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>From: Pastor Francis Frangipane <RiverofLifeMailer@InChristsImage.org>

"One of the most important things the Holy Spirit is doing in our day is calling the youth to radical commitment to Jesus Christ.  One such holy convocation occurred this summer in NYC where over 85,000 young people
gathered in repentance and prayer.  We at In Christ's Image wanted you to know and witness what your prayers are accomplishing in this nation and around the world."        --- Francis Frangipane

The following is an announcement from Sky Angel:
HEARTFELT REPENTANCE, MASSIVE UNITED PRAYER GENERATIONAL RECONCILIATION PASSIONATE WORSHIP, INSPIRED PROPHETIC VOICES

On Saturday June 29, 85,000-plus youth and their families gathered in the face of soaring temperatures and overwhelming humidity to storm heaven. Not a festival, but a fast, participants from around the nation and the world worshipped and prayed from 6 am to 6 pm, drinking only water as they entreated God on behalf of the greater New York City area, as well as for the state, the nation and the world.

We are in a pivotal time. Lives hang in the balance. The destinies of nations and those who live in them are being established and transformed as we agree with God's purposes in prayer. Let God arise and his enemies be scattered. Repent, pray, fast. You are the hinge of history as you intercede for a nation and world at the crossroads.
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>From: "Tony Danhelka" <tony@lightfirst.com>
>Quote By: Richard Owen Roberts
 

Double minded Man! (James 1:1-8)

Many prayer gatherings have been killed by doubting - double minded people. We need to decide. You can not be full of faith and doubt. Seek the faith that is from God (Acts3:16)

Most great revivals have been initiated and sustained with people under 30, most under 25 and more than a few under 18.

What is a revival? Revival is God in the midst of His people! Revival is Arrival of Jesus! (Francis Frangipane) When God is grieved he withdraws. He hates sin. When God draws near "it is judgment day!" The fear of God and the shame of sin grips the sinner. Moses, Isaiah, David, Paul, John on the island all demonstrate that when they got close to God they were broken. Our sin rate in the church is the same as the world... divorce, alcoholism, violence.

When God draws near there is no dancing, singing and leaping. There is weeping, wailing, brokenness, confession, lowliness, humility and love. Judgment day comes and we are silent and prostrate.

Businessmen see Christians as scoundrels. When God shows up Christians become a forgiven people who will go and confess their sins to the business men they stole from.

When a businessman gets 5 or 6 Christians coming to him and seeking restitution he will be moved to salvation.

There was a day that Christians had a tremendous impact on the world. Today the world has a tremendous impact on Christians. We are sinful and weak. We are double-minded.

Do you engage cheap prayers or costly prayers? Luke 3:16 John the Baptist had a costly prayer... "To be Baptized in the Holy Spirit and Fire!"

Your duty is to humble yourself. A cheap prayer is to ask God to humble you. Humble yourself. Beg God to pour out His Holy Spirit and transform your pride into humility. Then go and be humble.

Ask God for wisdom. Stop, listen, think, and conclude. He will give him in faith.

We have a men's revival prayer meeting early one morning each week. Most men fall away after a few months. They become weary and tired of praying... they are double minded. It costs to pray for revival in intercessory prayer for an out pouring of the Holy Spirit. God knows when you start praying for revival he knows who will wane and fall away because he is double minded and not committed, resilient, persistent, courageous, and tough. Do you have a burden for revival. Are you ready to be used by God? Are you weak, unlearned, poor, and inexperienced? God will use a weak vessel to bring Revival. Many of us won't know Revival until we know poverty. Don't put limits on God. He will use you when your are pliable and humble. It will cost you everything.

You may say... God I want revival, but not abandoned devotion, hunger in fasting, persecution, poverty, sleeplessness in prayer. No, don't be double minded. Seek God with abandoned devotion, hunger in fasting, persecution, poverty, sleeplessness in prayer.
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3.    DON'T JUST PRAY FOR YOUR PASTOR...
 

If you could make an “investment” in your pastor – and in your church – that would pay “dividends” through eternity, would you do it ?

We want to encourage you to see if your church can SEND your Pastor(s) to the “Come Near to Me” pastors and leaders conference next February  18 – 20 in Phoenix.  This unusual gathering will provide great encouragement as well as challenge to every pastor.  Your church and your community may never be the same.

As you may know, Promise Keepers hosted a clergy conference in ’96, and it was life-changing for so many pastors.  We have been asked to convene the pastors from across the country once again, and are trusting God for an outpouring of His Spirit.  Something very special happened in Atlanta, and we anticipate something very special happening in Phoenix.

But someone needs to get your pastor there.  Registration is only $165 prior to Thanksgiving, and $195 thereafter.  Special discounts have also been arranged for hotel rates and airfares.  Call toll-free at 800 – 888 – 7595, or go to www.promisekeepers.org  to register.  If God is ready to use this moment, your pastor won’t want to miss it.  Would you prayerfully consider how you might influence your pastor to join us ?

A special interview of Bill McCartney and Raleigh Washington will be aired on Focus on the Family radio on Nov. 11.  This would be a great opportunity for you and your pastors to hear more details about the Pastors Conference.  Be sure to spread the word about this specific radio program.

Thanking you in advance for your help and encouragement,

Ed Barron, Vice President of U.S. Ministries
Promise Keepers

P.S.  As a special bonus, every attendee at the Pastors Conference will receive selected pastor’s resources ( books, magazine subscriptions, website access for sermons and other help ) valued at over $200.

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Intercessors, are you looking for a short term mission trip where you can pray and pray and pray?

This past summer Riverwoods Christian Center (St. Charles, IL) was thrilled to welcome two women intercessors all the way from upstate NY to our mission field  for a week of strategic prayer.  

The two women were looking for a short term mission opportunity with a focus on intercessory prayer.  So when you helped us promote the invitation to intercessors to come to Riverwoods through your “National Pastors Prayer Network” update, the words “missionary intercessors wanted” jumped out at them.  

Riverwoods Christian Center, located in St. Charles, Illinois, is a multifaceted ministry devoted to ministering to people who live in under-resourced communities throughout the Fox River Valley.  Each summer over 750 children (ages' 6-12) from under- resourced communities are able to spend a week of Christian camping at Riverwoods free of charge.  

The goal for the intercessors was to immerse them into the summer camp experience, and for them to saturate the ministry with prayer. “We spent the week meeting staff, counselors and children.  We then could pray informed prayers.  The week went so quickly,”  admitted one of the intercessors.  “What a blessing it was!! Having the time to pray allows gifts of the Spirit to operate and enables us to really open up and hear God,”  says the same intercessor upon reflection on her mission trip.   

The week of prayer at Riverwoods included not only praying for the campers and their families, but also prayer walking in  the community in which the children live.  While in the neighborhood, just prior to the prayer walk, they had an opportunity to meet with  in the parish priest presiding over the Hispanic community from which the children came.  (The senior pastor of the parish has a relationship with the founder of Riverwoods and gives his blessing for his parishioners to send their children to Riverwoods.)  

The week also included attending two local pastor prayer group meetings as intercessors.  Interestingly, the two intercessors are praying for and have the same vision to see a move of God to come to NY as we have for the Fox River Valley.  They heartily joined their prayers with ours as they prayed for God’s power to be released through a unified purposeful Body of Christ.

They prayed during strategic times like:   Chapel, Evening Challenge, Bible studies and cabin devotions. They prayed fervently for the success of the Junior Leaders program, through which approximately 40 young people served in a leadership and a learning capacity at summer camp.  Additionally they prayed for our missionary Advocates, who serve in the under-resourced communities throughout the remainder of the year under the leadership of partner churches.   There was also time for the intercessors to enjoy some of the 4 1/2 miles of nature trails in our 80 acres of forest

Riverwoods’ Summer Camp program is unique, in that former campers are incorporated into summer camp as Junior Leaders.  The teens progress through CORPS (Christ Our Power Source) as 13 yr. olds in a two week training and serving opportunity at camp.  Then the following summer, if they participate in the weekly school-year Junior Leader program, they can return to summer camp as a Junior LIT (Leader in Training).  The LITs serve the whole camping season.  The next year the teens are welcomed back as Senior LITs for the summer.  Finally the teens are given the opportunity to serve as counselors and summer staff.  

“I got to see the process of teenagers developing life skills through the leadership training at summer camp.  They build layer upon layer as the teens move up through the program.  After a summer at Riverwoods these young people go home changed and better equipped to impact their neighborhoods in a positive way,”  says one of the intercessors.  

The majority of our children come from broken homes in which there is no father figure present in their lives.  Their mothers face the daunting job of parenting alone in the face of tremendous challenge and difficulties, often parenting out of their own unmet needs and life’s wounds.  As a result, most of the children have many unmet emotional, physical, and spiritual needs.  Riverwoods is not only committed to bringing the gospel message to children, but also providing teaching and disciplines to better equip them for their futures.  The issues of those trapped in under-resourced areas are complex.  One issue that Riverwoods recognizes and addresses is the many developmental gaps in the “growing up years” of children who live in these communities; these gaps often result in a perpetual struggle.

It is the goal of Riverwoods to break the cycle of struggles by partnering with local churches and by welcoming the life transforming power of God into our region.  One week of camping and a weekly children's program, (although these efforts are wonderful) cannot, in and of themselves, adequately address the needs of the under-resourced communities.  Therefore, Riverwoods recognizes that we need a genuine move of God in an unprecedented way to come over the Fox River Valley region affecting the whole Church, who will in turn impact the whole community.

With this in mind, Riverwoods actively participates in local “city reaching” initiatives that are also being implemented in other places all over the world like prayer walking and lighthouse evangelism.  Riverwoods promotes local pastor prayer groups in an effort to encourage the synergy and power that comes only through a unified Body of Christ.  In addition to denominational reconciliation, Riverwoods is committed to racial reconciliation, and sees racial justice as a key component to the definition of the “Kingdom of God”.  Riverwoods actively promotes prayer and intercession and sees humility as a necessary ingredient that will help usher in a divine move of God over the region.

“I was impressed with the way that the ministry invests in the whole community,”  admitted one of the intercessors.

Riverwoods is not only a Christian summer camp.  Riverwoods (with the participation of local churches) is a devoted to a holistic approach to ministry.  To see the entire region transformed by the life changing power of Jesus Christ- especially the people living in under-resourced communities is Riverwoods’ goal.  Riverwoods endeavors to see whole families reached with gospel, then incorporated into local (culturally relevant) churches.  By encouraging “the whole Church to bring the whole gospel to the whole city”- a borrowed expression,  Riverwoods anticipates and expects a divine move of God over the region.

For More information about Riverwoods Christian Center visit the web site at:  www.rierwoodschristiancenter.org  and email Maggie through the web site, or call Maggie Caudell at (630) 584-2222 ext. 219.  As there are only 8 weeks of camping, make reservations for your short term intercessory mission trip for next summer early.

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>From: emailupdate@spiritualrenewal.net

In its effort to "pursue the spirit of revival," the Center for Spiritual Renewal is convening solemn assemblies, facilitating leadership forums, researching revival trends, and working with other agencies in the promotion of spiritual unity at the local level. These activities are aimed at helping to fulfill the first two elements (spiritual integrity and scriptural unity) in our definition of spiritual renewal.

The third element in that definition is social responsibility. In the fulfillment of that important element, the Lord has provided a marvelous open door of ministry opportunity through the new school/church initiative which the Center has recently launched in the Cleveland/Bradley County (TN) area. The concept is simple. Local churches offer resources (human and financial) to public schools, not as a religious activity, but as an act of community service with "no strings attached."

The help given by churches can take a number of different forms such as maintaining and/or refurbishing landscaping, purchasing books for library, sponsoring field trips, and providing after-school tutoring programs. The idea is to demonstrate Christianity in action by performing acts of love and appreciation without expecting anything in return. The development of a positive, supportive relationship between schools and churches in a community is a win/win situation. The schools receive tremendous practical benefits and the churches become the "light" and "salt" God intended them to be.

The response to the initiative in Cleveland/Bradley County has been outstanding. In less than three months, every one of the 27 area schools has been adopted by at least one church. Some schools have as many as 3 sponsoring churches. And the process has just gotten started. Several positive reports in the news media have given the project good visibility. We believe the program has the potential to catch fire across the county and to be used of the Lord to have a nationwide impact.

Robert E. Fisher, Executive Director
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>From: FreshPrayer Notification <webmaster@waymakers.org>

The latest  issue of FreshPrayer is called "From despair to hope." The passage of scripture undergirding these prayers is Isaiah 35. I think you're going to like how these truths stimulate life-giving prayers.

Every issue of FreshPrayer comes with a leader's guide to help you facilitate a small group prayer session. The leader's guide contains extra insights to the text and a few tested ways to help ordinary people pray together with confidence and relevance.

FreshPrayer is free. All you need is the program Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is also free to download without hassle anytime.

Go to http://www.waymakers.org and click on the "FreshPrayer" section to download this month's issue. Photocopy all the copies you will need to inspire practical prayer ideas for the people who need our prayers the most.

yours for Christ's greater glory, Steve Hawthorne
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>From: "John Robb" <JDROBB@rodey.com>

Dear Prayer Warriors:
 

ANSWERS TO PRAYERS

 

I want to thank you and share with you the remarkable ways in which God has either already answered or begun to answer the prayers which you mounted for the Savannah, Georgia Christian Legal Aid National Conferences and Seminars which were concluded on November 1st. We had asked you on October 24th for urgent additional prayers that God would enable those registered to attend, to work well together, for project directors to support each other, that there would be a spirit of unity, that He would empower our leaders of these meetings to encourage conferees to strengthen existing programs and to decide to start 20 new ones next year; and also that He would open our hearts to carry out the new expanded vision and enable us all to help and to share new life in Christ with many thousands more of the poor and homeless. Your prayers were wondrously answered by Him as He more than met our expectations and prayers in nearly every particular and had the Holy Spirit take over a major portion of the Conferences to guide, direct and unify us in powerful ways.

Only one of the project directors previously registered to attend, was prevented from doing so, resulting in representation by twenty-one CLA projects which are nearly all of the most active ones. As never before, they bonded and blended together in their relationships, they all agreed to support and assist each other and they shared a unity in carrying out the vision which God had given to us to build up current programs and increase the number of new CLA programs in specific ways.

Sixteen of the twenty-one agreed to complete studies of the effectiveness of their current programs. Nine developed initial plans to attempt to start new programs in fourteen cities. Seventeen agreed to be leaders in the newly formed national CLA corps to assist these and other local communities to startup such new programs. Another eighteen persons at the Summit Conference and Seminars stated their interest and intention to help start additional programs in their own cities, bringing to thirty-two (exceeding our hope for twenty) the total number of cities in which there was an intent and plan to encourage and assist new CLA programs.
 

PRAYERS FOR THE FUTURE
 

We hope that you will be encouraged by this report and will be willing to join us in prayer for the following additional prayers for the future:

    That God would inspire, encourage and enable each of the following persons to faithfully pursue their definite interest or commitments to improve or to start new CLA programs during this year including:
€ each of those persons indicated in the answers to prayers listed above in this letter;
€ the twenty at the June National Conference of Gospel Rescue Missions; and
€ the five Salvation Army Division Commanders (and many others within their respective divisions).

    That we in CLS would be faithful to what God has called us to do in encouraging and assisting the above persons in carrying out these plans.

Once again, thank you for all your faithfulness which we believe will result in thousands more of the poor and homeless receiving critically needed help to deal with problems, to escape from poverty and for many to receive a new life in Christ in the process.

In Him, John D. Robb
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>From: LindsayCMBA@aol.com

I ran across something as I am working at the interim with Grace Community Church that I thought you might find useful.

In Christ, Lindsay Cobb

>From Historical Drift: Must My Church Die? by Arnold L. Cook

>From Chapter 14… Story of revival at Campus Crusade meeting in July 1995..(more details available) ... Nancy DeMoss gave a Monday morning message  ... the powerful response came from a message about BROKENNESS.  She contrasted David and Saul, the sinner woman and Simon the Pharisee, the prodigal and the older brother…..

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.”  Psalm 51:17…..
She listed the characteristics of two kinds of people…….abbreviated below….

Proud and Unbroken People                Broken People

Focus on the failure of others            Overwhelmed with their own spiritual need

Look down on others                Esteem all others better than self

Independent; have a self-sufficient spirit        Dependent spirit; recognize other’s needs

Maintain control; must have their way        Surrenders control

Has to prove that they are right            Willing to yield the right to be right

Claim rights                        Yield rights

Have a demanding spirit                Have a giving spirit

Self-protective of time, rights, reputation        Are self-denying

Desire to be served                    Motivated to serve others

Desire to be a success                Desire to make others successful

Desire for self-advancement                Desire to promote others

Driven to be recognized and appreciated        Sense of unworthiness, thrilled to be used

Wounded when overlooked                Rejoice when others are lifted up

Think of what they can do for God            Know they have nothing to offer God

Confident in how much they know            Humbled by how much they have to learn

Are self-conscious                    Have no concern with self at all

Keep people at arms’ length                Willing to take the risk of loving intimately

Are quick to blame others                Can see where they were wrong

Are defensive when criticized            Receive criticism with a humble, open heart

Are concerned with being respectable        Are concerned with being real

Are concerned with what others think        Knows that all that matters is what God knows

Work to maintain an image and reputation    Die to own reputation

Have a hard time saying “I was wrong”        Quick to admit fault and ask for forgiveness
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