2022 WNOP Leadership Retreat
The 2022 WNOP Leadership Retreat will occur April 6-8, 2022 in the Chapel at UPCI World Headquarters in Weldon Spring, Missouri. The event theme is “Make Him KNOWN.” Prayer leaders from across America will gather to participate in this focal event. This retreat is designed to greater equip and provide distinct direction in the ministry of prayer.
This year we will have a youth-oriented focus, with main speaker Jeremy Stafford, UPCI Youth Ministries Secretary. There will be leaders and students from Urshan College and Missouri Youth attending and involved in the agenda as we endeavor to greater impact our Youth through prayer ministry training and youth prayer advancement! We will reinforce that prayer is a vital force in every home, community, church, locality, etc., including every prayer ministry and youth ministry that works together to make a transformational difference in the kingdom of God!
Join us in prayer for the great success of this event. It is going to be an amazing time of training and empowerment!
Flo Shaw
Director
World Network of Prayer
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DEFINING PRAYER!
There are three parts to the word “Prayer,” according to the original languages the Bible was written in. These are: (worship, intercession, and supplication). While there are vast possibilities in these three words, there is also a correlation between these, the greatest commandment ever given, and the possibility to fulfill the law of love. Through worship we show our love and adoration for God, through intercession we demonstrate compassion, and extend God’s grace to others. Through both intercession and supplication, we can fulfill the law of loving others as ourselves. There are many biblical examples that define prayer. When put into action, prayer fulfills the First Commandment:
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Worship: (to reverence or adore, do homage, obeisance, bow down). Worship is one of the most definitive words for prayer in the Greek language. Prayer in itself is the primary way to worship God when performed with a pure heart. Daily prayer should always begin and end with worship. God is calling on us to be thankful, and to not be overcome by this fast-paced world and stress. There is depression and suicide rampant in our world today that could be abated with thankfulness. One of the best examples of worship is Abraham’s trip to Mount Moriah. He was willing to give all with a thankful heart, believing that God would make a way for him and Isaac.
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Intercession: (entreat, meet (together), pray, reach, run). Jesus is our greatest example of an intercessor. He stood in the gap between heaven and hell for us, once and for all, giving us the greatest example of love. When we pray on behalf of another or a situation in intercession, we bear the burden for that person or situation as if it were our own; carrying it to the throne of God. Abraham interceded for Sodom and Gomorrah, and he saved his family. God is calling on believers to take the burden of a lost and dying world, and run with it, straight to His throne.
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Supplication: (a petition, prayer, request). Supplication is one of the greatest demonstrations of faith towards God, and usually involves desperation. When there is a hopeless situation, God always has a solution, and is an ever-present help in time of need. The widow woman who went continually to the unjust judge, to be avenged of her adversary, is a perfect example of supplication. Like the widow woman, we need to wait on God. And while we wait, we should continue to demonstrate our faith as she did. We must believe that God will answer in His perfect time, when we pray according to His will.
Pray that we incorporate these three important prayer parts. Prayer is so much more than speaking some nice sounding words, and so much more than making our requests known. Prayer is an action word. Daily prayer will transform any life into what God has created and intended for it to be. Many times it is not so much what we are praying that matters, as much as if we are praying. God wants to hear from us, and He wants our lives to be defined by prayer.
Beth Marie Evans
Apostolic Author
Associate Minister
International Christian Fellowship
Brookfield, Illinois
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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 over 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
WNOP Director
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APRIL 24/7 WATCH (WEEK 1)
Children & Youth: Children & Youth
Following is the “24/7 Watch” daily prayer focus for this week. Join us in consistent prayer & fasting.
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World Needs:
- Pray for God’s will to be done regarding the church economy, world economy, and gas and food prices.
- Pray for God to have mercy on Ukraine and to touch the heart of Russian President Putin. Also pray for all apostolic friends and missionaries in the Ukraine/Russia region.
- Pray for the peace of Israel. Intercede for God to have His way with their government, and for the return of their land.
- Pray for the Lord to bring forth laborers, because the harvest field is white and the laborers are few.
- Pray for the Lord to bless and keep the body of Christ through the current Covid-19 season.
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POA 90 Day Prayer
For Prodigals and Those Who Love Them
NEVER has there been a greater time in prophecy as now for seeing our prayers answered. DON’T give up or be weary in well doing. WE WILL REAP IF WE FAINT NOT!
“And the Gentiles that are left round about you shall know that I the Lord built the ruined places and planted that which was desolate; I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it” (Ezekiel 36:36, JUB)
Ezekiel 37:12 speaks of them coming out of their cold and dead situations and bringing them back home.
“Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Behold, O my people, I open your graves and will cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel” (Ezekiel 37:12, JUB).
We are speaking and calling, “COME TO LIFE,” dry bones. Come back to where you first met Jesus! Come home to the kingdom where you belong. You were never meant for Satan’s kingdom. There is only one kingdom for you. Come home! Come home! We will welcome you with the love of Jesus!
HOPE Prayer will begin again on April 1 to pray the book, Prayers For Prodigals...90 Days of Prayers For Your Prodigals by Dr. James Banks. This book is filled with scriptures from the Word of God. We will conclude on June 29.
We’re very excited and in great anticipation. Our beloved prodigals know the signs! They know the scriptures. We can be sure they are watching everything. God has spoken that His Spirit will draw them as we unite in love and prayer. The love and Spirit of God are promised and exampled through the Holy Scriptures. We know them to be faithful and true.
WE ARE ONE. Let us unite to pray, believe, and celebrate together as God answers our prayers!
As in the past, we will post daily posts on Face Book and Instagram @ HOPE2HOPE15 and Don Long and Donald Long. Contact number: 318 442 5541. Please leave a message.
We are available to speak or help launch a Hope Prayer Ministry.
Thank you!
Believing for the harvest!
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Small Group Video Series: Rev. John Hanson, Bishop of Acts II Ministries, has produced some in-house video series for prayer groups and made these available online as free resources for churches with limited budgets. Please visit www.ActsII.org to access these remarkable resources, as applicable.
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Dr. David K. Bernard
UPCI General Superintendent
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Access Challenged Nations
Join the World Network of Prayer and Global Missions in praying for the nations that currently do not have an apostolic work. We will focus on one nation each week.
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2022 WNOP Events
- 24/7 WATCH: WNOP Facebook Worldwide Prayer Initiative (January 1 - December 31)
- WNOP Leadership Retreat (April 6-8). UPCI World Headquarters, Weldon Spring, MO
- National Day of Prayer (May 5)
- National Apostolic Day of Prayer (Date TBA). Apostolic Fellowship Summit
- WNOP International Summons (June 2-4). New Life St. Louis, Bridgeton, MO
- World Day of Prayer/Pentecost Sunday (June 5).
- New England Territory Summons (NETS) - Regional (August 18-20). Christ Temple, Tiverton, RI
- UPCI Day of Prayer (September 28)
- International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (November 6)
- *Arkansas District Summons (Dates TBD). First Pentecostals of Benton, Benton, AR
- *Washington District Summons (DatesTBD). Location: TBA
- *South Texas District Summons (Dates TBD). Houston, Texas
- *Ontario District Blitz (November 4-13). Location: Various Sections in Ontario, Canada.
- 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 Board approval. Note: Events and schedule subject to the restrictions and impact of the ongoing pandemic.
Also, more 2022 event dates to be added to the WNOP Calendar later as approved by the Board throughout the year.
(For more info on these specific listings, please contact WNOP at 636-229-7986)
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WNOP Personal Prayer List
To join WNOP in praying for the personal needs submitted by email, phone and website, please click the button below.
You may submit requests by email at pray@wnop.org.
"If you received an answer to prayer or have a victory report, post it on WNOP's Facebook page. We would like to hear from you."
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World Network of Prayer | United Pentecostal Church International
36 Research Park Court, Weldon Spring, Missouri 63304
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