FACEDOWN 40 Day 6
With Loud Crying and Tears
Written by Francis Frangipane
Monday, 06 March 2006
Meditation:
“Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried” (Isa 53:4).
Reflection:
Some of us are too quiet in our prayer times. Face down does not mean quiet. I know there is a time for silent prayer, but it shouldn’t be the norm. As Christians we must let ourselves feel the agony of the world around us. While our faith should never be based upon feelings, our capacity to empathize with another’s loss or pain, should be fully alive in us and compelling.
Satan wants us muted. He desires (that) our prayers degrade into quiet muttering, as though we are ashamed of saying out loud what is going on inside. Our needs demand, at times, we have volume and substance in our prayer. Scripture says of Jesus that, “In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety” (Heb 5:7).
Some say this verse refers to Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane, a one time experience. I disagree. The thought is introduced with the phrase, “In the days of His flesh.” The word days is plural. It indicates that there were actual times when, as the situation warranted, that Jesus prayed with “loud crying and tears.” My point is, Jesus felt deeply what He was praying about. His whole being was in His prayer, even expressing His burden with both loud crying and tears.
Our Master also felt the sorrow of His friends. He wept at the tomb of His friend, Lazarus. Yes, He knew He was about to raise Lazarus, but He felt the heartache (not the unbelief) of Lazarus’ friends and their sorrow seized His heart.
Even as Christ can be touched with the feeling of our infirmities, we must allow ourselves this same empathy toward human suffering and injustice. Thousands are dying because of wars, starvation and disease; multitudes are homeless and in abject poverty. Infants are pulled apart in the womb before their lungs have taken a single breath. Sin and rebellion to God are rampant. We are blessed if we mourn over these things.
Granted, we cannot be ruled by our feelings, but they can help compel us toward heaven. As we pray, let the pain of those who cannot cry fill our hearts. Let us lift our voices in prayer, even with loud crying and tears as we approach Him who is able to save from death.
Prayer:
Lord Jesus, moved with compassion You healed the multitudes. You extended Yourself, feeling the heartache of the world around You, Your whole life was consecrated as an act of intercession. Master give us a vision of Your love. Our world is wrought with pain and beyond our ability to ease it. Expand our heart as we cry to You. Father enlarge our soul, so that we pray with the very intercessions of Your Son, Jesus. Let our voice be full of reality as we pray. In Jesus’ name.
Monday, March 06, 2006
Sunday, March 05, 2006
FACEDOWN 40 Day 5
Stigma of the Anointing
Written by Mike Bickle
Sunday, 05 March 2006
Meditation:
Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face. I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's children; because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me. When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that became my reproach. I also made sackcloth my garment; I became a byword to them. Those who sit in the gate speak against me… (Ps. 69:7-12)
Reflection:
This 40-day fast carries with it a very real sort of reproach. Those participating wholeheartedly will undoubtedly encounter resistance at some level. Other believers who do not feel compelled to join in may look at it with disdain, calling it too radical or out of the norm for their tastes. Likewise, in our culture of relativism and tolerance, taking a stand against the spread of Islam carries with it a very different sort of reproach. To not expect to feel that reproach is to go into battle unprepared.
For years I have referred to the “stigma of the anointing” – the resistance that one encounters when they are on the cutting edge of something that is God-ordained. Spiritual violence is not something that comes without paying a price.
Let me encourage you - do not wait until it becomes popular to seek God with spiritual violence. It will never be popular. It’s better and ultimately easier to learn to be among the first to take a stand for righteousness. Likewise, don’t expect it to suddenly get easier when a breakthrough comes. Those are the times that the enemy turns up the heat and we often face more scorn than we did before.
We must take a stand and bear the reproach before and after the breakthrough of God. Know that you are not standing alone.
Prayer:
Jesus, it is the longing of my heart to bear the reproach of Christ and to not only share Your joys but also Your sufferings in this life. To embrace Your sufferings I ask that You strengthen my heart with grace in my inner man, for You alone within me can enable me to live Your life.
Stigma of the Anointing
Written by Mike Bickle
Sunday, 05 March 2006
Meditation:
Because for Your sake I have borne reproach; shame has covered my face. I have become a stranger to my brothers, and an alien to my mother's children; because zeal for Your house has eaten me up, and the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me. When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that became my reproach. I also made sackcloth my garment; I became a byword to them. Those who sit in the gate speak against me… (Ps. 69:7-12)
Reflection:
This 40-day fast carries with it a very real sort of reproach. Those participating wholeheartedly will undoubtedly encounter resistance at some level. Other believers who do not feel compelled to join in may look at it with disdain, calling it too radical or out of the norm for their tastes. Likewise, in our culture of relativism and tolerance, taking a stand against the spread of Islam carries with it a very different sort of reproach. To not expect to feel that reproach is to go into battle unprepared.
For years I have referred to the “stigma of the anointing” – the resistance that one encounters when they are on the cutting edge of something that is God-ordained. Spiritual violence is not something that comes without paying a price.
Let me encourage you - do not wait until it becomes popular to seek God with spiritual violence. It will never be popular. It’s better and ultimately easier to learn to be among the first to take a stand for righteousness. Likewise, don’t expect it to suddenly get easier when a breakthrough comes. Those are the times that the enemy turns up the heat and we often face more scorn than we did before.
We must take a stand and bear the reproach before and after the breakthrough of God. Know that you are not standing alone.
Prayer:
Jesus, it is the longing of my heart to bear the reproach of Christ and to not only share Your joys but also Your sufferings in this life. To embrace Your sufferings I ask that You strengthen my heart with grace in my inner man, for You alone within me can enable me to live Your life.
Saturday, March 04, 2006
FACEDOWN 40 Day 4
O Man! Greatly Beloved!
Written by Lou Engle
Saturday, 04 March 2006
Meditation:
“Suddenly, a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands. And he said to me, "O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you." While he was speaking this word to me, I stood trembling.” – Daniel 10:10-11
Reflection:
On the first day that Daniel set his face to fasting and prayer, God immediately dispatched his answer, but a demonic forced hindered that answer for 21 days. Here, for one of the first times in Scripture, we see a new element brought into the picture about the abilities of the powers of darkness to hinder the will of God. Some make claims that fasting does not change God, but that it only changes us. This is not the case in the book of Daniel. The very first day that the prophet Daniel sets his face to fasting, God sent His answer. In this case in Scripture, the fast needed to be sustained for the answer of heaven to find its breakthrough. How many times have we said that such-and-such is the will of God and stopped pressing in for the breakthrough? Could it be that that such-and-such was not the will of God, but because we did not sustain our fasting and prayer, the powers of darkness were not bound?
Consider the following dream given to me by a fifteen year-old in our community:
I believe that the voice of the Church must pierce the sound barrier and resound more loudly in the heavens than the sound of the prayers of the Muslims. Of course it is not a matter of loudness, but power, passion and intensity and I believe that the young woman named April in the dream was not about a person, but the month of April where our prayers will crescendo with “lasting fasting.” For nearly two thousand years, Muslims around the world have been praying five times a day to their god and corporately fasting during Ramadan. The sound of prayer in the Church must be released into the heavens in this critical moment of history and we must not stop until the powers of darkness can no longer resist the breakthrough.
Prayer:
God of the nations, give your Church spiritual vision and perspective for the war that rages on the earth and in the heavens. Give to us a spirit of wisdom and revelation that will sustain us in our intercession. Give us perseverance like Daniel to pray until we hear the sound of the archangel saying, “O Daniel, man greatly beloved. Because of your prayers I now remain alone besides the King of Persia, victorious as on a field of battle.” Lord, sustain us as we pray for the kingdom to come in Iraq, for the violence to end, for the Shalom of heaven, and for rest on that land. Father, bring a shift in the war in Iraq so miraculous that it affects the future destiny of America and the upcoming elections. In Jesus’ name, Amen!
O Man! Greatly Beloved!
Written by Lou Engle
Saturday, 04 March 2006
Meditation:
“Suddenly, a hand touched me, which made me tremble on my knees and on the palms of my hands. And he said to me, "O Daniel, man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for I have now been sent to you." While he was speaking this word to me, I stood trembling.” – Daniel 10:10-11
Reflection:
On the first day that Daniel set his face to fasting and prayer, God immediately dispatched his answer, but a demonic forced hindered that answer for 21 days. Here, for one of the first times in Scripture, we see a new element brought into the picture about the abilities of the powers of darkness to hinder the will of God. Some make claims that fasting does not change God, but that it only changes us. This is not the case in the book of Daniel. The very first day that the prophet Daniel sets his face to fasting, God sent His answer. In this case in Scripture, the fast needed to be sustained for the answer of heaven to find its breakthrough. How many times have we said that such-and-such is the will of God and stopped pressing in for the breakthrough? Could it be that that such-and-such was not the will of God, but because we did not sustain our fasting and prayer, the powers of darkness were not bound?
Consider the following dream given to me by a fifteen year-old in our community:
"The Cause was gathered together in a restaurant-type place with many other
groups gathered there who were murmuring in foreign languages. Many Middle
Eastern countries were represented there. Their mumblings began to grow and
grew louder than our prayer. [Another young person in our community] spoke
out and asked, “Is America in the lead?” (In the dream, it was clear that
this person was essentially asking, “Are we winning, through prayer, for America?). But we knew that we were not yet winning in this battle and the pagan prayer grew yet louder. We knew that to get in the lead we had to pray in the Spirit more loudly
and more clearly. At that point, a young woman named April was pacing back and
forth in intercession and she was praying very loudly and clearly in the Spirit. A few of her words came forth in English and she said, “LOU! LASTING FASTING!”
I believe that the voice of the Church must pierce the sound barrier and resound more loudly in the heavens than the sound of the prayers of the Muslims. Of course it is not a matter of loudness, but power, passion and intensity and I believe that the young woman named April in the dream was not about a person, but the month of April where our prayers will crescendo with “lasting fasting.” For nearly two thousand years, Muslims around the world have been praying five times a day to their god and corporately fasting during Ramadan. The sound of prayer in the Church must be released into the heavens in this critical moment of history and we must not stop until the powers of darkness can no longer resist the breakthrough.
Prayer:
God of the nations, give your Church spiritual vision and perspective for the war that rages on the earth and in the heavens. Give to us a spirit of wisdom and revelation that will sustain us in our intercession. Give us perseverance like Daniel to pray until we hear the sound of the archangel saying, “O Daniel, man greatly beloved. Because of your prayers I now remain alone besides the King of Persia, victorious as on a field of battle.” Lord, sustain us as we pray for the kingdom to come in Iraq, for the violence to end, for the Shalom of heaven, and for rest on that land. Father, bring a shift in the war in Iraq so miraculous that it affects the future destiny of America and the upcoming elections. In Jesus’ name, Amen!
Friday, March 03, 2006
FACEDOWN 40 Day 3
Fast From Judging
Written by Fracis Frangipane
Meditation:
"So speak and so act, as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment” (James 2:12-13).
Reflection:
In times of fasting and seeking God, there are a number of strategic access points with the Almighty. We should approach Him with worship and praise; we come in humility, bowing low in adoration. We can proclaim His word back to Him in faith, agreeing with His expressed purpose for earth as He has revealed in His word.
Likewise, there are many avenues of expression concerning fasting as well. There are partial fasts, fasts from food in general. We can also fast from sweets or “Daniel fasts,” which limit food intake to just vegetables. During times of fasting, people might find going without television or other forms of entertainment a suitable form of self-denial.
Yet let me encourage you add another type of fasting to this time: fast from judging people. One of the reasons we do not make more progress spiritually is because of innate attitudes of self-righteousness, which manifest as being judgmental. If we are humbling ourselves, let us remember, the act of judging another Christian is most often an act of religious pride. Every time we judge someone else, we ourselves are judged. We can’t blame the devil, for this is a battle that comes from our lack of love. What, then, shall we do with what we see? When we discern a sin or need in another, instead of judging that person, let us intercede for them instead. Anyone can judge, but it takes the nature of Christ to see the need and move in redemptive intercession for that individual.
Prayer:
Master, it was mercy that drew You from heaven to suffer and die for men on earth. Even when You judged us and spoke of our sin, it was not without the laying down of Your life for us. We would follow in Your footsteps. Deliver us from loveless judging. Create in us the vision to see men as they might become, once transformed by Your redemptive grace
Fast From Judging
Written by Fracis Frangipane
Meditation:
"So speak and so act, as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty. For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment” (James 2:12-13).
Reflection:
In times of fasting and seeking God, there are a number of strategic access points with the Almighty. We should approach Him with worship and praise; we come in humility, bowing low in adoration. We can proclaim His word back to Him in faith, agreeing with His expressed purpose for earth as He has revealed in His word.
Likewise, there are many avenues of expression concerning fasting as well. There are partial fasts, fasts from food in general. We can also fast from sweets or “Daniel fasts,” which limit food intake to just vegetables. During times of fasting, people might find going without television or other forms of entertainment a suitable form of self-denial.
Yet let me encourage you add another type of fasting to this time: fast from judging people. One of the reasons we do not make more progress spiritually is because of innate attitudes of self-righteousness, which manifest as being judgmental. If we are humbling ourselves, let us remember, the act of judging another Christian is most often an act of religious pride. Every time we judge someone else, we ourselves are judged. We can’t blame the devil, for this is a battle that comes from our lack of love. What, then, shall we do with what we see? When we discern a sin or need in another, instead of judging that person, let us intercede for them instead. Anyone can judge, but it takes the nature of Christ to see the need and move in redemptive intercession for that individual.
Prayer:
Master, it was mercy that drew You from heaven to suffer and die for men on earth. Even when You judged us and spoke of our sin, it was not without the laying down of Your life for us. We would follow in Your footsteps. Deliver us from loveless judging. Create in us the vision to see men as they might become, once transformed by Your redemptive grace
Thursday, March 02, 2006
FACEDOWN 40 Day 2
A Most Important Man
Written by Francis Frangipane
Meditation:
“First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority.” – 1 Timothy 2:1-8
Reflection:
This week, President Bush will be in Pakistan meeting with Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan. While we should be praying daily for President Bush, we should also pray for President Musharraf as well. Pakistan is a nation of 160,000,000 people, 97% of whom are Muslim. Within its Islamic culture are millions of jihadists, many of whom willing to die for Allah. Obviously, Pakistan needs a stable, even noble leader to keep its radical population in check. A revolt or absence of balanced authority in Pakistan’s leadership would be catastrophic. Why? Pakistan already has nuclear weapons. With a radicalized government in charge, they could use those weapons or give them to terror groups around the world!
In spite of threats from Islamic radicals, President Musharraf has been a courageous ally in the war against terrorism. His army has been responsible for killing or capturing hundreds of al-Qaeda fighters, many of whom were important leaders in the terror network. Musharraf himself has been miraculously protected from several bomb attempts on his life. Civil rights groups criticize Musharraf for not relinquishing his position as commander in chief of Pakistan’s armies and for not allowing national elections to select a challenger to his presidency. Yet, Musharraf has served his nation well, seeking to end Pakistan’s long conflict with India as well as reaching in peace toward Israel. Finally, President Musharraf is a moderate Muslim who is respectful toward Christianity. As a child, he actually attended Saint Patrick's High School in Karachi and graduated from Forman Christian College in Lahore. He is a man of extreme importance in the purposes of God and vital to the resolution of the crises of our times. I urge you, therefore, to stand before God in prayer for this man.
Prayer:
Lord God, even as You singled out a Gentile king name Cyrus and used him for Your purpose, so You have raised up Pervez Musharraf and made him president of Pakistan. Father, cover and protect this man. Grant him wisdom, dreams and visions from You, that he might know Your voice. Reveal to him if there are any traitors in his staff. We bind and resist every demonic attack against his life. We cover him in the blood of Jesus. Father, for the sake of the gospel, we ask that You use President Musharraf and, in Your divine mercy, reveal Your Son to him. In Jesus’ name. Amen!
Emergency Prayer For Pakistan
This country is ready to explode again. This time they are openly saying they want to overthrow President Musharraf and bring harm to President Bush. (Bush was scheduled to arrive in Pakistan on Friday. Now they are not saying when, but it probably will be tomorrow night or Saturday.) Strikes are called for tomorrow. All shops are to be closed; nothing on wheels is to move. People are panicky and scared.
The bomb blast near the US Consulate in Karachi was done to send a direct message to President Bush. Since my last writing more churches have been destroyed.
The issues of the cartoons is now only used to raise religious fervor. In a country where one has to be a Muslim, not to take part in demonstrations is seen as being against “god”. It is a vicious cycle taking place, even those who do not want to take part are often forced into doing what they do not want to do.
IT CANNOT FALL. IT WILL NOT FALL.
We must pray.We must unleash the hosts of heaven to fight this war.God calls us to stand in the Gap and PRAY.
PRAY FOR
“History belongs to the intercessors”. The Muslim world has gone through their time of Fasting. They look at this season of Lent before our big “Eid” (Easter), mocking and asking if we really fast and does our God hear us. Yes, God will hear! The Ruler of heaven and earth shall send forth His mighty warring angels and even Pakistan has experience an outpouring of the Holy Spirit!
A Most Important Man
Written by Francis Frangipane
Meditation:
“First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in authority.” – 1 Timothy 2:1-8
Reflection:
This week, President Bush will be in Pakistan meeting with Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan. While we should be praying daily for President Bush, we should also pray for President Musharraf as well. Pakistan is a nation of 160,000,000 people, 97% of whom are Muslim. Within its Islamic culture are millions of jihadists, many of whom willing to die for Allah. Obviously, Pakistan needs a stable, even noble leader to keep its radical population in check. A revolt or absence of balanced authority in Pakistan’s leadership would be catastrophic. Why? Pakistan already has nuclear weapons. With a radicalized government in charge, they could use those weapons or give them to terror groups around the world!
In spite of threats from Islamic radicals, President Musharraf has been a courageous ally in the war against terrorism. His army has been responsible for killing or capturing hundreds of al-Qaeda fighters, many of whom were important leaders in the terror network. Musharraf himself has been miraculously protected from several bomb attempts on his life. Civil rights groups criticize Musharraf for not relinquishing his position as commander in chief of Pakistan’s armies and for not allowing national elections to select a challenger to his presidency. Yet, Musharraf has served his nation well, seeking to end Pakistan’s long conflict with India as well as reaching in peace toward Israel. Finally, President Musharraf is a moderate Muslim who is respectful toward Christianity. As a child, he actually attended Saint Patrick's High School in Karachi and graduated from Forman Christian College in Lahore. He is a man of extreme importance in the purposes of God and vital to the resolution of the crises of our times. I urge you, therefore, to stand before God in prayer for this man.
Prayer:
Lord God, even as You singled out a Gentile king name Cyrus and used him for Your purpose, so You have raised up Pervez Musharraf and made him president of Pakistan. Father, cover and protect this man. Grant him wisdom, dreams and visions from You, that he might know Your voice. Reveal to him if there are any traitors in his staff. We bind and resist every demonic attack against his life. We cover him in the blood of Jesus. Father, for the sake of the gospel, we ask that You use President Musharraf and, in Your divine mercy, reveal Your Son to him. In Jesus’ name. Amen!
Emergency Prayer For Pakistan
This country is ready to explode again. This time they are openly saying they want to overthrow President Musharraf and bring harm to President Bush. (Bush was scheduled to arrive in Pakistan on Friday. Now they are not saying when, but it probably will be tomorrow night or Saturday.) Strikes are called for tomorrow. All shops are to be closed; nothing on wheels is to move. People are panicky and scared.
The bomb blast near the US Consulate in Karachi was done to send a direct message to President Bush. Since my last writing more churches have been destroyed.
The issues of the cartoons is now only used to raise religious fervor. In a country where one has to be a Muslim, not to take part in demonstrations is seen as being against “god”. It is a vicious cycle taking place, even those who do not want to take part are often forced into doing what they do not want to do.
IT CANNOT FALL. IT WILL NOT FALL.
We must pray.We must unleash the hosts of heaven to fight this war.God calls us to stand in the Gap and PRAY.
PRAY FOR
- confusion to strike the powers of darkness.
- President Musharraf. For wisdom.
- Enough police forces to contain this.
- President Bush. By his coming he could stir up enough opposition to make it difficult for Musharraf to stay in power.
“History belongs to the intercessors”. The Muslim world has gone through their time of Fasting. They look at this season of Lent before our big “Eid” (Easter), mocking and asking if we really fast and does our God hear us. Yes, God will hear! The Ruler of heaven and earth shall send forth His mighty warring angels and even Pakistan has experience an outpouring of the Holy Spirit!
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
FACEDOWN 40
Devotional Day 1
Written by Lou Engle
Jesus’ forty day fast prepared the way for His messianic shout, “The Kingdom is at hand!” The redemption of the world depended on Jesus’ abandonment to the Father as He fasted in the wilderness. Here was a focused man. Without failure, without faltering, He faced the strong man of the earth and bound him with His, “it is written.” Then from His facedown 40, He returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit.
This 40-day fast, being trumpeted across the nation, must take on the dimensions of do or die. Spiritual awakening is not an option in America! All hell is bent to squeeze the Church into its mold, and muffle its’ prayers that defy this present darkness.
The ongoing terrorism and blood letting going on in Iraq must be challenged by a mightier power than that which is being fueled by the fasting and prayers of millions of Muslims. The nuclear threats and spiritual devotion of the President and ayatollahs of Iran are the manifestations of the ancient spirit, the Prince of Persia, arising again threatening to destroy Israel and dominate the world.
One man, Daniel, fasting with total focus, no side issues, refusing to take no for an answer, was the deciding factor in the heavenly war between the Arch Angels of Heaven and the Prince of Persia. In like manner, the great prayer movement in the earth today is being called once again to this holy place of influence in the heavens, and a fasting 40 fad will not do it! We must be all out for this one!
Reflection:
Reese Howells and his praying band understood their place of intercession and its role in shaping history and withstood the spiritual powers that raged over Hitler and the Nazi regime. Listen to Howell’s journal as he challenges his holy band:
May 17th, 9:30 am
“You are more responsible for this victory today than those men on the battlefield. You must be dead to everything else, but this fight.”
1 pm
"Because you have committed yourselves, you are responsible. You will never have peace again until the world has peace, but you have a place in the cleft of the Rock,”
Friends, there is no peace in America, and there is no peace in the Middle East. Will God find His Reese Howells’ company again? I say yes and let it be now!
Prayer:
Oh God, Ruler of nations, Lord of history, we set our face to seek you with prayer and fasting. Find in us the spirit of your own Son, the great intercessor, who loved not his life unto death. Call forth thousands now, those who have found their place in the Rock, and out of that place are committed to war in the spirit for a great awakening in our universities, among our children, and in the cultural power centers of our nation. Arise oh God; contend with the spirit of Islam. Restrain the Prince of Persia. Loose Muslims by the thousands into the knowledge of the freedom of Christ Jesus. Protect and cover your people Israel until the day dawns and the Morning Star arises in their hearts. We pray for the sake of your Son, Jesus. Amen.
Devotional Day 1
Written by Lou Engle
Jesus’ forty day fast prepared the way for His messianic shout, “The Kingdom is at hand!” The redemption of the world depended on Jesus’ abandonment to the Father as He fasted in the wilderness. Here was a focused man. Without failure, without faltering, He faced the strong man of the earth and bound him with His, “it is written.” Then from His facedown 40, He returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit.
This 40-day fast, being trumpeted across the nation, must take on the dimensions of do or die. Spiritual awakening is not an option in America! All hell is bent to squeeze the Church into its mold, and muffle its’ prayers that defy this present darkness.
The ongoing terrorism and blood letting going on in Iraq must be challenged by a mightier power than that which is being fueled by the fasting and prayers of millions of Muslims. The nuclear threats and spiritual devotion of the President and ayatollahs of Iran are the manifestations of the ancient spirit, the Prince of Persia, arising again threatening to destroy Israel and dominate the world.
One man, Daniel, fasting with total focus, no side issues, refusing to take no for an answer, was the deciding factor in the heavenly war between the Arch Angels of Heaven and the Prince of Persia. In like manner, the great prayer movement in the earth today is being called once again to this holy place of influence in the heavens, and a fasting 40 fad will not do it! We must be all out for this one!
Reflection:
Reese Howells and his praying band understood their place of intercession and its role in shaping history and withstood the spiritual powers that raged over Hitler and the Nazi regime. Listen to Howell’s journal as he challenges his holy band:
May 17th, 9:30 am
“You are more responsible for this victory today than those men on the battlefield. You must be dead to everything else, but this fight.”
1 pm
"Because you have committed yourselves, you are responsible. You will never have peace again until the world has peace, but you have a place in the cleft of the Rock,”
Friends, there is no peace in America, and there is no peace in the Middle East. Will God find His Reese Howells’ company again? I say yes and let it be now!
Prayer:
Oh God, Ruler of nations, Lord of history, we set our face to seek you with prayer and fasting. Find in us the spirit of your own Son, the great intercessor, who loved not his life unto death. Call forth thousands now, those who have found their place in the Rock, and out of that place are committed to war in the spirit for a great awakening in our universities, among our children, and in the cultural power centers of our nation. Arise oh God; contend with the spirit of Islam. Restrain the Prince of Persia. Loose Muslims by the thousands into the knowledge of the freedom of Christ Jesus. Protect and cover your people Israel until the day dawns and the Morning Star arises in their hearts. We pray for the sake of your Son, Jesus. Amen.
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