Scripture: Luke 2:36-38
36.There was also a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was very old; she had lived with her husband seven years after her marriage, 37.and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying……
Not everybody will be able to do fasting . Fasting has to be always voluntary. Please refer to the “Fasting Guidelines and Information” enclosed in your bulletin. However….everybody can pray. 10-Day Fasting and Prayer is the calling of an intercessor. I am calling forth those with the same “Anna Anointing” to day and night intercessory prayer.
Here are the strategies for our corporate intercessory prayer.
- We will pray for our church every weekday for 10 days, Monday through Friday, from Monday, September 20th till Friday, October 1st. We will rest on Saturday and Sunday.
- We will also get together every night for 10 days, Monday through Friday, at 7 p.m. at the chapel of the 2nd Education Building for corporate intercessory prayer.
- We will, by your own willing and choice, fast as well for 10 days while we are praying. You can do one meal fast, two meals fast, or fast for certain time period of the day.
- We will pray through the book of Acts. We will simply ask the Holy Spirit to do the same things in and through our congregation as He did in the books of Acts. We will cry out to God, “Lord, do it again!”
My Beloved, an extraordinary power force is released when a group of Christians pray together in agreement over a period of time about the same thing.
The book of Acts is unfinished because the acts of the apostles are not finished. We are His apostles, and the Holy Spirit is still seeking to advance the Kingdom of God in the earth today. But we must be willing to invite Him into our presence. By asking the Holy Spirit to work the same miracles now that He did in the book of Acts, we are actually writing the Acts 29th chapter.
Jesus Christ will pour out the anointing of the Spirit of Intercessory Prayer upon us!
When the prayers of us who are anointed with the Spirit of Intercessory Prayer are filled as the smoke of the incense were filled in the Holy of Holies, the Lord will bring the restoration, renewal and revival into our church…..as God’s consuming fire came down from the heaven on the Mercy Seat.
The fire of the Lord will awake our church from sleeping. The fire of the Lord will awake us His children from ignorance. For us….there will be a time of waiting…..the time of being still until the prayers of intercession get filled! God said in Psalm 46:10, “Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
This is the time to pray.
This is the time to stay still and know that God is the God of Almighty.
This is the time to kneel down before the Lord.
Let us all kneel down before the Lord.
Let us all cry out to the Lord.
