Praying For God To Call Out Intercessors For Our Nation

[DarthVader]

They weren't praying for particular candidates or political parties. Instead they were praying for the person of righteousness, the person of God's choosing, to be elected in every elected office........"

Praying For God To Call Out Intercessors For Our Nation

Praying for the Upcoming Election

Patrick Joshua is the Director of the National Prayer Network and a father figure to the prayer movement in India. Because of a special burden for our nation, he visited the United States twice in recent months. Patrick believes the U.S. is at a very critical time in history, the impact of which will be felt around the world.

During his visits, Patrick told the story of God's intervention in India in 2004, in response to the fervent, united prayers of His people. At that time, political forces had mobilized with the intention of turning their nation in a direction that would make it almost impossible for Christians to share or practice their faith. Those forces had the momentum and the numbers as the Christian population in India is a minority, by some estimates representing only 6% of the 1.1 billion people in the nation.

The situation was desperate. Many thought it was impossible. So they turned to the God of the impossible and began to pray. In cities and states across their nation, a movement of united, fervent prayer arose, but with a unique focus. They weren't praying for particular candidates or political parties. Instead they were praying for the person of righteousness, the person of God's choosing, to be elected in every elected office.

Right up until the day of the election every poll and pundit predicted the election would be a landslide for those who were opposed to the gospel. When the votes were counted, however, the results revealed a different story. In district after district those candidates and political allies who opposed the gospel had been soundly defeated. At a national level they were out of power. The press and the pundits were stunned. No one saw it coming.

So what happened? It seems God heard the cries of His people and touched the hearts of the voters as they went into the voting booths. Some believe a corporate conviction came upon the people and they voted for the person of righteous, the person of God's choosing. This was seen most dramatically in the states and regions where prayer was the most concentrated and fervent. In one of those states, laws that restricted the advance of the gospel were immediately repealed.

This is a very hopeful report about what God did in the elections in India. While our situation is different, we are at a critical crossroad. He can do this in our nation too if we will PRAY!

For the next three weeks we will be praying for righteous men to rule righteously in our nation, starting with this prayer for God to wake up his people to pray. I bless you to let God wake up the intercessor in you.

Hear God's Word. I have posted watchmen on Your walls, O Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, Give yourselves no rest, and give Him no rest till He establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth. Isaiah 62:6-7

Our Father, our Lord, bless intercessors who have stood as watchmen at their posts unseen and unsung in the hidden work of prayer. You appointed and anointed them by Your Spirit of grace and supplication for the authority they have wielded in standing in the gap between Your holy hand and the judgment that the sins of our nation deserve. Strengthen the hands of these intercessors with patient endurance and with Aarons and Hurs to come alongside (Exo. 17:10- 13).

Release and reappoint those who have been discouraged, distracted, or disillusioned by inordinate attacks on their body, soul, or spirit, or on their families or finances. Come, our Helper Holy Spirit, to the praying ones who have been robbed and beaten up. Pour the oil of Your Spirit on these wounded soldiers, take them up, and restore them to wholeness and health and to their gifting and calling in intercession.

Awake new intercessors in Your church that have been disinterested and lazy. Let us receive new mantles of intercession and hear Your appointment to our posts in prayer. By the Spirit of Christ Jesus, who ever lives to intercede, impregnate the hearts of every believer with the Spirit of prayer as simple obedience to the commands of God's Word to pray without ceasing and to pray for those in authority. Appoint new intercessors and birth in them a holy desperation for prayer until we see You answer and You show us great and mighty things we have never seen.

Raise up intercessors who will ...

Respond to Your call in humility and holiness.

Respond to Your call to pray in the fear of the Lord.

Pray with grateful hearts of thanksgiving with their eyes on You.

Petition the God of the Impossible.

Pray with You, not just to You, "Your Kingdom come, Your will be done.

Ask our Father, our King, to have mercy and redeem and show us Your glory in the sight of all nations.

Let this be a trumpet call, as Nehemiah said, "The work is extensive and spread out. Whenever you hear the sound of the trumpet, join us there. Our God will fight for us. Remember the Lord who is great and awesome" (Neh: 4:17,20).

Holy Spirit, touch Your church.

Turn our hearts to You.

Stir our hearts to pray as never before.

Show us Your glory.

[Salvation]

Forty Days for Life Prayer Vigil, September 24 through November 2

[Salvation]

I do believe we are witnessing the fruits of Pope Benedict's meeting with them earlier this year. Following Vespers, he addressed all the bishops.

"Is it consistent to profess our beliefs in church on Sunday, and then during the week to promote business practices or medical procedures contrary to those beliefs? Is it consistent for practicing Catholics to ignore or exploit the poor and the marginalized, to promote sexual behavior contrary to Catholic moral teaching, or to adopt positions that contradict the right to life of every human being from conception to natural death? Any tendency to treat religion as a private matter must be resisted. Only when their faith permeates every aspect of their lives do Christians become truly open to the transforming power of the Gospel. "
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[mware]

I'm in.

I spoke to my priest during confession Saturday, about my anger in that none of the candidates were addressing the life issue.

He told me to fast and pray that our nation be spared the nightmare he feared may be coming.

When I got home from mass today one of the first threads I saw here was of a speech Sarah had given on Life.

[shield]

There are large groups of intercessors fasting and praying and will do that until this election. It is a 40 day fast and prayer. They were all called by The Lord to do this. It’s been going on for quite some time now. They are praying for McCain/Palin to be elected...they are the ones The Lord has called not BHO. So I’d say let’s get real here.

[pollywog]

Thank you for this post!!!!!!
I am in tears!!
Our NATION must come back to God!
I am committed to calling out to God over the next few weeks before the election.
God’s Soverign Will be done, and it will. Reading the Old Testament this year has been a eye opener at God’s dealing with wayward children!

Polly

[pollywog]

OH that prayer guide looks great!
Thank you

[pollywog]

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/a/b/abidewme.htm

AMEN....OH Lord I cry out to you right now with these my brothers and sisters.
We have turned so far from You. Our hearts have been given to material gods; to folly. We stand in our sinfulness and cry out , Father God have mercy on us. We repent of our sin and fall prostrate before You. In wrath , remember mercy Lord.

Our Country is in peril. Don’t forsake us Lord as a nation. There are a reminant still here who love You and want this land to remain a Free and God fearing Land.
Restore to us Lord, honor and decency.

Help those who call on Your Name to repent of their sinful ways and return again to Your Lordship.

Father God, we need a miracle of Your Divine Grace over the next few weeks in our beloved land. We are looking to YOU , the LIVING TRUE GOD to deliver us from the evil that is coming down against us.

Help us to hold YOUR BANNER HIGH and STAND STILL and see “ your salvation”.

In the HOLY and RIGHTOUS Name of Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior, may it be.

Amen

[pollywog]

He told me to fast and pray that our nation be spared the nightmare he feared may be coming.

AMEN AND AMEN...

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Amen! Thank you.

Praying continues in earnest.

[Republic]

Thank you for this post. I will be praying and appreciate the marvelous guidelines for prayer in your post.

[xJones]

Bump to a most necessary thread. Does anyone remember the presidential election of 1980? Carter was leading in the polls through mid-October. The MSM was vilifying Reagan as a dummy B-rate Hollywood actor, a right-wing Goldwaterite, a warmonger, and every other slander that they could throw at him. But he won in a landslide that Nov. 2, and went on to be one of our greatest presidents.

McCain is no Reagan, but he's no Obama also. Christians were praying so hard for Reagan back in 1980 and a miracle happened. The MSM was trying to bury Reagan the way Goldwater was buried and we received 4 years of LBJ afterwards. Let's pray that God spares America and intervenes in this most crucial election.

[MarinaSC]

Dear Darth,

If you believe in the power of prayer and know the Lord’s heart to see His people gathered in Spirit to pray...I want to extend to you an invitation.

My name is Marina Silva Croome. I’m part of the organization of the 8th Celebration and Intercession Night for America, where, during the whole night of October 31st the body of Christ all around our continent will come together in Spirit to pray for restoration and revival.

The event’s vision is to raise worship and intercession altars in every country of the American continent, joined in Spirit, to call upon His name. We believe the promise of the Lord in 2 Chro 7:14 that says that if His people will humble themselves and pray and seek His face and turn from their wicked ways, He will hear us from heaven and will forgive our sin and will heal our land.

It does not matter whether we are thousands gathered in a stadium or just a bunch kneeled in a room in each country… because God is calling those who are willing to humble themselves before Him....and He is looking for His people in every country of our continent!

If you feel the Lord’s call to be part of this event, get in touch with me as soon as possible and I will give you more information.

May God take you deeper in His love

Marina Silva Croome
Buenos Aires, Argentina

[truthandlife]

BTTT

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Send me information, please. Thank you.