Imprisoned for his faith: Pastor Saeed Abedini’s amazing letter from Inside Iran’s Evin Prison. Let’s join in prayer, trusting the Lord for Pastor Saeed’s encouragement, protection, ministry to others in the prison, and his soon release.
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Last week we held a conference call meeting with the national representatives (Canada, Mexico, USA) and our NHOP representative in Ottawa. Through a time of sharing and discernment, we have decided the above noted June meeting would better served if held fall of 2013 instead of the planned dates. For June we were unable to schedule healthy representation from the USA and Mexico contingents. We are also aware of the need to ensure we have a strong representation from the younger generation including through the planning process. A move to the fall, specifically Oct. 15-18, 2013, would allow for both of these factors to be included.
We are aware of things the Lord is doing in this season and want to be aware that we catch the wind of His spirit for this and continuing similar gatherings. The Lord may be shifting our focus and direction of our continental meetings making the now October meetings critical to future direction and ongoing continental strength and relationship development.
We kindly request that those who have registered please consult your calendar and confirm your attendance at the meeting now planned for Oct 15-18, 2013. We will continue to provide details as they unfold. For those who have not yet registered please advise of your availability for the Oct meeting date.
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We trust this change does not cause anyone undue hardship or scheduling difficulties. Our apologies for this if this is the case.
It will be interesting to see how the Lord puts together the October 2013 meeting! In our spirits we believe the change is from the Lord!
Please feel free to forward anything the Lord is speaking to you about this, and we will ensure it is considered.
Many blessings – The North American Prayer Summit Team
The recent Transformed World-IHOPKC Prayer Summit from March 24-27, 2013 has left a deep imprint in the lives of our staff, students and many who are connected to us. I am writing to you to provide a brief snapshot of the scope of the influence this prayer summit.
During the TW2020-ihopkc prayer summit about 200 delegates from various nations of the TW2020 10 geographical regions were represented including pastors from the Kansas City areas and IHOPKC leadership team. Approximately 1000 prayer gathering leaders registered their prayer meeting online specifying their prayer location, prayer focus and prayer time. 60% of these prayer gathering are located within the USA. Reports from the fields in Indonesia and Brazil along with our online analytics revealed the fact these 1000 registered prayer gatherings represented only a fraction of the true numbers of prayer gatherings. Indonesia reported 10,099 prayer gatherings nationwide and additional 528 prayer gatherings internationally. In Brazil, radio station broadcast in 130 cities live and some prayer gatherings were attended by over a thousand intercessors.
Our online analytics revealed the following summary data:
At least 90,000 unique IP connection points engaged with TW2020-ihopkc. (Each IP connecting point could have one or more intercessors)
130 nations connected with TW2020-ihopkc through these 90,000 IP connecting points.
In conclusion, more than 100,000 prayer gatherings or individual intercessors had joined the TW2020-IHOPKC prayer summit globally along with the 2000 intercessors locally in Kansas City that sustained the 70 hour prayer and worship vigil. It is safe to conclude that more than 1 million intercessors in 130 nations have stood in agreement to pray through various aspects of the 7 global challenges, 7 spheres of society, 10 geographical regions, The Back to Jerusalem Mandate, the 4/14 windows Global initiative and the Israel Mandate. We believe a significant birthing of the Transformed World 2020 Global initiatives has taken place within the context 24/7 prayer with worship.
The Global Day of Prayer is coming soon giving your church an opportunity to pray with many others around the world. Pentecost Sunday, May 19, 2013, will be the ninth year that the United States will be participating in the Global Day of Prayer (GDOP). The vision is as simple as it is profound: The glory of Christ and the blessing of all nations.
GDOP is more than a one-day event. It begins with ten days of prayer, guided and focused with biblical prayers from Thursday, May 9, to Saturday, May 18. This follows the example of the ten-day prayer gathering in the upper room before the first Pentecost. A team of international leaders has written the 10-Day Prayer Guide designed to help focus the prayers of people all over the world. Download and print or photocopy all the copies you need.
www.globaldayofprayer.com
On May 19, 2013, Christians will gather to pray and repent with sincere hearts and united hopes. Once again we will be gathering locally but praying globally. This year we will see even more of an emphasis on local churches praying the “Prayer for the World” as part of their normal Pentecost Sunday services.
Please consider participating in one of two ways:
1. Participate as a church. Ask the leadership of your church to join in during your Sunday services on May 19, 2013. With as few as 7 minutes of your morning service, your congregation will be encouraged as they unite with millions around the world by praying though “A Prayer for the World.” www.globaldayofprayer.com
2. Participate as a community or a group of churches. A small, well-organized gathering can be a great catalyst to propel your community forward in the coming months and years. The Global Day Organizer Guide offers some great ideas. www.globaldayofprayer.com
For Christ’s glory. P.S. It’s about six weeks before Pentecost. Find all you need on the website: the downloadable Ten-Day Prayer Guide and resources to help congregations pray the “Prayer for the World.”
http://www.gdopusa.com
Thank you for your partnership with us. I am charged with making sure interested partners have the full partnership pack, and the ability to put the EXPOSED Global Call tool on their website. The partner pack is at https://www.box.com/exposedpartnerpack, and I attach the Leaflet and Partner Actions for you here too. Let’s be in prayer for this important global campaign to expose corruption that affects the poor and all of us.
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Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States -- an emboldened presence that experts believe is meant to tighten their grip on the world's most lucrative narcotics market and maximize profits.
If left unchecked, authorities say, the cartels' move into the American interior could render the syndicates harder than ever to dislodge and pave the way for them to expand into other criminal enterprises such as prostitution, kidnapping-and-extortion rackets and money laundering.
A wide-ranging Associated Press review of federal court cases and government drug-enforcement data, plus interviews with many top law enforcement officials, indicate the groups have begun deploying agents from their inner circles to the U.S. Cartel operatives are suspected of running drug-distribution networks in at least nine non-border states, often in middle-class suburbs in the Midwest, South and Northeast.
"It's probably the most serious threat the United States has faced from organized crime," said Jack Riley, head of the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chicago office.
Border states from Texas to California have long grappled with a cartel presence. But cases involving cartel members have now emerged in the suburbs of Chicago and Atlanta, as well as Columbus, Ohio, Louisville, Ky., and rural North Carolina. Suspects have also surfaced in Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania.
Statistics from the DEA suggest a heightened cartel presence in more U.S. cities. In 2008, around 230 American communities reported some level of cartel presence. That number climbed to more than 1,200 in 2011, the most recent year for which information is available, though the increase is partly due to better reporting.
Danny Porter, chief prosecutor in Gwinnett County, Ga., said he has tried to entice dozens of suspected cartel members to cooperate with American authorities. Nearly all declined. Some laughed in his face. "They say, `We are more scared of them (the cartels) than we are of you. We talk and they'll boil our families in acid,"' Porter said. "Their families are essentially hostages."
Proverbs 11:1 (MSG) GOD hates cheating (dishonest and unrighteous dealings) in the marketplace; he loves it when business is aboveboard.
PRAY:
1. For the exposure of all illegal activities and the eminent capture of all TCO cartel operatives functioning inside the USA. (Prov. 28:1)
2. For leads and evidence leading to the capture and conviction of all cartel operatives and members, and the dismantling of all TCO cartel activities in the USA. (Luke 8:17)
3. For protection of all law enforcement as they investigate these illegal activities as well as for the protection of their families. (Rom. 13: 1-4)
4. That as the cartels attempt to set up businesses in the USA (even legitimate businesses to sell marijuana in states that have made this lucrative drug legal) that their money laundering operations will be exposed and shut down. Prov.11:1
5. Associated Press. "Mexican Drug Cartels Reportedly Dispatching Agents Deep inside US." Fox News. IFOX News Network, 01 Apr. 2013. Web. 09 Apr. 2013.
Background
The ‘Deep Sea Canoe Vision’ was given to me in early 1986, in my nation of Solomon Islands. It was during a normal Elder’s prayer meeting on which the agenda was the opening up of a new congregation in a suburb of Honiara city. I began to receive this powerful impression on my mind. The impression was so strong that I could not suppress or ignore it. I called the attention of my colleagues and requested if they did not mind; allow me to share with them what I was seeing in my mind. This is the account of the vision I saw.
Solomon Islands
A great flood was coming down a valley in spite of the fact that it was not raining at all. Unlike any normal flood, the water was pure crystal clear with no dirt or object whatsoever in it. The flood then came to a dam. It began to fill up the valley forming a beautiful lake with greenish blue colour. As the water had completely filled up the valley, it began to flow over the bank of the dam. And as it did, it changed into a water spray of mist like a cloud. At that point the map of the world came onto the scene. From the map I could see that all this was taking place in the Solomon Islands.
South Pacific
Then this cloud began to float around towards Australia, turned north towards Papua New Guinea, and then it turned east and headed back toward the Solomon Islands. From the Solomon Islands, the cloud headed east for the second round toward the Eastern Pacific countries of Polynesia. From the east the cloud turned around and headed back west through New Zealand, then Australia, and finally back to Papua New Guinea again for the second time.
Americas
From Papua New Guinea, the cloud changed into what I can only describe as currents. It looked like the effect of a speedboat on water without the boat. There were actually three streams of this. These three-pronged currents headed east towards the west coast of the United States of America. When they hit the West Coast of America, they split up in three different directions. The left stream turned north and headed towards the North Pole, the right stream turned south and headed towards the South Pole, and the centre stream went on straight towards the East Coast of the United States. When the centre stream reached the East Coast, it took a 180-degree about turn. And as it did so it became a great big tidal wave, a tsunami linking up with the northern and the southern streams, from the North Pole all the way to the South Pole.
World
This great tsunami literally covered everything within its path. It rolled back over the Americas and then over the Pacific. The wave kept travelling in the westerly direction until the southern tip came to the Indian Ocean. From there the southern tip swung around and went around until it reached the Arabian Gulf and then it stopped. The northern tip kept rolling over Asia, the whole of Europe, and then from there it turned south and went around until it encircled the whole of the African continent. When it came around Cape Horn, the tip of South Africa, it swung around northeast and travelled up until it linked up with the southern tip of the wave that had been waiting all this time in the Arabian Gulf.
Israel
As the two ends met up, they formed a perfect circle with Jerusalem right at the centre of it. Then from all sides, the wave zoomed in on Jerusalem, and when it hit Jerusalem, it shot up into the sky like a great pillar of water. As this great pillar of water reached deep into the heavens, it opened up like a mushroom and then floated out into all directions in the most beautiful cloud formation one can ever imagine until it completely engulfed the whole earth. Then these words came out from heaven,
‘And the Glory of the Lord shall cover the earth as the waters cover the sea!’
The Prophet Rev. Michael Maeliau
Solomon Islands, Pacific Ocean, 1986
The Prayer Movement Behind the Deep Sea Canoe Vision
Background
A South Pacific Regional Missions Consultation was held in Suva, Fiji, in December 1989 under the umbrella of the World Evangelical Fellowship (WEF). Rev Michael Maeliau of the South Seas Evangelical Church of the Solomon Islands and Dr. Raymond Windsor of New Zealand who represented the Pacific on the World Evangelical Fellowship’s Mission Commission organised this event. The real purpose and challenge out of this meeting was to see more mission activity out of the Pacific region, especially from the Pacific Islands who had been very active in Christian Missions in the past.
One of the things that came out of this meeting was the need for a Regional Prayer movement which started two years later in the Solomon Islands,1991, under the name of the “South Pacific Prayer Assembly”. It became the “All Pacific Prayer Assembly” in Vanuatu, 2003. In Taiwan, 2011, it became the “All Peoples Prayer Assembly”. This Prayer Assembly has also been tracking the Deep Sea Canoe Vision, outlining the move of God’s glory from the ends of the earth back to Jerusalem, for its official launching to the world in 2017. The Glory Cloud from Jerusalem will cover the earth as the waters cover the seas, bringing forth the rain for the ‘Latter Rain Harvest’ before the end of the age, for the glory of God.
We also believe that the Deep Sea Canoe Vision revealed in the Solomon Islands (1986) and the Pacific Prayer Assembly that started in the Solomon Islands (1991) are both fruit of the 1st World Prayer Assembly (WPA) that was held in Seoul, South Korea, 1984.
The All Peoples Prayer Assembly (APPA):
2011 – 1st All Peoples Prayer Assembly (APPA) was hosted by the Indigenous Peoples of Taiwan (29 April – 6 May 2011) during the 100-year anniversary of the Republic of China (ROC in Taiwan) since it was founded by Dr. Sun Yat-Sen in 1911. This was the first ‘Home Coming’ for Austronesia and the official Opening of the ‘Taiwan Gate’. The All Pacific Prayer Assembly became the All Peoples Prayer Assembly in Taiwan, 2011.
2012 – 2nd APPA joined the 2nd “World Prayer Assembly” in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 14-18 May 2012. This World Prayer Assembly under the International Prayer Council/Connect (IPC) was co-hosted by South Korea and Indonesia. Indonesia is the Gateway for the Pacific to the world, so the 2nd WPA 2012 became the gateway for the glory and APPA from the Pacific to the world.
2013 – 3rd APPA – East Coast, USA, American Continent
2014 – 4th APPA – Malaysia, Asia
2015 – 5th APPA – Europe?
2016 – 6th APPA – Africa?
2017 – 7th APPA. Israel will host in Jerusalem during Sukkot as the Deep sea Canoe finally arrives in Israel. 2017 will mark the 50th Anniversary or Jubilee for the City of Jerusalem since unification under the sovereignty of Israel. 2017 will also mark the 70th Anniversary for the UN Mandate for the rebirth of the nation of Israel.
2018 – The Glory Cloud/Sukkah/Tabernacle covering the nations from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth! This will be during the 70th Anniversary of Israel since their rebirth in 1948. The Glory Cloud will precipitate the rain for the Latter Rain Harvest for the whole world before the end of the age (James 5:7).
“Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned. Behold, the Judge is standing at the door!” James 5:7-9.
More Momentum than Ever to End One-Child Policy at China’s National People’s Congress
Chinese state media recently reported that the government is looking to consolidate several ministries in order to streamline processes and reduce bureaucracy. One proposal that appears to be on the table is the potential folding of the Family Planning Commission, which enforces the One-Child Policy, into the Ministry of Health.
The potential outcome of such a merger is unclear, but there are two possible scenarios: (1) the One-Child Policy will be enforced with greater brutality as the Family Planning Commission gains access to hospitals and clinics; or (2) the merger will effectively eliminate the Family Planning Commission and strip all of its workers of their authority to carry out forced and coerced abortions.
All Girls Allowed is urging churches around the world to join in unity with the Chinese church to pray that the Lord would effectively eliminate the Family Planning Commission through this merger, thus beginning the process of ending the One-Child Policy. Should such a historic move occur, it would follow several reports that the Chinese government is contemplating moving to a Two-Child Policy in March, 2013. It would also fulfill what began last summer when provinces representing 87% of China declared bans on late-term forced abortions.
China’s government has come under greater international pressure to end the One-Child Policy following the gruesome image of Feng Jianmei’s forcibly aborted baby that surfaced last June. The pressure continues as Feng recently revealed in a television interview that she has yet to receive the compensation and justice that was promised to her by the government. Another recent tragedy in which an over-quota child was run over and killed by Family Planning Officials has brought further embarrassment to the Chinese government around the One-Child Policy.
Chai Ling, Founder of All Girls Allowed, says: “Come, join us as we take a front-row seat to view God’s deliverance of his people in China! We prayed before the blind attorney Chen Guangcheng escaped, and the Lord delivered him. We prayed for policy change, and the vast majority of Chinese provinces banned late-term forced abortion. Our Lord Jesus clearly hears us, and he so desires for us to come before him in thanksgiving and intercession, that he might send his redemption on China.”
“Our God is an awesome God. Let us ask him to give courage to China’s leaders to do what is right and just. May he continue to part the Red Sea and release his people from the yoke of slavery!”
All Girls Allowed (http://www.allgirlsallowed.org) was founded by Chai Ling in 2010 with a mission to display the love of Jesus by restoring life, value and dignity to girls and mothers in China and revealing the injustice of the One-Child Policy.
“In Jesus’ Name, Simply Love Her.”
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