WEEK 4 - 2 Chronicles 7:14 - 'If my people who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land.'

Recent statistics show an alarming rise in social ills such as child prostitution, abortion, baby dumping, rape and HIV cases.
a.  Child Prostitution - there are 4,000 child prostitutes between the ages of 9 -18.
b.  Abortion - 1 in 5 pregnancies ends in abortion.
c.  Baby Dumping - a baby is dumped every 10 days.
d.  Rape - in Malaysia, someone is raped every 2.5 hours.  In 2010, there were 3,595 reported rape cases.
e.  HIV - there are 80,938 cases of HIV, 13,000 with AIDS and 10,000 have since died.  An average of 18 Malaysians are tested positive for HIV daily.  40% of total infected are below 29 years of age.

As we stand united in love, let us be sensitive to the cry of the 'voiceless' victims of sexual crimes so that God will intervene and purify this land of such wickedness.

Prayer

• Pray for repentance and healing upon our nation for all the sins and wickedness in the land.
• Pray that we will be burdened by the moral decay and social ills of our nation, that we will rise and war against the spiritual forces behind the violence, crime and immorality.
• Pray for the active involvement of the Local Church in partnering with relevant governmental agencies and ministries to eradicate social ills.
• Pray that those who are marginalised, oppressed and afflicted will come into the saving knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ and be restored.

• Pray for strengthening upon each of us and our families, that we will rise up to be all that He has called us in Christ.
• Pray for spiritual covering upon every level or leadership and their families within the Church.
• Pray for wisdom and covering upon the various bodies (NECF, CFM, MNPN, Pastors' Fellowships) as they mobilise nation-wide efforts towards unity as a Body of Christ in this nation.
• Pray for the Malaysian Church to rise up and take our position to influence the seven realms of government, church, marketplace, judiciary, family, media/arts and education.

WEEK 2 - Acts 1:8 - 'But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.'

As with all past revivals, it all starts with a desire and a longing to see spiritual change within our lives, our church, our community and our nation.  It is in the faithful prayers of a few that God begins to respond and pour out His Spirit.  It is His Spirit that does the work of awakening hearts, bringing fires of revival across the land.

Pray -

• For a desire to experience the Holy Spirit in our personal lives, thereby drawing us closer to Him.
• That the Church will be sensitive to the move of the Holy Spirit, demonstrating His power and love through signs, wonders and miracles that  the name of Christ may be glorified.
• That the Holy Spirit be evident in all churches in Malaysia, drawing all men to Christ in salvation.
• That the Malaysian Church will be stirred to pray until revival visits our nation.

WEEK 1

John 17:21 - 'That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you.  May they also be in us so that the world may believe that You have sent me.'

In heaven, there are no religious labels.  We are all brothers and sisters in Christ regardless of which church they attend.  We're all related by blood - the blood of Jesus!  As believers, the Bible exhorts us to 'preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace' (Ephesians 4:3).  God doesn't tell us to create unity, He tells us to preserve it.  A divided church is a wounded and weak church.  The Father's plan for the Malaysian Church is for her to emerge from her denominational closet, to come together as one, making Christ as one Head, with one focus, and one purpose to fulfil His plan for this nation.

Prayer - UNITY

• Pray for each of us to embrace the Father's heart to see His Church strengthened and united.
• Pray for God's love to fill each of our hearts, demonstrating unconditional love, humility and submission to one another with the compassion and character of Christ.
• Pray for unity and effective partnering amongst churches across denominations, coming together as one in advancing the kingdom of God.

A RETURN TO GOD'S PROMISE OF RESURRECTION!

Hosea 6:3 'Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge Him.  As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth.

At the heart of God's call to return, there is a promise of His Presence, His very Presence that will lead us to personal and corporate revival, just as the winter and spring rains serve to prepare the ground and bring maturity to the harvest.  In this last promise, even as we put to death those very areas of our lives that hinder us from our destiny in God, there is a promise of resurrection onto the higher purpose of seeing God's Church transformed and empowered to fulfil her God-given destiny.

• Pray that we will continue to press on to acknowledge God, that all that we are and all that we do is ultimately about Him and His glory. 
• Pray that we will know that it is in dying that God brings life.  Without a spiritual dying to our self-life, there can be no resurrections or new beginnings.
• Pray, acknowledging that our resurrection is through the power of the Holy Spirit and it is His Spirit that does that transforming work in us, empowering us to fulfil God's destiny for us as individuals and as a church.  'And if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit, who lives in you.'  Romans 8:11
• Pray that we will be so firmly entrenched on God's promise that 'as surely as the sun rises, He will appear' and grant us spiritual renewal and revival.  Let us persist in seeking Him!

A RETURN TO GOD'S PROMISE OF RESTORATION!

Hosea 6:2 'After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will restore us that we may live in His Presence.'

Often, we are not aware of our desperate need for spiritual revival and restoration.  Our fervour for 'church' and 'ministry' so often, subtly but surely replaces our true devotion to God.  Over time, we allow ourselves to crowd Him out of our lives before we are suddenly confronted by the glaring truth of our spiritual condition of indifference, apathy, spiritual adultery and idolatry.  God's heart for us, as His children and as His church, has always been and will continue to be one of restoration.  He promises that if we were to return to Him, He will revive and restore us - in order that we may abide fully with Him.

• Pray for God to revive us from spiritual deadness - that we will be revived from indifference, apathy, coldness of heart, sin dead works, spiritual adultery and any form of idolatry in our spiritual walk.
• Pray, adknowledging that above everything else, we must return to that place where it is ALL about Him and our relationship with Him.
• Pray that we will return to the plumb line of His Word, being sensitive to the voice of the Holy Spirit and choosing to walk in obedience.

A RETURN TO GOD'S PROMISE OF HEALING

Hosea 6:1  '... He has torn us to pieces but He will heal us, He has injured us but He will bind up our woulds.'

God's call to return us not without a deeper work within us.  In Hosea F:1-3, God speaks of His intent to heal, to restore and to lead us to revival.  Just like Israel, God will allow His dealings to come into our lives with the sole aim of drawing us back to Him.  These dealings are not punitive and are intended to shape us to Christ-like maturity as His sons and daughters.  Seasons of dealings are often painful but God desires us to come to that place where we can trust them in His hands, the hands of a loving God.

• Pray that we will fully understand the Father's heart (Hebrews 12:4 - 11) in the area of spiritual discipline, knowing that in this, He treats us as His true sons and daughters.
• Pray that we will correct our wrong projections of God and His dealings in our lives.  Pray for right responses to the Father's dealings, knowing that He disciplines us because He loves us.  Let our hearts not be hardened.
• Pray that we will be willing to let go of everything that hinders our intimacy with God.  Let us come continually to the altar of repentance and consecration - allowing God to do a deeper work within us.
• Pray that we will know and understand that it is God's end intent to restore us, to mature us as His sons and daughters and to make us more Christ-like.

COME LET US RETURN!


Hosea 6:1 - ' Come let us return to the Lord...'


The call of God to Israel to return to Him lies at the very heart of God as a Father.  God desired for Israel to know the depths of His love for her and sadly, in her rebellion, Israel never fully understood or embraced that love.  What of us today?  As His sons and daughters, Jesus reveals God to us as Abba, literally meaning 'Daddy' or 'Papa'.  Our Daddy longs dearly for us to embrace the fullness of this love and it is out of this passionate longing that He still continues to draw us to return to Him in intimacy as His children.

• Pray for God restore our desire for intimacy with Him.
• Pray that we'll receive a deeper revelation of who God is, His Father's heart, His unconditional love and His very character of LOVE towards us.
• Pray that we will be set free from every mindset, perception or inclination that hinders us from FREELY receiving the Father's love over us - living from a deep assurance that He does not require us to earn His love.
• Pray that we will embrace with our whole being, the truth of God's love for us, and that we will open ourselves more fully to His heart concerning us.  Let us come back to that place of intimate relationship with Him.

WEEK 7

Rebuilding The Walls Of Unity In Churches and Restoring God's Glory


THE ONLY UNANSWERED PRAYER OF JESUS IS, 'THAT THEY MAY BE ONE'.
How should we feel when we read this unanswered prayer today?  What emotions should flood our heart?  In John 17, Jesus prayed that we would 'be one' just before the final journey to His hideous death.  This prayer was and is His 'last will and testament'.  This is God's desire but it is held captive by humanity.  Our disbelief and our stubborn insistence on our rights and personal agendas are shackles binding God's desire to our limitations.  Jesus is still praying this same prayer over us today.  DISUNITY COSTS US OUR CREDIBILITY.  Jesus prayed that we would become one, so that the world would believe that God, the Father sent Jesus, His Son.  There is no reason for the world to believe we are from God if we are disunited.  Jesus has given the Church the same glory that God, the Father has given Him.  Let us be one with Him and see His glory restored fully to the Church.  (Adapted from God's Dream Team by Tommy Tenney)


Pray for -

• The confession and renunciation of our pride, our insecurity, our independence and our need for control.  Pray and ask God to clothe us with humility and grace to work with others for the extension of His Kingdom.
• The Holy Spirit to convict us of gossip, rebellion, murmur, slander, dissension, strife, envy and covetousness.  Pray for healing, restoration and reconciliation in every broken relationship and that love and forgiveness will prevail in the Church.  
• Inter-DENOMINATIONAL unity amongst the Malaysian Churches that they will come together as ONE, with one focus and purpose to fulfil His plan for this nation.
• Inter-GENERATIONAL unity and that all generations will support and complement one another, recognising the uniqueness of each generation and empowering it to play its God-given role for the destiny of the nation.
• An awareness of the enemy's strategies to disunite the church and that every assignment of disunity will be broken over the Church.
• The restoration of God's glory upon His church.  Declare Isaiah 60:1 over the nation.  'Arise, shine for your light has come and the GLORY OF THE LORD rises upon you!'

Prayer Highlights for Malaysia

As our nation prepares for the upcoming general elections and the Sarawak state elections, it is crucial for us, His Church, to uphold the nation in prayer.

Pray that the Church of Malaysia will come together as one and saturate the nation with prayer at this crucial time, to cry out to the Lord for the lost and to see Malaysia transformed and won for Him!

'Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile.  Pray to the Lord for it because if it prospers, you too will prosper.' Jeremiah 29:7

WEEK 6

Rebuilding The Walls of Evangelism & Discipleship


In the early church, God used ordinary people, not deemed significant by the world, to change the entire empire in Asia Minor.  The kingdom of God is likened to both a growing seed and a mustard seed (Mark 4:26-32) which grows into a powerful movement that transforms the entire culture and society.  Today, God still uses ordinary people like you and I, to impact nations.  The Lord has declared that we are to reach out to the nations.  All of us in every generation within His Body, MUST go forth and take hold of the nation.  His command to us is to be strong and be of good courage and that we are not to be disheartened by the giants in the land.  Whatever our fears, let us renounce every doubt, unbelief and hopelessness - being resolute in our conviction that MALAYSIA BELONGS TO THE LORD!  He has promised to be with us and He will go before us, so therefore, let us arise and go forth to possess the land!

Pray for -

• Our lack of love, compassion and apathy towards the lost.  confess and repent that we have neglected God's mandate to disciple nations.
• An awakening upon His Church to fulfil the Great Commission.  Pray for the Lord of Harvest to send out laborers to the harvest fields.  Pray that all of us will heed the call of God to evangelism and discipleship.
• Pray for greater partnership and united efforts in the area of resources and finances between Peninsular and East Malaysia churches to formulate mission strategies that will reach the lost.  Pray that new pioneers will be raised up and sent forth to reach the unreached in this nation.  Many are still in darkness.
• The planting of prayer cells in spiritually darkened places for the gospel to penetrate throughout the nation.  Pray for Christians to arise in all realms of influence, reaching out and establishing strong discipleship in schools, colleges, neighborhood and marketplaces.
• A powerful visitation of God's Spirit to stir and awaken all people groups to the Way, the Truth and the Life.  Cry out for souls and national revival!  Claim Isaiah 62:1 that Malaysia's salvation will be like His blazing Torch!