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G L O B A L U P D A T E - 02/18/2000
...Worldwide
...We
Will Live On A Prayed For Planet!
I N T H I S
U P D A T E
...and
for our prayers:
*LOG-ON...SIGN-IN...LINK-UP
*GLOBAL DAY
OF PRAYER FOR KURDS
*ABIDJAN,
COTE d’LVOIRE: KONG PRAYERWALK
*GLOBAL
INTERCESSORS NETWORK
*TARGU,
ROMANIA: www.exaltingjesus.ro
*INTERNATIONAL
STUDENTS, INC
*NAPLES,
ITALY: RESISTANCE TO UNITY
*FORTY DAYS
OF PRAYER & FASTING: PARSEE PEOPLE
*2000: A
YEAR OF PRAYER
*GLOBAL
GLIMPSE ON THE POWER OF PRAYER
*A GOOD WORD
FROM PHILIPPINES
*GLOBAL
CHURCH GROWTH
*NEW ZEALAND PPG ON WEB SITE
*LOG-ON...SIGN-IN...LINK-UP
Our NPN PPG
Directory is growing...slowly.
An
international directory of PPGs will, in itself, encourage many other pastors
to take the simple step of praying with other pastors in their community.
Will we
see a correlation between nations with the highest number of PPGs and a
national spiritual awakening?
Who
should sing-in? PPG Leaders, as well as those who network PPGs throughout a
city or a region. If you have a ministry that resources pastors with prayer
materials...so...
If you are in, or know of, a Pastors’
Prayer Group, please register at:
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*GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER FOR KURDS
Earlier
this year World in Need (WIN) ran a Global Day of Prayer for Tatar Muslims and,
according to WIN director Ron George, the effects were encouraging. Tatars have
been coming to Christ and only this week, says Ron, 7 were baptised. WIN are
now planning to run a Global Day of Prayer for Kurdish peoples on March 21,
2000 (new year for them) but they need prayer coordinators. They could be either
a country, region, city or local church co-ordinator to disseminate
information, give a call to prayer and even recruit people to visit Kurds in
Iran, Turkey, Iraq, Armenia or in cities around the world where they live.
Anyone interested in acting as a prayer coordinator or who just wants
information on the day of prayer should contact Ron George <win@pavilion.co.uk>.
Source:
CMDNet
“””QUOTE
“Lord, open our hearts to the joy and
wonder, the sobriety and fear, of a covenant relationship with You. Lead us, O
King, out of the superficial and into the supernatural. Lead us into a covenant
with You for our times and nation! In Jesus’ name. Amen.”
Francis
Frangipane, The Power of Covenant Prayer UNQUOTE”””
*ABIDJAN,
COTE d’LVOIRE: KONG PRAYERWALK
>From: “John
& Kay Quintero” <jqkq@dtccom.net>
Thank you
so much for praying for the prayerwalk in Kong this past week. So many wonderful things happened—The day
after the prayerwalkers left Kong, LaNette greeted a lady who was sick. She asked if she could pray for the sick
lady and the husband, who was standing near her said yes. The next day, as LaNette passed the
courtyard, the lady was out pounding and fixing a meal. The husband said to LaNette, “When you pray
in Jesus’ name, He heals sick people.”
Praise God for this wonderful witness in His name. Pray that this couple will truly come to
understand God’s love for them.
Thank you again for the many prayers
for the Jula people. What a joy it will
be to see thousands of Jula around the throne of God one day, as a result of
your prayers on their behalf. Blessings
upon each one of you.
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*GLOBAL INTERCESSORS NETWORK
Intercessors
Network is a set of freely interacting prayer units in about 90 nations (Autumn
-99). Intercessors Network has set the intercession for men in power position,
for kings and rulers, 1 Tim 2.1-4, as its first priority and sole ground for
existence. Intercessors Network does not hold any special political colour or
position. The Network is eagerly praying for holiness to be established through
recognition of the lordship of Jesus Christ.
Intercession
is ability to react and act. Intercession is ability to react the right way to
the right things. Intercession is ability to watchfully wait in the presence of
the Lord and act according to his revealed will. Rapid action in prayer is so often
needed at many levels of human experience. Computer technology allows us to
work closely together and enhances the possibilities of mobilising much prayer
in short time. E-mail communications provides foundation for solid and
immediate prayer back up. E-mail
communication allows us to provide precisely defined and focused prayer cover.
Intercessors
Network provides an Urgent Prayer Target e-mail list, to be
used for
instant prayer mobilisation in regards to current issues related to
the common
goal of the Network. The major focus of this list is on the
prophetic
dimension, the cities, the nations, the men in power; the areas of
life in
your community where any wind of change must begin to blow. A “Short
Notes”-list
is also available. Postings are sent somewhat irregularly and
contains
5-7 prayer items. It also contains an overview of what is sent to
the other
lists - you can watch what is going on and order the article you
are
interested of
A division
within the Network covering Jewish issues is to be accessed and subscribed to
by referring to “On the Walls of Jerusalem”. Issues pertaining Middle eastern
affairs, Jews in the diaspora and Messianic Jews will be focused under this
heading.
Intercessors
are indeed welcome to partake in the labour for change. Intercessors are certainly welcome to send
reports on current issues and definitions of prayer targets. By subscribing to
the lists, you are not obliged to respond to everything that is sent out from
the Network. You may and must pick and choose according to interest and the
prompting of the Holy Spirit. Intercessors Network also
invites you to visit our web site, where we provide help to find proper prayer
targets and instruction on prayer warfare. Send us a note, if you want to be
linked to our e-mail lists! No need to re-confirm if you are linked to our
lists already.
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-54890
Snail to be
directed to: Storskiftesgatan 87
S-58334
Linkoping, Sweden / Phone + Fax: +46 13
213630
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*TARGU,
ROMANIA: www.exaltingjesus.ro
From: “Cristian Voaides” <CristianV@ExaltingJesus.ro>
Dear
friends,
This is
Cristian Voaides from Targu Mures, Romania. I trust that my message finds you
well. I have a new e-mail address which is:
CristianV@ExaltingJesus.ro
I would like to invite you to visit our web page that has been finished today.
We are a ministry that is called by God to equip leaders, evangelize and
disciple young people so that they will be able to fulfill Gods call on their
life.
On our
web page you will find details about:
The
history of our ministry - Leadership
conference for pastors
Summer
camps - Short mission opportunities
Construction
teams - Photo gallery - Prayer requests
Our web
page address is: www.exaltingjesus.ro
We would
like to receive your comments concerning our web page so that we
will be
able to improve it. If you would like to partner with us in any
areas of
our work or if you have any questions please do not hesitate to
contact
us. In His Service, Cristian Voaides
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*INTERNATIONAL
STUDENTS, INC
>From:
“Claude Watters” <CWatters@isionline.org>
Since
1953 ISI has been sharing God’s love with international students who come to
the United States to study in our universities. There are more than 601,000
international students and visiting scholars in our country during this school
year. Many are from countries with doors closed to traditional missionary
work. They are the top one to two
percent of their nation and future leaders of the world.
Our
vision is to see every international student befriended, led to a personal relationship
with Jesus Christ, and discipled for His service. Once they return home to
their country as believers the impact they make for Christ is incredible!
Pray for
doors to open up with churches that will partner with ISI to reach the international
students on their local campus(es).
Continue
to pray for people to register as Lighthouses of Prayer for Campuses. It is vital that all 1269 campuses with 50
or more international students have the prayer cover required to open the
campus up to the Gospel. Pray that
strongholds are broken and believers in the local churches see clearly the
strategic vision of the ISI.
Pray for
the cell groups that are starting throughout the ISI ministry. Groups are beginning in Colorado
Springs. Pray the students see the opportunity
to have a felt need met through the groups.
Also, intercede for the right leaders, both student and American
Christian, to be raised up over the next few months.
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*NAPLES, ITALY:
RESISTANCE TO UNITY
>From: “Ross
Piazza” <rosspiazza@libero.it>
I
recently sent a “reflection” type letter to several pastors/missionaries, here
in Italy, because the Lord has put upon my wife and I a desire to see a true
healing of the body of Christ, here in Italy, through denominational reconciliation,
repentance and unity between brothers and sisters in the Lord. The division here is far beyond anything
that most people have ever seen. Well, this is just to say that the Anti
Conservative vs. Anti Pentecostal wars are continuing in full force here. It is a curse on the land. But, we have received many positive
responses to this “Reflection for Repentance” letter, which I sent, from
pastors and missionaries of differing denominations! Unfortunately, there have been some letters of opposition to “unity”,
also.
There is
hunger for Unity! But, we are already
seeing that the enemy is busy at work trying to discourage people in believing
that a “meeting of repentance” could
ever happen. Doubts, skepticism,
frustration, discouragement (even apathy), and opposition from others who think
that they have been around more than us and, therefore, own the rights to
organize such things. These are just a
few of the tactics that the enemy is already using against this vision! Also, we believe that this could be the way
to connect people for the purpose of laying down a foundation for a Spiritual
warfare networking in Italy (something that some missionary colleagues and I
are attempting to develop). We are
wanting to also use this network of praying people to participate in the larger
prayer movement for the 40/70 window (which includes Italy), also called
Operation Queens Domain. Please pray
for protection over these two very important matters for the nation
of Italy. Pray for us, and for all the
people that the Lord has called to join us in this vision. Pray that the walls of hypocrisy,
skepticism, mistrust, pride will come down.
Missionary
to Naples Italy. Please visit our newly updated Web Pages for
information
on our mission field and ministry at our new site:
http://digilander.iol.it/rosspiazza/index.html
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*FORTY
DAYS OF PRAYER & FASTING: PARSEE PEOPLE
>From: <Baruch_Hashem@evestamail.com>
Parsee
authorities have been concerned at the growing interest of Parsee youth in
Messiah Yeshua. There are 3.5 million
Parsees in the world, with only about 30 of which are born again. Parsee figures are listed on the “AD 2000
& Beyond” web site at http://www.ad2000.org/peoples/jppx95.htm.
Apart from the grace that God has given us to reach our own Parsee people with
the Gospel, there is no other focused ministry outreach to the Parsees anywhere
in the world.
Our
Parsee people will observe their holy days called Mukhtad with rituals which
begin early in the morning with congregational worship of spirits of deceased
relatives, and continue through sunset. Devotees bring offerings of sandalwood
and incense to their fire god, along with flowers, fruits, and other gifts.
Parsees worship fire as their principal god, and spirits of deceased relatives.
Many consider Yeshua (Parsee Name for Jesus) to be a major messiah or prophet.
Their “holy” book is similar to the Bible.
Also, much of the Old Testament tells about the good done by Parsee
kings for God’s people.
Please,
please pray God burden pastors and evangelical leaders to aggressively promote
our “Forty Day Prayer and Fast March
10-April 18 2000.” Our Parsee people
need to be delivered from chains. Many Parsees have charged that Christians
only preach about loving, when the Parsees are already practicing it. Please
pray God burden loving Believers to earnestly pursue friendships and
companionship with Parsees, and spend adequate quality time with them. Parsees
are relational people, and enjoy fellowshipping with others. Please pray God
give our own (unsaved) families Godly Believers as friends and companions, who
would regularly meet with them to minister to them, pray with them, and study
God’s Word with them. Without the practical love of Believers our friends and
families may never find Yeshua.
Please
pray God raise up many congregations and ministries to fast Forty Days—March 10
- April 18 -- for our Parsee people.
Members of a fellowship would volunteer for single days of fasting using
the Daily “Prayer Guide” so that the entire forty days would be covered as a
whole by the fellowship. Please consider whether the Lord would have your
ministry participate. Please consider sending this request out to your prayer
network worldwide. Perhaps a sheet of paper could be placed in your ministry’s Fellowship
Hall for members to sign their names in day slots to commit to fast on
individual days March 10 - April 18.
Thank
you very much. May God bless you richly for your solidarity and support.
Your
Partners in the Kingdom, Baruch Ha Shem International -
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*2000: A
YEAR OF PRAYER
From: “snmg” <snmg@erols.com>
The
Evangelical Fellowship Of Asia is observing the year 2000 as the year of
Prayer. The prayer items are published
in EFA’s magazine ASIAN CHURCH TODAY. Join us in prayer throughout this year
and involve others in praying for India.
According to the Goldman Sachs
Investment Research Report there will be 64 million Internet users in Asia by
2003. Pray for Internet evangelism.
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*GLOBAL
GLIMPSE ON THE POWER OF PRAYER
>From:
Doug Lucas <dlucas@TeamExpansion.org>
A team
of believers conducted a prayer walk in a village of the Jola-Fogny people of
West Africa. They prayed with more than 200 men, women and children in one
area. When elders in another area saw how God answered those prayers, they
invited the team to come pray for their school children. Classes were dismissed so 360 students could
kneel in a circle around the intercessors, who prayed for them while the village’s
religious leaders watched. (Source: Advance newsletter, January 23, 2000, http://brigada.org/advance/adv20000123.html
) Global Glimpse is compiled by John Hanna, Caleb Project, Littleton, CO.
For a
free subscription to Brigada’s weekly missions publication, write <brigada-today-subscribe@egroups.com>
or visit Brigada on the web at www.brigada.org”.
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*A GOOD WORD
FROM PHILIPPINES
>From: WFJI@aol.com
This
morning I began to see in my mind the vision of a big crowd beginning to gather
coming from a far distance, I felt that God was showing me something so I began
to seek Him more. As I waited and
watched, I heard this voice whispering to me, “What you will see coming is my
most treasured remnant army- personally trained by me.” I was so excited and began to watch more
closely. I wanted to see what the army
of God look like in close-up.
When
they come into closer view, I was stunned by what I saw. In the midst of the crowd coming in, I saw
people dressed so drably that many of their clothes are torn and old. Also, I found many are wounded and limping ,
some even without arms or legs and many with scars in their body, there was a
myriad mixture of men and women and very young children. They all looked so helpless on the surface
and does not in any way resembled what I perceived an army will look like. So I went back to the Lord to asked Him for
some explanation.
Then the
Lord give me a sunglass and asked me to put it on. And when I did, suddenly my eyes were open and I began to see
something else, I began to see the light coming forth from the people . .
. . and out from them flows rays of different colors like those of a
rainbow and with each color I see words written on them, like “love, healing,
grace, wisdom, “ and many others words which are reflective of the nature of
God. At this point, I felt the Lord speaking to me these words. . . .
“Take
heed and consider carefully. . . .” I am raising up in the midst of the nations
a very special remnant. They will not be attractive from the outside, but you
have to see them through my eyes of faith to known them.
For many
of them have been through many battles and have won:
. .
. some have been traveling the
path of Daniel and his friends, trained and molded in captivity.
. .
. some are like Hannah who has just
come out from years of great anguish and travail.
. .
. some are like Naomi who loss
husband & children and called herself “Mara”.
. .
. some like Paul have battled
with physical “thorn” in their bodies and have found “grace” in Me.
. .
. some have walked the path of
Abraham giving to and giving in to the
many “Lots”
that has come through their lives
. .
. some of them are like David
who has to run away from Saul and live
in caves
“Each one
of these precious ones have given up their best and their all as they pass
through many rivers, raging fires, wild storms, and great whirlwind. All of them in one way or another have
walked as JOB walked. The path has not
been easy but now THEY HAVE ARRIVED.
They are the one that I have chosen to represent me before the nations
and out of them will flow my blessings for my glory rest upon them.
“Many
awaiting for the unveiling of my army will not recognize when they come, but to
those who are continually seeking me.
They will recognize who they are and will welcome my army with open arms
and great will be the blessings that will come to them. Many of them will speak not with eloquent words
or act in glamorous ways, and in fact their physical appearance, their ways and
their manner will be offensive to many .
But they are mine and I will confirm the words that they speak with a
mighty show of my power and majesty as in the days of old. 1 Corinthians 1:25,
27-29: For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom.
“Father,
forgive us your people for our worldly ways and give us a new understanding of
who you are and what you desires to be in our lives. Amen!”
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*GLOBAL
CHURCH GROWTH
From: newsupdate@charisma.net
Christianity
is spreading ‘as never before in history,’
missionary
statesman
says
Although
2 billion people have yet to hear the gospel, the “final era” of missions has
begun according to a progress report that charts church growth dramatically
outstripping the increase in the world’s population.
The
number of evangelical believers is growing 3-1/2 times faster than the number
of people on earth, says respected missionary advocate Ralph Winter in his
state of the nations report on world evangelization.
“For the
first time in history it is possible to see the end of the tunnel when there
will be a church movement within the language and social structure of every
people group on earth, powerful face-to-face evangelism taking over in all
peoples,” he writes for “Mission Frontiers” magazine.
In a
report co-authored with missions researcher Bruce Koch, Winter—the founder and
former director of the U.S. Center for World Missions in Pasadena, Calif.—says
that while in 1974 about half the world’s population was “unreached peoples”
living beyond the reach of existing churches, that proportion is now down to
one-third.
As the
world population grows annually by 1.6 percent, “Pentecostals and charismatics”
are growing by 7.3 percent, and “evangelicals” by 5.7 percent. “Protestants”
are increasing at a rate of 2.9 percent, as “Roman Catholics” shrink by 1.2
percent. Overall, the world’s Christian population grows by 2.6 percent each
year—compared with Muslim growth of 2.7 percent.
The
overall trend is “indisputable,” they say. “Biblical faith is growing and
spreading to the ends of the earth as never before in history.” Among the
examples of the “amazing progress of the gospel” they highlight are the growing
number of non-Western missionaries and the growth of the church in China—from 1
million to 80 million in 50 years.
But
there is less encouraging news, too. Of the 410,000 missionaries from all
church backgrounds, less than 3 percent are working among “unreached peoples.”
Of U.S. churches’ annual $12.3 trillion income, only 5.4 percent--$11 billion—is
given to foreign missions, and of that only 1 percent, or $114 million, goes
specifically to work among unevangelized or unreached groups.
A former
missionary to Guatemala who now leads the Frontier Mission Fellowship, Winter
and his co-author caution that the good progress obscures the “tragic reality”
of the millions prevented from hearing the gospel because of “boundaries of
prejudice and culture.”
“The
church does not readily grow within peoples where relevant churches do not
exist. One-third of the individuals in the world live within peoples with no
church. They are no more spiritually ‘lost’ than your cousin who has never gone
to church, but unlike your cousin, there is no church made up of people like
themselves with whom they can fellowship.”
The 2
billion people yet to hear the gospel are to be found in around 10,000
different groups, separated from others by language, location or culture. But
there are some 670 churches in the world for each group, Winter says.
“We need
only a small percentage of dedicated believers to be mobilized and equipped.
Judging the remaining task by the potential work force makes it quite small and
within reach by comparison to the forbidding prospect faced by our forefathers.”
“””QUOTE
The past is wonderful, but it is not
enough. The nearer we get to the goal line, the more the intensity increases.
Some of our plays that previously worked well need fine-tuning because our
opponent is now aware of them. A modern football team will watch videos for
hours, just for the purpose of making the necessary adjustments so that their
plays will be more effective than ever. If we are going to score the touchdown,
we must move to a new level in our
application of prayer and spiritual warfare. Recognizing and appreciating the
spiritual gift of intercession is an essential starting point. The next step is
to affirm the office of intercessor. For years we have been comfortable with
the office of “pastor” or “bishop” or “evangelist” or “elder” or “teacher.” We
are just recently getting comfortable with the office of “intercessor.” Several
churches I know issue name tags to
intercessors, along with the other staff members, for use during their
services. The name tag will say, “Sue Jones, Intercessor.” Intercessors are
being given specific roles. For example, in some churches they are the only
ones encouraged to minister in prayer one-on-one with strangers. In some
churches they staff the prayer room. In some churches they organize the
prayerwalking ministry. In some larger churches an intercessor might be added
to the paid staff as Pastor of Prayer. Intercessors
frequently pray through the services in another room. They lead prayer
journeys. They are the ones people call in times of emergency.
C. Peter
Wagner, “Revival! It Can Transform Your City”
UNQUOTE”””
*NEW ZEALAND PPG ON WEB SITE
Greetings
Phil, Looks like you and I are on the same team. I am the
Co-ordinator
of the Combined Churches in Invercargill, NZ and as part of
that role,
head up a weekly Pastor’s Prayer Meeting.
I have just surfed to
your
website and subscribed for your e-mails, as well as registered my
Pastor’s
Prayer Group. I had the privilege of attending a Pastor’s Prayer
meeting in
Denver in December 1998 while I was in the US and it was great to
see that
God is moving in similar ways on both sides of the world. I will
be in the
US again this year and look forward to meeting up with other
pastor’s
who are
working
for unity in the body and transformation of their cities. MASSIVE
BLESSINGS, Dean Comerford, Invercargill, New Zealand
--->NPPNote:
Thank You Dean! It is an honor for the
NPPN PPG directory to have New Zealand represented (I hope you’ll motivate many
of my US PPG Leaders to do the same!). Let us know your travel
itinerary...maybe we can connect you with some local PPG meetings.
_________________________________________>>>
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