Giving Thanks: Day 19, Prayer Points, January 29th

Prophesying and Declaration of things to come in 2019 for personal and Church ministries Wow I can’t believe 21 days have passed. I don’t know about you but for me it’s been an amazing journey with the Lord. It’s been great to humble ourselves before the Lord and seek his face. To say “No” to every hunger pang, or “no” to our desires to pick up a social media, or “no” to every time we see that appetising dessert or appealing chocolates, and saying “YES” to God is so worth it. However after today, I won’t be looking at smoothies or veg for a WHILE!!! For the last 21 days we have humbled ourselves and sought his face in prayers and found directions and instructions in his word. He spoke to us in the secret place and we have drawn closer to Him. He whispered his deep secrets and we got to know him and his way more than when we started 21 days ago. I AM THANKFUL for what he is going to do in 2019. On Sunday we heard from P Alex, if we obey the Word of God, if we do what it says, only THEN we will unlock the blessings and promises of God to come to us. We have humbled ourselves and sought him in last 21 days, according to his word in 2 Chronicles 7:14: “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, THEN I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. So today let’s believe and thank God and prophesy and declare into 2019 all that He has spoken to us will come to pass for our church and for our own personal life. Let’s prophesy that according to that scripture God will forgive us and heal our land. Let’s declare that according to Joshua 1:8 we WILL BE prosperous and successful: “Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. THEN you will be prosperous and successful.” And according to Isaiah 58:8-12, let’s prophesy that darkness will become light, we will be physically strengthened and healed, God’s righteousness and glory will be all around us, He will guide us continually, He will satisfy our soul, God will makes us like a well-watered garden and will restore our cities and people. “THEN your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; THEN your righteousness[ a ] will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will be your rear guard. 9 THEN you will call, and the Lord will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I … THEN your light will rise in the darkness, and your night will become like the noonday. 11 The Lord will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. 12 Your people will rebuild the ancient ruins and will raise up the age-old foundations; you will be called ‘Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Streets with Dwellings’.” I am thankful all the upcoming opportunities and yes even the challenges in 2019 because I know these challenges will lead me into God’s purposes and victories so I WILL BE STRONG AND COURAGEOUS AND NOT BE AFRAID AND DISMAYED! Amen

Today let’s us pray for our leaders: our pastors, key leaders & c group leaders. Pray that God will give them strength, wisdom and vision to help us move into everything that God has for us as individuals and as a church. Have you ever tried to drive somewhere without looking? I can’t imagine you have because if you have, chances are you crashed. It’s absurd to think that we would try and drive without out looking on the road yet isn’t that how we some times live our lives? We don’t really look at what God is bringing us into and we just go any and everywhere. When we fast and pray, we align our lives to what God has for us. We open our spiritual antennas to see what God is bringing us into. Instead of walking around aimlessly, we move forward in purpose. What if this year instead of having our spiritual eyes closed or fixed on what we want, we had them tuned in to what God was doing. As we finish our prayer and fasting, let’s determine to continue to push into what God has us. Let’s use these last days as a catalyst for the year. Instead of going back to what we have always done, determine to set your ‘spiritual sails’ into the direction that God is taking you and watch what He does in and through you! This year for 2019, let’s come with expectant hearts that when we set our lives into the direction He is moving, we will see exceedingly, abundantly more than we could imagine or think of in us and in our church.

Today we are praying for health and healing. Let’s name every individual that we know in the church who is suffering and struggling in their health, we bring them before the throne of God, Jehovah Rapha , the Lord our Healer, and we declare that by the stripes of Jesus Christ we are healed, healing belongs to us through the cross of Jesus and the power of his name. For those who have been sick for a long time and have given up hope, for those who have resigned themselves that things will never change or only get worse, we speak healing, restoration and health. We speak the word that Jesus spoke to the crippled woman, “Should not this woman, a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has kept bound for 18 long years, be set free from what bound her?” (Luke 13:16) To those who have been faithfully praying and believing for themselves or others, we speak the words of Jesus, “Shall not God avenge his own elect who cry day and night unto him? I tell you, he shall avenge them speedily” (Luke 18:7-8) For those who are struggling with their mental health, with anxiety or depression, we pray for freedom from oppression, opening of prison doors, we proclaim liberty for captives, that they may live in and experience the freedom for which Christ set them free. We declare over their lives the words of Jesus, “I have come that you might have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10). We pray that people will experience healing in our services, that as we worship together, the presence of God would be so strong that people are touched by the power of the Holy Spirit and experience healing, deliverance and breakthrough just by being in that presence. Let it be so, Lord!