The Trumpet Call National Day of prayer at the International Convention Centre on 15 October was a remarkable day. We believe it was a time of release and re-commissioning. Jesus is calling His whole church to pray and evangelise. We are moving into a time of harvest and revival and there is an urgency to our preparations.

On the day Ian Cole, our founder, shared the passion God has for His Gospel – this remarkable, life-changing work of redemption, mercy, restoration, reconciliation, unity and freedom. Our six partners, whose ministry links with these themes, shared their vision and we prayed for their work and for the Gospel themes. As we prayed, a trumpet was sounded and the 1,500 audience joined with our Gospel declarations.*

This was a day of prayer and praise with many moments where God’s presence was tangible and we received clear messages about God’s heart and purpose for these times.

Here are some of the key Trumpet Call themes. We ask you to consider them carefully and ask – is God calling me to be praying for these things in my family, friendship groups, neighbourhood or workplace?

We believe that out of Trumpet Call, God is saying it is His appointed time for:

• The power of the Gospel to be released in this land. The Gospel is the good news of unquenchable love of Jesus. It speaks of the extraordinary change Jesus can bring into anyone’s life. He brings mercy, He brings freedom and release. This is not just about knowing God’s love; it is also about knowing His deliverance and change.
• The Gospel to be released where you live, worship and work. The Gospel is also the good news of unity. Not a distant toleration of each other but the unity of the deep embrace, with respect across the generations, between all the ministries in a church, across ethnic groups and between churches and Christian organisations. Unity releases blessing and gets us ready for harvest time.
• The Gospel brings redemption and restoration. God hears the prayers from generations past and is restoring the role of the Church to bring mercy, freedom, love and deliverance to the places where we live and to our nation.
• It is the Gospel of reconciliation and it is time for the prodigals. Many carry the deep hurt of children and other family members who have abandoned their faith or who have never had a true relationship with Jesus. We are glad to say they are high on God’s priority list. At Trumpet Call, hundreds came in tears to bring their prodigals to the cross. We believe these will be the first fruits and God plans to bring hundreds of thousands of prodigals home. They are like Ezekiel’s vision of dry bones and God is saying “Wake up, rise up, I am restoring my army and you the prodigals are key parts of it so I can bless this nation.”
  It is time for the emerging generation. Some of them will be the prodigals called back home. This generation is called to be a revival generation; they will carry and sustain this move of God. It is time to pray for a tsunami of divine passion to hit this generation that they might be completely sold out for Jesus. One of the key calls on the older generation is to pray with generosity for this generation to rise up into their calling and authority.
• It is time for children to enter into the fullness of who God called them to be – children who praise God, prayer regularly, are excited about Jesus moving in their lives and are entering into their gifting and calling.
• There is a unique call on the British Isles to be people who take the Gospel to other nations, and to pray with renewed vigour for the persecuted church.
• It is time for a new Trumpet Call at local level calling the church to pray. Across the nation we get stories of boring poorly attended prayer meetings. We go through the motions of prayer. We need to pray intensely for a prayer revival. Let us stop meeting with a shopping list but turn our prayer times into holy moments in the presence of God. Let God engage our hearts as well as our minds. We long to see small groups turned into engine rooms of prayer and transformation. Places of great intimacy with Christ, great encouragement and prayer rooms where we expect God to move powerfully.
• It is time for a new Air War and Ground War. Some are called to the Air War – to pray for cities and nations and in particular to be watching the things of the kingdom. To be more aware of where God is moving, and what He wants to encourage as well as standing on guard to protect and pray for breakthroughs. All of us are called to the Ground War – regular, sustained and inspired prayer for our family, friends, workplace and neighbourhoods to be changed by God and for many to find Jesus and have their lives changed.
• It is the time for Wow! There is nothing boring about God. He is the God of the extraordinary, He is the God of abundance, and He is the God of release and restoration. It is time to pray for the Wow of God. That our churches will be places hungry to meet with God, where miracles glorify His name. Our God is the Lord of the marketplace, the schoolroom, the University campus, the shop floor, the squash court, the prison cell, the office and the coffee houses. As the chorus says – “Spirit break out”. We pray for an extraordinary move of God across every part of our nation from north to south, from old to young, from rich to poor, from healthy to sick, that the extraordinary of God will shake, change and release our nation.

A new season

World Prayer Centre believes that we are in a dramatic new season. Our aim is to watch what is happening and encourage and enable prayer. We have many resources and materials already prepared that you can use personally and with small groups to raise your prayer level. We will send out new resources to give prayer focus and direction. We will work with partners to plan and develop prayer events and fresh teaching. We will provide testimonies and stories of God’s WOW at work.

Work with us 

We would love to hear your feedback, your testimonies, and your requests for support. We want to encourage you to prepare for harvest, be champions of prayer, and be builders of unity. May God’s Kingdom come.

*Feel free to use the Gospel declarations in your small group or church or a wider prayer gathering. This is powerful way to release the power of the Gospel into your community.

You can still view some of the live streamed videos from the day on our Facebook page under videos.

This story was recently told by David Platt in Tennessee. A southeast Asian believer trained by Southern Baptist missionaries began sharing the Gospel in a village that previously was totally unreached. The villagers responded attentively, but then the village leader died, and they superstitiously believed his death was caused by evil spirits upset by Christian activities. Discouraged by the turnaround, the Christians went to express their condolences at the leader’s house. Standing over the fallen leader, they prayed that God would show His mercy to the people in the village, and show His glory and His love to them. As they were praying the man coughed! Then he started breathing once more. They shared the Gospel, people started coming to faith in Christ, and the villagers starting burning their idols. Platt acknowledged that there is no medical evidence to verify the resurrection, but said, ‘I do know at villages like this, they know how to recognise death.’