A Call to Prayer

September 10, 2008 #628 / By Susan McIntosh / susan@actsfoundation.com

ACTS Team Member, Mary Sauer, recently brought to our attention a recently launched corporate prayer for America which we feel should be passed on to 2 Chronicles 7:14 intercessors in all of the 39 WWW/MMM nations. Mary is a woman of prayer. She prays for all of us. She processes most of the Foundation’s correspondence and heads a growing prayer ministry for prisoners. We know Mary already has her alarm clock set to go off, alerting her to pause and intercede for America and for your nations. Bless you, Mary! As Mother Teresa was to orphans, you are a spiritual, interceding mother to thousands!
She has passed on a reminder to all of us that God responds to corporate prayer! “If My people pray…” You may remember reading that during WWII there was an advisor to Churchill who organized a group of people who dropped what they were doing every night at a prescribed hour for one minute to collectively pray for the safety of England, its people and peace. This had an amazing effect as bombing stopped. There is now a group of people organizing the same thing here in America.
WWW/MMM, this is a fantastic call! We invite all of you to organize a prayer army in your nation. You can start by phoning a few friends and family members. Encourage them to phone a few more people. You know how fast good news can travels! In the US others have already begun so I am joining them—it is just one minute each evening at 9 p.m. Eastern Time, 8 p.m. Central Time, 7 p.m. Mountain Time, and 6 p.m. Pacific Time. All of our nations need intercessory prayer. You might not be an orator, a journalist, a politician, or in the public eye. HOWEVER, you can step up, or kneel down, or sit down for one minute each evening and lift your family, your community, and your nation up to the Lord in prayer and be assured that those you have rallied to pray with you and thousands around the world are also “standing in the gap” before Father’s throne!
Can you imagine the JOY such prayer-of-agreement-from across-the-nations piercing through the Heavens straight to the heart of God! WOW! Just think, we WWW/MMM alone represent 39 countries! The prayer of agreement is POWERFUL! We can bellyache about world problems OR we can reach out and spiritually grasp hands with believers worldwide and move like a mighty Army of the Lord, preparing the Way of the Lord! It is exciting. You may be one of our readers who is in prison, YOU can be a HISTORY MAKER! Gather a band of prayer warriors and syncrize your watches. They might be in their cell and you in yours but in the Spiritual realm, you are marching through Heaven’s gates TOGETHER in AGREEMENT and my Bible tells me, God will respond gloriously! You might be elderly, be sitting in a wheelchair, be a missionary in an assignment hundreds of miles from your nation, be a renowned doctor, be a military or government man or woman, be a busy mom home-schooling, or be a student busy with college courses. We can make a huge difference. We can worry or try to ignore economical, political, personal, relationship, and welfare problems. But, we can also make a difference! We can be history makers.
Some of you may respond, “I wouldn’t know what to pray.” My first reply would be, “Ask the Lord to show you.” I stand by that, but, to prime the pump of interceding, History Makers, here is a sample of my own prayers: “Father, in faith, I grab hands with Believers around the world and gather with them here at Your Throne. We acknowledge You as our Father. Teach us how to hallow and honor You MORE in our daily lives. Corporately, in this minute of intercessory prayer, we acknowledge our need for a deeper dependency on You. Forgive us for grieving Your Holy Spirit. Forgive the many sins of our nations. Cleanse us, Lord. Convict us of sin. Transform our hearts as we wait expectantly in Your presence. We long to experience Your Kingdom in our own lives and in our nation. Teach us how to humble ourselves, pray, and seek Your face on behalf of our nation. Heal our land! Thy Kingdom COME. Thy Will be DONE in us as it is in Heaven. Hallelujah! We praise You together, in Jesus’ Name, Amen!”