Invest Time In His Presence: 40 Days Prayer & Worship Relay
Following the National Day of Prayer & Fasting Saturday 25 February 2017
Be one of 40 churches who each host 24 hours of prayer & worship – to create a 24/7 prayer canopy over your region for 40 days 1 March – 9 April 2017!
Talk with the leaders of your local church to plan NOW!
We invite you to pray & worship God together. Enjoy God’s Presence and be filled with the power of the Father’s love so you can share it with others. Ephesians 3:14-21
“You will receive POWER when the HOLY SPIRIT comes on you
and you will BE MY WITNESSES…” Acts 1:8
Time In His Presence: 40 Day Prayer Plan
- PRAY FOR YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS to receive Jesus. 1Thessalonians 1:4-5 Our tools will help you practise, share and upload your testimony. Colossians 4:2-6 Sign for 40 daily inspirations: www.40daysofprayer.org.au
- PRAY FOR AUSTRALIA: Register to join the 40 Days: Prayer & Worship Relay as individuals, local churches or regional gatherings. Hebrews 13:15
- PRAY FOR A NEW GENERATION of young prayer warriors and evangelists to arise in Jesus’ revival and transformation in our nation. Luke 10:1-24
Become His Presence Carriers
Our focus is worshipping Jesus so we receive His Holy Spirit’s power to share our testimonies through personal outreach. (Acts 1:8)
Decide on the time you are called to invest in God’s presence and register to join the relay!
Register your church, group or regional network in the Prayer & Worship Relay. You could host one evening, day or a weekend of prayer & worship during the regional relays across Australia. See how vital and simple this is! Contact us to receive free posters!
We hope many young ones will be released by their families and churches – during the 40 Day prayer & worship relay – to become radical spiritual warriors sharing their testimony on line and everywhere!
We will feature teenage worshippers and evangelists in brief film clips to inspire you all to upload your testimonies from your phones. Are there passionate teenagers in your midst who could be filmed sharing their testimony? Get in touch! sue@partnersinprayer.org.au 0418 389
The 40 Days of Prayer & Worship Relay 1 March-9 April 2017 is an opportunity to establish sustainable patterns of time set apart with in God’s presence – ministering to Him the worship He is worthy of and becoming His Presence Carriers. We will read through the Book of Acts – and be inspired by these followers of Jesus who encountered Jesus and became Carriers of His Presence – His Word – transforming the world.
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Thanks to all of you who have been part of the 40 Days of Prayer in recent years.
Instead of prayer & fasting this will be a 40 Days Prayer & Worship Relay. Your prayer will contribute to continuous 24/7 worship and prayer for Australia from 1 March – 9 April 2017! You will receive daily devotionals as usual. Our focus will be Acts 1:8 “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be My witnesses…” There is more information, free Posters and other resources [NA\
We invite you to register your personal participation in the 40 Days Prayer & Worship Relay at: http://PrayforAustralia.com.au/
This new website will collate the 40 Days Prayer & Worship Relay gatherings across our nation. PrayforAustralia.com.au will continue to connect prayer beyond the 40 Days. You can return to the site any time to register existing or new prayer meetings. Would you consider registering your times of prayer; your current prayer groups or hosting prayer gatherings during the 40 Days? People will set aside regular daily times, weekly times, special days or weekends and some churches and networks will host 24 hours of prayer!
When you register prayer meetings you’ll be asked questions about the contact details of the coordinator; and the days, times, frequency and address of your gathering. Is it a public meeting – open for others to join; a private meeting; or one people can join by invitation or inquiry to the coordinator? Is your gathering a local church prayer meeting; home based prayer meeting; marketplace prayer meeting (workplace, uni etc); or churches uniting to pray together?
We will notify you when the full Pray for Australia website is accessible! Prayer meetings will be visible on a Google Calendar and as flames on a Google Map of Australia. This will enable other locals to join you! If you are looking for a prayer group you’ll be able to use the flames on the map to guide you to a prayer gathering. Local leaders will be able to contact with each other for encouragement – and partner in regional gatherings or even collaborate in a regional 24/7 relay! It is amazing to realise that even 40 churches, each hosting 24 hours, can cover your region continuously in 24/7 prayer & worship! You can simply organise 12-24 people to pray for 1-2 hours each in their homes or one location. Churches can open their doors for people to freely come and go. Local churches can collaborate – e.g. with different leaders hosting prayer & worship sequential.
Thank you for contributing your prayer as a vital part of this big picture. God will be glorified day and night and we will see the fire of God all over Australia! We look forward to what Jesus will do in our nation and beyond!
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REPORT
Already after the National Day of Prayer & Fasting on 25 February and the first week of the Pray for Australia 40 Days Pray & Worship Relay we can see early encouraging shifts that God promised us – and these are confirmed through a Prophetic Word for Australia by David Wagner 26 February 2017.
- Across Australia, and beyond, there are partners, groups and churches in prayer & worship – together sustaining continuous 24/7 night and day for 40 Days. This is evident in the Pray for Australia calendar. Some days there are 80 or so groups praying. On any day there are up to 5 networks hosting daily or 24/7 prayer relays in their region or organisation. See green highlights.
- Churches are uniting in prayer in their local areas and regions across Australia in ways that are unprecedented or not seen for years. Open the Pray for Australia map to local areas. Search by suburb or town under the map. See the numbers (currently 8288 – many of which are families, groups, churches and networks). See the gaps. We can introduce you to people who can share what God is doing in different regions. In many regions the churches are hosting collaborative gatherings and days of prayer. In Perth 120 churches are praying one day each for 30 days through March & Far North Queensland is hosting a local 24/7 prayer relay for 40 days.
- Through the relay we can each be part of collectively lifting up Jesus as our Lord and first love- in continuous day and night prayer and worship. 24/7 prayer & worship brings a shift in our spiritual atmosphere. As we are devote time in His Presence, we see Jesus more clearly. We encounter Him in Spirit and are transformed by Him. Know who you are and Whose we are. Know Australia’s purpose. Pray for Australia to encounter Jesus living in us, His radiant church – His kingdom here.
- This 40 Days is a call to set aside time to hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church. As we devote time in the secret place of God’s Presence, the Holy Spirit opens our eyes to God’s perspective and our hearts to what is on our Father’s heart. We are awakened with compassion for the lost people perishing around us. We recognise and resist the schemes through which God’s enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy abundant life, righteousness and justice in our nation. As we each continue to devote time in God’s presence, listening to what He is saying, we see what our Father is doing and align with His will and our part in His strategy. The Holy Spirit progressively enables us to pray and stand in the authority of Christ on personal, local and national issues. We, as God’s people, are arising to obey Him, as His sons and daughters, to see His Kingdom in our families, communities and nation and beyond. Be encouraged by hearing for yourself the impact prayer will have from this month: Prophetic Word for Australia by David Wagner 26 February 2017
- Continuous day and night intercession is shifting the spiritual atmosphere so that souls who were perishing can hear the conviction of the Holy Spirit and be saved. We believe David Wagner’s word that this is a year of salvation. This is what God promised when he asked us to call 40 Days focussed on Acts 1:8 “…you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses…” We call you, the church, to pray by name for the salvation of your family and friends and neighbours. Let the Spirit lead you to share Jesus and His miraculous power with those you meet – the right words with the right person at the right time. David Wagner’s word confirms what God had told us that millions will be saved – including families and households. We are hearing reports of salvations in local churches that have not seen this for many years. I have a personal testimony of salvation within my family. Across the next weeks the 40 Days will help equip people to prepare and share their testimony and to present the gospel clearly. Pray we each do this.
- We believe the Australian church will continue to arise as Jesus’ House of Prayer everywhere; and that a new generation of young prayer warriors and evangelists will arise in Jesus’ revival and transformation of our nation. Registrations in Pray for Australia continue to rise as evidence of this. Across the next weeks we will issue a call to pray for and stand behind these young ones. Pray with us for them. Visit and scroll down at Pray for Australia. Contact: sue@partnersinprayer.org.au
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A Letter from our Editor of the 40 Days 2017, E.A. MULLEN
66 After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. 67 So Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” 68 Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life, 69 and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God.” John 6:66-69 (ESV)
Throughout the scriptures the number 40 appears so consistently that it is difficult to just discount its frequency as coincidence.
The Israelites were in the Sinai desert for 40 years.
Jesus was in the tested in the wilderness for 40 days.
The believers were waiting for the Holy Spirit for 40 days.
These and many other examples in the scriptures illustrate being in a wilderness; a period of our relationship with the LORD being tested. When we are waiting on the LORD, it is important to do so with an intentionality of heart, with our eyes fixed on Jesus and His Word. It’s just the kind of waiting that the LORD asks of us, as he points to the faithful 5 virgins that had enough oil in their lamps to keep burning in time to meet the bridegroom. It is the kind of positioning towards the LORD where we have purity of commitment and devotion to Him of spirit, soul and body. Where like the Apostle Peter, we have come to the resolution that there is nowhere else to go and find eternal life.
It seems that so many Christians go through a wilderness period in order for their faith to be tested and refined. We may have faced disappointments in our relationship with other Christians and Church leadership that remain unresolved. Perhaps we have been caught off guard by the cost required to being a disciple and wonder if it is worth it when seeing the success of unbelievers in the world. Put simply, the total abandonment we once had to Christ and His Word is being tested. Is God faithful? Can I trust Him with my life?
Unfortunately like the Israelites, a prolonged time of waiting can lead to a state of wilderness due to unbelief and hardness of heart. As Christians, we are called to abide in the vine and not get our source of life from the world. We are called away from consumerism of our culture, feeding off the temporal pleasures of this world or as Day 14 puts it, a ‘futility of mind.’ The church, Christ’s bride is called to be set apart from the world, to walk in her identity, clothed in His righteousness and spreading the Good News of the Kingdom of Heaven.
When reviewing the 40 days for 2017, I was overwhelmed by the need to take time away from the busyness and distractions of the culture and allow the LORD to speak to me through His Word and the designated commentary provided. This is not a quick 5 minute daily devotional- this is a spiritual exercise that requires putting sufficient time aside to meditate on His Word so we can faithfully put into action His commandments- becoming doers and not hearers of the Word only (James 1:22). The prayers at the end of each day require us to be open and honest with the LORD and if need be, receive a bit of heart surgery. It’s a journey worth taking to being filled with His Spirit and becoming His witnesses (Acts 1:8).
During a time of great social and political upheaval, my prayer for you is that the Spirit of the LORD will transform you during this 40 day journey so that you enter into His rest (Hebrews 4:9-10) and live the abundant life Christ has won for you on the Cross at Calvary. That you will learn to daily abide in Him so that wherever you go those around you will be blessed by the Good News.
Yours in Christ,
E.A Mullen