Prayer Connect: "Are You Wired for Prayer?"

Are You Wired For Prayer?

How are you wired? Are you wired for prayer? Symbolically, “wired” in this case is used as a verb, meaning to connect someone or something to an electronic entity; namely, a connect point to transfer and receive information, signifying a form of support and reinforcement.

Do you have a connect point in communicating with God, through prayer? In other words, do you have a prayer connect? Not just in emergency situations, but continuously are you connected to and plugged into the Power Source (God) in your daily prayer life? The time to pray is not just during the storm, but rather more importantly...before the storm.

Is the Lord saying, “’I See You’ in prayer...NOW, before you or someone else you know is in ‘ICU’ with wires all over the place...LATER?” Is the Lord saying, "I've watched you get down on your knees NOW," so things will be okay when it gets "down to the wire" LATER? Is the Lord saying "Because you choose to touch me in prayer NOW, I will remember you when you unexpectedly touch a "live wire" LATER? That live wire could represent situations in life like...a marriage on the rocks; a loss of job...finances...health...a loved one...something of great value, etc; a tragic situation, and the list goes on. All of this threatening you, with no hope of recovery...from feeling like you have been “shocked to death.”

So, are you giving yourself to old-fashioned prayer and talking to God "by wire"? Are you allowing yourself to be a conduit of prayer? Understand that a conduit is a tube or trough for protecting electric wiring. Therefore, allegorically, prayer serves as a fortification of the power of God flowing through you, bringing about a specific effect or outcome.

If you are wired for prayer, oftentimes this deactivates the bomb that is wired up by the enemy to destroy you. If you are wired for prayer, it oftentimes provides the spiritual power that generates the light on the sign or marquee that shines the word “Victory”! So, this is just a simple reminder that it’s okay to be “wired up,” but as long as you are wired for prayer!

Flo Shaw

Director

World Network of Prayer

The Hedge of Job

(Job 1:5, 10)

Job sought God for intimacy, fellowship, and sanctification for his family through prayer. Job walked in a spirit of prayer through repentance. This did four things:

1. It attracted God's presence to Job’s prayers

2. It caused God to extol Job to Satan

3. It put a hedge around Job and all of his substance

4. It brought favor to Job's life

All because he walked in the spirit of prayer and repentance continually. Repentance is not like a spare tire when you need it. It releases the grace of God into the earthly realm for humanity by the voice of the intercessor. Without it, Ezekiel says God brings destruction of His wrath when He does not find an intercessor who will stand in the gap for a people through repentance praying. Our right standing with God is only as good as the last time we repented. Repentance activates the mercies and judgment of God upon a people. We see this with many Bible figures, such as Daniel, Moses, and Jonah.

The priest carried blood throughout the tabernacle as a sign that repentance must go with us throughout our entire time of praying to attract God's nature. The Mosaic law required they sprinkle the blood on their garments when they walked throughout the temple. This represents the spirit of repentance. This releases God's mercy for a situation. This caused the glory cloud to come down in the holiest place. All because God saw the blood and fire carried from the brazen altar of repentance. For He will not despise a broken and contrite heart. God is attracted to the spirit of repentance.

Uzziah forgot this and was struck with leprosy. He felt his track record excluded him from this kind of humility. The Bible says let judgment begin at the house of the Lord in order that He may send His Spirit into our communities. If the pulpit does not preach repentance then our communities have no hope. For the Spirit and the bride says come, Lord Jesus! This is the cry of the spirit of repentance, through the spirit of prayer. Job knew this and sanctified his family every day. It brought a hedge on his substance.

Jesus said repentance must be taught in My name in the four corners of the earth according to Luke 24:47. For the spirit of prayer through repentance is a way of life and not something just for new converts. So Job knew this and created nightmares for the Devil. All of Hell's powers could not get to Job because he walked in the spirit of prayer through repentance! Job's attitude of repentance kept evil out of his household. Proverbs 19:32 says the man who fears the Lord shall not be visited with evil. For he shall be satisfied, and he will tend to live. Jesus healed people after He told them, "your sins are forgiven."

Will you pray:

The spirit of repentance sweeps throughout our congregations to release the miraculous!
The fruit of repentance is manifested through great joy and real conversions and transformations amongst the people.
That repentance is preached in our pulpits with more regularity.
That the spirit of repentance drives worldliness out of the churches and produces a genuine biblical spirit of holiness.
The spirit of repentance activates the gifts of the spirit in our churches.
The spirit of repentance is released with power and victory with global missionaries who are breaking ground in new territories.

Pastor Don Rogers

The Pentecostals of Wisconsin

Wisconsin District Prayer Coordinator

WNOP North Central Regional Prayer Coordinator

World Needs:

Pray for Ecuador as a battle between prison gangs has left 68 people dead.
Continue to pray for the peace of Israel and the return of their land.
Continue to pray for all who have had family members or loved ones encounter issues as the Covid-19 death toll is now over 250 million at a year and eight months post-pandemic as indicated by the World Health Organization. Also, ask the Lord to bring the Church and the harvest through current Covid-19 challenges.

POA HOPE Prayer

Fall ’21 "90 Day Prayer Journey"

It’s that wonderful time of year!

Rosh Hashanah, on the historical Jewish calendar, brought the beginning of the year 5782. Celebrating those special days with God’s chosen people only added to the feelings of expectancy and urgency many are feeling.

Fall; beautiful Fall. The colors are simply glorious. The weather is marvelous. Everyone wants to be outdoors, by a fire, cooking, working, and just enjoying cool, brisk breezes.

It’s time again to unite with POA’s HOPE Prayer Family around the world to pray. What a blessing to come together for a cause so close to the heart of Jesus; His covenant children who have lost their way and those who love them and refuse to give up hope.

October 1, we will commit to pray our 14th season of “90 Days of Prayer” for our beloved prodigals and those who love them. Some of us have been together 7 years, praying faithfully every Spring and Fall. What journeys we’ve had of love, grace and mercy!

We will again pull our thoughts and prayers from the scripture-based book by Dr. James Banks, Prayers For Prodigals. We may deviate some, however we like staying with the scriptures Dr. Banks has compiled for each day.

We invite you to join our HOPE Family for these 90 days of binding together in hope and faith. If it is your first time, we welcome you to a family who cares deeply about all prodigals.

“And there is hope in thine end, saith the LORD, that thy children shall come again to their own border” (Jeremiah 31:17 KJV).

Believing for the harvest,

Don and Dy Anne Long

POA HOPE Prayer

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Dr. David K. Bernard

UPCI General Superintendent

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.