We Win Souls Through Prayer First
I will never forget the day I was in our sanctuary praying. I began to pray specifically for the African people. I started praying for various African countries and declaring souls to be won from these countries that lived within our city of Denver, Colorado. A couple of weeks later, during a Sunday service, in walked a man who was a refugee from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who had arrived months before to our city. He found us on the internet as we were the closest UPCI church to his residence. We found out he was a licensed minister there with the UPCI and got displaced due to the war and sent here to the US. We gladly welcomed him as our own, and he soon began to invite other Congolese people to our church from within our city. We have baptized many Congolese people as a result, and many have received the gift of the Holy Ghost. 

One day, while cleaning, the Lord reminded me of my prayer that day in the sanctuary and that He not only sent David to our church through those prayers but a few others from the countries of Uganda and Jamaica during that season as well. Oh, the power of winning souls first through prayer!
The scripture says in I John 5:14, “This is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, he hears us.” His will is to seek and to save the lost. He will do just that when we pray focused, intentional prayers for these souls to be won within our city! 

On another occasion, we had our weekly ladies' prayer meeting. While I was praying at the altar, I kept having a vision in my mind of Indian ladies in their long, beautiful dresses with their sarees. The vision and burden would not go away, so I finally got up and asked the ladies to help me pray for the Indian people and that I felt God wanted us to intercede for this group within our city. The following week I was out walking my dog. A lady was about to pass me on the sidewalk, and we exchanged small talk. She was new to the country, so I gave her my number and invited her to come to my house sometime.
I called her the following Sunday to see if she would like to attend church and make some new friends. She came, and everyone showed her love. Come to find out, she is from Bangladesh and is Muslim. We have become close friends and have had many great times together with her family. They have spent holidays with us, come to our services, and helped with our nursery and food bank ministries. 

While sitting on the floor one evening at their house for dinner (as is their custom), I almost burst into tears as the Lord reminded me that all of this began that day in the altar by praying for these Indian people. My heart leaped for joy, knowing that it is indeed through intercessory prayer that we first win souls.  

Will you pray intentional prayers for the nations within your city and declare those souls to be saved? I Timothy 2:3-4 tells us, “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.” 

Kathy Shaw
WNOP District Prayer Coordinator
Colorado District UPCI
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Praying for Africa

The continent of Africa has the most countries without a UPCI presence. The Church has not yet been able to send missionaries into at least 7 countries due to safety concerns and lack of financial support. Africa contains more sovereign nations (54) than any other continent. According to God's Word, government must be considered first when praying for any nation. The most widespread form of government is the presidential republic, where presidents are elected, and may maintain power by force or coercion. The other forms are: parliamentary republic, where power resides in a cabinet of ministers, and semi-presidential republics, where elected presidents serve as heads of state, and traditional Monarchies, with a king as head of state, and a prime minster as head of government. (Classroom)

There are many challenges facing those living in Africa, as it is a developing country. According to globalyoungvoices.com, the following are: poverty, illiteracy (two out of five cannot read or write), ill health, violence (domestic violence is twice as high as the rest of the developing world), hunger (19 countries in Africa have the worst food and nutrition security), financing (70 percent work in agriculture, leaving no protection against volatile weather, i.e., drought), and economic growth is too low. At the time of this writing, Mozambique, Uganda, and Faso had lost all crops and animals. While all of these needs can provoke us to prayer, God wants to do more in Africa. 

Cush, implying Ethiopia, is mentioned as a nation that will reach out to God. (see Psalm 68:31; 87:3-6) "Biblical scholars are aware that "Cush" sometimes refers to all of Africa except Egypt, and sometimes to ancient Nubia, stretching from modern Aswan in the north to Khartoum in the south. Today, most of this area lies in Sudan." (CBE International) Strong's Concordance translates Cush as Ethiopia, but this does not include the modern country of that name. David Adamo, professor of Biblical and religious studies, has suggested the best interpretation to be Africa. Africa is a beautiful continent, with beautiful people, diverse cultures, and languages. God cares about Africa. 

Therefore, let's pray that…

  • God would turn the heart of all government officials to do His will. (Proverbs 21:1)
  • all nations and leaders within the continent of Africa would have a visitation of the Holy Ghost, and desire to reach for truth. (Psalm 68:31)
  • there will be a supernatural move of God that will open doors for evangelism for the unreached countries. 
  • God will provide the finances needed to send evangelists and missionaries.
  • God will send His angels to protect missionaries and their children.  
  • the spirit of lawlessness and murder would be bound, and that violence and crime would be repented of, and godly sorrow would fall on those committing violence and crime.
  • God would use the needs of the people to do the miraculous. Supplying food like He did when He walked on this earth, and that even greater things would be done, per His promise. 
  • the Church would have a burden to financially support and pray for missions. And that Apostolic doctrine would fill Africa.

Beth Marie Evans
Prison Ministry/Apostolic Author
International Christian Fellowship
Brookfield, Illinois
World Needs:

  • Continue to pray for the Lord to lead His Bride through the pandemic. It is believed that half of America is partially vaccinated and President Biden now has a goal for 70% of the population to be vaccinated by July 4th. Pray against the variants that have been assigned new names by the World Health Organization. It has assigned new labels to key coronavirus variants.The UK variant is Alpha, India’s most recent deadly surge variant is Delta.  
  • Continue to pray for the peace of Israel, for God to have His way with their government and the longest tenured Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and for the return of their land.
  • Pray for America as the commencement of the Atlantic hurricane season is about to start and the name of the first storm has been recorded, Subtropical Storm Ana has formed in the Atlantic 10 days ago.
  • Pray for Burkina Faso where militants burned homes in an overnight attack and left approximately 132 people dead.
  • Pray for the Lord to bring forth laborers, because the harvest field is white and the laborers are few.
 POA HOPE Prayer
Spring ’21 90 Day Prayer Journey 


We are all familiar with the Good Samaritan parable in the Bible.  There are similarities between the character of the Good Samaritan and the Father in the story of the Prodigal Son.  Both depict the love of Jesus.  

In the story of the Good Samaritan, we would have expected a Jew, a Priest, or the Levite to be the one who would have been the hero, not the Samaritan.  However, perhaps we can go back to II Chronicles 28 where the prophet Oded convinced the Samaritans who were the outcasts, to assist their Judean captives to show compassion.  

In the story of the Prodigal Son, the Father showed great love toward his son.  His son did not deserve the beautiful mercy bestowed upon him. Compassion won.  

Prayer wins.  Compassion wins.  Love wins...every time.  

As we enter into our thirteenth 90 Day Prayer Journey for our beloved prodigals and we who love them, we pray for hearts of love and compassion toward them.  We pray for the heart of the compassionate Samaritan and the heart of the loving Father. When we pray with brokenness, not with anger, condemnation, judging, we will then minister in love with our actions. 

Seeds of compassionate prayer reap mighty blessings. Faith rises.  HOPE awakens.  Love flows. We receive answers to prayers we’ve been praying for months or even years.  

We invite you, your churches, youth groups, small cell groups, families, couples, and singles to unite with HOPE Prayer, a ministry of The Pentecostals of Alexandria, for those with prodigals to pray for our beloved prodigals. This will be our 13th prayer journey praying the book by Dr. James Banks, 90 Days of Prayers for your child. God has performed miracles in the past. He will do it again. 

Tools:

  • We encourage you to take advantage of these tools 
  • Prayers For Prodigals, 90 Days of Prayers For Your Child, Dr. James Banks 
  • Available @ POA White Steeple Book Store (1-888-443-2113) and on Amazon 
  • Daily prayer call with Partners In Prayer, Billie Jean Bishop, Founder 
  • 10 AM CST USA teaching, testimonies, prayer (sharing encouraged...will remain posted daily after each session)
  • FB Billie Jean Bishop, Donald Long, HOPE2HOPE15
  • Daily posts(sharing encouraged)


One mind, One accord Fast Days...Day 1, Day 45, Day 90 

Don and Dy Anne Long
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IG: Don Long, sdyannelong, HOPE2HOPE15 
EMAIL: HOPEJER3117@aol.com

Prayer wins.  Compassion wins. Love wins...every time.   
Dr. David K. Bernard
General Superintendent of the UPCI
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2021 WNOP Events

  • New England Territory Summons (August 19-21) Tiverton, Rhode Island
  • UPCI Day of Prayer (September 29)
  • Oklahoma District One-Day Prayer Summons (October 2) Sperry, Oklahoma
  • International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (November 7)
  • *South Texas District Summons (Dates TBD) Houston, Texas
  • *Ontario District Summons (Dates TBD) Ontario, Canada
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  • School of Prayer (Rescheduled Dates TBD) Ijamsville, Maryland
  • Advanced Prayer Seminar (Rescheduled Dates TBD) Del Valle, Texas
  • *Ministry And Prayer Seminar (MAP) (Rescheduled Dates and Location TBD)
  • “Operation Switzerland” (Rescheduled Dates TBD)
  • “Operation Turkey” (Rescheduled Dates TBD)
  • “Operation Jamaica” (Rescheduled Dates TBD)
 
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