James 5:16b-18 (AMP)
“The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man
(believer) can accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by
God—it is dynamic and can have tremendous power]. 17 Elijah
was a man with a nature like ours [with the same physical, mental, and
spiritual limitations and shortcomings], and he prayed intensely for it not to rain, and it did
not rain on the earth for three years and six months. 18 Then
he prayed again, and the sky gave rain and the land produced its crops [as
usual].”
Prayer Burden
· Revival
in Nigeria:
o The complete gospel to be
re-stated in the Church.
o Unity of the Body of Christ.
o Widespread knowledge of the
mystery of the gospel through the Church.
o National Repentance.
o Great exploit of souls and
multiplication of disciples in every place.
o The establishment of the
purpose of the mystery in every facet of life, reaching every citizen of
Nigeria in every tribe and tongue.
o Leaders that yield to the
counsel of God and carry mind of Christ.
o Righteousness to be established in the nation.
God’s Promises
Isaiah 60:22 (NKJV)
“A little one shall
become a thousand, And a small one a strong nation.
I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time.”
I, the Lord, will hasten it in its time.”
Zechariah 4:6 (NKJV)
So he answered and said
to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:
‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.
‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the Lord of hosts.
Prayer
for Ourselves
John 4:35-38 (TLB)
35: Do you think the work of harvesting
will not begin until the summer ends four months from now? Look around you!
Vast fields of human souls are ripening all around us, and are ready now for
reaping.
36: The reapers will be paid good wages
and will be gathering eternal souls into the granaries of heaven! What joys
await the sower and the reaper, both together!
37: For it is true that one sows and
someone else reaps.
38: I sent you to reap where you didn’t
sow; others did the work, and you received the harvest.”
(AMP)
38: I sent you to reap [a crop] for
which you have not worked. Others have worked and you have been privileged to
reap the results of their work.”
- Death is the beginning of the life of a reaper after
Your heart. Teach me, Holy Spirit, to reckon Your death as my death and
Your divine new life as mine. Make me an instrument of Your glory.
- Thank You for the hope I have in You, that if I have
been united with You in the likeness of Your death, certainly I will also
be united with You in the likeness of Your resurrection.
- Lord, open my eyes to see the vast fields of human
souls ready and waiting to hear the complete gospel that will bring
revival, so that I would live a crucified life and cry to You with
urgency.
- Elijah was a man like me, who prayed intensely and got
results. How much more now that the cross has happened and I have reckoned
Christ’s death to be mine? Please make me intense in prayer for Your will
to be done.
- Grant me revelation knowledge that it is no longer I
that is praying but Christ praying in me. Christ who: “…in the days of His
flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications,
with vehement [passionate, fervent, heated] cries and tears to
Him…”
- I plead with You on the basis to make my prayers
effective, make it dynamic, make it have tremendous power.
- Lord, please show me mercy that Your grace that I have
received will not be wasted. Help me to know that it is a privilege for me
to be included in the labour of gathering souls into heaven’s barns; to
reap where others have sown.
Prayer for Nigeria
Matthew 9:35-38 (NKJV)
35: Then Jesus went about all the cities
and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the
kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.
36: But when He saw the multitudes, He was
moved with compassion for them, because they were weary and
scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.
37: Then He said to His disciples, “The
harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
38: Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest
to send out laborers into His harvest.”
- Let us pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out
labourers into His harvest in Nigeria. The harvest is truly plentiful but
the labourers are few.
- Give Your disciples vision. Open their eyes to see the
vast sea of souls, weary and scattered, seeking deliverance from sin’s
tyranny. Give them Your compassion. Give them Your passion.
- Hebrew 11:11 “By faith Sarah herself
also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child
when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had
promised.”
- Lord, let Your labourers in Nigeria receive strength to
conceive seed, to believe You, to judge You faithful, to trust You, even
in the seemingly hopeless situation.
- Genesis 1:28 “Then God blessed them, and God said to
them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth
and subdue it; have dominion…”
- Let disciples multiply in Nigeria. Let them be fruitful
in proclaiming the gospel and in disciplemaking. Establish them in Your
precise pattern. Let them be content with the simplicity of the gospel
message.
- Do not let them be overcome by the vastness of the
challenge. Let them subdue and fill the nation with disciples after Your
heart. Let a little one of them become a thousand.
- Philippians 2:14-15 “Do all things without complaining
and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless,
children of God without fault
in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation,
among whom you shine as lights in the world.”
- 2 Corinthians 6:6 “By our purity, knowledge, patience,
and kindness we have shown ourselves to be God's servants—by the Holy
Spirit, by our true love, 7 by our message of truth,
and by the power of God.
- Give courage to Your labourers to shine as lights in
the nation in the midst of the perverseness and corruption. Let the noble,
orderly, blameless and harmless life of Christ be clearly seen in them,
that men may be drawn to You.
- Grant that by their purity, knowledge, patience,
kindness, true love and message of truth, they will show themselves to be
those sent from the Lord of the Harvest.
- Let us cry out to God for an increase in discipleship
centres where lives can learn Christ and grow in conformity to his
likeness.
Prayer for Asiri Ihinrere
The Mystery of the Gospel in Yoruba
Every Tuesday at 1.30pm
- Let us thank the Lord
for His mercy that has opened this great and effective door unto us to be
labourers sent reap the souls of our elderly that are ripening all over
Nigeria and gather them into His barn. Lord, we are grateful for this
privilege.
- Psalm 119:38
“Establish Your word to Your servant, Who is
devoted to fearing You.”
- Let us pray for all
those who the Lord has drawn to the platform and those who are yet to
come. Lord, establish them in the truth they are hearing. Let them lose
taste for the old wine and become intoxicated with the new wine.
- Lord, grant them grace
to rise above the distractions in the nation and everything competing for
their souls. Heal them from sickness and weakness in their bodies.
- Help us as labourers to
see how vital this labour is. Help us to labour in prayer, in laying down
our lives for them practically for the sake of their growth.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:15 “For our gospel did not come
to you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy
Spirit and in much assurance…”
- Let us pray for the
meetings, that the gospel will come in power and in the Holy Spirit.
Reveal it in the hearts of our elderly that they died on the cross with
Christ.
Islamic Agenda in Nigeria
There are reports that the present
government is pursuing an Islamic agenda, which has now affected the school
curriculum.
Ezekiel 36:1-4 (NKJV)
1 “And you, son of man, prophesy to the
mountains of Israel, and say, ‘O mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the Lord!
2 Thus says the Lord God:
“Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our
possession,’”’
3 therefore prophesy, and
say, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Because they made you desolate
and swallowed you up on every side, so that you became the possession of the
rest of the nations, and you are taken up by the lips of talkers and slandered
by the people”—
4 therefore, O mountains
of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God! Thus says the Lord God to
the mountains, the hills, the rivers, the valleys, the desolate wastes, and the
cities that have been forsaken, which became plunder and mockery to the rest of
the nations all around…”
5 therefore thus says
the Lord God: “Surely I have spoken in My burning jealousy against the
rest of the nations and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a
possession, with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, in order
to plunder its open country.”’
6 “Therefore prophesy
concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains, the hills, the rivers,
and the valleys, ‘Thus says the Lord God: “Behold, I have spoken in My
jealousy and My fury, because you have borne the shame of the nations.”
7 Therefore thus says the
Lord God: “I have raised My hand in an oath that surely the nations
that are around you shall bear their own shame.
8 But you, O mountains
of Israel, you shall shoot forth your branches and yield your fruit to My
people Israel, for they are about to come.
9 For indeed I am for
you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown.
10 I will multiply men
upon you, all the house of Israel, all of it; and the cities shall be inhabited
and the ruins rebuilt.
11 I will multiply upon you
man and beast; and they shall increase and bear young; I will make you
inhabited as in former times, and do better for you than at
your beginnings. Then you shall know that I am the Lord.
Prophesy
to Nigeria and say, “O Nigeria, hear the word of the Lord...
Hymn: Dying with Jesus By Death Reckoned Mine
1.
Dying with Jesus, by death reckoned mine;
Living with Jesus, a new life divine;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine,
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.
Living with Jesus, a new life divine;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine,
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.
Moment by moment I’m kept in His love;
Moment by moment I’ve life from above;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine;
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.
Moment by moment I’ve life from above;
Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine;
Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine.
2.
Never a trial that He is not there,
Never a burden that He doth not bear,
Never a sorrow that He doth not share,
Moment by moment, I’m under His care.
Never a burden that He doth not bear,
Never a sorrow that He doth not share,
Moment by moment, I’m under His care.
3.
Never a heartache, and never a groan,
Never a teardrop and never a moan;
Never a danger but there on the throne,
Moment by moment He thinks of His own.
Never a teardrop and never a moan;
Never a danger but there on the throne,
Moment by moment He thinks of His own.
4.
Never a weakness that He doth not feel,
Never a sickness that He cannot heal;
Moment by moment, in woe or in weal,
Jesus my Savior, abides with me still.
Never a sickness that He cannot heal;
Moment by moment, in woe or in weal,
Jesus my Savior, abides with me still.
