112 people per second open a Bible app
11 Dec 2015
Every second, the world conducts 40,000 Google searches, creates five new Facebook profiles, and opens YouVersion’s Bible App 112 times. In the app, three bookmarks are created, four verses are shared, and 18 verses are highlighted. More than fifty Bible chapters are listened to, and 342 chapters are read. YouVersion was launched in 2008 and now has 200 million installs, offering the Bible in 1,200 versions and 900 languages. Mobile devices are being changed into Bibles that people carry with them everywhere they go. 200 million installs represents countless moments of individuals transformed by their time in the Bible. The most popular Bible verse is Romans 12:2: ‘Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is - His good, pleasing, and perfect will.’
Call to prayer for the UK
09 Dec 2015
World Prayer Centre believes there is an urgent call for God's people to stand in prayer for the United Kingdom. The nation has entered a new phase in our conflict with ISIS. We are particularly vulnerable to terrorist attacks and fear in the days leading up to Christmas and when there are large gatherings of people in the post-Christmas/News Year's Eve period. We feel this is part of a wider time of shaking for our nation and other nations.
We believe God is challenging His church. It is time for all God's people to pray – we are called to be alert, to protect, guard and bless our communities and nation.
Here is a prayer format you may wish to use in small groups and church meetings, or to help personal prayer. We want to pray for God's mercy for our communities and the United Kingdom, that we might turn our hearts to Jesus – the Prince of peace, Deliverer, source of hope and goodness and see many people discover a fresh revelation of Jesus across the nation this Christmas.
So let's unite in prayer.
We are asking people to pray on the 12 – 14 December in different prayer gatherings and church services.
- Join us at our WATCH + PRAY day on 14 December at WPC
- Support Community Watchman Ministries - Big PUSH in Liverpool on 12 December.
Pray daily between now and Christmas – and beyond:
- Lord have mercy and protect our nation
- Lord, fill us with Your perfect love so that we can walk with You and not in fear.
- Pour out your blessing on this nation so that thousands will have a revelation of Jesus in this Christmas period
Download our prayer guide to pray for the UK. Please share this with your friends, your bible study/home group, your church and across your networks.
Joel 2:1 'Blow the trumpet in Zion; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the LORD is coming. It is close at hand'.
Germans Opposed to Mass Migration are "Free to Leave"
by Soeren Kern • November 24, 2015
After factoring in family reunifications, the actual number of migrants could exceed 10 million, and some believe that Germany's Muslim population is on track to nearly quadruple to an astonishing 20 million by 2020.
N24 television news reports that up to 50% of the asylum seekers arriving in Germany have gone into hiding and their whereabouts are unknown by German authorities.
"It cannot be that offenders continue to fill the police files, hurt us physically... and there are no consequences. ... We are losing control of the streets." — Tania Kambouri, a German police officer.
"We are not excluding anyone, we are just trying to run a business. If we ignore the complaints of our female guests, we have to expect that many of our regular customers will stay away.... Financially, we do not know how long can we cope with this." — Thomas Greil, manager of the discotheque "Brucklyn," Bad Tölz, Bavaria.
"We are reproducing faster and faster. You Germans are not getting any children. In the best case you get two children. We make seven to eight children. Okay mate? And then we take four wives each, then we have 22 children. Maybe you Germans have one child and a dog. Huh? And that's it." — Video showing a Muslim threatening a German man openly on the street.
In Berlin, lawmakers are considering emergency legislation that would allow local authorities to seize private residences to accommodate asylum seekers. The proposal was kept secret from the public until November 9, when the leader of the Free Democrats (FDP) in Berlin warned the measure would violate the German Constitution. Berlin Mayor Michael Müller now wants to expand the scope for warrantless inspections to include "preventing homelessness."
"The same empathy we show for refugees we must show to our own people, the host society." — Mayor Ulrich Maly, Nuremberg.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (left): "The Chancellor has the situation under control. I Have My Vision. I Will Fight For It."
Asylum seekers from Africa, Asia and the Middle East are continuing to pour into Germany in record numbers, despite freezing temperatures and snow.
More than 180,000 migrants arrived during the first three weeks of November, on track to surpass the previous monthly record of 181,000 migrants recorded in October.
With 300 newcomers now arriving every hour, Germany is expected to receive more than one million asylum seekers in 2015, and at least as many in 2016. After factoring in family reunifications, the actual number of migrants could exceed 10 million, and some believe that Germany's Muslim population is on track to nearly quadruple to an astonishing 20 million by 2020.
Please pray for Europe and its leaders trying to cope with the huge migrant exodus happening from Syria, other Middle Eastern countries as well as those from Africa and even Central Asia trying to seek a better life. Pray for the Christians and churches to know how to serve and share the Good News with these desperate people. It is a huge opportunity but also one fraught with the risk of the further export of Islamic terrorism. Pray for His protection too over these nations.
Repentance is greatly under valued in the modern church world. Identificational repentance even more so and yet repentance was the message that laid the foundation for the operation of the power of God in the New Testament.
The message of John the Baptist was "repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand."Jesus message was the same, repent for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand." Both of these messages were accompanied by open displays of the power of God.
Peter continued the call to repentance in the book of Acts chapter 2 when he said "Repent... and save yourselves from this perverse generation," hardly a message that would see him invited to speak in many modern day churches, and yet this message released the power of God for the salvation of 3,000 souls.
In the Book of Revelation Jesus Christ called five of the seven churches to repentance, which would indicate, looking at statistical odds, that you and I need to activate repentance in our lives 71% of the time. Certainly a sobering thought to say the least. Repentance literally means in the Greek to 'have a change of mind and turn around'. But it is not just a state of the mind but a state of the heart. It has a lot to do with humility.
Nowhere is this more exemplified than when the prophet Isaiah, who we understand was a righteous man, prophesying against the evil of his day, spoke out regarding his own state: "Woe is me for I am ruined, I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell amongst a people with unclean lips." In doing so he at the least identified with sinfulness of the people of his own generation and asked God for cleansing.
The prophet Daniel who is one of the few bible characters who had no known sin recorded against him took it one step further in identificational repentance when he prayed to God in Daniel 6:9, "I and my forefathers have sinned."
This was the thought at the forefront of my mind when I learned of the evil behaviour of Australian citizens in San Francisco who arguably laid the foundation of evil that San Francisco was built on in the early days of the gold rush in the 1850's. I learned this from two Australian prayer warriors Merv and Sharon Stevenson who had spent several weeks in July 2015 researching and repenting for Australia's contribution to organised crime, prostitution, sex trafficking, murder and mayhem in the early days of San Francisco.
The port area which was the hub of the city of San Francisco and the vice capital for the city was known as Sydney Town from 1850 -1865. It later became known as the Barbary Coast, but the continuing predominance of Australian immigrants in the criminal activities was a well known fact.
1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Ducks
2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Coast,_San_Francisco
In the book "The Barbary Coast - An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld", USA crime historian Herbert Asbury said "The villainous inhabitants of Sydney-Town were popularly called Sydney Ducks or Sydney Coves, but more often the former. It was a common saying in early San Francisco whenever a particularly atrocious crime was committed, that 'the Sydney Ducks were cackling in the pond'. Unquestionably, these foreign felons gave San Francisco's underworld its initial flavour; they were the pioneers in the viciousness and depravity for which the Barbary Coast became famous, and the echo of their unholy cackling was not stilled for more than half a century."
I was shocked, to say the least, as I had been one of those who had pointed my finger in judgement at San Francisco, but typically I now found three fingers of my hand pointing back at me and my forbears. I was born in Sydney Australia and I had always thought that Sydney, being a sister city of San Francisco since 1967, had influenced us in a bad way.
Imagine my surprise to learn that it was us in Australia that had laid the foundation for San Francisco to become the immorality capital of the world in the sixties and seventies. Knowing that we were on our way to speak at the World Congress of Families in Utah, Alison and I felt it was time to ask the people of San Francisco for forgiveness and repent on behalf of our fathers and say sorry for their sins, not to mention my own spiritual pride.
On 31st October another Australian, my wife Alison and I gathered with seven other local intercessors from the San Francisco House of Prayer, led by Anne Trumbo. We also had Ps Jeff Daly from the USA Day of Repentance and David Bereit the Director of 40 Days for Life representing Christian ministries from all over the USA.
We prayer-walked the downtown area and then met on the 11th floor of the Trans America Pyramid, overlooking San Francisco. A kind Christian businessman gave us access to an 'upper room'. We conducted a communion service together and we declared the forgiveness found in and through the blood of Jesus Christ the Lamb of God and jointly blessed San Francisco.
Our Australian brother, with Alison and I, washed an American brother's feet in heartfelt repentance and asked and received forgiveness from those present on behalf of Australia. We expected God to do something but we were truly caught by surprise by what God was about to do.
San Francisco, and California, has been gripped in a record breaking four year drought, but I did not have the faith to pray for an end to the drought. My belief in the unmerited favour found in the blood of Jesus Christ and the supernatural implication of true repentance was far too limited. Thankfully God's grace is bigger than my own judgemental attitudes.
We were to witness the first part of the miracle first hand when rain began to fall within 24 hours of our repentance service in what turned out to be the largest fall of rain in San Francisco for 9 months. The good news is that San Francisco has had several more showers of rain that would appear to herald the end of one of the worst droughts on record. 1.http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_29061079/autumn-storm-prelude-but-not-yet-el-nino
Even more amazing is that at exactly the same date we were having our combined repentance service in San Francisco, Saturday 31st October, rain began to fall at Barcaldine in central Queensland in the northern part of Australia. This area was also the centre of a record breaking four year drought which has gripped central Queensland.
1. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-02/weekend-storms-outback-queensland/6904972
2. http://www.bom.gov.au/jsp/watl/rainfall/pme.jsp
Over the next two days Barcaldine recorded its greatest monthly rainfall on record. Better still more rain has fallen since and more is forecast in short term forecasts. The same is the case in northern California. It would seem that in both areas the weather patterns have changed and all things point to an end of the drought in both locations.
We cannot yet say the drought is over as we need 6-12 months of good soaking rain for that to occur. What we can say authoritatively is that both regional areas of our respective nations received an extraordinary outpouring of the grace of God within 24 hours of a combined Australian and USA repentance service being held in San Francisco. The scripture says that we serve a merciful God who sends the rain on the just and the unjust. God is Good!!!!!
It is our conviction that this rain is a miraculous display of the power of God's love released as a consequence of heartfelt repentance between our respective nations as found in 2 Chronicles 7:14 As the scripture says, "Where sin abounds there does much more Grace bound."
We pray that this natural rain is a sign of the supernatural rains of revival that the USA and Australia so desperately need. Let's continue to covenant together to pray for revival and reformation for the USA and Australia. Soli Deo Gloria!
Much love Warwick & Alison Marsh
Australia
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I am emailing you today with a great deal of excitement about a very simple, but powerful social media campaign that we are calling "#ShareHope". This effort isn't about the Jesus Alliance or any individual ministry, but is instead an example of how we must work together to share Jesus with the world. People need HOPE and today we are each being given an opportunity to share it.
On December 1st we will begin sharing this video<https://vimeo.com/145255721> across the Internet and we are asking for your help in distributing it to as many people as possible. The video was made available to us by our friends at Word of Life. Our ask of each of you is simply that you use your social media network and email list to share this video multiple times during the week of December 1st and again during the week of January 11th.
What will the video do?
Each person is presented with a choice of needing hope or sharing hope. For those who "need hope", we direct them both in the video and from theJesusAlliance.org <http://thejesusalliance.org/> website to get involved in a conversation about Jesus through chat or text with JesusCares.com <http://jesuscares.com/> or NeedHim.org <http://needhim.org/>. For those who are willing to "share hope" we ask them to share the video and then take part in a simple social media campaign. The social campaign asks them to write down their favorite scripture on something creative (a mirror, in the sand, on a napkin, etc...), take a picture of it, and then post that picture using Twitter or Instagram to #ShareHope. Imagine how many people will see images of God's Word being shared. Our friends at the All In Movement will be working with us to send an automated response encouraging every person that participates to further participate by sharing the video with their friends.
Will you help us begin distributing this video on December 1st? Simply "reply all" with a YES, NO, or HAVE QUESTIONS and I'll have a member of my team either get you the final copy of the video or answer any questions you might have.
Thank you for your prayers and support!
Bob Williamson
Founder/Chairman
TheJesusalliance.org
Some who have looked into what is behind the current climate change movement and its link to the Agenda 21 effort of the United Nations are concerned that this is not about climatic developments, the evidence for which numerous scientists have challenged. Rather, they allege, it is an effort by global elitists with Marxist and occultist connections who want to establish a new form of global tyranny. Of course, the spiritual being called “the prince of this world” does want to establish greater domination and control, the hallmark of the demonic realm, to enslave humankind through any means and agents that can serve this purpose.
Whether or not you agree with this assessment or not, it is crucial that we cover this event in prayer and that any effort to advance world government through diminishing national sovereignty with an appeal to “international law” and “sustainable development” be frustrated and even stopped.
Let’s therefore pray in agreement for the following:
1. An unveiling of any global elites behind the nice-sounding, seemingly altruistic language about safeguarding the environment and “sustainable development”. Some elitists are on record as wanting to greatly reduce the world population, eliminating up to 90% of humankind, and achieve world dominance for themselves through any means possible.
2. That scientists who oppose the so-called data on climate change and point out that it has often been manipulated by those trying to push this global control agenda will be received and heard, not threatened or silenced as “climate deniers” that are “committing a crime against humanity”.
3. That the increasing use of such international conferences and agreements will not be successful in advancing the global domination agenda of these elitists and that national leaders will refuse to go along with the surrender of their national sovereignty to faceless, unelected bureaucrats.
4. That occult spiritual forces will be bound and unable to influence this process towards world government.
5. That the global Body of Christ will wake up and see what is going on and oppose any deceptive moves towards world tyranny with both prayer and action. Pray for those, both Christians and non-Christians, taking a leadership role to be bold, fearless and protected as they stand up against this endeavor.
Thank you for your prayers for us here in Paris. Truly the Lord did a miracle in bringing us (Warwick & Alison Marsh) together with key French intercessors at such short notice to pray outside the Bataclan Theatre.
Please also find the exciting prayer report from the Baxters below ours. Prayer is powerful and I had puzzled greatly with some inexplicable aspects of the terror attacks at the stadium. The death toll should have been much higher. The Baxter's prayer report below ours provides the answers.
Alison and I gathered to pray with 20 French prayer warriors from Paris outside the Bataclan theatre which was the site of biggest death toll of all the terrorist attacks. http://www.smh.com.au/world/paris-attacks-australian-man-recounts-moment-shooting-started-in-bataclan-concert-hall-20151114-gkz8h3.html
Interestingly the Bataclan theatre was owned by a Jewish family for many decades but they had been threatened by Muslims for many years and had recently sold the Bataclan theatre to new owners only two months before the attacks. It is quite possible the Muslim attackers did not know this as they have a habit of attacking Jewish targets.
We gathered in a small circle and lit candles for the deceased as a memorial and we then prayed both in English and French and sang worship songs together on the pavement outside the theatre. I brought greetings from intercessors in both the USA and Australia and assured them of our continued prayers and our support. Many other non Christian Parisians were there as well. TV crews wandered freely.
The prayer gathering was led by Ps Carlos who had helped lead a Christian interdenominational gathering with 1,100 people in attendance only one month before in the Bataclan Theatre. It was sobering to realise that the Christian gathering he led was spared this atrocity. Most of those attending the prayer gathering had been there at this special interdenominational prayer gathering only one month before so this prayer time outside the theatre held a great significance for them.
Sadly the death metal group playing at the Bataclan theatre had just launched into their song called Kiss the Devil when the killings began. http://www.metrolyrics.com/kiss-the-devil-lyrics-eagles-of-death-metal.html Their song was eerily prophetic in more ways than one, as the scripture says; "Life and death are in the power of the tongue."
Later on we celebrated communion together with wine and bread that Alison and I brought for that purpose. It became the first time that those prayer warriors had celebrated the blood and the body of Jesus Christ on the pavements of Paris. Hopefully not the last.
Evangelical Christians in France live under overt and covert persecution whilst up till now Muslims have been favoured with special privileges. We need to pray for our French brothers and sisters.
Another French sister told me how her husband who was a pastor was beaten up by three Muslims. Muslims target Christians and Jews in particular. Civil authorities often turn a blind eye to such persecution. She also told me how her church kept getting "evicted" from its rented premises every few months. Even now the city authorities keep taking the church to court to evict it from its current building.
Such persecution of evangelical churches and Christians by civil authorities is common through most of France. France has sown a wind and reaped a whirlwind but our job as people of prayer is to intercede and cry "Grace, Grace" over Paris and the nation of France.
Kim Clement had given a very interesting prophetic word about revival coming to France after a period of darkness caused by Muslim influence. Alison and I felt emboldened to pray for a special sudden out pouring of the Holy Spirit using Acts chapter two as our scriptural mandate. Revival does have a scriptural mandate no matter what anyone says. No one can argue with God.
We invite the Global Christian Community to join with us in prayer for Revival to come to France in Jesus Name. His Blood has made a way for all nations to experience His saving grace. Let us covenant with our French brothers and sisters in Christ in prayer for a miraculous outpouring of the Holy Ghost in France in Jesus Name.
"More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams off." Thank you for your ongoing prayers for revival in France.
Much love
Warwick & Alison Marsh
Australia
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MIRACLES IN THE MIDST OF TERROR by Robert & Kathryn Baxter (Nov 15, 2015)
First of all I want to thank all of you for your love and support during what is now hailed as the worst terror attack on French soil in the history of the nation. People all over the world have communicated with us their solidarity. And we are all extremely grateful for it.
The most recent update that we have received is that 129 people died in the carnage. More than 350 are injured, 99 of whom are in critical condition. I heard through a third source that one of the 99 is now deceased; but I have not been able to confirm that.
A story of providence has emerged through the smoke of mourning that brings hope to our hearts. The three bombs that exploded at the national football stadium were all the work of kamikaze terrorists, equipped with explosive belts. The friendly match between France and Germany attracted more than 80,000 spectators, among whom were the French President and the German minister of foreign affairs. In the crowd was one of the members of our church.
The match was well engaged when the first terrorist detonated his belt, killing a passer by. The stadium, which is only 10-15 minutes walk from our church is surrounded by stores, movie theaters, restaurants and apartments. It is a very lively neighborhood. And yet it would seem that the terrorist chose the one spot that he would do the LEAST amount of damage.
About 5-7 minutes later the second terrorist detonated his belt, killing only himself. And minutes later the third terrorist walked to a back alley, away from any passersby and detonated his belt, killing only himself. Another member of our church lives only a block away from where one of the terrorists committed suicide; with the warm weather Friday evening she and her son could have very well taken a walk, or gone to the fast-food restaurant for ice cream.
An anonymous source inside the Paris Police called the situation at the stadium a miracle. Had the terrorists exploded their belts as the thousands of people waited to go into the stadium they would have killed perhaps a hundred in the initial blast; and many more would have been killed or injured in a stampede that would have ensued. Or if they had waited the end of game and exploded the belts as people filed out of the stadium, again the carnage would have extremely heavy.
Though we may never know exactly why these terrorists exploded their belts when they did, I would like to note here that our church has nearly daily prayer in our building just a short walk from the stadium. Our church is the closet church to the stadium. We are highly conscious of the effects of specific prayer and we pray regularly over our neighborhood. And we often have evangelism teams visiting those areas.
On Saturday morning as our Bible school students gathered at the church, ignoring the Police order to stay at home, we set ourselves to pray for our city and our nation. God revealed to us that there were terrorists related to this event, and other active cells in France. So we began to pray that their covering of darkness would be pulled back and that all people related to this barbaric act would be revealed.
We learned just this morning that three people have been arrested near Brussels in relation to these events. But we believe there are more.
We are calling the French to four days of prayer and fasting for our nation, Monday through Thursday (Nov 16-19). I invite you to join us. Pray with us for these things:
We are praying for God’s great mercy and compassion to be poured out on those who have lost a family member, friend, colleague. We are praying for this evil to be turned into a wave of salvation for the French.
God has told us that there are other terrorist cells active in France; and we are praying that they would be exposed to the authorities, and dealt with adequately.
And finally, we believe God has called us to repent for the silence of the church as our society has slid into moral decadence. We believe that the “normalisation” of immorality has destroyed God’s protection over our nation. And He is calling us to repent.
Thursday evening our church members will come together for a time of collective prayer and intercession at 7:30 pm Paris time (1:30 pm New York). We would be honored to have you join us.
Let's pray for our nations
Please pray with veteran YWAM prayer leader Sam Hofmann and those from Paris churches in a special prayer initiative in Paris starting tomorrow, December 1
Jan 8-10, 2016
Dear Servant Leaders Across America:
We are very honored and blessed for the opportunity to partner with you in ending slavery and trafficking in our nation and beyond. Our complete dependency upon the Father and greater interdependency towards one another is critical in pursuing our worthy cause.
We believe that 2016 must be the banner year for justice and freedom in cities across our land. In order for us to journey together in Christ's mandate, we ask for deeper commitment in abolishing modern-day slavery in each of our backyards and communities around the world.
We suggest the following prayer and action points for the coming year:
- Please start planning for National Weekend of Prayer (NWOP) to End Slavery and Trafficking, January 8-10, 2016. We have posted nine practical and transformative options to choose from for your congregation/ministry and your community. They include focusing on families and youth, inspiring congregations, hosting breakfast event together with local servant leaders, and connecting with national leaders via conference calling. For details, visit www.nwoprayer.org.
- Please assist us in inviting other congregations/ministries to join the growing NWOP coalition. As of today, approximately 100 churches, abolition ministries, prayer networks, and others partnering in our journey together. We are certain that most of you are in relationship with pastors and ministry leaders who may not be aware of our collaborative endeavor. Would you connect with these brothers and sisters and invite them to our partnership, and help us towards adding at least 200 to coalition list by end of this year? If you send your confirmations to us, we will be sure to add them to www.nwoprayer.org/#!coalition/c1x11.
- Please consider covering the Super Bowl Outreach, February 1-7, 2016 in prayer. As you may know, Super Bowl is one of the venues for traffickers to use children, women, and men to profit from sex trafficking. Next Super Bowl will be held in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area, one of the most active trafficking regions of our nation. Some of NWOP coalition member ministries are taking the opportunity in pursuing joint strategies towards rescuing the captives, cooperating with local government/law enforcement agencies, and bringing awareness to the millions.
- Please consider giving generously. Your prayers, active participation, and financial gifts are welcomed and much needed. With each passing year since 2011, NWOP movement has grown significantly and in order for us to pursue 2016 as our banner year, we would greatly appreciate love offerings this month and into December. This will allow us to cover several expenses coming our way. We realize that some of you are have financial challenges and we do not desire a deepened financial burden on anyone. Perhaps you, your congregation/ministry, and/or business leader in your community may have surplus and desire to sow into NWOP for the benefit of our nation and beyond. Would you prayerfully consider sending us tax-deductible donation(s)? We have setup a donation link here. Thank you!
We have great expectations for the rest of this year, during NWOP, and in 2016. Your ongoing partnership is critical in the pursuit of our worthy cause - To End Slavery and Trafficking.
Together in Christ,
Tomas J. Lares, Founder
Dai Sup Han, Co-Founder
National Weekend of Prayer to End Slavery and Trafficking
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