GATEWAY RESTORATION NETWORK
CALLING THE NATION BACK TO GOD
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Although this is to Canadians, perhaps you will also find it helpful in praying for your nation...
May God have mercy on us all!
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CALLING THE NATION BACK TO GOD
From: TOGETHER National Newsletter 12-17-2004
"Networking Canadian Christian Leaders"
together@cogeco.ca
1. FIRST PRIORITIES FOR 2005
Knowing that many of our readers are involved in pastors' prayer fellowships
and city church networks, please let me challenge you as we head into the
New Year. Do you know how Jesus wants to lead you as you begin 2005?
The desperate need of the hour is to hear the heart of our Master. We do not need the latest, greatest strategy that the best of human minds have thought up. We must also abandon strategies that we have been following that obviously don't have the endorsement of heaven. No more wasting time!
As I have challenged the various local groups that I am a part of, our greatest priority must be to seek the face of the Lord together until we hear a clear direction from Him. It's time for Jesus to lead our corporate efforts. It's time for leaders to wait in His presence until we have discerned the mind of the Lord for our cities and our regions. (That probably means setting some quality time aside to come together and listen in one accord, having set aside our own agenda's and previous assumptions.)
Unless the Lord builds the house, they labour in vain who build it. So our ultimate prayer must be, "Lord Jesus, come and build your House. Help us to follow Your blueprints. Help us to build it Your way. For in the end we want it to be a house that You would be willing to dwell in with all Your glory."
Richard Long
Together Ministries
together@cogeco.ca
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CALLING THE NATION BACK TO GOD IN THE FIRST WEEK OF 2005
(Numerous leaders in the nation have sensed that we need to use the first week of the new year to cry out to God for our nation. Val Dodd from Burloak Christian Fellowship has created this prayer of repentance based on Nehemiah 9 and Daniel 9 for posting on the websites of several national ministries. ><>RL)
Calling The Nation Back To God
Prayer and Fasting January 3rd to 7th 2005
"Blessed Be The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ"
O may Your glorious name be blessed and
exalted above all blessings and praise! You alone are Lord. You have made
the heavens, the heaven of heavens with all their hosts, the earth and all
that is in it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all of them
and the heavenly host bows down before You. You are the Lord God.
Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness, do not let all this hardship seem insignificant before You, which has come upon us, our Prime Minister, our governments, our prophets, our ministers and priests, our fathers, and on all of Your people.
However, You are just in all that has come
upon us; for You have dealt faithfully with us, but we have acted wickedly.
For our leaders, our Prime Minister and ministers, our fathers have not kept
Your law or paid attention to Your commandments and Your admonitions with
which You have admonished them. But they, in their own kingdom, which by Your
great goodness which You gave them, with the broad and rich land which You
set before them, did not serve You or turn from their evil deeds. Behold,
we are slaves today, and as to the land which You gave to our Fathers to eat
of its fruit and its bounty, behold, we are slaves on it. O Lord, in accordance
with all of Your righteous acts, let now Your anger and Your wrath turn away
from 'this Nation, Canada,' because of our sin and the iniquities of our fathers.....
Your people have become a reproach to all those around us. So now, our God,
listen to the prayer of Your servants and to their supplications, and for
Your sake, O Lord, let Your face shine on 'this Land Canada'.
O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open
Your eyes and see our desolation's... for we are not presenting our supplications
before You on account of any merits of our own, But on account of Your great
compassion and mercy.
O Lord, hear! O Lord , Forgive! O Lord
listen and take action! For Your own sake O my God do not delay because Your
people are called by Your name. And We prayed to the Lord our God and confessed
and said, "Alas, O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant
and loving kindness to those who love Him and keep His commandments, we have
sinned, committed iniquity, acted wickedly, and rebelled, even turning aside
from Your commandments and ordinances. Moreover, we have not listened to Your
servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to , our Prime Minister and
leaders, and ministers and priests, and all the people of the land".
Open shame belongs to us, O Lord, to our Leaders and our Fathers, because
we have sinned against You. To the Lord our God , we are the people , whom
You have redeemed by Your Own precious Son. Now Lord let Your ear be attentive
to the prayer of Your servants who delight in revering Your name. Give your
servants success today by granting us favour in Your eyes. Amen!!!!!
(Nehemiah 9:5-7a,9:33-35a, 9:35b-36, Dan
9:16-19,9:4-6,9:8-10 Neh 9:3,1:10-11) .
Rev Val Dodd