PRAYER EMAIL - AUGUST 5

 Greetings,
"Enquire I pray thee, of the Lord. . . "  Jeremiah 21:2

What is one way to elicited prayer to God?  Calamity and catastrophe!  Judah had greatly rejected the Lord and walked away from Him.  Their kings, largely were wicked and did evil.  The people followed them into this evil.  And now God was sending and bring to pass what He had said, 'I will bring the sword upon this land".  Upon a land that had been defiled.  Upon His Own people, who were unclean and defiled by great abominations.  And now the enemy is coming and they are turning back to God.  For they need God's help now!  How many times it is tragedy that brings a nation, a family, an individual, a church back to God.  It is a reminder of what really is important.

"Enquire I pray thee, of the Lord" - they come to you to enquire because they know you are a church, a person of prayer;  Are our churches not to be "houses of prayer"?  And yet it is a very hard thing to find prayer meetings that set aside an hour a week to corporate prayer.  Instruction, and Scripture after Scripture reminding us that we are to be in prayer.  Constant, daily, prevailing, continuing, watching for those near and far.  This should invoke us often to ask one another, 'how's your prayer life?"   or 'what's the Spirit saying to you in prayer these days?" 

Would you allow me this moment to share something that is much on my mind and heart for meditation?  'Watching", 'enquiring of the Lord for them". . . .I am pondering these days that every act of evil and rebellion and disobedience in our nation, history, family, churches, and our own individual life, can be traced back to this truth, that someone wast not watching or enquiring.  There was no one watching or enquiring of the Lord, and evil, sin and self took advantage of it.  Some one let their guard down; someone forgot; someone fell asleep; someone stopped praying.  Is it possible that this is a certain truth?  That if Adam had been watching for Eve's protection, deliverance from temptation and the tempter, sin never would have entered?  I don't know that I have ever heard a message or teaching on 'the absence of Adam' for Eve.  Feel free to answer men on this!!

Samuel said to Israel, 'God forbid, that I should cease in praying for you."  And as they come to us to enquire in prayer for them, we have, we will and we shall.  Brethren, be much alone with the Lord on behalf of these.  Especially, of those who do not pray for themselves.  One thing that I have gleaned during and after these 80 hours of prayer; and I believe, the Lord was speaking, revealing and taking me there any way, to watch for and increase this spiritual warfare for things of God.  His church, the pulpit, and I am very jealous for the pulpit, perhaps because of my own calling, but I abhor those that defile the sacred desk with modern religion, praying, watching and enquiring for the kingdom's work, advancement, increase, fruit, positions and ministries to fulfill.  How much over our cities, and every aspect of that in schools, business, streets, homes and hearts and minds of men, women and children.    

Above all to enquire and pray for our topics of our recent prayer time.  It wasn't one and done, but a continuing of these prayer targets till we prevail.  On Monday, of the first full day of 80 Hours of Prayer, this verse came to me for prayer during the "Spiritual Awakening" focus - 'the harvest is past, the summer is ended and we are not saved'.  Each session of my time in prayer, early on I focused on our 3 points of "Revival - Spiritual Awakening - Spirit Filled".  And each time I prayed over and through these 3 prayer targets, I tried to keep adding, 2 verses for each topic.  And i figured that by the end of the 80 Hours I would have a good couple pages of Scriptures.  Now this is in place to continue bringing these things before the Lord, with more of His promises and directives.  

What are you enquiring God for?  What is the Spirit saying to you?  What is it that you bring before Him daily, moment by moment?  What is the crisis, calamity of our hour that we might join together to prevail for our Lord's glory, Name sake and kingdom?   'Lord teach us to pray"; "I will give myself unto prayer".   Blessed be God for these instructions, reminders and given moments in this life to place before us the certainty, that God has ordained the means of prayer as our weapon of warfare to victory, overcoming and deliverance.   Blessings!


80 HOURS OF PRAYER   -  Thank you, thank you!! for all that joined and participated with us;  We had 12 states represented, and around 50 people praying.  Continuing to learn from this.  I have asked of you that prayed, that you would write down and share with me what the Lord said to you during your times of prayer.  I will gather them all and post in an email next week or two.  Much was given and gleaned and I thank God for this Divine time.  I pray it was for you as well.  blessings - Dan

PRAYER TARGETS:
EPIDEMICS
1.  Drugs/Alcohol - 1 million deaths since 1999; death rates continue to increase; have not heard or seen projection, but indicators seem to point to another record year, especially due to fentanyl;

2.  Children - continued subversion of children; abuse, neglect and increasing stats of children raised without any knowledge of God;

3.  LGBT - abominations that continue to grow and subvert the society, families, churches;  much like in the 1980's where AIDS attacked homosexuals, now monkeypox carrying at 94% infection on those engaged in sin;  minds and hearts alienated from God and great evil and wrath on every fabric of society with this;

4.  Natural Disaster - KY flooding, more rain now; well over 1/2 of nation in drought conditions; very quiet so far in tropics; earthquakes minimal; although we did have 7.0 last month;

5.  Pestilence - covid BA 5 continues to keep US stats in top 3 each day of cases & deaths worldwide;  monkeypox declared national emergency by White House; 

6.  Great Evil - rejoicing that murder-suicides have greatly dropped; but focused in on mass shootings increasing, and keep a watch over police deaths;  this evil is fought against in minds and hearts;

7.  Economy - watching to see what shall become of all this mess, reports and forecasts of our great world wide collapse;  


UPDATE:
--bible readings - up through Nehemiah; word study - afraid/terror/dismay/fear;
--A Word - Jeremiah 21:1;  finished up chapter 20, all finished but verse 16; Jeremiah chapters 12 - 20 are all complete;  started back to chapter 11 to finish up verses not finished;
--80 Hour of Prayer - started more detailed verses and prayer targets for Revival - Spiritual Awakening - Spirit Filled;
--last pages of 'Christian in Complete Armour"; 1200 pages, took me 4 years;
--two new projects of "Watch" & "Mystery";
--Pastors Prayer 1st & 3rd Sunday of each month;
--Keyser Church & Fox's Hollow services on Sunday:
--Monday Bible Study - Deuteronomy 1;
--Thursday HOur of Prayer via live stream at 7 PM (EST):

Until,
Dan

Started:  August 5, 2022

Finished:  August 6, 2022

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