It was a joy to be back in Indonesia a couple weeks ago with a team of five Christian brothers and to see all the progress being made in preparations for the World Prayer Assembly. Here is a brief update with some high points from what the Indonesians shared with my colleagues and me:
The Indonesians have already mobilized the believers in 217 cities to take part in prayer for the nation and the WPA. They expect that people in 300-400 cities in this diverse island nation will end up participating and that 5 million or more will join in an evening of united prayer and celebration during the nationally televised broadcast from the Jakarta stadium on May 17.
As part of the WPA process, they are launching the “My Home” initiative in which an estimated 15 million Christians will adopt their own streets for prayer followed by loving service to their neighbors such as planting trees, cleaning up garbage, etc. This will go on for the next two years. They were inspired by word of a similar prayer effort for Newark, New Jersey in the USA, one of the most dangerous cities in the nation in the nation until united prayer contributed to a large drop in the crime rate between 2006 and 2008.
Indonesian youth have their own initiative beginning February 3 to bless the five cities of greater Jakarta with free medical treatments and building public toilets in combination with prayer. Then on February 18, 5000 youth, children and adults- tri-generational just like the WPA and connected with it- will surround the national stadium, holding hands in prayer for the launch of “My Home” with government officials and the media taking part.
Our Indonesian colleagues recognize the need to be humble and prayerful before the Lord in the run-up to the WPA so they have already been engaging in a lot of intercession, prayer walking and fasting for many months and they will ramp this up considerably during the 100 days before, beginning February 4. Their vibrant, always increasing prayer movement includes fifty-two 24/7 “prayer towers” that never shut down, continually manned by intercessors. There are almost 1100 “prayer bases” where believers and leaders gather at least once per week to pray together. In addition, 2000 will continue to gather once per week in Jakarta to pray for the WPA until it happens May 14-18.
Here are some key concerns they are focusing on and that we hope you will also join us in prayer for:
1) That the people the Lord is calling from every nation will be able to come to the WPA. (See Isaiah 5:26 where the Lord whistles for the distant nations to come.)
2) For many hundreds of children and youth from all 12 world regions to be able to take part.
3) Financial provision for the WPA to be abundantly supplied and for each participant needing to raise funds to travel to Indonesia.
4) Humility, joy, unity and the anointing of the Holy Spirit during the planning process for the Indonesian committee, the Korean co-hosts and all of us working on the program and logistics. March 27-29, the Indonesian leaders will gather to seek the Lord and “throw down their agendas” before Him in special preparation.
5) Continued favor of the political authorities and the people of Indonesia as well as protection for the WPA venues and His special grace for the authorities to come up with creative, effective solutions for Jakarta’s legendary traffic problem.
6) The great wave of the Spirit, a true tsunami of revival and transformation, to be released upon us during the WPA in a “new Pentecost” that will flow to all of Indonesia and the nations
Thanks so much for praying with us! Come and join us in the wonderful prayer revival that is sweeping Indonesia! You can register and get more information about the World Prayer Assembly at www.wpa2012.org.
Dr. Leslie Keegel, John Robb, Pastor Niko, Tom Victor and Dr. Bambang Widjaya outside the Sentul City International Convention Center, site of the World Prayer Assembly
Report from Leslie Keegel on Indonesia and the WPA
I was privileged to visit Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur during 14 - 21 January with John Robb and Tom Victor. The brothers and sisters in Jakarta are filled with great enthusiasm about what God is doing and saying to them. I was greatly blessed with the prayer emphasis of the Indonesian Church. The Pastors and other Christian leaders are setting aside everything else to concentrate on united prayer. I was very blessed to observe the prayer towers they were conducting. A number of Churches in a given city unite to start prayer towers and they make sure that these towers have intercessors 24/7 praying for a Holy Ghost move in their cities. We were so blessed to witness children weeping before the Lord as they prayed. Children gathered around us John Robb, Tom Victor, me and a few other visitors to intercede for us, they wept as they prayed for us, it was such a special moment for me. The Church is very excited about the great move of God like a new wave about to sweep across Indonesia and the whole world. They believe that it is going to start during the World Prayer Assembly.
John, Tom and I were able to visit a few people of wealth and influence in the city to share about the World Prayer Assembly. We believe that God spoke to them and He will make them instruments of blessing to help with the needs of the World Prayer Assembly and the Global Prayer movement.
While in Malaysia, we were able to meet with a politician who is a born again believer. As we shared about the World Prayer Assembly with him he was very positive about it. We are believing that he would be able to be a part of the event in May 14 - 18. We were also able to meet with a group of Pastors and Christian leaders on the same evening to talk to them about the World Prayer Assembly. Everyone was very positive about it, most of them are hoping to participate.
Prophetic words given to Leslie Keegel concerning WPA 2012
Shared during Indonesia ministry visit in mid-January by Dr. Leslie Keegel, vice-chairman of the Foursquare International church movement and member of the IPC leadership team:
The theme for WPA 2012 is the “New Wave”. Years and years of prayer are bringing about a new birth in the womb of the church. There is a birthing of a new global movement spiritually out of Indonesia. The birthing mechanism is the World Prayer Assembly. There is a huge tsunami, through which demonic institutions and principalities will be challenged. The new wave will overtake them by surprise. All the heavy, concrete, deeply grounded, demonic- influenced institutions will crash and the move will be more powerful than ever before. All the debris of darkness will be washed away. National demonic deities that have corrupted the nations and oppressed the people – these powers are going to be challenged and the power of God will emerge.
A mountain of prophesy from God will emerge. His people will be in the right places. Unreached people groups will come to the Lord. I had dreams at 2:00 or 3:00 am in the morning and this is what I saw:
I saw crescendos of praise over the nations and bursting things apart.
Angels come in between the people and their praises. Angels lifted up their prayers to a new level.
I saw God touching people. Creative miracles never seen before will be released. The joy is ecstatic. There is dancing and rejoicing. There is liquid love. So pure.
I saw chains breaking. Blindness and numbness in peoples’ minds and ears will be broken. I saw the Lord dealing with oppression and poverty. The Lord confronts the Spirit of Poverty and Oppression. These are spirits.
We will be wiser in the things of Spirit. We will have new discernment over the power of the oppressors. There will be a new move of compassion. These are being conceived in the womb of the churches of Indonesia.
A new Pentecost, a new unleashing of the power of the Spirit, another level of empowerment. And from the tsunami in this land, entrenched power of darkness over the nations will be swept away.
The prayer strategy that has been evolving over recent years is now beginning to come into focus as different ministries, organisations and networks run with how the Lord has been leading them.
Click http://www.prayerforum.org/towards-2012/ for the link to an "Outline for 2012" - some of the main things already in place are listed.
Jane Holloway - Prayer Forum
World Prayer Centre, Cornerstone House, 5 Ethel Street, Birmingham, B2 4BG
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In the traditional calendar, “All Saints Day” and “All Souls Day” stand out in the month of November, set apart to remember the saints of the church and the souls of those who departed this world. It is fitting, then, that the modern church has set apart the month of November to remember and pray for the persecuted church, through the International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP).
There are many countries in the world today where Christians are martyred for their faith. Believers in Afghanistan are facing death threats; Christians in Uzbekistan, Nigeria and many other countries all around the world face violence, imprisonment and even death. There are other places in the world such as North Korea where acts of persecution take place, but we don’t see or hear of it. Brother Andrew of Open Doors once said, “Our heroes are not with us simply because they are in prison.”
IDOP is a time set apart for us to remember thousands of our Christian brothers and sisters around the world who suffer persecution, simply because they confess Jesus Christ as Lord.
We invite you to explore this website (www.idop.org) and hope you will join Christians worldwide in praying for persecuted Christians in November. Please note that while Sunday, November 13 (Sunday, November 6 in the UK and Ireland) is the designated date for IDOP, you are free to choose another date if you wish. See their resources that can be downloaded from this website to help your prayer group or congregation pray in an informed manner: www.idop.org
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Join a Worldwide Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Christians
More than 25 pastors are killed in Colombia every year, simply because they lead churches. Right now, there are over 2,000 Christians in prison in Eritrea, just because they are Christians. In Iran, Pastor Nadarkhani is facing execution for apostasy (abandoning Islam).
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
On 6 November 2011, there will be an International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP). It is a special opportunity for the global Church to unite in prayer, raising up situations just like the ones above.
http://www.csw.org.uk/pray
The Global Day of Worship (GDW) is a call for a unified, global worship movement to see the name of Jesus Christ lifted up throughout the earth. It will be a day that will unify many denominations within the body of Christ while embracing and celebrating the differences in our expressions of love for Jesus Christ. Through a unified celebration and adoration of the name of Jesus, the world will see that we are His disciples.
Join us on November 11, 2011 – from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in each time zone – for a wave of worship and adoration that will span the globe and unite all believers as one body. Utilizing 24 time zones, we will agree with and join the 24 elders, spoken of in Revelation 4, who are already worshiping Jesus around the throne. It is when the worship of heaven meets the worship of earth that spiritual climates of nations will shift as we serve faithfully here and now in preparation for His return.
There will be a huge coordinated day of prayer and repentance for the national transformation of Egypt. Let’s pray with our brothers and sisters in Christ there for His breakthrough in their situation. Lord, have mercy and bring deliverance as only you can!
Please keep praying for the WPA! Your prayer support will be all-important to the planning of this event which is intended to be a “new paradigm” for an international congress—carried out Acts 13-style—incorporating listening to God, united prayer, and strategic implementation of world-impacting action that proceeds out of that encounter with the Lord and one another.
In early November, it was my honor and privilege to take part for the second time in an ongoing joint prayer/action initiative between Mexico and the USA called Dos Naciones, Un Proyecto (Two Nations, One Project) aimed at bringing an end to three awful scourges afflicting both nation - drugs, violence and human trafficking. Both times, groups of American Christian leaders have ventured down to Mexico City to meet with President Calderon and other public figures as well as with local Christian leaders and intercessors in an effort to bring God’s deliverance to this critical and tragic situation affecting both sides of our border.
It has been a great blessing and honor to meet with President Calderon and Alexander Poire who provides leadership to the government in the areas of national security and intelligence. We have been helpfully briefed and also encouraged to do all we can on our side of the border to end the flow of illegal weapons, especially assault weapons like the AK-47, that since 2004 have been freely available through U.S. gun shops and shows to drug criminals from Mexico who use them to assassinate public officials, military and police as well as those from competing cartels and many innocent people caught in the crossfire.
70% of such destructive weapons have been traced to the USA. Consequently, over 45,000 people have lost their lives over the last 5 years in this mindless violence that we as Americans bear a great responsibility for since our government lifted the ban on assault weapons and has allowed the flow of such destructive weapons into Mexico. Local police are simply outgunned by the much better equipped criminal cartel members who seek to take over whole communities and subject them to their rule of organized crime.
President Calderon is a very admirable, intelligent and committed Christian who seeks the Lord through daily Bible reading and prayer. He has also asked us to pray for God’s solution, realizing that without His help through prayer, there can be no real transformation of the horror that is the current drug war, including the related phenomenon of human trafficking, that his nation is battling.
Each time we have gone down to Mexico, we have also engaged in an all-out prayer gathering with several thousand on-fire believers the final evening of our stay. These have been powerful, moving times of united intercession that we believe God has used to bring about the arrest of 21 of the most wanted 37 drug lords. Of course, He works through the public authorities, military and police efforts which have been enormously beefed up by the Calderon government; however, it is clear from both Scripture and history that the Lord requires prayer by human partners for His intervention into human affairs. This is the awesome privilege and responsibility we have as those who stand between heaven and earth as His intercessors.
John Wesley, the great revivalist/reformer of 18th century England, based on his experience of seeing his nation saved from the bloody revolution that engulfed France at about the same time, affirmed from his experience that “God does nothing on earth apart from believing prayer.” He saw that we as God’s children are also His regents on earth, expected to pray “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven”. Much as He turned Israel’s enemies into confused fighting against one another, so, I believe, He is causing these wicked, ruthless cartels to fight it out among themselves, so that they are weakened and defeated.
Transformation is a process that is dependent on our ongoing, specific prayer about particular issues. God loves us to be specific, united and continual in our focus (see for example Isaiah 62:1-8, Luke 18:1-). Praise God that we are now seeing signs of His deliverance and shalom coming upon Mexico! The economy is growing at over 5% per year in the midst of worldwide recession. Almost all Mexicans are now covered with universal health care, and all will be very soon. Thousands of schools and open spaces have been made safe for children, with recreational programs to prevent them from being lured into the cartels’ grip.
We were so impressed to hear how the Calderon administration has worked perseveringly in many sectors of society to bring sustainable development as well as doing all they can to build up the federal police and military to interdict drug shipments. New laws have been passed and the constitution reformed to prosecute those who engage in human trafficking. Young women and children who have been kidnapped, raped and trafficked around Mexico and across the border into the USA are being rescued and given new hope through the efforts of Rosi Orozco, an outstanding Christian congresswoman and leader of these anti-human trafficking efforts. She and her husband Alejandro Orozco also lead the Dos Naciones project.
Please pray for the following:
1) For President Calderon and his administration (including Orozcos) and others), during this final year of his administration that they will see God’s peace and healing will come fully upon Mexico through their efforts.
2) That they will see full deliverance from the scourge of drugs, arms and human trafficking.
3) That God will give them wise and effective strategies to prevail against the criminal cartels and that these cartels will collapse, dissolve and their leaders will be brought to swift justice. (See attached list of remaining cartel leaders that we need to focus our prayers on.)
4) Pray also that the U.S. Congress and other public officials will be sensitized to our responsibility as good neighbors to do all we can to effectively work with the Mexican government and specifically to re-implement the ban on assault weapons and ensure their flow to Mexico is cut off.
5) That the Lord’s hand will be upon the current presidential election campaign, preventing corrupt and wicked people from coming to power and raising up someone of integrity and honesty to carry on the excellent work of the Calderon administration.
Thanks so much for continuing with us on this journey of prayer for the deliverance of Mexico.
Please pray:
• “By Name” for the exposure and removal of these remaining “most wanted” cartel leaders.
• Strategic success and protection of the Mexican and US military and law enforcement.
• Disruption and dismantling of all drug trafficking routes and seizure of all illegal drugs.
• For God to capture the hearts of these cartel leaders and turn their live around.
(We agree in prayer with the many family members who are interceding for these cartel leaders to come to salvation in Christ Jesus.)
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