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*PASTOR
PHIL’S PRAYER LETTER
*HOUSTON,TX:
21 DAY DANIEL FAST
*PERSONAL
PRAYER WEB SITE-?
*TEXAS
TRANSFORMATION TOUR
*COLLEGE
CAMPUS SOLEMN ASSEMBLY
*YOUTH: http://209.157.200.208/underground/ads.html
*UNITED
PRAYER LEADS TO DRUG BUST
*NEW SITE
FOR PRAYER AND INTERCESSION
*CAPITOL
PRAYER TOUR THREAT
*TIME TO
TAKE A “PRAYER” NAP?
*MAY 4
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER MOBILIZATIONS UNDERWAY
*IT ISN’T HARD TO GET A VISION
*PASTOR
PHIL’S PRAYER LETTER
Recently,
at a PPG meeting, one of the pastors said something that caught my attention -
“Faith is the ability to recognize what God is doing and to enter into it,
regardless of the obstacles.” For me, lack of anticipated response from people,
especially prayer leaders and pastors, has been hard to take. At times, it
almost feels like personal rejection (though I know it is not). The Lord is
telling me this is an obstacle He has faced and one that all of us in the
prayer movement must face with faith. Full entry. Full commitment. Fulfilled
perseverance. Pray for me in that way. I’ll do the same for you ... Phil Local
(Chicagoland) Requests:
·
Praise
for a wonderful Pastors Prayer Summit and our first Women in
·
Friday
night’s Symphony of Prayer (15-18 Concerts of Prayer scattered throughout
Chicagoland): a spirit of prayer for revival, awakening, transformation...
·
Saturday’s
Great Commission Prayer Conference: a surprising attendance (pre-registrations
are low), an impartation from the Holy Spirit to each who attends, many pastors
catching a vision to become a prayer-driven church...
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*HOUSTON,TX:
21 DAY DANIEL FAST
>From:
Henry Dibrell <tpmail@tpmi.org>
With the
same sense of intensity and urgency that led to the 40 days at Houston Prayer
Mountain in 1996, Doug Stringer, founder of Somebody Cares/Turning Point
Ministries Int’l, recently shared what is on his heart for Houston, Texas and
beyond. Doug is calling a 21-day Daniel fast for our city beginning April 3rd
and culminating April 23rd. As he shared this with a core group of
75 pastors gathered at a Somebody Cares Houston meeting on March 28th,
it met with confirmation. Reports
continue to come from ministry leaders who are expectant of this time to fast
and pray. Hundreds of people within the Houston area have already committed to
this fast.
After
making the announcement, it was brought to Doug’s attention that the Daniel
fast will actually conclude on Easter Sunday - Resurrection time! Later that evening Doug read something
significant in Daniel 10:4. After
Daniel prayed and fasted for three weeks on the 24th day of that
month, the angel of the Lord appeared to Daniel with a word from God. Ironically, the 24th day of April
will be the day following our 21-day fast.
Reading the scripture further and studying commentaries, Doug recognized
another interesting point. According to the Jewish Sacred Calendar, the first
month of the year falls somewhere
between March to May, depending upon the year.
The first month is marked by the Passover season in the Jewish
faith. For the church, the Passover
season coincides with Easter, commemorating Christ’s resurrection. As we conclude our 21-day Daniel fast, we
are believing God for a fresh word for our personal lives, churches and
ministries in this new millennium.
Further
study revealed that Daniel was weary and weak.
When he received the word of the Lord, he received fresh strength and
encouragement. Doug has been sharing a
continuing, developing message over the past few years that “It’s time to have
a baby”... but we need “strength to deliver”.
As he says, “There are great things happening in the Body of Christ but
at the same time the enemy is attacking with great intensity. We need God’s strength as never before to go
to the next level. The only way we will receive the strength needed for
breakthroughs and for revival is through a direct word and touch from
God.” Doug believes God will honor
earnest, fervent, united and corporate times of prayer.
We need
to undergird our pastors and leaders at this time, as many are under attack
physically and in other ways. As Doug shared, “The increased level of spiritual
warfare requires a deeper level of commitment and discipline in all of our
lives. When our leaders are strong, everyone will benefit. We need God’s
strength to deliver. As we press in to
God during this 21-day Daniel fast, I believe He will renew our strength as He
speaks a fresh word to our heart.”
We
welcome you to join with us in Houston, Texas and with our affiliates around
the world. Please forward your prayer request to us. You may either fax them to our office at (713) 621 - 2076 or
e-mail them to tpmail@tpmi.org.
God may
be asking you to join us in this fast.
If so, we welcome you to unite with us in prayer as we seek God for
renewed strength to deliver!
Henry
Dibrell
For more
information on Turning Point Ministries International & Somebody Cares
please click on our Web Site at:
http://www.tpmi.org ~ http://www.somebodycares.org
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A
covenant relationship is a life-long pledge, an unbreakable oath, which God
Himself initiates and promises to sustain. Contained within His promise is His
unalterable commitment not only to fulfill His highest plan of redemption but
also to supply grace and faith to His human counterparts along the way.
Together, the all-sufficient God and a believing man accomplish the impossible
through their covenant relationship.
Francis
Frangipane, The Power of Covenant Prayer, Creation House
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*PERSONAL
PRAYER WEB SITE-?
>From:
“Bonnie” <MYBMW1@peoplepc.com>
I have
just been introduced to your website and am positively thrilled to see God’s
hands in so many places. I have now put you and this mission on my prayer list.
I do
have one question. Do you know of a website where someone can ask
for
personal prayer intercession? If so, and if you have the time, could you
give me
the address if there is such a site? Thanking you in advance for
attention
to this question and for the glorious work that seems to be coming
from this
website. In Praise of God, Jesus and His Church, I remain, Bonnie
M. Winans
___________________________________________>>>
*TEXAS
TRANSFORMATION TOUR
>From: PRAYTX@aol.com
Mark June
2-3 in Amarillo and July 21-22 in Lufkin on your calendar for a power-packed
seminar starting with registration at noon on Friday and concluding at 3 p.m.
on Saturday. There will be five tracks: Pastors, General Prayer, Strategic
Intercession, Youth Network, and Marketplace Strategies. Don’t miss hearing pastors and leaders who
are bringing the principles of prayer evangelism into their places of
influence. Leaders from Lubbock will
have a prominent place in both of these seminars. The cost of the Amarillo conference is $15. Call Pray Texas for more information:
915-580-4888.
___________________________________________>>>
*COLLEGE
CAMPUS SOLEMN ASSEMBLY
>From: PRAYTX@aol.com
Jeremy
Story, President of Campus Renewal Ministries based in Austin, announces a
nationwide live satellite downlink on college campuses on April 17, at 8 p.m. -
10 p.m. Central Time. The broadcast
will originate from Virginia Tech University and will be a mixture of prayer
and worship. Jeremy reported, “The
focus of the broadcast will be proclaiming God’s glory with an emphasis on His
redemptive power displayed through the resurrection of Jesus.
We will
also be repenting from our sins and aligning our lives with the purposes of
God. The time will end by uniting our
voices together to implore God to send His grace and revival to our
campuses.” For more information, check
their website at www.campusrenewal.org
or email Jeremy at campusrenewal@xc.org.
___________________________________________>>>
*YOUTH: http://209.157.200.208/underground/ads.html
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*UNITED
PRAYER LEADS TO DRUG BUST
>From: JEastDulce@cs.com
We are
in NW Illinois, about 2-3 hours west of Chicago, a city of about 30,000 in a county
of about 50,000. We have a nearly 20% composite minority population in
Freeport, but only about 7% countywide. There are about 115 churches in the
area, about 65 in Freeport. As far as I
know the largest weekend regular attendance of any one church is about 850-900
people. There are probably only 2 churches in the area with this kind of
attendance. Rockford 25 miles to the
East is a city of about 150,000, with a county of about 500,000. There are
several large growing churches there. Bob Griffen is leading a charge for
lighthouses, revival praying, and concerts of prayer.
There
were approximately 200 believers from 20 different congregations at our recent
Concert of Prayer. There were 12 or 13 ministers and Pastors there. We had an interdenominational, interracial
choir, a praise team, and 3 individual church choirs. We had 2 hours of prayer with praise and worship in between each
segment. The sense of God’s presence and power was awesome.
Last
month through prayer walking the neighborhood, asking God to cut off the supply
of drugs, and to save or convict by law those involved in selling drugs, we had
the biggest drug bust ever in our city. Among 8 other dealers, they netted a
Chicago based dealer and a local guy who were the 2 main suppliers for the
region out here. We still need to see many more to catch the vision for
lighthouses and prayer walking, but hopefully the upcoming training along with
the results we’ve seen recently will help.
Please
pray for us. God bless, Jon Eastlick
___________________________________________>>>
*NEW SITE
FOR PRAYER AND INTERCESSION
>From:
“Vance Welker” <vance@glorytoglory.com>
Greetings,
all—I’d like to introduce a new Christian website - a
website
dedicated to the Glory of God, designed by the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit and developed under His direction and
oversight. The URL is
http://www.glorytoglory.com
}www.glorytoglory.com. Please feel free
to stop
The
purpose of this site is to help people find Christian and Messianic (Jewish
believers in Jesus) churches that will meet their needs. A powerful, easy-to-use search engine
searches the site’s database for churches with the characteristics and
geographic location specified by the user.
Clicking on a link on the results page brings up one or more
information-packed pages about the selected church.
Included
on this site is a link for sending prayer requests to a dedicated
intercessor. Prayer requests are
treated confidentially, are encrypted for security, and may be sent
anonymously, if desired.
An
extensive links page contains links to a number of excellent resources - two
Spiritual Gifts analyses, Bible studies, multi-translation Bible searches,
Christian Internet searches, Christian downloads, academic, family and health
resources, legal and financial resources, links to various ministries and much,
much more. The site will soon include similar searches for Christian and
Messianic schools and businesses, including home-owned businesses.
Biblically
Christian and Messianic churches worldwide are welcome and encouraged to
join. Please forward this announcement
to your fellow pastors and all of your friends and encourage them to do the
same. Perhaps they or someone they know
would benefit by this site, or would like to have their churches included here.
Thank you very much.
In Him,
Vance Welker
___________________________________________>>>
*CAPITOL
PRAYER TOUR THREAT
>From:
“Crosswalk.com” <editor@crosswalk.com>
...A
minister won the right to lead people in prayer at the U.S. Capitol. Pierre Bynum, associate pastor of
Waldorf Christian Assembly in Charles County, Md., filed a federal lawsuit
after Capitol Police threatened to arrest him (see link #1 below) in November
1996 in the Capitol Rotunda for conducting a self-guided “prayer tour” of the
building, saying his group of eight people was staging an illegal, disruptive
demonstration, news reports said.
...Bynum
was not staging a demonstration, and the group caused no disturbance and had a
constitutional right to engage in free speech, U.S. District Judge Paul
Friedman ruled March 31. ...”We were
absolutely stupefied” by the threat of arrest, Bynum told The Washington Post.
“We were praying for our country.” Bynum, 51, is a leader of Capitol Hill
Prayer Alert (see link #2 below), a Christian ministry that prays for the
United States and its leaders.
...His
prayer tour was part of a 40-day prayer vigil. He said he had taken groups on
similar tours about 30 times before he was threatened with arrest, the Post
said. That day he was leading his family and a small church group to various
historic sites in the building, occasionally pausing to raise topics for
reflection, and people in the group closed their eyes, bowed their heads, and
folded their hands. Bynum said he originally sought an apology from Capitol
Police, believing the incident was a misunderstanding, but filed suit in June
1997 when officials defended their actions.
...Government
lawyers said prayer had been banned in the building unless conducted in the
chapel or other designated places at the invitation of members of Congress.
They cited a 1946 federal law making it illegal to “parade, demonstrate, or
picket” in the Capitol, and a Capitol Police regulation that defines
demonstrations as conduct that conveys a message or supports a point of view
and that draws a crowd of onlookers. Friedman struck down the regulation as
unconstitutionally vague, and said the federal law was aimed at preventing
disruptions in Congress, not “quiet praying.”
...”The
U.S. Capitol is a symbol of freedom and free speech,” said James Henderson of
the American Center for Law and Justice, which defended Bynum. “We are grateful
the court found that prayer is protected speech, not a form of demonstration.”
___________________________________________>>>
*TIME TO
TAKE A “PRAYER” NAP?
>From: PastorsInPrayer@aol.com
Journal
Entry-November 1969- “Bob, when are you going to get serious about the Holy
Spirit?” These words came from
Charlotte Sigl, the dear lady who has
prayed for Marilyn and me ever since we have been in Ft.Wayne As she stood at
my study door, I said in my mind, “Oh Charlotte, not today.” Then she was gone, like an angel appearing
only for a moment. Her question
would not leave my mind. “ Get serious
about the Holy Spirit?” What does that
mean ..... how can I do that? Not
today, so many appointments, and calls to be made. Yet.....when will I do this if not today?
Reflections-April
6, 2000-
As I
remember that morning 24 years ago, I remember calling my secretary, “Jan, I don’t know what is on my schedule
for today, but cancel it! I’m going
home to read my Bible.” Did I really
say that? Yes, not only did it happen
that way, but I did go home. I lay
there on my bed, so weary, so driven, so without feeling for the Lord. In about 20 minutes I was sound asleep.
Then the
guilt and shame hit me! Not able
to read God’s Word for even 20
minutes? Later that day the Holy Spirit
gave me insight. I was weary, more
than I had realized. Sleep was not a
sin. Sometimes the most religious thing
a man can do is rest. Once mind and
body are restored, the attention span returns.
That
encounter with a woman of God who spoke directly to a pastor who was
too
busy
changed my ministry. The days
following were filled with more of
God’s
Word. A new pilgrimage led me to an awareness and
presence I had before not
known.
As my
son wrote later about his search for more of Christ, “ The Lord Jesus
and I have
been slowly, carefully building our personal relationship ever
since. I
can see now how He always had me under
His care, and when my
spirit
was ready
to accept Him in faith, He spoke to me.” Mark went on to say, “The
more I
open up and turn what I thought was important over to Him, the closer
and more
intimately I come to know Him.”
For Mark,
this was the beginning of his adult faith walk. For me, it was going on in a deeper trust and discovery of who
Jesus really is. “Now the Lord is the
Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”
(II Cor,
3:17 NASB)
Blessings-
bob and marilyn yawberg
___________________________________________>>>
*MAY 4
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER MOBILIZATIONS UNDERWAY
>From: USAPRAY@aol.com
Thursday,
May 4, National Day of Prayer activities include public prayer gatherings in
communities across the U.S. organized by pastors and lay believers (just like
yourself; for materials phone 719-531-3379), sessions of prayer on Capitol Hill
under the leadership of the National Day of Prayer Task Force (headed by Shirley
Dobson) and members of the National Prayer Committee (led by David Bryant), a
late afternoon Washington DC city-wide assembly on the steps of the U.S.
Capitol (coordinated by Corinthia Boone and DC Host Committee), and the annual
evening (8:00-11:00 PM ET) Nationally Broadcast Concert of Prayer (directed by
Bob Bakke), simulcast via thousands of radio and TV outlets, the Internet and,
this year into Latin America and Europe as well. (Phone 612-853-8461; E-mail prayeradvance@compuserve.com;
Web www.concertofprayer.org) Please pray for good organization and
participation in events in your community and state, and for the national
expressions and leaders noted, and for grace, wisdom, strength, protection and
full provision.
___________________________________________>>>
*IT
ISN’T HARD TO GET A VISION
>From:
Onie M Kittle <oni-prayerexplosion1@juno.com>
Have you
ever prayed, that God would let you “be there” when His presence invaded a
gathering - where confession was real and revival fell and you knew you would never be the same. I’ve
attended many prayer gatherings and even many Summits, but none compares to the
glory of the presence of the Lord as we knelt together, unashamedly, on our
knees, and worshipped the Name above all names.
We began
the four-day Summit allowing the Lord to create a “safe place.> He revealed
His NAME, the “strong tower” into which we - who were clothed in the
righteousness of Christ - “could run.”
We sang
praises to God; we read scripture to God; we prayed to God; we spent time alone in focused meditation
and privately sought God. And, the Lord
drew us into worship - wonderful, life-changing worship. Worship that turned our focus fully to the
wonder of His love and grace. Worship
that, at times found us quiet, together in awe of His presence.
Picture,
if you will, pastors, leaders; men, women; Caucasian, Spanish, Native Americans, Asian, “lifting up holy hands
together” with one prayer, “Come, Lord Jesus.” Armin Gesswein, elder statesman
of the prayer movement, said, “It isn’t
hard to get a vision. Visions are easy to come by. It is bringing them about
that takes sustained, perseverance in prayer.”
Joe
Albright, founder of Pastors Prayer Summits, often relays his original question
that led to the Pastors Prayer Summits, “How do you sustain a move of God that
lasts?” He believes, as we do, that it can only be through corporate, united
prayer.
God has
given the ABC USA leaders a great vision to win the lost. It must be sustained
by prayer. We felt that we were the remnant - and that God will honor our prayers. Thank you for joining us and for
interceding for us as we gathered. Blessings, oni (Mrs. Onie M. Kittle)
___________________________________________>>>
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