PRAY   CENTRAL   FLORIDA

Dear Fellow Prayer Warrior,                                                                           March, 2007

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Please be praying into the whole crime situation in our area. It has been all over the news and should be in our prayers as well. If the Lord gives you any insight or specific prayer direction please e-mail me and I’ll put it on a blog I’ll start as soon as someone sends me something to post. If you want to be anonymous please let me know. The blog will be on our web site. See last month’s newsletter (available on our web site) for my initial discussion on the subject.

 

Worship House of Prayer

At the end of last year some of our beloved prayer and worship ministries joined forces, including The Furnace that used to meet at The Porch. Here is what they had to say about it and the new vision. This is taken from an e-mail that I included in last month’s e-mail newsletter but I felt it deserved front page this month to be sure everyone sees it.

Three houses of prayer--The Furnace, Worship House of Prayer, and 24/7 Prayer Room--have united as one force... to create a central Florida base for 24/7 worship and prayer, with equipping centers for the end-time harvest, healing teams/rooms, justice sieges, and mercy outreaches... loving Jesus with all of our heart, soul, mind, strength... and loving others with the Father's heart. We are calling this new marriage "Worship House of Prayer."

We believe that we are joined together to establish a missions base--a hub for house of prayer, equipping schools, mercy and justice missions, and outreaches. When the house of prayer ministries converged, we discovered that most elements of the base have already begun: Three equipping schools-- Forerunner Miracle Institute (healing, signs, wonders), GO-Center (worshipping arts), and Children's Equipping Center (Lenny LaGuardia, IHOP-KC, will provide some training). Prayer Room-- 62 hours per week are scheduled for February, doubling the previous available hours. Justice-- Weekly prayer sieges at abortion clinics and strip clubs continue, with awesome Kingdom results. Mercy missions-- feeding the poor and homeless. Outreaches-- healing teams have been praying, and more will be trained.

We see the prayer room as the heart of the missions base, providing the power for the base to function. The equipping schools will send people into the prayer room as well as into the harvest fields. The prayer room and equipping centers will flow together. The Worship House of Prayer is located at 120 W. McKey St., Ocoee. Web: www.whopcfl.org, e-mail: worshipprayer247@aol.com. 

 

Ongoing Prayer Themes - please include some of these when you pray for the city -

An increase in the manifestation of God’s supernatural power – healings, signs, wonders

Wisdom and blessing for our president and other national, state and local elected officials

God's redemptive purposes to be fulfilled in Central Florida

Unity of the Body of Christ and purity in the Body and in relationships between leaders

Pastors to pray together and lead their churches into praying with other churches

Vision Orlando, Space Coast Prayer Network and Deland pastors

The scourge of abortion to be removed from our city

Christians to tithe and give offerings so “the devourer” will be rebuked in our city

Greater revelation of the Apostolic and God’s government to increase in our city

Homeland security

 

See page 2 for Current Prayer Events

An E-mail version of this newsletter (with more stuff!) is also available - send me an E-mail to sign up.

See this newsletter on the web at www.christiansnet.com/praycf/praycf.htm.

George Kern, 405 East Jersey St, Orlando, FL 32806, 407-245-1132, praycf@juno.com

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Current Prayer Events:

 

For additional Christian events see the Z88.3 events web site - http://zradio.org.

 

March 23 – 24 – IHOP-KC Worship Equipping Conference with Derek Loux, Director of Forerunner Music Academy IHOP-KC and worship leader in IHOP Prayer Room. Hosted by Worship House of Prayer. $15. info: e-mail  forerunner247@aol.com or call 407.877.5970.

May 3 – National Day of Prayer - www.ndptf.org.

May 27 – Global Day of Prayer - www.gdopusa.com.

 

Weekdays – 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. – all day worship and prayer hosted by Love of Christ Ministries (Mack McCambridge). Location: Faith World church, Orlando. Call 407-292-0966 for info.

First and Third Mondays – 6:00 p.m. - Strategic Intercession for Sanford. Location: Good Samaritan Home  1704 W.9th Street  Sanford, (W. of 17-92).  Info: Thelma Mike  407-322-3321.

Tuesdays – 6:00 a.m. - Sanford Ministerial Fellowship - Pastors Praying for Sanford. Info: Jim Bradshaw - 407-322-4371, jimbrdshw@bellsouth.net.

Tuesday evenings - 6:00 p.m. – Community Healing & Prayer Service. All Saints Church, 338 East Lyman Av. Winter Park. Call 407-647-3413 for info. www.allsaintswp.com.

Tuesday evenings - 7:00 p.m. - Servants of the Most High Interdenominational prayer group meets in the Longwood area. For more info, call Maureen at 407-332-7286.

Second Tuesday – 6:30 p.m. – Aglow – women’s fellowship and prayer meeting for Apopka/Ocoee. Contact: Rhonda, 407-884-0238.

First Wednesday of month – 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. – Vision Orlando monthly meeting. Prayer at 7:00. For more information e-mail steve@visionorlando.org.

Thursday Evenings – 7:30 p.m. Oviedo Healing Rooms - Healing in the Name of JESUS through the Power of GOD's Presence and Prayer. 145 W. Broadway Blvd., Oviedo. Call 407-529-7111 for appointment (suggested but not necessary) www.OviedoHealingRoom.com.

Friday evenings – 7:30 p.m. – International Concert of Prayer – prayer for Orlando, USA & the world. At Greaterlife Church in Oviedo, call Pastor Jeff Good for information at 407-365-5950.

Third Friday of month – 11a.m. - Pray for the Troops – Praying for our troops in harms way. Location: 24/7 Prayer Room at The Porch, 720 North Orange Avenue, one block North of Colonial Drive (50). Info: www.lzrussell.org/PrayForTheTroops, or call Greg at 407-327-4422.

First Saturday of month - Prayer for Muslims - 10:00 a.m.-Noon, Orlando. Peter Shadid - 240-6272.

            Peter has a team reaching Muslims in Kissimmee and can train people for outreach in Orlando.

Second Saturday of month – 9:00 a.m. - KNEC (Kingdom Network Empowering Communities) – 6864 Silver Star rd, Orlando. Contact: Pastor Helligar – 407-299-6677.

Second and Third Saturdays – 5:00 a.m. City-wide Prayer Meeting. Hampton Inn at 7448 International Drive, Orlando. Sponsor: Pastor Mary Norman, 321-276-5352.

Second Saturday of month – Aftercare Network Prayer Meeting. Networking ex-inmates and Aftercare Providers. Call Chaplain Fleeks at 407-836-0384.

Third Saturday of month – Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Longwood. Email amystrang@aol.com.

Daily - Lighthouse Report (with Steve Douglass) – on the web at www.lighthousereport.com

 

Pray Central Florida – Praying for Central Florida and encouraging the Church in Central Florida to pray

 

 

And here is the extra stuff you don’t get with the snail mail version...

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(1) Worship House of Prayer News – March 7, 2007

(2) CHRISTIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Networking Luncheon 4.5.07

(3) PRAYER POINTS FOR THE NIGHT OF PRAYER

(4) GNN Orlando Evangelism Opportunities

(5) Prayer for Iraq and Its Neighbors

(6) The Glory of the Shed Blood of Jesus in Worship

(7) "PRAYER WARRIORS--RISE UP AND WAR AGAINST THE STRONGMEN IN THIS NATION"

(8) The Awesome Argentina Revival

 

 

*NPPN - NATIONAL PASTORS' PRAYER NETWORK - US

A Ministry Network Of The Mission America Coalition

OUR VISION-

Identify And Encourage Pastors' Prayer Groups In Cities And Communities

Across America So That Pastors Lead Their

People Into Praying For And Sharing Christ With Everyone In Our Nation.

Subscribe to the NPPN:   http://www.nppn.org/subscribe.htm

<http://rd.bcentral.com/?ID=757173&amp;s=5913893>  

 

 

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(1) Worship House of Prayer News – March 7, 2007

 

IHOP-KC Worship Equipping Conference in Orlando

 

MARCH 23-25 with Derek Loux, Director of Forerunner Music Academy IHOP-KC and worship leader in IHOP Prayer Room.
Hosted for the region by Worship House of Prayer
Register today at forerunner247 @aol.com or call 407.877.5970

Fri 6-7pm Early registration
7pm Opening session
Sat 9-10am Registration
10-noon Morning session
1-3pm Workshops
7pm Evening session

$15 Conference fee
$10 special meal package upon request
Location: Living Waters Church, 485 W. Silver Star Rd., Ocoee, FL 34761

More information...

 

Healing Team Training Clinic

 

Saturday, March 17
8:30am-12:30pm
at WHOP

In this training clinic you will:

Register with your name, email, phone number to sharon@js- now.com.

More information & registration...

 

Once-a-Month Prayer & Worship Clinic

 

PRAYER CLINIC - Praying from the Heart Series
WORSHIP CLINIC - Dynamics of Harp, Bowl & Crown Worship Series
Begins Sat., March 31, 1pm-3:45pm at WHOP
Saturdays- 3/31, 4/21, 5/19, 6/16

A 4-part series that meets monthly for 4 months. This clinic is for believers of all skill levels who desire to worship God and to pray with increased effectiveness. The clinic is designed to build confidence in you for the house of prayer, no matter which house of prayer you call home. We desire to prepare an army of lovesick worshipping intercessors committed to intimacy with God and with a heart to establish places of 24-hour prayer and worship.
Trainers:
-Sharon Gonzales— Prayer Clinic
Director, Worship House of Prayer
-Kim Johnson— Worship Clinic
President, Walk in Light Ministries

Saturdays- 3/31, 4/21, 5/19, 6/16
To register go to sharon@js-now.com

Prayer Segment Highlights

 

-Children's Prayer
Saturdays, 10am-noon
Children are hearing from God, seeing visions, and praying what they hear and see.
-Healing Intercession with live worship
Saturdays, 6-8pm
Bring those who need healing prayer and we will pray for them. Come and pray for God's healing to come powerfully to the Orlando area.
-Youth Rumble with live worship
Saturdays, 8-10pm
Young adults gather to cry out for God's presence in our city and nation.
-Brazllian watch
Every other Tuesday 8-10pm

All prayer segments held at Worship House of Prayer

worshipprayer247@aol.com

Worship House of Prayer | 120 W. Mckey St | Ocoee | FL | 34761

 

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(2) CHRISTIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Networking Luncheon 4.5.07

 

From: ChristianChambr@aol.com

Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:07:31 EDT

Subject: RSVP CHRISTIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Networking Luncheon 4.5.07

 

Maximize your lunch hour!

 

You are cordially invited to attend the

Central Florida Christian Chamber of Commerce

Networking Luncheon

serving Orange, Seminole, and Osceola counties

 

Thursday, April 5, 2007

11:30AM-1:30PM

Sheraton Orlando Downtown, 60 S. Ivanhoe Blvd., 32804

(formerly The Ivanhoe Plaza & Radisson)

$20 members & first-timers, $25 nonmembers

Pay at the door. Parking is free in hotel garage.

RSVP required to 407-290-1943, or simply reply via this email

 

Average in attendance 125+

 

 

Ministry Spotlight:

Christian HELP

Central Florida Employment Council

Mr. Dick Wilson, President

 

Special Guest:

Mr. Rey Descalso, A.G. Edwards and Sons

Topic: "Can sheep compete with wolves?"

 

 

Make sure to bring plenty of business cards

and promotional literature for networking.

Marketing tables provided compliments of the chamber.

Tabletop displays are restricted to chamber members only.

 

 

Feel free to forward this invitation to friends and associates.

 

 

For membership information, please visit us on the web at

<A HREF="www.cfchristianchamber.com">C.F. Christian Chamber of Commerce</A>

 

 

To be removed from our email database,

you may reply to this email with  your request.

 

 

Because We Care About Our Community,

 

Lori C.  Slough

Cofounder and Executive Director

Central Florida Christian Chamber  of Commerce

5104 N. Orange Blossom Trail, Suite 201

Orlando, FL  32810

Phone 407.290.1943

Fax 407.290.1906

Web site:  www.cfchristianchamber.com

 

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(3) PRAYER POINTS FOR THE NIGHT OF PRAYER

[editors note: I realize this event has passed but the prayer points are good to pray for our brothers and sisters in Brevard and for our area as well. Plus they reveal the hearts of the leaders over there – God bless you Larry and company!]

 

From: "Larry Booth" <larry@ofhsb.org>

Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:46:01 -0500

Subject: PRAYER POINTS FOR THE NIGHT OF PRAYER - FEB.23, 2007

 

BELOVED…

 

We trust that many of you will be praying all across Brevard County this Friday night, Feb.23rd.  The file attachment gives you some of the suggested PRAYER POINTS that we might come into agreement on these matters.

 

Expect the Holy Spirit’s help as we pray this Friday!!!!

 

Hallelujah!!!

 

Larry Booth, Facilitator  (Psalm 86:11)

Space Coast Prayer Network

 

 

SPACE COAST PRAYER NETWORK

 

PURPOSE: The SCPN exists to unite pastors, ministry leaders, and intercessors to form a prayer network to seek GOD for the healing of our nation, to pray for revival here on the Space Coast; to encourage one another in the faith; and to make it harder for the almost 600,000 people who live here to miss heaven.  Through a united effort of prayer, our lives, our ministries, and our nation can be changed.

 

PRAYER POINTS FOR FEBRUARY 23RD

 

 

NATIONAL & GLOBAL PRAYER POINTS

 

 

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(4) GNN Orlando Evangelism Opportunities

 

From: "GNN Orlando" <gnnorlando@earthlink.net>

Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:58:48 -0500

Subject: GNN Orlando Evangelism Opportunities

 

Orlando

Evangelism Opportunities

 

Greeting's Seed Sowers,

 

 

Christopher Owen
The Great News Network Local Leader, Orlando
Webpage: View

Enlist: www.thegreatnews.com
Email: cowen@thegreatnews.com

 

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(5) Prayer for Iraq and Its Neighbors

 

Prayer for Iraq and Its Neighbors:

A Renewed Call to Prayer, Starting March 25th, from the C. S. Lewis Society, Trinity College, and Intercessors for America

 

Posted on PrayerforIraq.org after March 4, 2007

 

Dear Friends in Christ,

 

When the Lord places a burden on one’s heart and it doesn’t “go away” but just becomes heavier and heavier, the time comes eventually to act on it.  For me, and for a growing prayer team across the world, that time is now. 

 

During 2006, as chaos and violence and discouragement surged in Iraq, I became increasingly burdened to pray, and to exhort others to pray, for a decisive turnaround in that incredibly crucial land.   I shared this with the leadership team of the C. S. Lewis Society, an apologetics-evangelism ministry of which I am the director.  I spoke with others--Chris Gould of WTBN radio station in Tampa; Mark O’Farrell, President of Trinity College of Florida; Chuck Colson, chairman of Prison Fellowship—all of these concurred that the time has come.  Diligent daily prayer for Iraq needs to explode across the world.

 

First, our hearts’ fervent prayer arises along five points: 

(1) That Iraq not descend deeper and deeper into violence. 

(2) That the perpetrators of daily violence and evil be caught and brought to justice.

(3) That peace, righteousness, and stability may spread throughout this land.

(4) That the redemption of the people of Iraq—their transformation by Christ--may accelerate.

(5) To sum up:  We pray for a stable environment in which Christ’s body might flourish.  The future of the Middle East pivots on what happens in Iraq.  How greatly it needs our prayers!

 

Second, we sense the need of mobilizing a vast throng to embrace this prayer vision.   If a tsunami of humble prayer for Iraq were to spread across the US and the globe, if God’s people were to submit their praise and requests to the Father and ask for His mighty intervention, we would build confident expectancy, knowing that we have turned to the only ONE who can guide the outcome toward the flourishing of Christ’s kingdom of peace in this region.

 

Third, besides Iraq, we should also pray for ten of its neighbors:  Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey, Lebanon, and Israel.   In obedience to I Timothy 2:1-5, we must pray for the leaders in these lands.  (Below are listed the leaders.)  Pray that each leader would be drawn to Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.  Pray the same for the people they govern.  That is a huge prayer vision, but God is the God of breakthroughs—He is the God of the impossible!  Speaking of other countries, pray for the wisdom of the US congress, President Bush and his cabinet, as they seek a righteous and wise path in Iraq.

 

We have been blessed with the gracious support of Intercessors for America and several other huge denominational networks (one of which sent out our prayer alert in early January to over 20,000 churches), and have just completed on Feb 21st an initial 40 day season of prayer.  Now we are preparing to launch a second season of prayer of 40 days, starting March 25th through May 3rd (the National Day of Prayer).  During this new period, we will concentrate not only on praying for Iraq and its neighbors; we will also pray for the burden to be spread nationally and globally.  We are also targeting April 18th as our “Global Day of Prayer for Iraq.”    

 

The Prayer for Iraq Steering Committee is coordinated by me, Tom Woodward, and three ministry colleagues: Allen and Ana Thompson and Jason Anderson.  We desperately need prayer partners!  We also need help in “getting the word out to others.”   If anyone is interested in joining or supporting this movement, or has questions, reach Ana at:  adthompson@knology.net.  My email is:  twdwrd@tampabay.rr.com.  Our website, which will be up and running by March 4th, is PrayerforIraq.org.   Let us know if you are led to join us! 

 

Thank you for joining us in prayer for Iraq and its neighbors!  Thank you for spreading the word to every church and prayer network you know! 

 

In Christ,

Dr. Tom Woodward,

 Director, C. S. Lewis Society, Chair of Bible/Theology at Trinity College of Florida

 

HEADS OF STATE:

 

Iraq:  Jalal Talabani is the president; Nouri al-Maliki is the prime minister.

 

Iran:  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is the president.

 

Syria:  Bashar al-Assad is the President.

 

Jordan:  Abdullah II bin al-Hussein is King of Jordan.

 

Saudi Arabia:  Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud is king and also serves as Prime Minister.

 

Kuwait:  HH Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah is the present Amir (the "Head of the State") of Kuwait. 

 

Afghanistan:  Hamid Karzai is the president.

 

Pakistan:    General Pervez Musharraf is the president

 

Turkey:  Ahmet Necdet Sezer is the president.

 

Lebanon:  Émile Geamil Lahoud is the president.

 

Israel:  Ehud Olmert is the prime minister.

 

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(6) The Glory of the Shed Blood of Jesus in Worship

 

TOPIC: The Glory of the Shed Blood of Jesus in Worship

http://groups.google.com/group/apostlesroundtable/browse_thread/thread/2112c7987a04ed0?hl=en

 

== 1 of 1 ==

Date: Fri, Feb 23 2007 3:44 pm

From: "ap" 

 

The Glory of the Shed Blood of Jesus in Worship

By JoAnn McFatter

 

We are at the edge of stepping across a threshold in worship like no

other time in history. There are so many things that have been saved

for this last hour, worship being one of the main venues of the

release that is coming. I know that worship has barely touched what it

is able to release into the atmosphere and will play a big role in the

release of the miracles and salvation that are about to be displayed

in the earth.

 

For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with

wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none

effect. For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish

foolishness; but unto us which are saved IT IS THE POWER OF GOD - 1

Cor. 1:17-18

 

Christ crucified...I consistently find myself coming back to the power

of the cross and the blood of Jesus in my thoughts. In fact, I pray

for songs that will portray it in such a way that no man can stand in

the opening up of the revelation of the resurrection power of Jesus

Christ. It's the power of the blood that surpasses all the melodies,

all the poetry of words, all the reasoning and understanding of man. I

would urge all worship leaders to ask the Holy Spirit for songs that

bring revelation and release the power of the blood in the hearts of

worshippers everywhere.

 

God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus

Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

- Gal. 6:14

 

The power that is in one drop of the blood of Jesus would make the

atom bomb look like a little firecracker. We must come into the

revelation of the act of the shedding of His blood for ALL mankind,

that nothing would be able to stand in resistance to the authority of

it - no disease or infirmity, not even death. I believe that He is

going to reveal the power of Jesus' blood in these last days. We would

do well to begin to seek the Lord on this and ask Him to give the

songs that bring the glory of this revelation in the midst of the

congregation.

 

Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see Your power and Your

glory. - Ps.63:2

 

I know in my heart that songs about the blood and the cross of Christ

will bring His glory into the room like nothing else as we step into

that place of understanding the power that lies therein. The glory of

God was made manifest upon the earth by the Word made flesh in Jesus

and what He came to this earth to do. We need more worship songs that

the whole body can join in with the hosts of heaven giving Him what He

deserves in the way of recognition for what He did on the cross on our

behalf.

 

Saying with a loud voice,

 

Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and

wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing. - Rev. 5:12

 

It's all about the Lamb that was slain -- the only One worthy to take

the book and to break its seal. Let the revelation of His worthiness

be revealed to us and become an ever unfolding revelation in us. Let

the power of what He did on that cross be sung in our hearts and with

our mouths to release into the atmosphere faith that ignites with His

glory. Let the resurrection power of His shed blood be released in our

hearts and fill the atmosphere with songs and worship pertaining to

this truth. Let it bring the mass healings in worship that are, truly,

just around the corner.

 

There is something to the sound of glory being given to Him in honor

of what He did on the cross and what His blood has already

accomplished - resurrection life! That means the dead raised, and the

healing of ALL manner of diseases. We need to have the sound and the

songs being written and released, filling the temple with His glory

cloud. This revelation will activate faith in the hearts of men and

women and children as we become one with Him in this truth being made

manifest. The songs will release it in the midst of the congregation

through us and to us.

 

Lord, let it be and let it be now. Release Your angels with those

songs that have been saved for this very hour for the great last

revival, causing the hearts of humanity to be healed physically,

mentally and spiritually by the power thereof. Lord, let the healings,

miracles, and salvations come in the midst of worship, as we all join

with one voice and one sound, singing those very songs so that no man

would receive glory - only You. Amen.

 

And they overcame him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of

the word of their testimony. - Rev. 12:11

 

Let us position ourselves to receive from the storehouse of heaven

those songs that have been saved for this time that speak of the

resurrection power of the blood of the Lamb, Christ crucified, and our

own testimony of overcoming by that very power applied in our lives.

O, that the glory cloud would come suddenly and fill the temple so

that no man could stand in the manifest presence of His glory as a

result of this worship rising as an incense to his throne, alluring

Him to come. Come Lord!

 

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(7) "PRAYER WARRIORS--RISE UP AND WAR AGAINST THE STRONGMEN IN THIS NATION"

Elijah List Ministries
Email: elministries@elijahlist.net
Phone: 1-866-967-3665 or (541) 967-3665

http://www.elijahlist.com

 

March 8, 2007

 

Chuck Pierce and Dutch Sheets: "PRAYER WARRIORS--RISE UP AND WAR AGAINST THE STRONGMEN IN THIS NATION"

I am so excited about sending you the following letter and prayer thrust from Dutch Sheets. Dutch has written this report so we are better informed on how to pray for our nation. The information on "Baal" is very key. Remember, this is a year to go to the "high places" and worship the One and Only True God, Jehovah! Read, pray through this, and decree this across your state. I would also encourage you to share this with your networks.

Blessings,

Chuck D. Pierce
Glory of Zion Ministries
http://www.glory-of-zion.org


Prayer Points from Dutch Sheets

God is leading me to share a report of what I am hearing from Him for America. God has taken the prayer movement to a more decentralized apostolic paradigm; this is allowing more ownership to be taken on local levels. This is as it should be--the purpose of my update will simply be to make you aware of national issues/developments/events, etc. that need our concerted prayer. The question I will address is simply, "What is the Holy Spirit saying to the praying Church of America?"

Prayer Point 1: Baal

Through a season of tremendous warfare in November and December, as well as confirmation from many key leaders, God has exposed the spirit of Baal as one of the strongmen--perhaps the strongman--over America.

Baal-hamon, one of Baal's names, means "the lord of wealth or abundance." Chuck Pierce believes, and I agree, that this is the principality warring against the great transfer of wealth to the Church. You must war against this spirit to see your inheritance released. Claim Jeremiah 51:44 (Bel in this verse is Baal).

Baal-berith, another of his names, means "the lord of the covenant." The Hebrew word baal actually means "husband" or "marriage." This spirit always attempted to cause Israel to "divorce" or break covenant with God and "marry" or align with him. Consistent with this, in so many ways, America has broken covenant with God and married Baal. This is, I believe, the strongman behind most covenant-breaking.

Baal is the strongman behind sexual perversion. Homosexuality was and is one of his big strongholds. I believe all of the sexual sin and perversion in America is, to one degree or another, under Baal's orchestration. You will continue to see God expose leaders in the Church who aligned themselves with this spirit. Pray for the Church to be cleansed and for Baal's hold on America in this area to be broken.

Baal always goes after the next generation, trying to cut off the extension of God's covenantal purposes. He is a violent spirit and even required human sacrifice. Abortion is under Baal, as is the "cutting" of today's young generation (see 1 Kings 18:28), the vampire and goth movement, and the death culture in general that has so invaded America. Baal is leading the fight to avert the great awakening planned for the young generation of Americans today. Pray against and bind these efforts.

Witchcraft and occult spirits in general operate under Baal. So does Jezebel. Pray against this spirit's influence in your area as the Lord leads you. Be wise and discerning, and learn as much as you can about it before you take action. I have barely scratched the surface in this writing.

Prayer Point 2: The Coming Youth Revival

I prophesied in January 2006, that the lid was coming off of the youth movement (teens and 20's) that year. It happened. I recently heard Cindy Jacobs say at least 100 college campuses in America now have 24/7 prayer. Just last week, I heard of three colleges that are experiencing many conversions and baptizing students in campus fountains! I was with my dear friends Karen Wheaton and Damon Thompson in Cleveland, TN, and Hamilton, AL, last week ministering to young people and youth pastors. I have never seen such passion. Karen's ministry, The Ramp, is definitely one of the seeds--maybe the foremost seed--of this awakening. It is incredible.

Also, Lou Engle is resurrecting The Call this year in Nashville, TN, on 07/07/07. This was not an arbitrary date--God gave it to Lou. I heard a prophet in September 2006, who knew nothing about Lou's plans, prophesy to him that 07/07/07 is an important day to God and that God was speaking to him about an important event on that date. The Lord went on to say He was lowering a scepter into the earth on that day.

As I set myself to seek the Lord concerning this date and study Baal because of the warfare I was experiencing, the two issues began to dovetail. I found the number "seven" in most of the passages where Israel was coming out from under this spirit or warring against one of the Canaanite and Baal worshiping tribes. In seeking to understand the significance of this, the Lord reminded me that seven is a covenantal number.

In a covenant ceremony, an offering was repeated seven times or an oath was sworn seven times. The words "oath" and "swear" actually come from the number seven and mean literally "to seven one's self." I believe the Lord revealed to me that on 07/07/07, God is offering America the opportunity to end our covenant/marriage with Baal and re-establish our covenant with God as a nation. I am not implying that the full fruit of this will be seen immediately but that the stronghold can be broken and change will follow. Pray for Lou Engle and this event and if at all possible, be in Nashville with us on 07/07/07. Go to The Call's web site: www.thecall.com for details. We are asking for 100,000 people to come.

Pray concerning this great youth awakening in general. It will be historical, breaking all records. God is on a mission! He won't be stopped. Nothing is more important to Him at this time.

Prayer Point 3: Government

1) Begin now to pray for the elections of '08. Just when it seems the stakes can't get higher, they do. There are some of the frontrunners running for president who, if they were to win, it would set America back 40 years. We are now coming to the end of a 40-year wilderness cycle that began in the 60's. We cannot afford another. Call forth the purposes of God in 2008.

2) Pray for a completion of what God has begun on the Supreme Court. I sense great lethargy and complacency concerning this at the present time. If we don't get a third "right" Justice onto the bench, we will not cross over into a new season. Winning this war is imperative! Please pick up this assignment again.

3) Pray against terrorism and concerning the situation in the Middle East. It is absolute deception for us to believe radical Islam can be defeated through natural forces only. We must do a better job of picking up this burden. It is one of the callings of our time and a billion souls are hanging in the balance. I sense another shift is coming soon to this region. Please pray for our President, military, advisors, and all who are involved in this. Bind the prince of Persia and Babylon from prevailing.

Praise Report: The state of Virginia has become the first state (according to them) to formally apologize for the sin of slavery and for exploiting Native Americans (as stated at the top of this Elijah List newsletter). This is huge! And it is very timely for the nation as we celebrate the 400-year anniversary of our covenant with God at Plymouth Rock April 29th, of this year. On the 50-State Tour, the Holy Spirit called Virginia the "covenant root of the nation." Can you see how God is preparing the ground for us to re-establish our covenant with Him and break our alliance with Baal?

As you continue to war for your personal regions and territories, please don't forget the nation as a whole. Pray with us. We are winning this war.

Thank you for all you do!

Dutch Sheets
Dutch Sheets Ministries
http://www.dutchsheets.org
Email: ministryinfo@dutchsheets.org

 

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(8) The Awesome Argentina Revival

[Editor’s note: long but good]

 

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The Awesome Argentina Revival:

Lessons in Evangelism and Spiritual Warfare from Argentina

by Peter Wagner

edited by Chris Simpson and David Little

 

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ARGENTINA

One of the most successful models of urban evangelism that I have

recently been in contact with is taking place in Argentina. Throughout

the history of Protestant missions to Latin America, Argentina has

been one of the more resistant nations. With the exception of the

Tommy Hicks crusade and its aftermath in the early 1950s, the

evangelical movement in Argentina has been pretty lackadaisical.

 

But this changed dramatically with the Falkland Islands war in 1982

when Argentina tried unsuccessfully to occupy the Malvinas Islands, as

they call them. The British victory caused a radical change in

Argentine social psychology. National pride, for which Argentines were

internationally notorious, was severely damaged. The church had failed

them, the military had failed them, Peronism had failed them - they

were ready to try something new.

 

The fact of the matter is that well before 1982 the basis for

Argentine pride had severely eroded. Once the world's tenth strongest

economic power and boasting a standard of life higher than that of

southern Europe. Argentina was the jewel of South America, peaking

during the reign of Juan Domingo Peron and his followers through the

1950s and 1960s. As his influence waned in the early 1970s, Peron

linked up with a powerful occult practitioner, Jose Lopez Rega, known

popularly as "el brujo" (the warlock). Lopez Rega served under Peron

as social welfare minister, and after Peron's death in 1974 became the

chief advisor to his wife, Isabel Peron, during her two years as

president. He erected a public monument to witchcraft (since

dismantled), and is said by many to have publicly cursed the nation

when he lost power with the military coup of 1976.

 

Spiritism, principally from Brazil, began to flood the nation. Under

the military rulers 8,000 political suspects "disappeared" forever,

the bodies of many recently being uncovered in mass graves. Once the

tenth strongest economic power, Argentina now finds itself tenth from

the bottom by some measurements. Little wonder the nation is ripe for

the gospel message. True, in such a spiritual vacuum, any change is

seen by many as a change for the better. The power of witchcraft

continues to escalate. False cults such as Mormonism are experiencing

rapid growth. A huge ornate Mormom temple dominates the highway

leading from the Ezeiza airport to Buenos Aires. But with all this,

the power of God is being manifested in extraordinary ways.

 

Hector Gimenez

The largest church is downtown Buenos Aires is pastored by Hector

Gimenez, 33, an ex-drug addict and gunfighter. He started the church

in 1983 and now leads a congregation of some 70,000. The official name

of the church is The Miracles of Jesus Renewed Christian Church, but

it more popularly carries the name of Gimenez's radio broadcast,

"Waves of Love and Peace." Their church home is a 2,500 seat theater

in which they hold eight services daily, seven days of the week.

Gimenez himself preaches five services per day, a total of 35

different sermons per week. A study by a Polish sociologist estimates

the attendance at 14,000 daily. I had the privilege of preaching to a

packed house at the 8:00 p.m. service on a Tuesday night in April

1990, and saw more than a dozen profess salvation and fifty profess

miraculous healing, numbers totally disproportionate to the usual

results of my speaking. When we left just before 10:30 p.m., a new

crowd had totally jammed the space between the theater door and the

street, waiting to get in for the next service!

 

Gimenez told me that a couple of weeks previously on Easter Sunday,

they had rented the largest enclosed auditorium in the city, Luna

Park, which seats 15,000. They needed three services to accommodate

the 35,000 worshipers, and they baptized 3,200 by immersion in

portable pools. Whether they set an intentional goal to exceed the

number baptized in Jerusalem on Pentecost Gimenez did not say.

 

Spiritual Warfare

What is the secret behind such effective ministry among the urban

masses? The answers to such a question must not be oversimplified. All

church growth is a complex interweaving of sets of contextual factors,

institutional factors and spiritual factors. Much of what is happening

in Argentina can be explained by well-known contextual and

institutional church growth principles. I do not believe, however,

that they can adequately account for the sheer magnitude of the

phenomena I am describing. My personal conclusion is that spiritual

factors, particularly power evangelism and spiritual warfare, are

paramount.

 

I agree with Larry Lea who says, "The devil's work is to blind the

minds of men and women. It is our work to pray that the powers of

darkness be pushed back from shrouding people's minds." Powerful

intercessory prayer is the chief weapon of spiritual warfare on all

levels. For instance, backstage in Hector Gimenez's service I saw

three women interceding on their knees on the hardwood floor

throughout the entire two-hour service. I was told there are usually

more. I doubt that Gimenez would see the spiritual power he enjoys

without these intercessors. Larry Lea adds, "Until we do the prayer

work necessary to defeat the forces of the enemy holding people in

darkness, Satan's blinders will remain."

 

One of today's most knowledgeable Argentine leaders is Edgardo Silvoso

of Harvest Evangelism based in San Jose, California. Silvoso did a

workshop at Lausanne II in Manila in 1989 on spiritual warfare in

Argentina. There he said, "If there is one dominant element that has

emerged in the theology and methodology of evangelism in Argentina, I

would say it is spiritual warfare. It is an awareness that the

struggle is not against a political or a social system. Nor is it on

behalf of those who are captives, but it is rather against the jail

keepers, against the rulers, those in authority in the spiritual

realm." Silvoso contends that understanding this allows Argentine

evangelists to get to the root of the problem instead of dealing

merely with symptoms. He suggests that the results seem to validate

this approach.

 

Eduardo Lorenzo

The national director of Harvest Evangelism in Argentina is Eduardo

Lorenzo, who also serves as pastor of the Adrogue Baptist Church. When

I visited Adrogue, an upper-middle-class section of Buenos Aires, I

saw a thriving church of 600, a new auditorium with seating expandable

to 2,000 and a goal of filling it with church members by 1993. This is

not a new church. It has been there for over 70 years, but never had

more than 100 members until recently. When Lorenzo took the pastorate

in 1974 he saw it grow from 70 to 250 in thirteen years through using

standard church growth procedures. But in 1987 the current growth

surge began and Lorenzo says, "If we do not make 2,000 by 1993, it

will be because we are not trying."

 

What happened in 1987?

Lorenzo explains that it took them several years to get to the root of

the problem and to come to understand the spiritual dimensions of

their evangelistic challenge. The process began in the early 1980s

when Lorenzo cast a demon out of a woman without really understanding

what he was doing. His training and background had not prepared him

for such a ministry. At that time one of his church members went to

the United States, learned about spiritual warfare and reported to the

congregation. Lorenzo then sponsored two spiritual warfare seminars in

his church, one led by Edward Murphy of Overseas Crusades and the

other by John White, the Christian psychiatrist and author from

Canada. Soon afterwards, the battle began in earnest. A new woman who

professed Christ was soon discovered to be an undercover agent sent by

the enemy. Demons manifested in church services. Satan was

counterattacking. Lorenzo says "Satan was happy if he could keep the

little Baptist church on its merry-go-round. He had effectively

blinded the minds of the unsaved in Adrogue to the gospel. Through the

years several other churches had been planted in Adrogue, but ours was

the only one which had survived. Now we ourselves were under direct

attack."

 

Through a prolonged process of prayer, ministry and discernment,

Lorenzo and his leaders finally identified the chief prince over

Adrogue. Sensing God's timing, they recruited a team of 35 to 40

church members who would spend Monday through Friday of a certain week

in prayer and fasting. Then on the Friday night all 200 members joined

together for strategic-level intercession. They took authority over

the territorial spirit. At 11:45 p.m. they collectively felt something

break in the spiritual realm. The spirit had left. The church began to

grow. Until then virtually no one who resided in Adrogue itself had

ever been converted. Now 40 percent of the church members are from

Adrogue proper. The year of the victory was 1987.

 

Carlos Annacondia

After observing the ministry of Carlos Annacondia for several years, I

am prepared to offer a hypothesis: Annacondia may well be the most

effective citywide interdenominational crusade evangelist of all time.

If this turns out to be only approximately true, his approach to

winning the masses of the cities to Christ deserves close scrutiny.

 

Annacondia was the committed Christian owner of a prosperous nuts and

bolts factory in Quilmes on the outskirts of Buenos Aires when he was

called into evangelistic ministry. It was probably no mere coincidence

that the day he launched his first public crusade was the day the

British sunk the Argentine battleship General Belgrano in the 1982

Falkland Islands war. He was 37 years old at the time.

 

When I use the term "effective evangelism" I follow the lead of Donald

McGavran and the Church Growth Movement in arguing that biblical

evangelism involves bringing unbelievers to a simultaneous commitment

to Christ and also to the body of Christ. Making disciples involves

bringing men and women to faith in Jesus and into responsible

membership in a local church. Carlos Annacondia is highly successful

in seeing this happen. On a recent visit to Argentina I worked with

pastors of four cities. Without any leading questions on my part, in

each of the four cities I heard Christian leaders in a matter-of-fact

way refer to recent trends in their cities as "before Annacondia" and

"after Annacondia". In more than 20 years of studying urban crusade

evangelism I have never heard such consistent testimonials of one

evangelist across the board. Single instances of effective

evangelistic crusades such as Tommy Hicks in Buenos Aires and Stanley

Mooneyham in Phnom Penh have been recorded. But Annacondia's ministry

seems to be unique.

 

Several pastors showed me new sanctuaries they had constructed to

contain the growth after Annacondia's crusade in their city. One

showed me a basketball stadium they had been leasing for six years.

Another church now holds 17 services a week in five rented theaters.

Another pastor reports "a notable change of attitude among the people

of our city as a result of Annacondia's ministry."

 

What Is Different?

What is Carlos Annacondia doing that other urban evangelists do not

usually do? Annacondia has a great deal in common with traditional

crusade evangelists. He preaches a simple gospel message, gives an

invitation for people to come forward and receive Christ as their Lord

and Savior, uses trained counselors to lead them to Christ and give

them literature, takes their name and address and invites them to

attend a local church.

 

Like Billy Graham and Luis Palau, Annacondia secures a broad base of

interdenominational support from pastors and other Christian leaders

in the target area. Like Dwight Moody and Billy Sunday he has had no

formal academic theological training. Like Reinhard Bonnke and T. L.

Osborne he features miracles, healings and deliverance from evil

spirits in his meetings. He is not the only one who preaches in the

open air, conducts three-hour services, or has on-the-spot

intercessors praying for the ministry.

 

If I am not mistaken, the major difference is Carlos Annacondia's

intentional, premeditated, high-energy approach to spiritual warfare.

 

A permanent fixture of Annacondia's crusades is what has to be one of

the most sophisticated and massive deliverance ministries anywhere.

Under the direction of Pablo Botari, a wise, mature and gifted servant

of God, literally hundreds of individuals are delivered from demons

each of the 30 to 50 consecutive nights of a crusade. The 150-foot

deliverance tent, erected behind the peaker's platform, is in

operation from 8:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. each night. Scores of teams whom

Botari has trained do the actual hands-on ministry.

 

I have never observed a crusade evangelist who is as publicly

aggressive in confronting evil spirits as Annacondia. With a high-

volume, high-energy, prolonged challenge he actually taunts the

spirits until they manifest in one way or another. To the uninitiated

the scenario might appear to be total confusion. But to the skilled,

experienced members of Annacondia's 31 crusade ministry teams, it is

just another evening of power encounters in which the power of Jesus

Christ over demonic forces is being displayed for all to see. Many

miraculous healings occur, souls are saved, and so great is the

spiritual power that unsuspecting pedestrians passing by the crusade

meeting have been known to fall down under the power of the Holy

Spirit.

 

Pablo Prokopchuk

A typical Annacondia crusade will have a radical influence on the

philosophy of ministry of many cooperating local churches. A case in

point is Pastor Pablo Prokopchuk of the Los Olivos Baptist Church in

the city of La Plata. He told me that his church had been plateaued at

30 members for years before Annacondia came. After Annacondia left,

his church persuaded him to hold a local church evangelistic crusade.

"I don't have the gift of evangelist," he protested. The lay leaders

responded, "You preach and we will pray that God gives you the gift of

evangelist!"

 

They held their first service, gave the invitation, and no one

responded. Then Prokopchuk felt an inner voice saying, "Try it the way

Annacondia does it!" Although it was not part of his Baptist

tradition, he began challenging the spirits and praying against them.

He gave the invitation again, and 15 to 20 people actually ran up

front to receive Christ. He now has 900 in his central church with

2,100 others attending satellite congregations around the city, and

his goal is a total of 20,000 members by the year 2000. He has been

"doing it like Annacondia" ever since with obvious results.

 

Winning the Urban Masses

Among the many things we have learned from our evangelical

urbanologists is that the masses of people living in the world class

cities today belong to the lower social classes: the poor and

oppressed. While it is extremely important not to neglect the upper

classes and to encourage ministries such as Eduardo Lorenzo's in

Androgue, the fact remains that if we do not win the poorer masses to

Christ we will not effectively evangelize the cities of the world. The

5,000 to 20,000 who crowd into Annacondia's crusades night after night

are lower class. The 14,000 per day who attend Hector Gimenez's

services in the Roca Theater are lower class. Omar Cabrera, pastor of

the Vision of the Future Church of 90,000 which is Argentina's

largest, uses aggressive spiritual warfare in his own style and it

filling his meeting places in 40-50 locations with those of the lower

class.

 

What are people like Annacondia, Gimenez and Cabrera doing that others

with perhaps an equal desire to reach the urban masses are not doing?

Spiritual warfare is part of the answer, but why are power evangelism

and spiritual warfare so effective?

 

The most helpful analysis I have yet seem to explain something of what

is behind this has come from my friend Peter Wilkes, pastor of the

South Hills Community Church of San Jose, California. As I traveled

through Argentina with Wilkes recently, I saw him using a set of

scientific skills acquired through a Ph.D. in physics, his vocation

before being called into full-time ministry. His analysis of the

evangelistic effectiveness of the high-profile Argentine leaders has

now been conceptualized in what I am calling (he would be too modest

to coin the term) the "Wilkes Spectrum." It amounts to a sliding scale

of class preferences for Christian values. One the extremes we find a

fascinating and immediately recognizable contrast between personal and

Christian preferences of the upper class and lower class. Most

individuals, of course, are on neither extreme, buy many will profile

toward one side or the other.

 

THE WILKES SPECTRUM

Class Preferences for Christian Values

Personal Preferences

 

Intellectual - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Intuitional

Rational - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Emotional

Scientific - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Experiential

Deductive reasoning - - - - - - - - - -Inductive reasoning

Literacy essential - - - - - - - - - - - - - Literacy optional

You control life - - - - - - - - - - - - - Life controls you

 

Christian Preferences

 

Faith complex - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Faith simple

Conversion gentle - - - - - - Conversion confrontational

Holiness gradual - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Holiness sudden

Biblical criticism - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Biblical literalism

Systematic theology - - - - - - - - - -Pragmatic theology

Relative ethics - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Absolute ethics

Preaching based on study - - Preaching based on prayer

Weak demonology - - - - - - - - - - -Strong demonology

 

Notice four important observations concerning the application of the

Wilkes Spectrum to urban evangelism:

 

1. From the point of view of personal and Christian preferences, the

middle class in the First World would shade toward the left, but the

middle class in the Third World would shade toward the right. This is

obviously a function of world view, among other things.

 

2. If there is a trend worldwide, it would seem to be a movement

toward the right side of the spectrum. Ironically, both the

charismatic movement and the New Age Movement are nudging significant

numbers of former left-side people toward the right. Scientism may

have seen its day.

 

3. The masses of the ties of the world, whether Chicago, Calcutta,

Cairo or Caracas are found toward the right side of the Wilkes

Spectrum. Effective Argentine evangelists such as Annacondia, Gimenez

and Cabrera are skillfully contextualizing their message and

methodology to communicate with and meet the needs of the lower

classes. One of their discoveries, which less successful urban

ministers would do well to look into, is the efficacy of power

evangelism and spiritual warfare for that particular audience.

 

4. I hesitate to mention this, but it is a worrisome fact that most of

our theological training institutions in the Western world, and many

in the non-Western world, talk a great deal about ministering to the

poor and oppressed of the world's urban centers in their social ethics

classes, but they have recruited faculty and designed their curricula

to train for ministry toward the left side of the Wilkes Spectrum.

This may be one of the explanations why a surprising number of the

urban metachurch pastors in world class cities are without theological

degrees while many with theological credentials are frustrated. I

believe that the great days for urban evangelism are yet ahead.

 

God is helping us understand the nature of the city through our

urbanologists. He is providing us with practitioners who are

demonstrating that it can be done. He is helping us understand some of

the reasons we have not been as effective as we would like to be. My

prayer is that we will combine the theoretical with the practical, the

technological with the spiritual, in such a way that city after city

in our world will be brought to faith and obedience under the Lordship