It’s About Time!

What is more precious than gold but cannot be bought, earned, or saved? Can you name the most priceless commodity that one possesses and is not so readily to be given up? Here’s a hint: sometimes it flies, sometimes it crawls, but it always relentlessly passes by.

Time is the one thing we don't have a lot of, and surely do not want to waste. Human beings tend to measure it incessantly with a daunting passion for accuracy that borders on being obsessive.

As earthy mortals we revolve our life around the ticking of the clock. We mark it, save it, waste it, hold tight to it, are pressured by it, and race against it. Time is so vitally enmeshed in the fabric of our being that any time surrendered to God becomes an invaluable sacrifice.

Here is a thought, what if God required us to give a tithe of our time? A tenth of our day would be 1 hour and 24 minutes surrendered to pursuing Him. We may grimace while thinking that’s a lot of time to give to prayer. But are we so busy that we only give Him the 24 minutes (or less) let alone 84 minutes per day?

Most of us sense that our life has been accelerated to a break-neck speed. Time is spinning so fast it feels as though we can’t get any traction. One week seems like a day, and the months fly by like one week.

It is a stark reality that in these last days our time has been shortened by God; we must use it judiciously. It is a gift from God that has wings of its own, there is none to lose. Thus, our greatest treasure becomes our greatest offering to God. Let’s pray that God will bless the time He gives us in our day. So make time to pray … It’s About Time!

Juli Jasinski, Guest Writer

District Prayer Coordinator

Massachusetts/Rhode Island District

Successful Praying!

Luke 14:11, Exodus 20:18-20, Matthew 15:22-28

There are three categories we should focus on for successful praying:

  1. Praying with Spiritual Humility – Luke 14:11

         a. Coming with an attitude of desperation.

         b. Coming with an attitude of brokenness and humility towards God.

         c. Coming where God is; our only source for our impossible circumstances.

   2. Praying in the Fear of the Lord – Exodus 20:18-20

         a. Coming to pray with a great reverence for the things of God.

         b. Coming to God with a Holy Fear of the church sanctuary.

         c. Approaching prayer with great awe of God’s presence—bringing carnality, opinions and

             fleshly passions under the control of the Holy Ghost.

    3. Praying in Faith –  Matthew 15:22-28

         a. Coming to God as like the faith of the Syrophoenician woman. Jesus called it great faith

             because of her spiritual humility mixed with faith.

         b. Coming to God solely on what His Word has said.

         c. Coming to God with desperate determination.

Everyone is encouraged to pray this focuses.

Pastor Don Rogers

The Pentecostals of Wisconsin

WNOP North Central Region Prayer Coordinator

Wisconsin District Prayer Coordinator

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

OCTOBER 24/7 WATCH (WEEK 3)

Evangelism: Persecuted Christians

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

HOPE Ministry

HOPE Ministry began “90 Days of Prayer” with just a handful. It only took a few people from the Pentecostals of Alexandria (POA) with prodigals, to pray and believe in unity. 

In 2015, WNOP embraced HOPE Ministry. 

In 2016, Partners in Prayer partnered with HOPE Ministry. 

And we grew and grew. This is what we know. We are in 31 countries and 38 states. What we don’t know is what we don’t know ... how far-reaching HOPE Ministry has been and still is. We are grateful. 

Eight years of HOPE …

Helping 

Overwhelmed 

Parents

Endure

Helping

Our

Prodigals 

Eternally

Here are a few snapshots that we are sharing of the goodness of God. Our experiences during our son’s prodigal years and his restoration have for sure known of His faithfulness. 

Time would not permit us to tell the nights and many years of pain, sorrow, and loneliness experienced as we waited for change. And yet we would have missed knowing beyond the shadow of a doubt, there IS a God and HE IS REAL, if that change would have come sooner, rather than later. We would have missed out on many crucial details of our growth in faith. It hasn’t been easy by far, but today we are thankful to share our story. Though it was a bit difficult when we first stepped out with our story, we have seen many glorious miracles.

Whether others believe or do not believe, whether they try to disprove or dismiss, it doesn’t matter when you KNOW. When no one could help, treatment centers failed, counseling failed, faith in what we KNEW to be truth, sustained. You cannot argue with an experience. Change came and so has restoration. He IS God and He IS love. 

Thank you to all who have decided to unite with us on this journey. Your prodigal is ours. That is how this ministry works. We are here to pray, fast, believe, cry, laugh, encourage, rejoice, and all things in between. We are HERE! 

We invite you to unite with HOPE Ministry once again to pray 90 days for our prodigals and those who love them on October 1 - December 29, 2022, as we pray and loosely follow the daily topics of the book, Prayers For Prodigals,by Dr. James Banks. Follow us on Instagram or FB @HOPE2Hope15 for more information. 

We also invite you to connect with us if you will be attending the 2022 UPCI General Conference. We will be speaking at a seminar Friday morning, October 7 at 10:30 am. Meeting you would be wonderful! HOPE Ministry information will be at the WNOP booth during the conference. 

Blessings,

Don and Dy Anne Long

HOPE Ministry Founders 

HOPE2Hope15 

hopejer3117@aol.com 

318-442-5541

2022 WNOP Events

• 24/7 WATCH: WNOP Facebook Worldwide Prayer Initiative (January 1 - December 31)
• 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
• 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)