20th February till 30th March 2012—please lift up these strategic prayer concerns to the Lord for this embattled land.
Pray for the 40-day Campaign itself that it will be an instrument of motivating churches to pray for strategic issues as well as unleash a united prayer. Pray that more and more pastors will come to the understanding that their churches are to become “Houses of Prayer” if they want to see a true revival in the nation.
Pray that the Church will understand its responsibility as a Watchman and start praying fervently for spiritual and physical issues that are confronting the Church and the country as whole.
Pray for unity among Christians/church leaders and churches and that the long-standing denominational barriers should be removed.
Pray for the Prayer Movement in Pakistan which is in its initial stages that the Lord will strengthen and it will develop into a sustainable growing movement engulfing the churches in it. The church leadership would understand its importance and become more and more a part of it. Pray that the Pakistani church will understand the power of cooperate prayers and churches will move into a culture of prayer. Pray for a national wide awaking and revival of the church in Pakistan.
Pray for the Senate Elections in coming March, for the first time four minority senators will be elected. Please pray that a maximum of Christian senators would be elected. Please also pray for the Senate elections on the whole that honest people with integrity would be elected and that God will bring such people into the senate who will be favorable to the Gospel and His people.
Pray that the political turmoil of Pakistan would soon end and the country would continue on a path of democracy and freedom. Pray that the internal and external issues of security would be settled.
Pray for abolition or repeal of all discriminatory laws in Pakistan, especially the blasphemy laws (295 B and C). This law feeds into the prevailing extremism. Pray that this stronghold would be brought down and that the Lord will intervene into the fabric of the society to open the minds of the people who believe this law was a divine law. Pray that the Lord will protect Christians and a Muslim brother who are working to abolish this law, which includes Church, civil society leaders, and politicians. Pray for the Christian brothers and sister who are in prison, facing trials falsely accused under this law. Pray that the Lord would give the government sincerity at heart and wisdom to deal with the issue of changing or repelling this law.
Pray that the government will take sincere measures to curb the rising extremism and radicalization; pray that the strong holds of terrorism in the country will be destroyed. Pray for peace and security in the country and the region. Pray for terrorists to come into peace with the Lord and turn away from their plans of destruction. Pray that their plans of terrorism, suicide attacks, and bombing would be exposed and foiled. Pray that the armed forces and law enforcement agencies fighting against these terrorists would have protection from the Lord and there would be minimum causalities in this war against terrorism.
Pray that the Lord will give supernatural favor to the moderate people of the society so that they can socially, politically raise a voice and an effort to fight this menace of extremism. Pray that the National and local media would stop portraying terrorists, extremists as heroes and avoid such news and stories that gives support to extremism and radicalization.
Pray for different types of shortages that are occurring in Pakistan: water, electricity, natural gas, food commodities like, cooking oil, sugar etc. Pray that the government will take sincere measures to resolve these issues which are making the everyday life of a common man miserable.
Pray that Pakistani church will be especially focusing prayer against corruption and lawlessness that is prevalent in every tier of the society especially the government. Pray that the common man in Pakistan will get justice as injustice in the society is becoming a reason for extremism. Pray that the government will bring their own house in order, and take sincere measures against corruption and lawlessness.
Please read the attached article and pray accordingly. This is one of the most dangerous situations on earth. Please pray for Iran that it will change its stance regarding the acquisition of nuclear weapons and avowed intention to use them against Israel, the USA, and other Western nations.
Excerpt from an article in Newsmax by Jim Meyers and Kathleen Walter:
Middle East expert Walid Phares tells Newsmax that the Obama administration is not convinced that the Iranians pose a serious danger – even as a top Iranian official declared that his country is prepared to launch a pre-emptive strike. Phares, while nothing that he believes the Iranian quest for nuclear weapons is “not stoppable,” also says a resolution passed in the U.S. Senate last week is a “message to the administration” that it is time to confront the Islamic republic before it obtains such weapons…
An Iranian official vowed that his country would take pre-emptive action against its enemies if it felt its national interests were endangered. “Our strategy now is that, if we feel our enemies want to endanger Iran’s national interests and want to decide to do that, we will act without waiting for their actions,” said Mohammad Hejazi, the deputy head of the Islamic republic’s armed forces.
In the exclusive interview with Newmax TV, Phares says economic sanctions on the Iranians won’t persuade them to stop their nuclear weapons development efforts. “The Iranian regime is convinced that they are going to go forward with their program, he says.
“That program includes the nuclear weapon but also the delivery system. They’re working very hard on missiles, both intercontinental when they can, and regional, and certinaly they can put Israel, most of the Arab countries, Europe, Moscow, India, and our fleet in the Gulf and in the eastern Mediterranean in their range. “But they are also going to try to negotiate gain time. In the meantime, the buildup of their weapons system is on. It’s not stoppable.”
Asked whether Israel will disregard urging from the United States not to launch a pre-emptive attack on Iran, Phares responds: “Certainly the Israelis have their own clock that is different from the American clock, the European one, or the Arab one. It has to do with the width of Israel. It has to do with Israel unaccepting the idea that they could absorb one strike. “So if the Iranian regime is very close to putting a weapon on a missile, then no questions asked, [the Israelis] are going to try to take action.”…Pahres adds: “What you see in Iran is preparation for confrontation, and if you don’t confront them, it’s like the National Socialists in the ‘30s. If you don’t stop them, they’re going to continue. After Czechoslovakia, it was Poland, then France. And after Iraq, it’s Syria and then Lebanon and eastern Arabia.
“It seems to me the Obama administration is not convinced that the Iranians are really a threat. It is convinced that they are a nuisance and a deal eventually after those sanctions would work. That’s the view of this administration. But what we have now in the Middle East is way more dangerous than what we had before, even after the killing of bin Laden and after the Arab spring. What we have now is an Iran that is much closer to the bomb. And you have the rest of the Middle East falling slowly under the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood.”
The United States needs to contain Iran and the jihadists and partner with real democratic forces in the Middle East that are ready to work with America, Phares says.
Mexico – Early this week, police in northern Mexico announced the capture of a Zeta drug lord responsible for some 75 deaths. In a separate case this week, 119 other suspects were also charged for drug trafficking (among other things), according to the Law Enforcement Examiner.
With all of these arrests in hand, is the drug war actually being won?
Todd Szalkowski with E3 Partners (E3) (www.mnnonline.org/groups/E3P) just returned from Reynosa, Mexico, and says the violence may actually be getting worse.
“[In Reynosa], I heard stories of the increased violence across Mexico in places where we hadn’t seen it before: Veracruz, Mexico City, Guadalajara. Places that had not been impacted the way that the border had been impacted had seen some of the atrocious gang-style executions that had occurred along the border now happening in these cities,” says Szalkowski.
As evidence of the increased hostility elsewhere, Szalkowski adds, “Women of the church in Reynosa had been invited to a conference in Guadalajara and were afraid to go. These women live in one of the most dangerous cities on earth and were afraid to go to Guadalajara for a women’s conference.”
The violence is affecting believers’ day-to-day lives in a number of ways. Although innocent bystanders are not affected as much, says Szalkowski, nearly every family, it seems, has some ties to drug cartels.
This makes E3’s ministry difficult. For one thing, people are disappearing.
“We’ll see people disappear, and we’re not sure whether or not they’ve disappeared because they have been executed or whether they flee simply to try to hid from the influences they no longer want to be a part of,” notes Szalkowski.
Prayer is a must in this situation.
• Pray for boldness as Christians attempt to share their faith.
• Prayer that they would feel God’s presence.
• Pray that Christians would not be targeted but would be seen as peace-bearers.
• Pray that Mexico would turn to Christ in this time of turmoil.
Read the full story HERE http://www.mnnonline.org/article/16782
“This is what the Lord has been showing and saying. The WPA in Jakarta is going to be the precursor of a global revival which is going to take the whole world by His Spirit. I saw a great wave in the form of a Tsunami. It came in huge force excavating huge strongholds and high places, breaking into pieces every work and structure of darkness and evil. First, the Tsunami destroyed all the high places of darkness and this huge wave swept the debris of all broken down structures.
Everything that can be shaken will be shaken. All oppressive evil political power structures will come down, all darkness exposed. The ugly face of Satan and his demon angels will be exposed. Some well established ministries too will be shaken up in their roots. With the mighty shaking the Lord is going to shake the Arab world and judge the gods (principality powers) like the way He judged the gods of Egypt during the time of Moses and Pharaoh.
As the evil power structures get uprooted the Lord is also going to make available 'Hidden treasures in secret places' to the body of Christ. Treasures as in Gold and Silver and human resources are going to emerge. "Unsung heroes" in the body of Christ are going to emerge, a new generation of leaders and unique ministries.
The Church in Indonesia has conceived in her womb through years of travail in seasons of persecution. The Church united, cleansed herself, travailed in prayer and went into intimacy with God and she is now ready to give birth to this new wave of the Spirit, the spiritual tsunami. The Church is ready to give birth to global ambassadors of prayer, which will be sent around the world. This great wave of prayer is going to pull down strongholds in every city, province, and village, causing great peoples movements across the world. Peoples of every language, color and nationality will be swept into the kingdom of God. The wave, Tsunami, move of God will not stop but will pick up momentum and the whole world will be filled with the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.”
Amen and so be it!
Please read this article prayerfully, asking for the protection of President Calderon and his administration and God’s guidance for the capture of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera, the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, the most powerful one in Mexico. Pray also for the female candidate chosen by the National Action Party (PAN) to succeed Calderon that she will have the Lord’s favor and support of the Mexican people to win the upcoming election.
Mexico will hold its presidential election July 1 against the backdrop of a protracted war against criminal cartels in the country. Former President Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN) launched that struggle; his successor, Felipe Calderon, also of the PAN, greatly expanded it. While many Mexicans apparently support action against the cartels, the Calderon government has come under much criticism for its pursuit of the cartels, contributing to Calderon's low popularity at the moment. The PAN is widely expected to lose in July to the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which controlled the Mexican presidency for most of the 20th century until Fox's victory in 2000. According to polls, the PAN has lost credibility among many Mexican voters, many of whom also once again view the PRI as a viable alternative…
Guzman’s Web
Within his home territory of rural Sinaloa state, Guzman is respected and even revered. An almost-mythical figure, he has used his fortune to buy good will and loyalty in his home turf and elsewhere. In addition to his public largesse, Guzman has bribed people for decades. Unlike Los Zetas, the Sinaloa cartel leadership tends to take a long view on corruption. It will often recruit a low-level official and then continue to pay that person as he rises through the ranks…Quite simply, Guzman and the Sinaloa cartel have had police and military officers, politicians, journalists and judges on their payroll for years and even decades…Once an official or politician is on a cartel payroll (a situation similar to a network of sources run by an intelligence agency), he is subject to blackmail should he stop cooperating. And the relationship between a politician and the cartels can go beyond just cash. It can also involve the murder of a rival or provide other forms of non-cash assistance in the attainment of political power.
Guzman has been operating as a high-level narcotics trafficker in Mexico for decades now, and a big part of his operations has involved bribery…We must also note that without Guzman, the dynamics that drive the Mexican cartels would continue, and other leaders or even organizations would rise to take his place. Killing or arresting an individual will not be the end of Mexico's criminal cartels.
Guzman has been a high-profile fugitive for three decades now. He has not survived that long by being careless or stupid. It would be very difficult to track down such an individual in a short window of time established by political calculations unless those responsible already know his exact location and have chosen not to arrest him thus far. ..Still, Guzman is one of the most wanted individuals in the world, and large teams of Mexican and U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agents are trying to locate him. Therefore, it is possible that Guzman could be arrested before the election in July.
Ask the Lord for His will and his way to be clear as it relates to all of the healthcare in America, and that this would be clear to the justices, their clerks, the lawyers, and the providers, and legislators in how they should respond. Ask for God’s justice in America’s legal system and healthcare system.
In just over a month, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments over the 2010 healthcare law commonly referred to as Obamacare. The headliner is the individual mandate. There is also the employer mandate. Conscience rights could come up as well. With the argument just weeks away, briefs are being written and filed with the Supreme Court, and preparations are well under way for this historic week of arguments.
Pray that the Lord will place in our national leaders' hearts a deep understanding of the preciousness of the freedoms that our U.S. Constitution grants to all of its citizens. May this current administration's action with their healthcare legislation continue to stir outrage in all Americans who cherish the blessings of freedom and liberty that are granted to us by our Constitution. Pray that the Church will awaken to take a stand and begin to reverse the nationwide effort to silence God's people!
The State of Religious Freedom in America
The state of religious freedom is at the forefront of national conversation as people across America attempt to process the stunning actions recently taken by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that pit religious freedom against compliance with a federal healthcare mandate, forcing people of faith to make a decision that infringes upon the religious freedom that our Founding Fathers robustly protected from our very beginning. Unfortunately, the HHS mandate is not an isolated incident; it is more of the same. Members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus, a bipartisan group of 103 Members of the House of Representatives dedicated to preserving religious freedom in America, will continue standing up against burdens on these inherent freedoms.
In August 2011, HHS issued a mandate requiring that all health plans cover abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives, and sterilization at no cost to the patient, despite the fact that scores of people have religious and moral objections to these services. The mandate included an extremely narrow exemption for churches, but offered no protection to religious hospitals, schools, and charities, with the reason being that these entities often serve and employ individuals that do not share the groups' religious beliefs. "A long time ago, the Catholic Church received a mandate from a higher authority . . . It is the mandate of Jesus Christ. . . . Catholic ministries for the needy are as blind to race, creed, class, and gender as Jesus Christ, their founder. That any one of them, much less all of them, should be forced to choose between the Gospel mandate and the U.S. government's healthcare mandate strikes at the very heart of the right to religious liberty on which our country was founded.”
The Jesus mandate vs. Obama’s mandate (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/the-jesus-mandate-vs-obamas-mandate/2012/01/27/gIQAJ5jpVQ_blog.html) Washington Post, January 27, 2012.
More of the Same: Hostility Towards People of Faith and Religious Institutions
In recent years, there have been numerous examples of a recurring hostility towards people wishing to exercise their constitutionally-protected religious freedoms. The HHS mandate is not an isolated incident; it is more of the same. The very existence of these occurrences, regardless of whether they are successfully reversed, shows a troubling pattern that has a chilling effect on people of faith, leaving them uncertain about exercising their religious freedoms.
“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings, be made for everyone, for kings and all who are in high positions, so that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and dignity.” (1 Timothy 2:1-2)
On March 25, Hong Kong will elect a new Chief Executive. We believe that as Christians we are called to seek the peace and prosperity of the city in which God has placed us and to pray for it. The Lord says, “…if the city prospers, you too will prosper” (Jeremiah 29:7). We are calling for all who love our city and committed Christian intercessors to pray:
1. Pray for the CE election (5 minutes) – (Scriptural ref.: Isaiah 11:2-5; Psalm 33: 8-12)
• For God’s choice to be elected
• For campaigns to be conducted with transparency and integrity
• For fruitful dialogue with the public by all candidates
• For God’s choice for the team supporting the CE elect: Chief Secretary, Secretary for Justice, Financial Secretary, and all Bureau Chiefs
• For the current government to effectively govern HK during the transition period
• For smooth transition of power and God’s protection of HK during the process
2. Pray for current election issues in HK (5 minutes) – (Scriptural ref.: Habakkuk 2:14; Psalm 24). Pray that constructive ideas will be generated through debates and discussions during the CE election campaign process. Items may include but are not limited to the following:
• Housing and land use policies
• Population and immigration policies
• Widening wealth gap – poverty issues
• Policies regarding pregnant mainland mothers giving birth in HK
• Education policies
• Healthcare policies
• Environmental issues
• Solution to increasing tension between mainlanders and HK peoplea
The “Two Nations Locking Arms against Human Trafficking Plan” is moving along. I am heavily involved with the Administration in Florida to put on a State-wide Human Trafficking Summit this year. My goal is to move across the Border States and do the same thing. Please pray for me as I seek representatives from each state to form a National Human Trafficking Task Force. This will be for the purpose of sharing information, rescuing and restoring the victims, and working together to bring an end to human trafficking.
If you ever need a Speaker or Child Advocate for future events here or abroad, please do not hesitate to ask me. God is doing amazing things in the U.S. for bringing more awareness to the Children who are abused, neglected, abandoned, and enslaved in human trafficking.