A lot has happened this month. Sadly Ghaddafi was killed before he could face a trial. The NTC has announced that their work on the constitution will be heavily influenced by Sharia referring particularly to marriage and banking. The Islamist party Ennahda emerged as the victor. They did not get a majority so they are working with two centre left secular parties to form the Government that will write the new constitution. We hope that the lack of majority and collaboration with secular parties will make way for a moderate new constitution. We do not know yet what the future holds but we trust God has a better plan than we could have thought or imagined.
Pray God's mighty hand to be made known in North Africa
Pray for just leaders to be recognized and established
Pray for God to raise up people who bring the Kingdom of God to every sphere of influence across North Africa
Pray for corrupt leaders to be removed from any places of authority
Pray the establishing of a system that will keep leaders accountable
Pray for leaders to gain a revelation of the Father Heart of God
Pray for justice against the forces of the enemy and mercy for the people of North Africa
Pray for the will of God to be done
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All road signs are pointing to Detroit, Michigan for The Call Detroit. God is gathering His intercessors from across the nation to pray and fast and seek His face for a move of His spirit in our Nation. We need you to join with us. Don't be left out of what God is doing in this hour. America needs an Awakening! Join us as we turn Ford Field into a 24 hour prayer furnace...a "house of prayer for people". When there seems to be no solutions, God still has a holy prescription...CALL A FAST!!! See you in Detroit!!! For more information go to: http://www.thecall.com/Groups/1000080537/TheCall/Events/Detroit/Detroit.aspx
All road signs are pointing to Detroit, Michigan for The Call Detroit. God is gathering His intercessors from across the nation to pray and fast and seek His face for a move of His spirit in our Nation. We need you to join with us. Don't be left out of what God is doing in this hour. America needs an Awakening! Join us as we turn Ford Field into a 24 hour prayer furnace...a "house of prayer for people". When there seems to be no solutions, God still has a holy prescription...CALL A FAST!!! See you in Detroit!!! For more information go to: http://www.thecall.com/Groups/1000080537/TheCall/Events/Detroit/Detroit.aspx
On November 11–12, 2011, thousands from across America will gather to Ford Field (Home of the Detroit Lions) to fast, pray and cry out to God. We will gather to this city that has become a microcosm of our national crisis—economic collapse, racial tension, the rising tide of the Islamic movement, and the shedding of innocent blood of our children in the streets and of our unborn.
But the place where they say there is no hope, God has chosen as His staging ground for a great communal healing and His house of prayer for all nations. Therefore, we are calling the nation to a 24-hour solemn assembly, daring to believe that Detroit’s desperation can produce a prayer that can change a nation.
Come and take your place on the wall in Detroit, where we will ask God to send fire on our hearts, to forgive our national guilt and establish justice in our land.
May God fill you with a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him!
Please continue to pray for these two very strategic and needy lands that are so vital for the security of the rest of the world. There are some key prayer efforts going on within Pakistan this month with teams from outside joining in. Pray for their protection, discernment and empowering and that the local prayer movements in both countries will be strengthened and grow widely.
Pray for the unity and vitality of local believers in both countries as well as for the expatriate community, especially in Afghanistan. It is not always a safe place to serve and they need His protection and encouragement.
Pray for the governments of both nations to turn from corruption and serve the people with honesty and integrity of purpose. The tribal elders (community leaders) of each locality need to shut out violent men from their midst and welcome development efforts.
Pray for the Taliban and Al Qaeda groups to splinter and dissolve and for their members to have encounters with Jesus Christ and His truth through dreams, visions and the bold sharing of the Gospel by locals.
Pray for the success of the coalition military forces in protecting and restoring Afghanistan’s peace and development as a nation.
For this Summit, we are thinking of a gathering of 40 senior ministers (age 40-55 years) who have pioneered in difficult situations and established a work approved by the Lord. We are not thinking of an application and approval but trusting your own sense of your call to be amongst others like you. Your spouse is welcome. If you have to bring your children, they can be provided accommodation for no cost. Accommodation is free of charge. There is no registration fee. No cost once you arrive.
Think Tank – Lalith Mendis of Sri Lanka, Biju Thampy of Bombay, Jeremiah Yap and Ron Hee from Malaysia, Yang Tuck Yoong from Singapore, Ralph Gloeckner of Agra & Germany.
Format – There will be no preaching, but it will be an apostolic – prophetic roundtable where we shall minister to one another and to the Lord. We hope to have five father figures who have pioneered and gone ahead of us (please make a recommendation). Sessions will be intense. Bring your Passion & Revelation.
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http://europeanconvocation.com/vision.html
Update: As I work with a number of different teams here at World Prayer Centre, at More than Gold, at Hope, Prayer For Today, Global Day of Prayer, Prayer Forum, etc., it is exciting to see how the prayer strategy is developing in the lead up to 2012; how HOPE is resourcing its constituency in prayer; and how God has created wonderful trust between different churches, organisations and ministries all planning for years of prayer in 2012 + all that is emerging in 2013 and 2014 - I get a real sense in my spirit that our Father is up to something. That 'something' is very profound as He knocks on the door of our planning with the aim of getting our attention off the programme and focussed afresh on Jesus.
More than Gold - the organisation working to co-ordinate the churches response to the Olympic and Paralympic Games through hospitality, service and mission (undergirded by prayer) has seen some wonderful answers to prayer.
A time to shine - a call to pray for communities and nations (Isaiah 60:1-5). There will be 4 seasons of prayer during 2012 in which all will be invited - whether linked with More than Gold or not - to pray locally and link nationally in this unique season:
1. Shine for the New Year 31.12.11-8.1.12
2. Shine as the flame travels* - prayer and blessing travelling around 210 locations at each place the Olympic torch stops for 70 days**
3. Shine during the Games (both Olympic and Paralympics).
4. Shine forever - continuing the momentum of prayer and mission
*I will be in touch with leaders in For England - Together shortly to share more fully the prophetic background and invitation to join in Shine as the flame travels
** We are praying over what needs to take place prayerwise during the Paralympic torch relay.
http://www.morethangold.org.uk/your-church/prayer/
• Over 1750 church reps (Gold Champions) are in place and it is exciting to see how many churches are engaging in how to use the Games as a mission opportunity.
• All of the 23 programme teams are now in place and making plans to deliver resources to help churches run holiday clubs, sports academies, community festivals, deliver hospitality, welcome mission teams, accommodate athlete's families, recruit Games Pastors (who will be used in transport hubs in SE England)
Update: As I work with a number of different teams here at World Prayer Centre, at More than Gold, at Hope, Prayer For Today, Global Day of Prayer, Prayer Forum, etc., it is exciting to see how the prayer strategy is developing in the lead up to 2012; how HOPE is resourcing its constituency in prayer; and how God has created wonderful trust between different churches, organisations and ministries all planning for years of prayer in 2012 + all that is emerging in 2013 and 2014 - I get a real sense in my spirit that our Father is up to something. That 'something' is very profound as He knocks on the door of our planning with the aim of getting our attention off the programme and focussed afresh on Jesus.
More than Gold - the organisation working to co-ordinate the churches response to the Olympic and Paralympic Games through hospitality, service and mission (undergirded by prayer) has seen some wonderful answers to prayer.
A time to shine - a call to pray for communities and nations (Isaiah 60:1-5). There will be 4 seasons of prayer during 2012 in which all will be invited - whether linked with More than Gold or not - to pray locally and link nationally in this unique season:
1. Shine for the New Year 31.12.11-8.1.12
2. Shine as the flame travels* - prayer and blessing travelling around 210 locations at each place the Olympic torch stops for 70 days**
3. Shine during the Games (both Olympic and Paralympics).
4. Shine forever - continuing the momentum of prayer and mission
*I will be in touch with leaders in For England - Together shortly to share more fully the prophetic background and invitation to join in Shine as the flame travels
** We are praying over what needs to take place prayerwise during the Paralympic torch relay.
http://www.morethangold.org.uk/your-church/prayer/
• Over 1750 church reps (Gold Champions) are in place and it is exciting to see how many churches are engaging in how to use the Games as a mission opportunity.
• All of the 23 programme teams are now in place and making plans to deliver resources to help churches run holiday clubs, sports academies, community festivals, deliver hospitality, welcome mission teams, accommodate athlete's families, recruit Games Pastors (who will be used in transport hubs in SE England)
“Yes, Lord, walking in the way of your laws, we wait for you; your name and renown are the desire of our hearts.” Isaiah 26:8
Ten years ago, it was the horrendously tragic 9/11 terrorist attack that helped catalyze the formation of the International Prayer Council in the weeks that followed. Thirty-five international prayer leaders answered Ben Jenning’s call to meet in New York City at the beginning of December 2001. We struggled to pray at Ground Zero, expressing our deep grief but also extending forgiveness to the extremist monsters and their backers who, because of their bondage to an ideology so full of deception and death, had just wantonly murdered 3000 Americans.
As we prayed and deliberated about the way forward in the global prayer movement, it seemed obvious that it was a time for a “network of prayer networks.” It would connect prayer leaders and intercessors across the world to pray concertedly for the effective resolution of global and regional issues such as terrorism, humanitarian disasters, and especially for the fulfillment of the Great Commission and implementation of the Great Commandment.
The key word is “connect”. The IPC has been used by the Lord to join brothers and sisters in Christ together across the globe to pray with an informed and united focus in many different situations and venues since 2001. Here is a partial list of what has been accomplished thus far so we can rejoice, thank God, and look ahead:
1) International Prayer Leaders Consultation, Cape Town, South Africa, November, 2002 – almost 300 prayer networks gathered to launch the IPC and regional prayer networks cross the world.
2) Regional prayer summits through these networks have brought together prayer and ministry leaders in virtually every region of the world. Some regions have met several times and continue to pray and work together for God’s transformation.
3) National prayer initiatives, many of them with IPC-related facilitation teams, have been arranged and led in at least 30 nations. In many cases, the Lord has brought about major transformations by ending wars, removing evil leaders and enabling the formation of national unity governments. He has also ignited spiritual revival among participating pastors, denominational and even political leaders as His people have repented, become reconciled and prayed.
4) International Prayer Consultations have been held in conjunction with other major events such as the Lausanne Forum in Thailand, 2004, Malaysia, 2006, and the Global Day of Prayer conference, 2010.
5) Global Day of Prayer – since September 2004, the IPC has gone to bat for the GDOP, helping to mobilize participation around the world through its links with other prayer networks and ministries. Up to 300 million have taken part in these annual days of united prayer for our communities and world.
6) Two global Children in Prayer Consultations, bringing together children’s workers from more than 60 nations, were held in Malaysia (2006), and India (2008). These times of cross-fertilization, along with video and written resources and a new website, helped inspire and broaden the rapidly growing Children in Prayer movement now in possibly 100 nations.
7) International Prayer Initiatives for the United Nations connected over 400 prayer leaders from 70 plus countries to pray with ambassadors inside the chambers of the U.N. (2007 and 2009).
8) Rich relationships of love and trust have been developed through such connections, enabling a wonderful Kingdom synergy that has released human, financial and other resources to flow where
they are needed.
9) Now, the IPC (by this time also known as International Prayer Connect) is taking on its biggest challenge yet – the World Prayer Assembly. For the last ten years, we have thought and prayed about this possibility. In connection with the Indonesian and Korean prayer movements who will be co-hosting and with the support of many other prayer networks worldwide, the WPA will take place next year (May 14-18) in Jakarta, Indonesia. See www.wpa2012.org.
Many colleagues in the IPC and thousands upon thousands of other brothers and sisters in Christ have prayed and worked together to make all these things happen. Thank you for the crucial, vital roles you have played, sometimes involving considerable personal sacrifice. As that old saying goes, “It is not what you know but who you know that really matters!”
However, in the final analysis, it is the Spirit of God who has stirred our hearts to join Him in united intercession for our world and the outworking of His loving purposes for it. As Isaiah goes on to say in that same passage, “All that we have accomplished you have done for us.” Let us, therefore, reflect, rejoice and give thanks to the Lord who has done “immeasurably more” than all we have asked or imagined!
John Robb
IPC Chairman