therefore an obligatory part of Shariah,” Lopez said. “It’s been a traditional punishment within Islam since the beginning, even though it’s not exclusively Islamic. The Romans used it too.
“So, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood haven’t the option to not include crucifixion within their legal code. It’s obligatory to comply with Shariah. And yes, it’s for shock value also to be sure,” Lopez said…
Author Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs, an analyst of the Middle East and Islam, fully agrees and also cites the Quran. “The Christians are in serious trouble because the Quran in Sura 9:29 commands Muslims to wage war against them and subjugate them, and they’re also identified with the hated West and the U.S.,” Geller said…
Reign of Terror
“I suspect that Morsi’s action was timed in part to forestall any further military action against the jihadis,” Geller said, adding that the results will make Egypt’s government more monolithic than it already was.
“Morsi is instituting a reign of terror to consolidate his power,” Geller said.
American Enterprise Institute Middle East analyst Michael Rubin agreed: Morsi is after the power.
“Morsi certainly wants absolute control. The Egyptian army have never been saints, but Morsi will broker no checks to his power as the Muslim Brotherhood writes a constitution and imposes its dream of an Islamic state on Egypt,” Rubin said.
Lopez says this all means that Morsi is shedding his “moderate” veneer.
“The point I would make is that Morsi is not bothering to play ‘moderate’ anymore. He’s moving very aggressively to consolidate power for the Muslim Brotherhood,” Lopez said.
She added that Morsi is now free to act without any concern for public opinion.
“He doesn’t seem to care who thinks what anymore. He knows he’s got the USG and president in his corner no matter what he does. He doesn’t have to pretend, no need for ‘plausible deniability.’ He also knows he’s got the majority of the Egyptian people behind him,” Lopez said.
Rubin believes, however, that Morsi will still try to play the “moderate” to continue to gain U.S. support.
Playing the Moderate?
“Morsi is going to play the moderate and the mediator for the world media, all the while complaining that he can’t take more forceful action against the extremists because the radical fringe won’t allow him to do more,” Rubin said.
“It’s nonsense, of course, but still an explanation that will satisfy American diplomats, safe behind the walls of their compound,” Rubin said.
Lopez added to Rubin’s explanation, but points to the White House as the main cheerleader for Morsi and the Brotherhood.
“This is exactly what many of us expected him to do (consolidate power) and I think the White House knew, too, and not only expected but wanted Morsi and the Brotherhood to take over Egypt,” Lopez said.
“As far as I know, the White House invitation for Morsi in September still stands – nor have I heard the slightest hint of criticism from any top U.S. government leadership figure about Morsi’s coup. He knows he’s on solid ground with this administration,” Lopez said.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/arab-spring-run-amok-brotherhood-starts-crucifixions/print/
Let’s pray for Egypt that the intentions of the wicked will somehow be foiled and that human rights and freedoms called for during the “Arab Spring” will be protected from Islamic radicalism.
This excellent video tells the story of a nation in civil war that has experienced a good deal of transformation in recent years. The president, a former rebel leader who came to Christ through reading the Bible in his jungle encampment, is now a prayer and worship leader in addition to his national development efforts. Click on the attached Youtube link to see the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0LhUPOOj5w&feature=youtu.be