Prayer is one of the most humble activities we can engage in as human beings. It’s a ceding of the power to act for the humility of asking and waiting. It’s also God’s chosen means to bring about the transformation of human hearts, impossible circumstances, and even entire cities and nations.
We’ve been riding waves of encouragement in the past weeks as new cities have joined, resulting in over 30 cities/regions participating in 10 Days. Each place has a testimony, and we are privileged to hear incredible stories each day.
10 Days: What is it?
10 Days is an annual opportunity for the Body of Christ in your area to step away from normal routines of daily life and enter into an extended time of experiencing God together through worship, prayer, fasting, and fellowship. It’s a way for all the believers in your city to unite with Jesus at the center. It’s rooted in the 10 Days between the biblical Feasts of Trumpets and the Day of Atonement.
10 Days is intended to be part of the answer to Jesus’ prayer in John 17:21: “Let them be one as we are one.”
The next 10 Days is from October 2-12, 2016.
What Happens During 10 Days?
Ongoing Worship and Prayer is the heart of 10 days. Believers are invited to devote this time to corporate worship, prayer, and waiting on God together. These expressions of humility and dependence invite a response from God who “humbles the proud, but exults the humble.” 24/7 Prayer and Worship is one way to express this reality. Another model that may be more attainable for some cities is the Daniel Model, having three corporate gatherings of prayer per day in the Morning, Afternoon, and Evening.
At its core, 10 Days is incredibly simple:
- The Main Attraction is God and His Church
- The activities are prayer and repentance, fasting, worship, and going low before God
- The invitation is to make space by setting aside 10 entire days
- The atmosphere feels like a family reunion
- The reward is transformation, healing, renewal, revival, a heart on fire, love for God, his word, his people, and the world
Evening Gatherings are the most visible part of a city-wide 10 Days. Each night, a different group of congregations and ministries will host a gathering of worship, prayer, and communion. If you attend night-to-night, you’ll get to see the fundamental unity and incredible diversity of Christ’s body in your region, and probably make some new friends in the process.
Some New Resources for 10 Days and Restore
Vids: Here is a series of five videos to share that have been produced for the Restore Gathering by leaders around New England. While primarily a NE gathering, i know a few of you are coming from around the nation--if you are coming from a distance, please let me know so we can properly welcome you!
Charisma Article: Written by our own Grant Berry :) http://www.charismanews.com/opinion/standing-with-israel/60085-holy-spirit-inspired-prayer-movement-catching-fire-in-the-u-s
For more information, check out 10days.net
Registration Ongoing...Hurry Now, Early Bird Rates Ending October 31
All roads lead to the beautiful city of Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand. Come January 19-22 for the unique 'Great Commission Prayer Summit.' The Registration page has since gone live with the early bird rates coming to an end on October 31, 2016.
Participants are limited, which means the registration will end once we have the limited number of around 200 participants. Hurry now and register, if you would like to be a part of this unique prayer gathering, before we run out of space. Find the registration button below.
Registration Fees vary on country and regional basis ranging from $50 - $90. These registration fees will be reviewed upwards after October 31 ending the 'early bird' rates. The fees cover lunch, snacks and conference materials.
Participants are expected to make their own hotel bookings or other private accommodation arrangements. The Noble Place is highly recommended which has rooms ranging between $22 - $26/day able to hold 2 or 3 people respectively. This means the cost per room can be shared among several people.
Further Information:
Theme:
Contending For Global Harvest
When:
January 19-22, 2017
Where:
Great Commission Equipping Center
178/78-9 World Club Land, Moo 7
Hang Dong - Chiang Mai, Thailand
Who:
Church, campus ministry, mission leaders, prayer leaders, believers hungering to grow in Great Commission prayer, Everyone who's passionate and committed to praying for revival in the church and global harvest among the nations.
Areas of Interest Include:
1) Hunger for God, the Root of Effective Prayer; 2) The Spirit of Prayer for Global Harvest; 3) Principles & Pitfalls in Global Harvest Prayer; 4) Shaping Global Harvest Prayer Through Scripture; 5) Spreading Prayer Movements for Global Harvest; 6) Prayer, Revival, & Global Harvest
If you are passionate about Global Harvest and Awakening in these end times, if you'd like to see and be a part of a global prayer movement catalyzing the fulfillment of the Great Commission in this generation, hurry now and register for this exciting prayer summit. Join us and many others from all over the world to pray, strategize, reflect, and listen to heart of God as we anticipate a mighty move of His Spirit upon the Church and among the unreached of the world. We look forward to welcoming you to Chiang Mai, Thailand come January 19, 2017.
Please contact Rita Chiu by replying to this email if you have any further questions. Or visit the website here.
“It's an intercession and missions partnership that could help see the gospel preached in every nation. International House of Prayer of Kansas City (IHOPKC) has joined with Youth With a Mission (YWAM) in a new commitment to cover global missions in prayer.
This partnership was birthed on Sept. 11 at the end of a week-long gathering of thousands of YWAM and IHOPKC staff that focused on several Great Commission thrusts, including ending Bible poverty (providing Scripture in every language) and a commitment to seeing every sphere of society impacted with the gospel.
Mike Bickle took the challenge from Loren Cunningham, co-founder of YWAM, to help raise up 1 million intercessors to cover their global missions in prayer.
"We love what the Lord has done through Loren and Darlene Cunningham and the whole YWAM family for over 50 years, and we are committing to cover them in intercession for the great cause of advancing the kingdom in the nations and to call other prayer ministries throughout the world to join us," Bickle told me.
Throughout the week-long gathering, only two miles from the YWAM base, IHOPKC interceded 24/7 for YWAM and its local and international staff. Now, IHOPKC is taking its commitment to pray for YWAM to a new level to see the gospel of the kingdom advanced in all nations and to call other prayer ministries throughout the world to join in. Darlene Cunningham, YWAM co-founder with her husband Loren, responded with gratefulness, "The practice of intercession — hearing from God and praying His prayers — is part of the core DNA of YWAM from the beginning," Cunningham told me. "We need it, and I am so thankful that IHOPKC is joining us in the great endeavor."
Joined on stage by other senior YWAM leaders such as John Dawson, David Hamilton and Mark Anderson, and IHOPKC's Allen Hood and Daniel Lim, the spirit of love and a deep bond of unity between these two spiritual families was striking.
Dawson, president emeritus of Youth With a Mission, told me prayer movements have birthed revivals and revivals have birthed missions' movements. He still remembers with awe the 100-year watch of the Moravians and its relationship to the great awakenings and missions movements that sprang from them.
"The 17-year commitment to 24/7 prayer maintained faithfully by IHOPKC is no small thing in our eyes. Out at the ends of the Earth, our missionaries can feel the power of this loving shield; in the hard places, in the dangerous places, we know we are not alone because intercessors are travailing, even through the night watches," Dawson says. "With tears of joy, we have communicated our gratitude to Mike and the community of worshippers who stand with him. With thankful hearts we came to Kansas City to report our victories and trials, only to experience an even greater commitment to prayer mobilization.
"In light of this partnership, Dawson told me YWAMers are returning to their posts around the world with full hearts.
"A million intercessors! The implications are staggering," Dawson says. "There is a growing army of intercessory missionaries who actively focus on world evangelization, county by county, people group by people group. They may not be on location as we are, but they are totally engaged nonetheless."
Since its 1999 launch, IHOPKC has been committed to partnering with many others to see the gospel preached in all the nations. Recognizing that prayer is both the fuel and goal of effective evangelism, discipleship and healthy Christian communities, the ministry has established 24/7 prayer and worship as the center of its missions base in Kansas City
JENNIFER LECLAIRE, CharismaNews.com
Integration of Prayer and Missions
Let’s indeed pray that there will be a much closer integration between the prayer and mission movements to see much greater impact. In May next year, the IPC will bring together prayer network leaders from around the world along with cutting edge mission leaders to explore how we can work and pray together for more effective bringing in of the harvest through world evangelization.
This video from Every Home for Christ demonstrates how powerful such a partnership can be! https://www.dropbox.com/s/oim7s43olqb8lve/JC%20Pond%20Vidoe.mp4?dl=0
With all eyes recently focusing on Islamic State in Syria, developments in Iraq are proving equally, if not more, instructive in illuminating the extremist group's changing fortunes and -- critically -- its changing strategy in response to them…
Islamic State 2.0
In essence, as it suffers more defeats Islamic State is changing its tactics accordingly; as it loses at home in Iraq, it has tried to "win" abroad in Europe. The IS attacks in Paris, Nice, and Brussels over the past year are a testament to a group that may be in the process of morphing essentially from a statelet with its own standing army into, once again, a more traditional terrorist group that employs guerrilla and insurgent-style activities on the battlefield, and urban terror attacks in the cities of the West.
Syria and Iraq have always been distinct arenas for IS. The strategic vacuum the civil war created in Syria meant that it was able to both take territory but also create a symbiotic relationship with Assad's regime -- one that lent each justification and legitimacy. For Assad: the presence of IS allowed him to claim he was fighting jihadists. For IS, Assad's Iran-backed slaughter of Sunnis enabled the group to present itself, as Ali notes, as the only real and effective alternative.
In Iraq, while the group has fed off of Baghdad's persecution (and slaughter) of Sunnis in a way similar to that in Syria, the military tactics of IS have always relied on defeating largely unmotivated, and often frightened, Iraqi military forces in strongly Sunni areas of the country. Unlike in Syria, they have not allowed themselves to become too attached to any city or town; often abandoning areas rather than risk losing too many of their core fighters -- using more traditional terror tactics like IEDs to cause as much damage to incoming coalition or Iraqi troops as possible. In Iraq, it has always been more of a terror group than the army it is in Syria.
This makes it likely that this year could see Baghdad make further gains on the ground. But Baghdad is not fighting an opposing army there and the response will likely be an intensification of the trend of more insurgent attacks rather than outright battles, while those in Europe must brace themselves for yet more terror atrocities.
In Iraq we may be witnessing the emergence of IS 2.0. No matter the reversals it faces, as the recently killed IS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, declared: "The battle of wills remains. (italics ours)
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Pray that IS 2.0 will be an increasingly weakened and disillusioned ISIS that cannot retain its fighters and that loses its will to continue its existence at all. Pray that the coalition’s effort to destroy ISIS will be successful and that many of its fighters and even leaders will turn to Jesus Christ. God specializes in converting rabid terrorists as He did with Saul, making him the greatest missionary of all time!
“On the first day of classes, Prime Minister Netanyahu, along with his Education Minister Naftali Bennett, met with 200 students, urging them to be serious about their studies—not excluding the Bible. During his speech, He said,
I want you to listen to me because I want you to learn—learn to write, learn to read, learn Hebrew, Arabic and English…I want you to learn mathematics. I want you to learn science. I want you to learn history—History of the Jewish People, the history of your public. I want you to learn the truth, and the truth says that we are destined to live together…I want you to be doctors, scientists and writers, and be whatever you want to, and are able to, be. I want you to be loyal citizens, integrated into the state of Israel; this is your state.”
Emphasizing the importance of honoring parents and teachers, he added, “Learn well. Go back home and do what mother and father tell you!”
Later in the day, in an address to Israel’s students at large, he emphasized,
“First of all the study of the Bible. We must make a major effort; this is the basis for why we are here, why we have returned here, why we stay here.” —(“Netanyahu tells Israeli students: Study the Bible”, WND, 4 Sept 2016 3:12 p.m.)
PLEASE PRAY:
* That Israeli students will read and study their Bibles on their own; that the Spirit of God will reveal to them Life and Truth as they read. That they will not be discouraged from this by the many secular teachers who do not take it seriously.
* That the Prime Minister would be diligent in “searching the Scriptures” himself. He claims to read it, and he oversees a Bible Study each month. He has had much exposure to Believers, and many pray regularly for him (We know of a small powerful group of Spirit-filled Believers with whom he had audience only this past week). Pray that the Word of God take root and bear fruit in his spirit, and that of his wife Sara.
Martin and Norma Sarvis
Jerusalem
Pray for a widespread revelation of who Jesus is to the Jewish people wherever they are. May they come to receive Him with their whole hearts at this time of fulfillment of what their prophets have written!
We are asking for your prayers as we too face the Homosexual Marriage Juggernaut! Please pass this request for prayer to those within your networks as you believe is appropriate. This is the first time a major Australian Christian Denomination like the Catholic Church has issued a call for a month of prayer and fasting in the history of Australia since the days of the early settlement. Catholics make up 25% of the total population and it is the largest denomination by far. What is making this call for prayer even more momentous is the majority of Australian churches and denominations are getting behind the call for prayer and fasting for marriage and families which is a miracle of itself.
New churches, prayer groups and denominational groupings are signing up to support the month of Prayer & Fasting for Marriage and Families from the 1 – 31 October on a daily basis. As James Condon my fellow convener says, “Support for this historic initiative by the Catholic Church is gathering momentum.” From my point of view this combined church prayer call is one of the most exciting and historic things that I (Warwick Marsh) have ever been a part of. Please continue to pray for Australia and pass this information on to your own prayer networks. Together we can make a difference.
See this news story: https://www.sightmagazine.com.au/news/6506-australian-christians-joining-in-month-of-prayer-and-fasting-for-marriage-and-families
Warwick Marsh
www.nationaldayofprayer.com.au
PO Box 378
Unanderra NSW, 2526
Mobile: 61 418 225 212
Office: 61 2 4272 9100
“History belongs to the intercessors who believe the future into being.” – Walter Wink
“God wants the Church to bind principalities and powers with authority and to determine the politics of nations.” --Ingulf Schmidt
The National Prayer Assembly to be held October 27-28 in the Washington DC area will be the culmination of a year of several wonderful united prayer initiatives for the USA. Its theme is "Seeking God's Face for the Deliverance and Destiny of America" and it will involve ministry leaders and intercessors coming together from across the country for a final time of all-out intercession before the national elections. Would you please join us in prayer for the nation during those days and specifically until then, seek the Lord with us for the following concerns?
1 Please pray that those leaders and intercessors whose hearts the Lord is stirring would be able to come to Washington D.C. and that the NPA would be a history-shaping encounter with Him and one another. It is still possible to register for the NPA and take part if you want to join us by doing so through this link. https://intre.org/?297
2 Pray for the 25 issue experts that will be presenting brief overviews of the situation in our country, for the session facilitators, and for the times of response in intercession to be strongly anointed and led by the Spirit.
3 Pray for those who are wicked and self-serving to be removed from power and influence in our government and society, and that God will raise up people of integrity who love the nation and want to serve our people honorably, and even sacrificially, for the good of all. We need clear-headed, upright new leadership to take the nation forward.
4 Pray for a great new spiritual and moral revival to sweep through the USA, and especially involving the youth and children, that America will be pulled back from the brink of continued decline towards potential destruction to enter into a whole new era of God's manifest blessing and purpose.
Thanks for your prayers of unity, faith and authority, dear brothers and sisters in Christ. We have the future history of America in our hands as those who will pray, believing the Lord for a divine reversal of our national fortunes accompanied by a time of real restoration and transformation for our beloved nation. It has happened before in our history and it can happen again now!
Every blessing in Christ,
John Robb
on behalf of the organizing team:
Dave Butts (National Prayer Committee)
Rickie Bradshaw (Pray Houston)
Pierre Bynum (Family Research Council)
Paul Cedar (Mission America Coalition)
Lisa Crump (National Day of Prayer)
Kay Horner (Awakening America Alliance)
Dave Kubal (Intercessors for America)
Daniel Lim and Doug Conder (International House of Prayer)
John Robb (International Prayer Connect)
What is it going to take to bring about the purposes of God for the land and peoples of Israel? Is it possible that we can see a spiritual breakthrough in political and social realms? Is it possible that we can see hearts and minds change?
We believe that through united, heartfelt prayer this is possible. It is amazing what the Lord will do when His people from all different ethnic and denominational backgrounds come together to pray for their nation. It has been our privilege for over 20 years to facilitate special prayer initiatives around the world, many of them in hopeless war zones where any hope of peace and healing seemed impossible. But God, according to His ancient promise to King Solomon in 2 Chronicles 7:14, has brought about peace agreements, governments of national unity and other stunning breakthroughs, often suddenly, time and time again. We have found that the spiritual leaders of a nation if they seek God together according to His word, praying in the unity of the Spirit, actually set the agenda for the political leaders because they have transacted business with the Lord, the One who has all power to bring about the impossible for His believing people.
On November 4, selected ministry leaders from across the nation will gather for a day of prayer together, not to talk about political differences, but to seek God with open hearts. Our agenda will be the Lord and one another, humbly seeking together to fulfill Jesus' prayer that we may be one as He and the Father are one so the world will know that He is its Savior and Lord. We believe that such a focus on the Lord and His purposes for the land and its peoples through united prayer will actually change the atmosphere so that what now seems to be impossible politically, socially, culturally and ecclesiastically will become possible in remarkable new ways. God is able to do "far more abundantly than all we can ask or think." (Eph. 3:20)!
Brian Mills and John Robb, two IPC leaders, have been invited facilitate this day of prayer there on November 4th. Please pray for this important time, its effective planning, and for the right ministry leaders from across the country, both Jewish and Palestinian, will be able to participate.