Once there was a man who dared God to speak:

Burn the bush like you did for Moses, God. And I will follow. Collapse the wall like you did for Joshua, God. And I will fight. Still the waves like you did on Galilee, God. And I will listen.

And so the man sat by a bush, near a wall, close to the sea and waited for God to speak.

And God heard the man, so God answered.

He sent fire, not for a bush, but for a church.
He brought down a wall, not of brick, but of sin.
He stilled a storm, not of sea, but of soul.

And God waited for the man to respond.
And He waited...
And He waited...
And He waited...

But because the man was looking at bushes, not hearts; bricks and not lives; sea and not souls, he decided that God had done nothing.

Finally he looked to God and asked, Have you lost your power?

And God looked at him and said, Have you lost your hearing?

"A Gentle Thunder", Max Lucado, 1995.

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A.Church Focus

The following prayer point can be adapted for praying for the church leadership, congregation, family and friends.

1. FAVOR WITH GOD

• For leaders to walk in the Spirit, pleasing the Lord.
• For leaders to serve the Lord with reverence fear, and rejoice with trembling (Psalm 2:10,11)
• For leaders to be willing to obey God's direction.
• For leaders to maintain a teachable spirit

2. SPIRITUAL REVELATION

• For the Holy Spirit to give personal direction, teaching and vision
• For ever-increasing knowledge of God
• For revelation of the depths of God and spiritual knowledge of the Word of God

3. ANOINTING - PRAY:

• For leader's work to be of good quality-the best
• For leader's to have the strength to withstand fiery tests.
• For leaders to have the 7 folds Spirit of the Lord; for the Spirit of the Lord, and the spirit of wisdom, understanding, counsel, strength, knowledge and reverent fear of the Lord to rest upon them.
• For leaders to be strengthened with power in the inner man
• For leaders to be sensitive to God's voice-spiritual ears and heart.
• For leaders to speak the Word with boldness wherever they go.

For gifts of the Spirit to flow through leaders: words of wisdom and knowledge, faith, healing, working of miracles, prophecy, distinguishing of spirits, tongues and interpretation of tongues.

• For leaders to be full of mercy and compassion, walking in forgiveness; enabled to counsel others with God's mercy, grace.
• For leaders to speak and preach with such an anointing from the Spirit of God that all unsaved who hear will come to the saving knowledge of Jesus as Lord.

4.  HOLINESS - PRAY:

• Bind all principalities and powers assigned to hinder leaders' place of abiding with God in devotional time.
• For leaders to set aside ample time for prayer and fellowship with the Lord in a productive, personal manner.
• For leaders to know the depths of God's love; to be grounded in love.
• For leaders to be sensitive to the Father's heart.
• For leaders to be good stewards of gifts, talents, time and money.
• For leaders to walk in holiness.
   

B. Seminar

Topic: Solving Life's Problems
Date: 4-5 May 2001
Speaker: Sister Lydia

Pray for a good attendance and God to use these seminar to cause believer to walk worthy of God's call. Pray for good health and anointing upon Sister Lydia and Kevin—(husband) as they minister to the Church.
 

C. Family Focus

 1.  FAMILY - GENERAL - PRAY:

• For unity and understanding
• For no resentment when sacrifice is involved
• For sharing the vision of ministry; being active in it.
• For sharing in prayer and devotions as family.
• For each to operate in God-given gifts and talents.
• For a hospitable home, open to others.
• For all to be fervent in spirit, serving the Lord.

2. HUSBAND AND WIFE - PRAY:

• To meet emotional needs of the family
• To be sensitive to family needs.
• To communicate well with each family members
• To be a sympathetic listener to each family members.
• For husband to lead family in devotions and prayer on a regular basis.
• To spend quality time with family-both leisure time and spiritual time.
• To recognize they are team, made to encourage and help one another with loyalty.
• To complement and complete one another
• To discern each other's needs: emotional, physical,material and spiritual.
• To have fulfillment of their own spiritual relationship to hear God's voice.
• To have the fruit of the Spirit.
• To have strength to overcome stress and pressure.
• To resist living up to other people's expectations, released to be a unique person, and a unique couple—free to me and free to be you.
• For each to find their individual niche in the kingdom of God.

3. CHILDREN

• That the children be trained in reverential fear of the Lord.
• That the children show love, patience, understanding and loyalty toward family and ministry.
• That the children choose righteous friends at school, home, work, and in their social life.
• For good relationship to prevail among children in the family.
• That the children be involved in parent's ministry at the level where God has called them to participate.
• That there be no resentment or competition among family members.
• That the children be obedient and righteous.
• That the children be flexible, able to adapt to change, moving and culture.
• That the children be free from expectation put on themselves or others that are not in line with God's will
• That the children be able to hear God's voice individually.
   

D. Family Camp

Camp Theme: Ephesians 4:1 Walk Worthy of God's Call"
Date: 1-3 June 2001
Venue: Mukah-Kaul Resort
Camp Speaker: Pastor Charles Curtis

Pray for good weather and journey mercy as we travel on  1st June.  Pray for wisdom for Dennis Tan and the committee members in sorting out the logistic for the camp.  Praise for the Lord for good response. (60+ including children). Pray that the sense of belonging will prevail among us and the manifest presence of God will be evident in the ministry time.
 

E. International Focus

Prayer for Cleansing the Land-South Africa
Currently have 156 towns and cities participating in the initiative of "Cleansing South Africa. This project will also be involved in helping to prepare the prayer teams that will need to pray at the different "sites of offence" during the second phase of the project.
 

There are several issues requiring prayer:

1.  The most important request is that God will lead us into repentance. If this is not repentance from the heart, then we might as well cancel the whole program. Pray that the Holy Spirit will move in the Church of South Africa and that He will find tender hearts willing to humble themselves before God (2 Kings 22:19)

 2.  We still have about 650 towns and cities that require representatives. Areas that we are struggling with include  West  Coast and Swartland, Overberg, Bokkeveld, Griekwaland, Upington, Kalahari, Areas of the Karoo, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, Northwest Province, Northern Prov       ince, Mpumalanga and some areas of KwaZulu Natal. Please pray for ways and means to contact these areas and to be able to share the vision with them.

3.  Please pray for one or two personnel with admin skills to be available to help coordinate the project from Pretoria. 

4.  Pray that we will discern the will of the Lord clearly in every situation and that hindrances to clear communication will be removed.

5.  Pray for the writing of the renunciation and repentance prayers that need to be finalized over the next few weeks and for the necessary means to translate these prayers into the different languages of our country.

6.  We are trying to organise this project in such a way that it will not involve

      high financial costs but some are unavoidable, such as the finances re-

      quired for printing, distributing information and travelling expenses.

7.   Please pray that the Lord will provide in all these areas, as He has soare under a tremendous spiritual burden for this initiative and other initiatives that are currently running from NUPSA. Please pray that the Lord will help us to discern areas where the enemy tries to destroy and resist, and that we will be able to resist him and recognise all his subtle ways of attack.

8.  Please pray for the protection of NUPSA and the personnel at NUPSA, as we experience a definite direct attack on us that is not easing off. I want to quote from the book of Watchman Nee - Secrets to Spiritual Power:

"Nothing of the will of God is ever released without passing through man. Moreover, the will of God, when released through man, is never free from an encounter with Satan." Please pray according to Ephesians 6:13 "that we may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand."
 

F. Prayer for Church's Friend:
GERALD BRADLEY

My work association with the Atlas Corporation, over the past 3 1/2 years, is now coming to a close. Around 50 people have been retrenched (made redundant) over these past few weeks, as a great deal of financial pressure falls on the Company. My current 2 year Work Permit, concludes this September, so we have been really praying over our options. The Lord has opened so many incredible doors of opportunity for us, both in our ministry and in the corporate area, and we believe this is where God wants us, at this time in our lives. Right now, we are working with a very special close friend, who is working to open an opportunity for me to work in association with him and his Company. He, along with another friend, who is knowledgeable in the procedures required for such a process, are working on my behalf, to acquire a continuing work permit for me.

PLEASE cover these men and ourselves in PRAYER, that the Lord will open and 'perfect that which concerns us'. This is critical to our staying here in Malaysia!

G. Health

Continue to remember Ng Foong Leng, Tony Wong and others for their healing.

Prayer:  Thank You Father, through Jesus Christ for (names) in Jesus' Name I bring these requests and petitions before you on their behalf.  Thank you for sending Your Word, the Lord Jesus, and healing (names) and delivering them from their destruction.  I give you thanks for Your loving-kindness, and for Your wonders to the sons of men.  I pray that they will also  offer sacrifices of thanksgiving; and tell of Your works with joyful singing. Father, I pray that (names) give attention to Your words, and incline their ears to Your saying, that they will not let them depart from their sights, and that they keep them in the midst of their heart, because they are life to those who find them and health to their whole body.  Thank you, Father, that because (names) serve You, You will bless their bread and their water, and You will remove sickness from their midst (Exodus 23:25). Father, I pray their souls bless You, and that also give life to their mortal bodies through Your Spirit who indwells them (Rom 8:11) I thank you Father, that Jesus, Himself bore their sins in His own body on the cross, that they might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds they were healed. (1Pet 2:24)  Thank you, Father, that Christ has redeemed (names) them, for it is written, "Curse is everyone who hangs on a tree" in order that in Christ Jesus the blessings of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, that they might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Thank you Father, (names) belong to Christ, and are Abraham's offspring, and heirs according to the promise. (Gal 3:13,14,29)

THINK ABOUT

Did you ever have a day like this? A man, cleaning one of those big cement trucks, got caught in the mixer. He climbed into the mixer with a hose to flush out the remaining cement when his hose caught on a lever and pulled it to the "on" position. Suddenly, he found himself going round and round in the mixer with no way to escape! Slipping, sliding and banging around inside, all he could do was shout for help.

Fortunately, another worker came over and shut it off. In moments, a bruised and battered man, covered with wet concrete, emerged from the mixer. It reminds me of some days I've had...

Of course, no one ever said life is easy! But, as that incredible humanitarian novelist, Harriet Beecher Stowe, said, "When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as if you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn."

IF IT FEELS AS IF YOU ARE IN THE CEMENT MIXER, DO YOU NEED TO HOLD ON A LITTLE LONGER?