PIPES: Will You Pray for Australia? 2012

We are entering a vital season of prayer for Australia that will take us into new forms of prayer and partnership.

In this season when there are so many calls to pray– our prayer leaders really need people who are committed to pray for them, and we all need to pray that people across the Body of Christ will respond to the calls to pray for Australia.

Come to Jesus for Your Instruction

We hear Jesus calling us to arise and come to Him for our instruction and rest.

Matthew 17:5 “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!”

Exodus 23, esp 20-21 “See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.  Pay attention to him and listen to what he says.

Isaiah 60:1-5 “Arise, shine.. Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn. “Lift up your eyes and look about you: All assemble and come to you” and Rev 3:20-22, 4:1-5

Praying for the Pray-ers.

I want to publicly acknowledge Dorothy Beach, one of my dear friends and prayer shield partners, who passed away this month.  I miss her deeply and cried out to the Lord asking, ‘Who will stand in her place?’ By God’s grace, within a day four people identified that they are praying for me! Thank you xxx I have since identified 12 pray-ers that I am committed to pray for. Would you pray for 12 pray-ers by name?

God will intervene to save our nation.

Hezekiah has frequently been raised to me, by the Holy Spirit, as a relevant example:

I proclaim these godly characteristics for the prayer movement in Australia!

• We trust in the Lord, the God of Australia! (2Kgs18:5)
• We base our confidence on the one and only God and worship Him only! (2Kgs18:19,22)
• We invite others to trust in the Lord. (2Kgs18:30,32)
• When we see trouble coming we turn first in prayer to our Lord. (2Kgs19:1,14) (2Ch30:20, 32:20)
• We pray for the people of our nation, saying, “May the Lord, who is good, pardon everyone who sets their hearts on seeking God – the Lord the God of their ancestors” (2Ch 30:18-19)
• God hears our prayer for our nation. (2Kgs19:19,20, 20:5) God defends this city/nation and saves it … (2Kings19:34) “Now the Lord our God delivers us… so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, Lord are God.” (2Ch 30:20) “So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the people of Judah. He took care of them on every side.” (2Ch 32:22)
• We will come out of this season as a remnant, a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this. (2Kgs19:31) May we succeed also in everything we undertake! (2Ch 32:30)
• We speak encouragingly to all the pray-ers who show good understanding of the service of the Lord. There is provision, “a great number of priests consecrating themselves and great joy. The priests and pray-ers stand to bless the people and God heard them, for their prayers reach heaven, his holy dwelling place.” (2Ch 30:22-27)
• The priests and pray-ers are assigned “to divisions – each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites – to offer burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, to minister, to give thanks and to sing praises at the gates of the Lord’s dwelling.” (2Ch 31:2) Orders are given to prepare storerooms in the temple of the Lord, and this is done. (2Ch 31:11) This is what is done throughout our nation, what is good and right and faithful before our God. (2Ch 31:20)

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