Subj: NPPN - PRAYER UPDATE - 990204 - CALIFORNIA FOCUS Date: 2/4/99 2:22:42 PM Central Standard Time From: phil@nppn.org (Phil Miglioratti) ================================================================== *NATIONAL* *PASTORS'* *PRAYER* *NETWORK* PRAYERS + PRAISE UPDATE 990204 ================================================================== As The Spirit Leads You--- *Bring These Names & Needs To The Lord* *Distribute Them To Intercessors* *Photocopy For The Members Of Your PPG* REMEMBER--- ->We Are Focusing Our Prayers On City-Wide, Cooperative Efforts ->We Are Asking The Lord For 2,000 Pastors' Prayer Groups By Year End 2000 ->We Welcome Responses As You Hear The Spirit Speak To You On A Certain Matter ================================================================== €A PRAYER FOR OUR NATION From: "Benny Davis" Date: Mon, Jan 18, 1999, 2:10 AM Heavenly Father, Your infinite wisdom guided our forefathers to create this nation, and Your presence was felt throughout this new nation. In recent times this nation has turned its back on You and fallen from Your grace. We, the true believers, ask that You open the hearts of all Americans that all might experience Your grace, Your wisdom and Your peace. We especially ask You to open the hearts of our elected leaders that they lead this nation down the path of righteousness to end all strife, wickedness and corruption. We pray that our leaders experience Your goodness, Your mercy and Your love. In the name of Jesus Christ, Devil, get out of our nation and stay out (James 4:7). Father, You have instructed us that if we ask in faith that You will answer our prayers. Therefore, we thank You for the glory that this will bring to Your name. We thank You for putting this nation back on the path of righteousness. We now ask that all our actions, both individually and as a nation, be in accordance with Your will and glorify Your name. Father, we ask for revival in America and for America through Jesus Christ in whose name we pray. Amen. EDWARD CHRISTIAN CHURCH, PO BOX 67, EDWARD, NC 27821 / (252) 322-4195 _____________________________________________>>> €PRAYING TOGETHER FOR CALIFORNIA >From: "Norman Brinkley" >Date: Fri, Jan 29, 1999, 1:11 PM Dear Brothers and Sisters of the Pray California Network, I sent this to you, also, dear beloved pastors and intercessors in this city and throughout California. Grace, mercy and peace to you, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I am writing this message from a heart of deep concern and love for each and everyone of you. These are very "busy" days! The enemy is trying his hardest to distract us from our posts. I ask you, in Jesus name, to remember why God has brought us together as a Network. . . "To Bring God to California, and California to God.!" Maybe you haven't thought of it in those words, but in essence, I believe, that's why God has brought us together. This California State Solemn Assembly is not ours. It's the Lord's! We are not in charge. He is! He's called it, not us! He understands our struggles amidst warfare. He knows battle fatigue. He became weary. The battle rages as maybe as we have never seen before. We are standing in the trenches for a State and Country. The Church, the Bride of Christ, that lives here in this country is sick. She is ready for her wedding day. But she is sick! She lies on a stretcher being carried in and down the isle by four ushers. The people who are standing as the Bride comes by are amazed that she cannot walk and cannot consummate her wedding day with Her Bridegroom. The ushers put her down on the floor at the front of the church, but she is too sickly to get up. Suddenly and slowly, someone from the pew walks over to the Bride, kneels down by the stretcher and prays. Others in the audience are deeply moved, and one by one they leave their seats of comfort and gather kneeling around the Bride and pray for her restoration. As they pray her strengths begins to return. Her coloring turns from a sickly color to a healthy look. Her strength continues to return to her body as others, many more now, come forward to pray for her. She moves her legs and begins to sit up with the help of a friend close by. The people are encouraged as they see her improvement, and they pray all the harder. Hope returns to the Brides face. Determination and focus gleamer in her eyes. And with the help of others, she stands, becoming stronger and stronger as the prayers intensify. With each step, while walking toward her waiting and broadly smiling Groom, she becomes stronger and stronger. By the time she reaches her Groom's side, she is a picture of radiant health, and able to complete the purpose of her wedding day. This is a vision that was given to Bjorn Pedersen, an outstanding brother, pastor and prayer leader with Prayer Watch International, from Glendale, Arizona. The interpretation God gave to Bjorn concerning this vision is clear. The Bride of the Groom is sick. Although apparently beautiful on the outside, inside she's ill, nearly fatally so. It is when God put compassion into the heart of one person, who had the courage to step out of the comfortable pew to attend to the Bride and to pray for her, that her condition began to change. God has been touching the hearts of millions of people to pray for the Church in America and California. And I suspect that those praying for this sickly Bride in America are those from other lands. They see her plight and with compassion and respect for America are praying for you and me -- the Bride of Christ in this country, and specifically in California. The sickness of the Church in California has rendered her unable to fulfill her divine purpose. But that's changing! In response to the prayers of others health is coming back into her Body. And the infection doesn't like it as it tries to keep her under it's power. But as many of you have testified, the infectious power is being broken. The Bride's Great Physician is administering a potent procedure to deliver His patient from Her condition. He's administering large dosages of fasting and prayer. And now the enemies power and hold on the Bride is being broken as prayers go up - - - your prayers and those of many others are making a difference! As another has said, who understands wherein she speaks, "the baby is in the breech position and is stuck. God wants to turn it's head, so that beautiful child might be born." It''s a struggle to be sure, and it's easy to give up from fatigue. But the Great Physician is saying, "just one more push, and you'll be through." God knows this birthing process has been rough on all of us. But I need to remind you that our Lord is at our right hand, holding us. And if necessary, He'll even hold us and carry us! The Pastors of Sacramento and the Pray California Network serving team for this event, are saying, "PLEASE, come here to Sacramento and push this baby out!" What God is birthing through this Solemn Assembly and our spiritual connection with Washington D.C. and the National Prayer Summit, is going to begin healing for the Bride throughout America, and particularly our beloved State of California. Believe it. It's true!! SO, PLEASE, STAND IN THIS PLACE AND FULFILL THE CALLING OF GOD FOR THIS PRAYER NETWORK OF WHICH YOU HAVE BEEN A PART. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU IS IMPORTANT AND NECESSARY TO THE FULFILLMENT OF THE PURPOSES OF GOD FOR HIS KINGDOM AT THIS TIME. PLEASE . . . STOP WHAT YOU'RE DOING . . . AND COME TO SACRAMENTO ! WE NEED YOU!! THE CHURCH NEEDS YOU! CALIFORNIA NEEDS YOU!! OUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU!! If it's a matter of finances, forget the registration!! We don't need it. God knows who you are! God will pay for what He orders. He's into "cattle futures". We won't worry about it. If it's a place you need to stay at when you get here, we'll trust God to open some "hospitable homes". We are SACRAMENTO, the city of the Sacrament, a place of salvation with hospitality and refreshment. Let our people show and shower their love on you. I cannot over emphasize the necessity of YOUR presence!!! Please note that in Leviticus 23:34-36, Numbers 29:35, and Deuteronomy 16:8, God called for a "work stoppage"! That's right . . . a work stoppage! Read it! They were to stop their work in the middle of their week and come before the LORD. I am sure that for some of you, that is a great sacrifice! But in deep humility, I am asking you to make that sacrifice as a love offering to your LORD. You will never regret it! And only eternity will reveal the total complicated impact your availability and obedience will have . . . "people are going to become free from their bondage and walk into the Kingdom of God, by grace through faith in Jesus Christ along - - - thanks to you." Oh, dear brothers and sisters, I know you're going to close the breech in the wall. My heart rejoices in God our Savior!! Please read below what my dear sister, Stephanie Steele, read this morning and later sent to me. It's from the book Praying Hyde. Let it encourage your heart, as it did mine. Much love and blessings to you all! Your servant for Christ's sake, Joe. "I see that black cold night we had to face, and to this day it fills my soul with horror, as of darkness out of the bottomless pit. Yet all that should have filled my soul with the joy of victory, FOR THE GREATER satan's EFFORTS, the MORE CERTAIN it is that HIS CONQUEROR WILL TREAD him UNDER HIS FEET. OH, STRUGGLING SAINTS OF GOD! THE HARDER THE STRUGGLE THE MORE HOPE SHOULD POSSESS YOUR SOULS, FOR satan ONLY FIGHTS HARDEST, WHEN he IS MOST AFRAID OF DEFEAT. So, the more he seems to prevail, THE MORE GLORIOUS THE VICTORY AT HAND!" pg. 160 Oh, we are more than conquerors, Oh, we are more than conquerors, For He has promised to fulfill His will in us, He opens doors that no one can deny, He makes a way, when there's no other way, And gives us wing to fly!!! Oh yes, we are, we are MORE THAN CONQUERORS!!! IN His Love, Stephanie -------------------------------- Pressing on, Norm ******** SomebodyCares-Inland Empire, 4335 E. Lowell, Suite E, Ontario, CA. 91761 Tel. 909-937-3297 / Fax 909-937-3427 SomebodyCares-Inland Empire is a movement that mobilizes the people of the "C"hurch in a community to compassionately (Matt.9:36): 1. Pray for every man, woman and child 1 Tim. 2:1-2,8, James 5:13-17 2. Serve the less fortunate in our community Ex. 22:21-27, Lev. 25:35-37, Deut. 14:28-29; 15:7-11, & Prov. 28:27 3. Give the Gospel to everyone within our reach Prov. 11:30, Matt. 28:18-20, Acts 1:8, 1 Cor.9:19,20 ___________________________________________________>>> €MORE FROM CALIFORNIA >From: "E. William Bean" >Date: Fri, Jan 29, 1999, 12:14 PM Hello from Redlands, California, Please pray for the CSBR West Coast Conference, March 5-7, 1999. The Theme: "God's Kingdom: Moving Toward The Next Millennium." Location, Ontario Convention Center, 2000 Convention Way, Ontario, CA 91761. Hosted by, The Centre For The Study Of Biblical Research. Featuring Christian speakers representing the Jerusalem School of Synoptic Research from Jerusalem, Israel, and the United States. Contact person, Dr. E. William Bean, CSBR, P.O. Box 2050, Redlands, CA 92373-0641. E-Mail: biblical@msn.com Web-page: csbrinternational.org The Conference will be a time of preparing for the next Millennium. The emphasis will be: "What did Jesus say?" Return to the time of Jesus and the Second Temple Period. Focus on the "Kingdom of Heaven." Please pray for us as we enter this venture.€ ____________________________________________>>> € PRAYER REQUEST: SAN FRANCISCO >From: Pray4Marin@aol.com >Date: Thu, Feb 4, 1999, 1:44 AM We need your prayers to have San Francisco once again be a place of Revival! "Digging the Wells of Revival" is being hosted by Glad Tidings Church in San Francisco on February 4-5, 1999. See more information below. This is a significant site as in the early 1900's Glad Tidings Church in San Francisco was identified as being host to a succession of notable evangelists and revival meetings. Maria Woodworth-Etter, Robert Craig, Aimee Semple McPherson, Charles Shreve, George Alfred Trenner, Charles S. Price, Smith Wigglesworth, William Booth-Clibborn (grandson of the founder of the Salvation Army), were among those that shaped the history of revival at Glad Tidings - San Francisco. Ever since the 1930's or 1940's it has never been the same. In Lou Engels book, "Digging the Wells of Revival", Lou says, "I believe God is saying we can go to the wells of of our spiritual forefathers and dig again to find new streams of revival bubbling forth. I am not speaking of redigging a well to return to the traditions of the past, or to rediscover old methods or cherished doctrine. Rather I am talking of coming alive again with the waters of the Holy Spirit that were found in the wells of our spiritual ancestors!" We are believing that God wants to re-open this well that once was alive with Living Water in San Francisco. This is the time and hour that this well in San Francisco (as well as all over our state and nation) NEEDS to be re- opened. (For that matter too, new wells of revival need to be opened too!) Please join us in praying for this event either by coming or by backing us up in prayer. If you are backing us up in prayer, here are some prayer points. Please forward this to your prayer networks: 1. Pray for a spirit of praise, worship and intercession to be on all who will attend. 2. For a spirit of true repentance and reconciliation over sins / iniquities that may have "stopped up" the well of revival. 2 Cor 5 : 18-20 3. For radical holiness, humility for all who attend. Philippians 2 4. Pray that forces of darkness - principalities, powers, demons would be bound in the Name of Jesus. Ask the Lord to send warrior angels to encircle Glad Tidings and to fight off any type of enemy attack in Jesus' Name. Colossians 1:19 5. For the love and power of the Holy Spirit to be present. 6. Spiritual discernment, wisdom, knowledge for Lou Engel and others who will be facilitating. Ephesians 1 : 15 -19 7. Emotional, physical, and spiritual protection for Jeff Green (pastor of Glad Tidings), Lou Engel, Michael Griffiths, James Trumbo, as well as all those who will attend. Ps 91 8. For perseverance and faith to be present in great measure while digging the well. Hebrews 12:1-2 9. That the well would be dug with spiritual tools not tools made of flesh. Ask the Lord to remove any fleshly tendency. 2 Cor 10:4 Bless you. Thanks for your prayers, Mary Consolacion Strategic City-Reaching Ministries / Northern CA Regional Prayer Network; US Spiritual Warfare Network - Northern CA / Asian Task Force; Restoration Network - International Reconciliation Coalition Mission Carolina DIGGING THE WELLS OF REVIVAL Glad Tidings, San Francisco and beyond . . . February 5-6, 1999 € Friday 7:00pm-10:00pm € Saturday 9:00am-9:00pm www.gtsf.org/wells/ A gathering of intercessors for the purpose of re-digging past wells of revival in San Francisco and the prophetic declaration and release of God's present purposes. The concept of Digging the Wells of Revival is based on the book of the same title written by Lou Engle. Lou will be with us to assist the process of intercession during this gathering. Reclaiming ~ Reconciliation ~ Relationships ~ Repentance ~ Restoration Waiting ~ Warfare ~ Worship ~ Witness and affirmation of gifts, ministries and callings. *Registration: There is no registration fee however, please indicate your desire to attend + number in your party by either fax, telephone or e-mail. *Prayer Vigil: Those interested in sleeping in the church and sharing in part or all of an all night prayer vigil on Friday should contact the church office (please bring a sleeping bag). *Fasting: Prayerfully consider fasting throughout the month of January as the Lord leads. *Prayer Walks and Evangelism: Please be prepared (comfortable walking shoes) to be a part of optional prayer walks and evangelism teams on Saturday. *Hosted by Glad Tidings Church 1280 Webster Street at Ellis, San Francisco, CA 94115 Tel. 415-346-1111 / Fax. 415-346-1108 / E-mail: GTSF@juno.com ____________________________________________>>> ================================================================== Phil Miglioratti National Pastors' Prayer Network / US 715 East Golf Road, Suite 205 Schaumburg, IL 60173 Phone= 847-884-0007 Fax= 847-884-0928 http://www.missionamerica.org/prayernetwork.html http://www.homestead.com/nppn --->Unless clearly identified as "Personal To _____" or "Confidential" all information and comments sent to phil@nppn.org will be considered for use in a future NPPN Update. --->Send responses and information as "text" (rather than in a specific program). --->Copyrighted 1999. 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