The Serenity Prayer

Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is,
not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen.

-Reinhold Niebuhr

The Lord's Prayer

"...He was praying in a certain place,
and when He ceased, one of His disciples said to Him,
Lord, teach us to pray.... and He said to them,

When you pray, say,
Our Father which are in heaven,
Hallowed be Your Name,
Your Kingdom come,
Your will be done,
as in heaven, so in earth.

Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our sins;
for we also forgive everyone that
is indebted to us.
And lead us not into temptation:
but deliver us from evil.

-Luke 11:1-4

Source: The Holy Bible
King James Easy Reading Version

When a Jew Prays

The theme of the lighting of candles is often found within Judaism. The Jewish people are considered to be a «candle lighter»: for the Shabbat, for Hanukkah, for the feast days, for the Menorah, daily in the Temple, for a mourning etc.

When a Jew prays, the rocking motion of his body symbolizes the flame of his soul being kindled by the fire of inspiration.

In the book of Proverbs, the soul of man is compared to a divine candle:

The human spirit is a lamp, ner candle, of Adonai; it searches one’s inmost being. Proverbs 20 :27

The Hebrew word for flame is shalevet שַׁלְהֶבֶתְ which has a numeric value of 737. This value fits also with the three degrees of adoration mentioned in the prayer of Shema Yisrael : with all your heart, all your soul and all your power : 737

Bechol levavkha ubechol nafshekha oubechol meodekha

בְּכָל-לְבָבְךָ וּבְכָל-נַפְשְׁךָ וּבְכָל-מְאֹדֶךָ

Source:Sukkat David Ministry
The Renewed Covenant by the Light of the Torah Newsletter, Sivan 15 5767-June 01, 2007

Lighting A Highway of Holiness in America

Vision
A worldwide movement to bring reformation to cities, regions and entire nations as thousands of believers commit themselves to personal and corporate holiness along their “highway”.

Building a Highway of Holiness
The Body of Christ is in a season where God is calling us to make a covenant of holiness with Him that will effect all sectors of society, and one of the ways He will accomplish this is through making our highways and other routes of transportation ways of holiness.

Generals International welcomes you to join with believers around the world to establish YOUR highway of holiness, and we’re introducing a brand-new website to steward this move: www.lightthehighway.org.


Lightthehighway.org is an online community designed to network and connect people across the face of the earth who have a passion for prayer and kingdom work by providing a place to share knowledge, ideas, testimonies, contacts and much more!

Lightthehighway.org will feature content that is submitted by the user – that’s you! You can submit videos, audio clips, music, photos, reports & prayer requests related to the Highway of Holiness theme!

The website also has forums where you can talk with people around the globe,sharing information you need to advance the Kingdom of God.

Are you beginning to see the potential impact this site can have? It is completely in the hands of the users! The more information you post and share, the greater blessing to the rest of the body of Christ!

Join the Community
Every visitor to the website has full access to view the entirety of user submitted content, and all the writings in the forums. Register today!

How do I add content?
Register on the site by creating a user name and password. Once you login, you will have access to an “edit” button on the top: click and begin typing. There will also be a thorough help section to guide you when adding media content. We’ve done all the work and all that is left is for you to share the good news of what God is doing in your city!

We are excited!

This website will help accomplish the purposes of the I35 Highway of Holiness initiative, as people involved use the site to share information on evangelism outreaches, purity sieges, prayer houses and other events surrounding I35 in which you can participate. This means real-time updates, thus increasing the efficiency of our communication!

Light The Highway is a movement, and we are creating something real, something tangible, something permanent. Once the I35 Highway of Holiness is completed, Lightthehighway.org will continue to serve the body of Christ as a means of sharing knowledge and networking believers. Start using lightthehighway.org now!

Source: Generals of Intercession

Praying for the Arabian Penisula

Be involved with the peoples of the Arabian Peninsula



1. Be good neighbors to your Arab neighbors. They are probably lonely and may feel that people don’t like them. Take an interest in their history and their country.
2. Introduce yourself (for the men only) to the local Muslim leader in your community. IN a kind manner, dialog with him about Christianity and Islam. There are many issues we can agree on. Talk about the items that are different, once you have developed respect for one another.
3. Become educated about Islam. It is not a religion we should fear. Our knowledge about it can also help us search for the answers in Christianity, which we need to be effective in our witness to Muslim.
4. Ask an Arab woman (for women only)to teach you how to cook foods common in her culture and to teach you about her culture. As you become friends, pray for an opening for the good news of Jesus to be shared.

The Arabian Peninsula consists of these seven nations:

1.) Bahrain
2.) Kuwait
3.) Qatar
4.) Oman
5.) Saudi Arabia
6.) United Arab Emirates
7.) Yemen

Source:

Praying Through the Arabian Peninsula

Pray for India- July 14, 2007

National Day of Prayer Revival India

Calling prayer warriors around the world to ask God to focus his light and power onto one country on one day for one miracle - REVIVAL

Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!
God loves India! He is calling Christians throughout the country and the world to pray for REVIVAL IN INDIA!

DPRI is a movement dedicated to call together prayer warriors from around the world to a twenty four-hour concentrated time of fasting and prayer for revival in India.
The Goal of DPRI: To mobilize prayer on 14th July 2007 in every State and every Denomination in India and in as many countries as possible abroad. The concept of a specific day for nationwide prayer was based on the Day of Atonement in Leviticus 16 in the Bible, coupled with the verse in 2 Chronicles 7:14.

“This is to be a lasting ordinance for you: Atonement is to be made once a year for all the sins of the Israelites." - Leviticus 16:34

"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 sin and will heal their land." - 2 Chronicles 7:14

God has promised to answer the united prayers of His people. What a Mighty God we have!

If you say "Yes" to this call:
1.) Inform as many people as you know, circulating this letter and the enclosed prayer list
2.) Encourage them to pray on 14th July -
▫ Individually ▫ As families ▫ In small or large groups
▫ As a church ▫ Any way God leads

Please visit our website www.dprindia.org to know more about the Day of Prayer for Revival in India and how you can be a part of it.

All Glory to God alone!

Source:
DPRI Committee

Four Hours a Day

The Lord continued. “Four hours of prayer. You must expand to carry the Glory more fully to this generation. Prayer will conquer what you are frustrated with as we speak.

1.) One hour in Praise and Worship, come up higher. Play every musical instrument that I have given you, piano, guitar, flute harp. Four. Play till you can perform at the drop of a hat on any of them that are available to you anywhere I send you, any time. Instant in season. Instant out of season.
2.) One hour in the Word. New revelation
3.) One hour about Finances. You do NOT have enough faith for the resources that I need you to manage to reach the multitudes that I have called you to reach. The richest man on earth doesn’t either. (This makes me wonder if He isn’t about ready to unload out the richest man’s pockets that great wealth transfer we’ve all been expecting for years, into the flow of ministry for the endtime!) The rich man thinks he is rich. But in an instant of a Tsunami, a Hurricane, A war, A plaque, A stock market crash, A terror attack, he suddenly isn’t anymore.)
4.)One hour about the mysteries of your faith in the spirit of Prayer with tongues in your prayer language, yielded to me to pray out what you don’t know. Who will you reach? How will you reach them? Where will you go? When? Etc..

-Prayer instructions given by The Lord to Shelli Baker in November 2005

Mercy Triumphs over Judgment

A Prophetic Word:
Who destroyed Egypt? Who shook Egypt? My enemy? NO. He does not have the times and seasons of judgement in his hands! It is not his to decide the hour or accountability. Read Psalm 78. I shook Eygpt. I brought the plaques. I killed the first born. No Hebrew scholar can change the words that glorify Me. My Mercy and My Judgement are misunderstood.

A man only draws what judgement to himself that he deserves. Nothing more and nothing less. It is as the great magnets in the Bethlehem Steel shipyards. Many a man has lost his life there, getting too close to the magnets that lift the steel over the rail cars. For when they lift it, they will only hold what they have the power to draw and keep. What the magnetic force is not strong enough to hold, it drops. A man will only draw what judgement his sin is strong enough to pull to himself and so it goes for a nation. I am the Author of America's Judgment and she will know me through it because she would not know me through My Love. I chastise those I love.

And still she will not turn to Me. I will shake her upon her knees and I will shake her again and again and still she will not turn, even as her cities are laid waste and her preachers even refuse My Blood in their messages and sermons. Finally America will be shaken enough and her President and her Congress will call out to Me at long last on their knees under their desks in Washington, D.C. with no where else to turn. Then I will save America again!."

-Dr Shelli Jones Baker

Operation Prayer Shield

URGENT CHALLENGE for AMERICA: Get the Prayer Shield up over this nation NOW!
Join Ground Zero Prayer Squad

Dear Prayer Partners,
As many of you may be aware, I am still working hard at obeying a word of the Lord from 2004, which I received in a night visitation/dream in Dallas TX.

April 12, 2004 (Dallas, TX)
The Lord said,
" The proclamation you have heard, that the war in Iraq is winding down is not true. You haven't seen anything yet. Where a few have been lost, they shall be joined by thousands. And you must call for the Prayer Shield to go up. It is TOO low over America. Go back to Tulsa OK and stir up the prayer warriors who knew the great move of prayer in the last century. The revived message of Faith that brought down the Iron Curtain of Russia in that generation could never have been launched from any other city. Faith only works, bathed in prayer. Tell the stories and I will be there. Teach those who have never heard. Resurrect the Prayer Shield before it is too late."

In summary:
I saw that America would enter a war with not only Iraq, but Iran, and that an unprecedented force of destruction would launch at our troops, local populations and then in the end on these American cities and places: Boston, NY, DC, and North Carolina, the Gulf, St. Louis and Detroit. I also saw that Nova Scotia would suffer some part of this attack. The attack seemed a mixture of missile, plaque and natural disaster. In the alarm of my reaction to this, I inquired of the Lord, "Can we stop it?" and in short, the answer came, "The Prayer Shield which was once over this nation has fallen. It must be raised back to that level and stouter, and beyond to thwart what is coming.... You can change the death toll and the battle score."

That is a daunting task in this modern selfish generation that is preoccupied with many entertainments to do anything but pray. In the early 1900's during two world wars, farm life was hard but most Americans didn't have a tv set or DVD player to keep them home at night. They would come to the church and pray if asked, much more readily. Many learned to stick with a burden of prayer until the victory came, be it an hour or a year or a decade! That is the level of a prayer shield. That is not an 'off- the- top- of- your- head- prayer- list' kind of prayer.

-Dr Shelli Jones Baker

The Daily Minute (or 1439 + 1)

The Travail of the Flag by Dr. Shelli Jones Baker

The Most Important Minute of Your Day!
There are 1440 minutes in each day.
Can you spare just 60 seconds of
your day to Pray for America ?

Historical Background:
In WWII, there was an advisor to Prime Minister Churchill 
who organized a group of people for prayer.  They 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 for Peace. This had an amazing effect as 
the bombing stopped!

There is now a group of people organizing a prayer 
movement to do the same thing here in America.

If you feel led to participate,then each day at:

                9:00 PM Eastern Time
                8:00 PM Central
                7:00 PM Mountain
                6:00 PM Pacific

Stop whatever you are doing! Spend one minute praying,
for the safety of America, our Leadership, our Troops, 
our Citizens and for World Peace.

If you know anyone else who may wish to take part in this
prayer,please do pass this information along to them. 
Someone once said that if people only really understood 
the full extent of the power we have available through 
prayer, we might be left speechless! 

Our prayers are truly the most powerful asset that we 
possess on earth! Please Pray for America!

"...if two of you shall agree on earth as touching
any thing that they shall ask (according to God's
Divine Will), it shall be done for them of My Father
which is in heaven."
                             -Matthew 18:19

Let's turn to God The Father and Ask for His Divine Help
on behalf of America and the Nations of the World!

"In the Name of Jesus, In the Name of The Lord,
I come to Thee, O God, In the Name of the Lord.
I ask not for riches, I ask not for fame,
I ask for America, In Jesus' Name.
I ask for America, I call her by name,
I present her to the Father,in Jesus Name."

                           -I Ask for the Nations
                             by Ruth Heflin