Prayer for True Holiness Regarding “Chastening”

   Hebrews 12:10

To be partakers of true holiness requires that we have a biblical understanding of the chastening of the Lord. In this context, to chasten means to correct conduct and behavior by the love of Jesus Christ. So, how we respond to God’s correction determines how we walk in holiness living and holiness standards.

Too often people bring the baggage of the fallen sin nature of the past or wrong family rearing into interpreting the chastening of the Lord. Subsequently, we misunderstand the love of God’s chastening in a situation. For example, if I pray asking for His biblical promises concerning finances and I do not see my expected results, then I may interpret this as God not caring for my circumstances. It could be He is trying to chasten or discipline my spending habits. Thus, if I misinterpret the chastening of the Lord, I will continue to pray wrong and slowly lose the joy of approaching a God who ignores my needs.

There are times we covet things that God does not want us to have at a certain time and we misinterpret His love of denying that strong urge to have something. If I do not understand God’s love, I will begin to experience the chastening of the Lord to correct my conduct so I can experience a greater intimacy of holiness with Him. There are times we have wrong priorities, and the Holy Ghost will use circumstances to get our attention to adjust these priorities. This, at times, may require His chastening. 

Hebrews 12:10-11 says that true biblical chastening produces an attitude of holiness and peaceable fruits of right living. You are not living with a discontent attitude while serving in the church. People who do not submit to the chastening of the Lord have the eyes of their heart peering into the world for its thrills and entertainment instead of walking in the peaceable contentment of holiness living. It all started with submission to the chastening of the Lord when my flesh could not have what it craved for.

Has your passion and worship for Jesus slacked off? Have you lost your zeal for the things of God? Do you have a daily prayer life? Have you quit fasting? Do you have a hard time trusting and submitting to spiritual authority in your local church? It could be you have become offended with the chastening of the Lord. Hebrews 12:10 says chastening is for our profit that we may be partakers of true holiness living―not resenting the holiness standards of the Church. Verse 11 is highlighted (Because chastening can feel grievous, we must guard at all times our worship and attitude of repentance so we can be shaped in the character of Jesus Christ).

Chastening protects us and strengthens us in the intimacy of prayer. It increases spiritual sensitivity to the gifts of the Spirit. It increases God’s voice in our lives through submission to chastening in prayer. Chastening increases the joy of the Lord, and spiritual security in God. Verse 7 says a person who does not submit to the chastening of the Lord will live their life like one who has no Father to identify with. They lose their identity in Jesus as their spiritual Father all because of the refusal to submit to the chastening of the Lord. This is why David said, “help me know joy and gladness through the bones thou has broken oh Lord” in Psalm 51:10. Psalm 15:4 says, “blessed is the man who in his own hurt he changeth not.”

PRAYER:

1. Ask God to increase our understanding by His word to submit to His chastening that we may increase our intimacy with Him in prayer.
2. Ask God to open the eyes of the backsliders for His chastening so they can see God’s love and do their first works over.
3. Ask God to strengthen new converts to not become offended with Him when He is revealing His love to them through chastening.
4. Ask God to show His love through chastening as leaders seek Him in fasting and extended time in consecration.
5. Ask God to heal His people who have been abused through wrong discipline, so they can trust their leaders and those in authority in their lives.
6. Ask God to heal preachers, evangelists, and spiritual leaders who struggle to bring closure to the chastening of the Lord in their lives.
7. Ask God to help us in any aspect regarding chastening according to His will and purpose.

Pastor Don Rogers

The Pentecostals of Wisconsin

WNOP North Central Region Prayer Coordinator

Wisconsin District Prayer Coordinator

Prayer for a Spirit of Holiness

It is critical to get closer to God, especially in the times we are living right now! There is a spirit of temptation that is hitting the Church and enticing us to pull away from holiness and to buy into living a worldly life. It is lulling us to sleep and compromising what we have stood upon and claimed as the Truth! Now is not the time to let down standards that draw a line of separation in the sand! Spiritual backsliding is occurring. Holiness from the inside and out is diminishing more each day, and we must hold fast to the Word of God and live holy like never before! Pray for the resurrection of a spirit of holiness for all Church leaders and saints of God!

Pray:

• For our leaders to hold fast to the Apostolic doctrine of the oneness of God, repentance, baptism in Jesus’ name, and the infilling of the Holy Ghost! (Deuteronomy. 6:4; Acts 2:38)
• That our pastors, preachers, teachers, and leaders would continue living and preaching holiness from the inside, out. 
• For our leaders not to grow weary while doing good. (Galatians 6:9)

Pray:

• That the Church hold fast to the Truth and remain faithful. (Hebrews 10:23, 32; II Thessalonians 2:15; Philippians 2:16)
• That the Church endure hard suffering and remain faithful to Jesus! Pray that we hold tightly to His promise of salvation looking and anticipating His return and to continue living a godly life. 
• That we dig into the Word of God and obey it like never before. (Joshua 1:8; James 1:21-24)
• For a spirit of prayer to be increased in His people. (I Thessalonians 5:17; Matthew 26:41; Ephesians 6:18; Jude 1:20)
• That we pray gut wrenching, altar gripping prayers!
• That our homes become a place where His Spirit sweeps through.
• That our Churches and classrooms become a house of prayer!
• That we continue praying being refreshed in the Holy Ghost daily!
• That the Church commit ourselves to the Lord in every way. (I Corinthians 6:19-20; II Corinthians 6:14-18; 7:1) 
• That we realize and know without a doubt that we have been bought with a price through His sacrifice and we are not our own, but the Lord’s!
• That we submit our bodies, thoughts, and lifestyles to Jesus daily.
• That we live holy like never before as like Jesus is holy!
• Pray for the Church to bring the gospel of Christ to everyone we meet. (Matthew 28:19-20)

Lord, give us an agonizing burden and love for the lost to get saved according to Your Word and through Your precious blood! It’s not time to do away with our inward and outward holiness! The world is in desperate need to see the Church who draws a line of separation unto to the Lord as never before! There are lost souls going to hell and NOW is the time for the world to see a one God, baptized in Jesus’ name, Holy Ghost filled, and holiness from the inside/out people of God!

We must FIGHT!  We must anticipate the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ! (I Timothy 6:12; II Timothy 2:3-4; I Thessalonians 4:16-18)

Blessings,

Erin Ellsworth

The World Network of Prayer Presents

24/7 WATCH: A Year-Round Initiative for 24/7 Prayer

As of January 1, 2022, WNOP launched an annual 24/7 prayer and fasting chain worldwide in coordination with our existing “Year of Prayer.” Each week WNOP is posting a prayer focus as daily prayer for the entire week. Also weekly, a video is posted on the WNOP Facebook Page of a prayer leader and/or minister leading in periodic prayer. We encourage your participation by joining in prayer.

Will you commit and join with others throughout the world in united prayer and fasting? Sign up by committing in your heart unto God that you will consistently set aside a day each week to do some prayer and fasting. WNOP also has partnered with those in local churches who are already a part of a current 24-hour prayer chain. All of these hours of consecration are culminating to help provide a complete mass prayer covering the entire Church body and to help bring greater success in all that we do in Christ! Together, let’s “watch and pray” and behold great and mighty things in the kingdom of God! Let’s prevail over the enemy with victory and declare, “Not on My Watch!”

Flo Shaw

Director

World Network of Prayer

AUGUST 24/7 WATCH (WEEK 1)

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Following is the “24/7 Watch” daily prayer focus for this week. Join us in consistent prayer & fasting.

WORLD NEEDS

• Pray for the state of Kentucky as at least 28 people have died, and hundreds of homes were destroyed as the result of a catastrophic flood in eastern Kentucky.  Floodwaters have destroyed bridges and power-lines, and caused some residents to scramble to their rooftops, leaving thousands to struggle without cell service or power. Additionally, some families’ vehicles and homes were swept away or submerged completely.
• Pray for the Philippines as a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Northern Luzon, the most populous island, and was felt in the capital city, Manila.
• Pray for the Lord to forgive America and restore it so that it would be a true Christian nation that takes a stand against same sex marriages.
• Continue to pray for God’s will to be accomplished in California’s Yosemite National Park as with 2,500 personnel working to help extinguish the blaze and uncontained fire. More than 15,000 acres in Mariposa County has been charred.

Make plans to attend now! Registration is free. Come, and expect great things!

Make plans to attend now! Registration is free. Come, and expect great things!

Rev. David K. Bernard

General Superintendent

2022 WNOP Events

• 24/7 WATCH: WNOP Facebook Worldwide Prayer Initiative (January 1 - December 31)
• Maine District Prayer Summit (August 5-6). First UPC, Augusta, Maine
• New England Territory Summons (NETS) - Regional (August 18-20). Christ Temple, Tiverton, RI
• UPCI Day of Prayer (September 28)
• Oklahoma District One-Day Prayer Conference (October 22) North Point UPC, Sperry, OK
• Ontario District Blitz - Regional (November 1-6) Location: Various Sections in Ontario, Canada
• International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (November 6)
• Georgia District Prayer Workshop (November 10-12). Solid Rock PC, College Park, GA
• South Central Texas District Summons (Dates TBD). Location: TBA 
• Arkansas District Summons (Dates TBD). First Pentecostals of Benton, Benton, AR
• *Northwest Region Summons (Dates TBD). Location - Idaho: TBA
• *National Apostolic Day of Prayer (Date TBA). Apostolic Fellowship Summit
• YM + WNOP Summons (Rescheduled Dates TBD). Location: TBA
• WNOP “Operation Prayer Evangelism: “Switzerland” (Rescheduled Dates TBD)
• WNOP “Operation Prayer Evangelism: “Operation Turkey” (Rescheduled Dates TBD)
• WNOP “Operation Prayer Evangelism: “Operation Jamaica” (Rescheduled Dates TBD)

*Pending Executive Board approval. Note: Some events are District Board approved, but promoted by WNOP.

Also, more 2022 event dates may be added to the WNOP Calendar later as approved by the Executive Board.

(For more info on these specific listings, please contact WNOP at 636-229-7986)