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PRAYERS
+ PRAISE UPDATE
02/21/2000
I N T H I S
U P D A T E
and
for our prayers:
*PASTOR PHIL’S
PRAYER LETTER
*STIRRED UP
INTERCESSORS
*JESUS
VIDEO: $200,000 MATCHING GIFT
*NEW
ENGLAND: PROJECT ONE
*PRAYER FOR
PRISON OUTREACH
*WIDOWS’
MIGHT PRAYER THRUST
*THE 40/70
WINDOW
*WORKPLACE LIGHTHOUSES OF PRAYER
*PASTOR PHIL’S
PRAYER LETTER
Your prayer
for me are being answered!
“Phil,
Let me express my appreciation for all that God did through you while you were
here a few weeks back. The spiritual, prayer climate has been raised across the
body of the church. I am hearing from more and more people about their
commitment to pray strategically for the coworkers and neighbors. And I want to
thank you for being a part of that.” Please allow me to express “thanks!” to
those who spend even the briefest moment asking God to use my ministry and
protect my life and family. I am stronger because of your partnership in the
gospel. For those who like to pray off of requests and lists, please pray
about:
1. The NPPN - That it will reach 5,000
subscribers with Updates and build a directory of 2,000 Pastors’ Prayer Groups
... so that ... a pastor can connect with a group of praying pastors simply by
surfing the internet.
2. The NPPN hosting a Roundtable discussion with
national and local leaders of the PPG movement. It is time to surge forward
with PPGs all across the US and the globe.
3. My local role in Chicago, especially with a “Summer
of Hope” - Over 400 evangelistic events and activities throughout Chicagoland
from June through August - With the potential to bring together 275+ Southern Baptist Churches and 100 other
evangelical churches on July 8th, a Day of Hope for Chicagoland - A
partnership of CBN, 50 Day Adventure, Jesus Day, Chicagoland Challenge...
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*STIRRED
UP INTERCESSORS
From: Onie M Kittle <oni-prayerexplosion1@juno.com>
We are
seeing God move in tremendous ways in NJ because intercessors are:
·
Being
“strengthened by God as we seek hearts fully committed to Him”
·
Stirring
ourselves up to intercede & come along side Pastors Gatherings
·
Entering
into covenant agreement with God, with one another, and with local pastors to ‘make
a path smooth” in order for Jesus Christ to walk across our land and claim it
for Himself and to bring in the harvest.
We
are seeing city:
*Pastors
Gatherings strengthened and increasing and bearing much fruit. *Pastors local
ecumenical/cross-denominational prayer times are increasing and bearing much
fruit for the glory of God.
*Evangelistic
efforts are much more empowered and fruitful as we back them up in
intercession.
We must
persevere in prayer during this time of great Holy Spirit momentum.
Pastors
must let local intercessors know how to pray specifically so
that we
can pray more effectively.( --->NPPNote: Another reason why we need
you to
help us build the NPPN PPG Directory - Register your Pastors’ Prayer Group asap
at:
You
maybe saying, “Doesn’t look like much from where I stand.” This past summer a
group of intercessors formed teams and walked the Mississippi River in its
entire length, praying as they walked. Since
I could not physically make the walk, I looked in my encyclopedia to learn about
the path of the Mississippi in order to pray with/for them.
The
Mississippi runs 2,350 miles from Minnesota down across the US to the Gulf of
Mexico. If I was standing at its beginning, in North Central Minnesota, I might
see the little stream about 10 feet wide flowing from Lake Itasko. I might say,
“Doesn’t look like much from where I stand.” If that’s all I saw, I would never
know that this small stream digs a bed over 100 feet deep and dumps about
675,000 cubits of water into the Gulf of Mexico every second.
A small
beginning, powered by a mighty God. From where I stand, the “call to prayer” is
beginning to pick up momentum and will dig a deep river of revival and have
lasting effects for Christ’s kingdom.
Our Lord
said, “You pray and I will show you great and mighty things which you do not
know - and do so much more than you are asking or could even imagine.”
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*JESUS
VIDEO: $200,000 MATCHING GIFT
From: Robert M Cosby <jvpoa@juno.com>
The
JESUS Video Project of “Alabama,
America, and All the world” (JVPOA), in conjunction with its ongoing mission to
win America, to win the world for Christ, is pleased to announce a matching
Easter gift offer of up to $200,000 to pay one-half the actual cost of mailing
JESUS to every home in Washington, D.C.
We
believe that JESUS is the best Christian evangelistic tool available today,
that the children of America are dear to God’s heart and need JESUS desperately,
and that our National capitol, Washington, D.C., is our “Jerusalem” where
we should begin. Inquiries and offers of support may be directed to JVPOA at
the addresses below. This offer is made possible by contributions and pledges
to JVPOA. Offer good through April 17, 2000 AD, unless otherwise
extended. Some restrictions apply.
JVPOA is a federally approved 501©(3) tax exempt corporation, which is distinct
from Campus Crusade for Christ, International and its JESUS Video Project. Campus Crusade for Christ, Intl. owns the
duplication rights to the JESUS movie. All
contributions to JVPOA are income tax deductible as provided by applicable law.
God
bless you, Bob Cosby, M. D.
The JESUS
Video Project of Alabama, Inc.
3508
Cheshire Drive, Birmingham, AL
35242-3100
Tel /
fax: (205) 991-6054 Email:
jvpoa@juno.com
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*NEW
ENGLAND: PROJECT ONE
>From: datlas@gis.net (Dale Atlas)
It’s
been very busy so I haven’t kept in touch much except thru the NPPN. You may remember talking with me about
Project ONE, a united ministry of Vision New England and Emmanuel Gospel Center
- also a Celebrate Jesus 2000 initiative.
Project ONE meets with groups of pastors in communities throughout New
England to develop a united strategy for evangelism. We have been seeing God
moving powerfully in these groups. I
would like to invite everyone to join with us in this recent development . . .
For the
past six months, I have been working with a group on Cape Cod,
Massachusetts. Last week, as part of their prayer strategy,
the pastors
decided to
increase prayer in accordance with 2
Chron. 7:14. They are
challenging
all their churches to pray either at 7:14 in the morning or
evening
for 15 minutes . . . 7:14 for 15
Should
anyone like to join us in this prayer initiative, please e-mail
Project
ONE at datlas@gis.net I will keep you informed of this
growing
prayer initiative. Also, let us know if
you would like more
information
on Project ONE. Dale Atlas
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*PRAYER FOR
PRISON OUTREACH
>From: USAPRAY@aol.com
An
unusual collaboration of leaders and ministries is launching
“Operation
Starting Line” (OSL) a five-year prison evangelism and
discipleship
program to reach every prisoner in America.
Collaborating
ministries
already include the American Bible Society, Billy Graham
Evangelistic
Association, Campus Crusade for Christ, Christian Hope Indian
Eskimo
Fellowship (CHIEF), Intercessors for America, National Black
Evangelical
Association, Navigators, North American Mission Board (SBC),
Mission
America, the Pittsburgh Leadership Foundation, Prison Fellowship
Ministries,
Promise Keepers, and Walk Thru the Bible.
Prison Fellowship
founder,
Chuck Colson, and Franklin Graham, first vice chairman of the Billy
Graham
Association, will launch OSL on Easter Sunday, April 23, 2000 in
Delaware. Pray that grace and wisdom be granted to OSL
task force leaders
meeting
next Monday and Tuesday. IFA’s
president, Gary Bergel, was invited
and has
agreed to serve as chair of OSL’s Prayer Committee. If you, your
church or
prayer group would like to participate in OSL prayer efforts and
receive
periodic OSL prayer alerts, please send your name, address, tel, fax
or e-mail
to IFA, or simply register via e-mail at PrayOSL@aol.com
“ “ “
QUOTE
“What we
receive in the New Covenant is not based on our attainments, but Christ’s. The
covenant conditions have been eternally settled. We need harbor no fear of
rejection by God because of our disobedience. Indeed, the New Covenant between
the Father and Son was established precisely for the purpose of pardoning our
disobedience!”
“ “
“ UNQUOTE
*WIDOWS’
MIGHT PRAYER THRUST
DALLAS
(BP)--The Annuity Board of the Southern Baptist Convention is launching a
nationwide “Widows’ Might” prayer initiative to focus on the work of Southern
Baptist organizations. The prayer effort will begin on April 1.
Calling
widow annuitants to prayer, O.S. Hawkins, the board’s president and chief
executive officer, said, “The objective is to undergird the mission of Southern
Baptists around the world.”
Drawing
upon its annuitant rolls, widows are being asked to set aside time to pray
daily for specific needs related to Southern Baptists’ world missions
ministries, theological education ministries, Christian ethics and religious
liberty ministries and facilitating ministries including the Annuity Board and
the Executive Committee. Also targeted are church enrichment ministries
including LifeWay Christian Resources and Woman’s Missionary Union.
Missionaries, denominational workers, ministers and retired ministers are also
a focus of the prayer effort.
“The
widow who gave her two mites was chosen by Jesus as a model of impacting the
world for good,” Hawkins said. “Through this new prayer ministry, the Widows’
Might has the potential of impacting today’s world in ways beyond our
comprehension.”
“Initial
response to the Widows’ Might has been inspiring,” said Frank Schwall, project
coordinator. “We envision a great band of praying widows lifting up the
Southern Baptist Convention’s mission in specific prayer support.”
A note
from a widow in Kansas attached to a volunteer form said, “I may not be able to
see, but I still have a line open to the heavenly Father.”
Another
volunteer from Texas wrote, “There is little I can do to serve our Lord except
to pray for those who are at work in the fields. The Widows’ Might seems to go
along with a part of my present calling as I interpret God’s leadership.”
>From
Arkansas, a widow replied, “It will be my joy to give something back in prayer—for
all you and God have given me.”
Included
in the materials being sent to all volunteers are a prayer resource kit and a
replica of the widow’s mite. In addition, a call to prayer sheet targeting
specific prayer needs for the quarter will be sent to each volunteer.
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*THE 40/70
WINDOW
>From: newsupdate@charismanews.com
by
Andy Butcher
After a
decade of championing focused prayer for countries with the fewest Christians,
a leading authority on intercession and spiritual warfare has a new region in
his sights—one where, in some parts, the church has existed for centuries.
C. Peter
Wagner, a prolific author and widely recognized expert on prayer and world
evangelization, says that the time has come to shift attention from the
so-called 10/40 Window to the new 40/70 Window.
Since
1989, millions of Christians around the world have prayed for the 60-plus
nations of the 10/40 Window—the Africa-to-Asia part of the globe between
latitudes 10 and 40 north that is home to most of the world’s unreached and
unevangelized people groups. Through the International Spiritual Warfare
Network he coordinates, Wagner encouraged many of the large-scale prayer
initiatives that have taken place for the region.
But now
the focus needs to switch from countries where people have never heard of
Christ to nations where many have heard but have not been given the “true
gospel,” Wagner says. His 40/70 Window includes more than 50 countries across
Europe, the Caucuses, and North and Central Asia.
Evangelism
in the 10/40 Window is at an all-time high following years of sustained prayer,
he says in “Global Prayer News,” the newsletter from his World Prayer Center in
Colorado Springs, Colo. “True, there are more unreached people groups to reach
and many more churches to be planted, but God has raised up an incredible army,”
he states.
Revival
fires burn in Latin America, Asia is experiencing “the greatest evangelistic
harvest in the world,” and sub-Saharan Africa is mostly Christian. “Revival
reports are coming from virtually every part of the world, except from the
40/70 Window,” he says.
One
reason for that, he believes, is the spiritual stronghold of the “Queen of
Heaven,” a demonic force that he says has different forms around the world.
Last October Wagner gathered 5,000 Christians for public prayer and praise in
Ephesus, Turkey, at the historic site of worship to Diana—one of the Queen of
Heaven’s guises.
It was
there that the Queen “subtly adapted herself as a counterfeit Mary” amid the
early church, he says. Wagner states that in A.D. 421 the church chose Ephesus
as the place to hold the council that declared Mary to be the “mother of God”
and began “the escalating Mariolatry that we have seen for centuries.”
“Idolatry
in the form of the worship of the counterfeit Mary is a distinguishing characteristic of much of the traditional
Christianity found in the 40/70 Window” he writes. “As a result, [it] contains
more non-born again Christians than any other part of the world...what was once
vibrant Christianity has now been effectively neutralized by the Queen of
Heaven.”
Another
part of the 40/70 Window includes the Turkic belt of non-Arab Islam that Wagner
says is “held in bondage by another adaptation of the Queen of Heaven, namely
the Moon Goddess.”
Because
of the way in which the worldwide prayer movement has grown and matured, Wagner
says that he believes there will be as much change in the spiritual atmosphere
of the 40/70 Window in the next five years as there has been in the 10/40
Window in the last 10. Countries in the 40/70 Window include Albania, Ireland,
England, Turkey, China, North Korea and Turkmenistan.
“ “ “
QUOTE
“The New
Covenant was fulfilled at the cross.
Your debt
has been taken out of the way. The decrees against you
have been
canceled.” Francis Frangipane
“ “ “
UNQUOTE
*WORKPLACE
LIGHTHOUSES OF PRAYER
>From: “Jan
Christie” <jlc@ngweb.net>
Is it
possible for your pastors to be praying for the launching of Workplace
Lighthouses of Prayer? Next week,
February 24-25, Christian leaders will meet in Atlanta, GA to prayer and
strategize for the establishment of a prayer presence in every workplace in
America. This is connected with Mission
America’s Lighthouse Movement. It seems
God has said, “Ok, There’s another neighborhood for you to pray for, care for,
and share the Good News. It is the
workplace where you spend 70% of your time.”
Interesting
to think of the transformation not only of the workplace, but also of our lives
as God’s presence infiltrates the workplace.
For
pastors wanting more information about the meeting, etc. have them contact me
at jlc@ngweb.net <mailto:jlc@ngweb.net> .
Blessings
to all, Jan Christie
--->NPPNote:
Great idea - We should do the same with PPGs - How can they
become
Lighthouses of prayer...?
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Prayers:
·
Our
Focus: City-Wide, Cooperative Efforts
·
Our
Goal: 2,000 Pastors’ Prayer Groups By Year End 2000 http://www.nppn.org/ppg/
As The
Spirit Leads You:
·
>Bring
These Names & Needs To The Lord
·
>Distribute Them
To Intercessors
·
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For The Members Of Your PPG
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*HOW
ABOUT YOU...YOUR PPG...YOUR CITY...
Tell us how we can give praise and thanks for what the Lord has
done
Tell
us how we can join you in prayer for your region ---
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