Prayer and Fasting for SI Communities

Brothers and Sisters,

Would you prayerfully consider joining a forum wide period of prayer and fasting for each of our respective communities?

It is a loud song in my heart and thought it may be yours too that we could jointly fast and pray for this very pointed purpose: that God will awaken the community of each one of us who participates, that He will raise a vocal and audible prophetic alarm in each of our communities for the church to repent of ungodliness and of lack of life-or-death seriousness about the things of God, and that believers and churches will respond in obedience to that prophetic call, and that wherever repentance lacks that God will speak to any remnant in such a community and draw the few together there into fellowship with one another in Him.

I propose that we post our username and community (if you are anonymous in location your username is enough) and a day that we each could commit to a suitable fast from food and to pray as noted above for our communities name.

I would post "Dolfan, Moulton, AL 11/3/15" and another may post "Johnjohn. LaGrange, TX 11/4/15" for example. I would commit to pray and fast on 11/3 for everyone who posts up. JohnJohn would do so on 11/4. We can select same days or differing days. (If there is a user named JohnJohn I apologize. I made that up.)

How does next week, starting 11-2-15 sound? Try and post yours before then so we can have as many praying and fasting for your place from the get-go. Maybe we should limit the time frame to 11-2 to 11-9?

I will begin: Dolfan. Moulton/Lawrence County AL/ 11/3/15

If you do not have a user name and want to participate, email me at law.shelton@mail.com with your first name or a fake name or initials and a location and a date and I will post it for the group.

Via email:

Brother Billy/Madisonville, TN/ 11-2-15

InTheLight, Phoenix, AZ 11/06/15

mama27 Chicago area 11/05/15

Bumping this before the Sunday lull and to remind those who will pray.

UntoBabes- Sweet Home, OR
11/2/2015-11/9/2015
I only want to de a week because my family is under spiritual attack, not to be showy. Hope you understand.

May God be showy in your family and your town and mine!

And all of ours!!!

Praying for Madisonville, TN with Bro Billy and for Sweet Home, OR with UntoBabes. Praying for repentance, awakening, prophetic call to churches and for God to draw His remnant of believers together in fellowship for this hour. After listening again to Vance Havner's call to repentance sermon--excellent quality sound BTW-- it is proper to ask God to forgive each of us as we pray for one another.

Lord, forgive my casualness and my disobedience and reluctance to believe you and my failure to do your word.

Praying for Moulton/Lawrence County, AL where I live and am deeply burdened for and for Salt Lake City today with Lesmanto.

Our places are alike. We both live where there seems an impenetrable wall over people's hearts that their faith is well placed and their salvation secured. Both of them believe in something other than the God of the Bible: in SLC, a false testament of a phantom Jesus and figment of imagination and in Moulton a false testimony of salvation and the false gospel of the punched ticket and the irrelevance of an unregenerated heart.

Hear the prayers of Your people, O Lord our God.

Praying with mama27 and dolfan today.

I am in Milwaukee to hear Keith Daniel tonite, but am praying with you all. Will be fasting on Thursday. Lord, glorify Yourself!

Praying with mama27 for the Chicago area today. God has people there. Lord, please hear our cry. Our hearts hear You. You seek those who will live for all You are worth, and to do so in spirit and in truth. We can do nothing, Lord God but through Christ all things are really possible. We ask You to do that which You have already said is Your will. "He commands all men everywhere to repent." We ask You bring Your church in the Chicago area to deep, true, abiding repentance. Raise up voices of prophetic warning, awaken those who call themselves by Your Name. Bring them back to life in You. Cause men whose hearts are cold to You and who do not love You now, whose affections for the world are the deep treasures of their hearts, who have a form of Godliness but deny Godliness inwardly and will not yield to Your power --- cause us to flee from our wickedness and from Your coming wrath and to flee to Christ. Melt us in weeping sorrow and brokenness over our sorry state and restore us in Your lovingkindness to life again. Do this throughout Chicago. A great fire once destroyed that city, and we ask now for a small fire of Your power to preserve Your remnant out of it. Wherever Your people are, we ask you to draw them together into pockets of fellowship that ignore and destroy denominational barriers and that You cause it to be in Chicago, in Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Moulton, AL, Madisonville, TN, Sweet Home, OR and all of our communities of those on these forum boards that Your people be one as You, Lord Jesus, are with the Father. Amen.

Thank you, Tim, for your heartfelt prayer. I echo what you have prayed for all the communities mentioned. The churches here are very worldly and compromised in my opinion. We are to be a set-apart people who do not look and behave as the world does in our use of time, and appearance, and entertainment. The prayer meetings are 5 minutes and often focus on physical ailments. It is heartbreaking to watch. The major well-known churches are Moody Church, Willow Creek (seeker sensitive), Harvest Bible Chapel, The Orchard (these churches have a number of campuses), College Church of Wheaton, and of course many others....I am asking God for a great shaking and purifying in these. We also have the recent Bill Gothard scandal here, and the IBLP headquarters is in the process of relocating to Big Sandy, TX. These things have greatly affected my children. Bless you all for your prayers. Fasting today and praying with you for a great move of God in your areas and families as well.

The churches here are very worldly and compromised in my opinion. We are to be a set-apart people who do not look and behave as the world does in our use of time, and appearance, and entertainment. The prayer meetings are 5 minutes and often focus on physical ailments.

Things are very much the same here in Phoenix, and I suspect across the land.

But the Lord is teaching me that I can't just point fingers, I must confess the coldness creeping into my own heart, just acknowledge that there are areas where I am not on fire for Christ. All I can do is confess it, He knows that my heart is deceitful and desperately wicked and that I need the filling of the Holy Spirit. Like Vance Havner said, there must be an inflow before there can be an outflow and an overflow.

O, how our communities need that outflow and overflow.

In Christ,

I pray for a prophetic voice locally to the church. Who will God send? When? How? The need is so clear. Why are churches blind now?

My heart is not broken enough over my own sin that I could be purified in my deepest inward man. And I am about a wreck. What is in me still, O Lord? So much. So, so much that is not of Him.

Cleanse my heart, Lord. I know You forgave and forgive. Yet, I am so far from the likeness of Your Son and I desperately want to be like Jesus.

I hope I didn't come across as though I was pointing fingers. I just came off of 5 days hearing Keith Daniel preach. The man just quotes scripture after scripture. He gave a message on the tongue in which I counted 93 scripture verses that I had furiously written down. All the while I was listening to this man of God, I kept wondering in my heart why there are so very few others like him....and while I long to stay on the mountaintop, I know my mission field is my own home...where I struggle desperately to not be pulled down into the quagmire of political talk and worldliness that abounds here. Lord help us!!

God have mercy on us ,and oh please pour out your spirit of prayer and supplication ....for your sake lord ...

Compleatly break us lord ,that the weeping should be many hours of continual prayer ,that is inspired truely by Your Holy Spirit ,

Praying with Bro Ron for Phoenix, AZ today.

I am finding a need for patience as we do this. The urgency of the need for churches to repent is strong. It is easy to see things naturally and be discouraged and to become bitter.

Lord, as we move through this time, blessed as we are to hear Your call to repent, keep our hearts and innermost being fervent but not discouraged. We are praying in faith, knowing from Your own Word that hope is the evidence of things not seen and that faith is the substance of what is hoped for. Our prayers, our hearts are deposited with You and you do not disappoint or make ashamed.

Father we plead with you today to pour out a spirit of repentance in your church in Phoenix. Raise a voice of prophetic alarm from among Your people and call to the church on Phoenix to repent of its worldiness, to turn from wickedness and to run to You, Lord. Make them aware of the hour and open their eyes to their error and their own wretchedness and cause them to repent. Draw your remnant there, now dispersed, together in pockets of fellowship where they are completely slaves to You and servants to one another.

Help InTheLight/Ron take courage in You today. Amen.

Father,

We thank you that we can boldly come
before the throne of grace through the
blood of Jesus. We thank you Lord that
the fervent prayer of the righteous man
avails much. Father, we confess our sins
before you. We ask you to search out
hearts dear God. Father we have
tolerated evil, and in many ways have
feared man more than you. Father, we
thank you for the conviction of the Holy
Spirit. We thank you for every brother and
sister that is standing in agreement for
their cities. Lord, we ask you to awake
your Church in each one of these cities
that is represented. Father, we ask you to
break our hearts with that which breaks
yours. Pour out Lord a spirit of repentance
upon your people. Help us Lord to be light
and salt to our regions. Open the Heavens
Lord and come down. We pray Lord for
a revival of righteousness that will transform
our cities. Give us righteous leaders Lord
in both the Church and the government.
Raise up Apostolic and Prophetic ministries
in our cities that will have an impact to
advance the Kingdom of God. We ask you
Lord to remove the blinders off of the
minds of the people so that they would
receive the gospel and be saved. Lord,
cause the Church to fulfill the Great
Commission and make disciples of
men. We thank you Lord for hearing our
prayer. May your will be done and your
Kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven.
In Jesus name we pray. Amen!

Agreeing with you all in prayer. I commit to praying beyond this week for all of you and your areas and families. Please let us know if you see God moving...Thank you Lord, for what You are doing. May we be steadfast...

I hope I didn't come across as though I was pointing fingers.

Not at all dear sister, I was just sharing how the Lord has been dealing with me personally.

So glad that you were refreshed in the Keith Daniel meetings, thank God for the mountaintops! And thank Him for the valleys too, it's there where faith is put to the test and we find out just how real our walk is.

I do hope that the messages from this tour will be available for download soon.

In Christ,

The urgency of the need for churches to repent is strong. It is easy to see things naturally and be discouraged and to become bitter.

I have this urgency as well. Also, temptation to discouragement is strong. We need to keep our eyes on Christ and we need need the encouragement of one another very much. Godly fellowship is important right now. I'm understanding more and more why Scripture states that we should not forsake assembling together, especially as we see the day approaching.

Father we plead with you today to pour out a spirit of repentance in your church in Phoenix. Raise a voice of prophetic alarm from among Your people and call to the church on Phoenix to repent of its worldiness, to turn from wickedness and to run to You, Lord. Make them aware of the hour and open their eyes to their error and their own wretchedness and cause them to repent. Draw your remnant there, now dispersed, together in pockets of fellowship where they are completely slaves to You and servants to one another.

A hearty amen to that prayer! The voice of prophetic alarm is burning in my own heart. I've been reading through Jeremiah for the last year and I'm so struck by the similarity of our time to his.

He was a voice of prophetic alarm for 30 years, I see that there were two things that were most important in keeping him steadfast as that voice. First, he had a continuing sense of the powerful call of God on his life. Second, he found strength by constant communion with God. These will give us encouragement in this hour as well.

In Christ,

Guys, if you want to continue this, I will commit to another specific week of targeted prayer. I won't keep the thread going with reminders or such. But I will pray for you and ask that you pray for us here. These places are now in my heart for y'all and for God's people where you are. Anyone else, feel free to join and share where you are if this is your heart, too. It may not be so for all of us on SI to pray this specific way for where you are nor do I think it should be; God is well able to speak to each one of us so we will hear Him for where we are.

I love y'all and glad to share this with you. And I appreciate SI.

Hi Tim,

As Greg said, which is so true, prayer is the key to everything. Why not continue this brother, and please add Lake Charles La. to the list.

Also brother, why not pray about having phone conference calls where we can all pray for each city as the Lord leads. I have been on prayer conference calls in which just about every state in the nation was represented. Most of these prayer calls involved focused prayer on what the Spirit of God put on the hearts of various leaders.

I just want to encourage you brothers and sisters not to quit but to continue in prayer and see where the Lord wants to take this.

Lake Charles it is. I will pray for you on Thursday with InTheLight/Phoenix.

Since SI already has a revival prayer conference call, it might be acceptable to join it. I have only done so twice, ever. But I don't know if this specific target prayer is aligned with how that works.

I need to join that prayer call and let home stuff stop me. : /

For now, unless we get consensus on the call, may we continue in this manner?

I just wanted you all to know I am still praying for you and your families and your areas....may we see Jesus!

Amen.

Would covet your prayers for Chicago if you are able. They released a video tonite of a white policeman killing a black teen a year ago. Already the protests are starting with people planning to come in and block major streets especially on Friday which is the busiest shopping day. Chicago has a high murder rate anyway, but this could be another Ferguson. We live 40 miles out of the city but you know how it is when it is your part of the country, your heart just breaks. May God keep the violence down, and may His people shine as lights in the darkness. Thank you....