Children, Teenagers and Young People - Esther, The Girl Who Followed

Join this HeartCry Prayer- Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11.30am -1.30pm (UK time)

Esther 2: 7, 10, 15, 20, 22

⁷ Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, who had no father or mother. So Mordecai took care of her. Hadassah was also called Esther, and she had a very pretty figure and face. Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter when her father and mother died. ¹⁰ Esther did not tell anyone about her family or who her people were. Mordecai had told her not to. ¹⁵ Esther daughter of Abihail, Mordecai’s uncle, had been adopted by Mordecai. The time came for Esther to go to the king. She asked for only what Hegai suggested she should take. (Hegai was the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the women.) And everyone who saw Esther liked her. ²⁰ And Esther had still not told anyone about her family or who her people were. That is what Mordecai had told her to do. She still obeyed Mordecai just as she had done when he was bringing her up. ²² But Mordecai found out about their plans and told Queen Esther. Then Queen Esther told the king. She also told him that Mordecai had found out about the evil plan.

Esther the Girl who Followed and Delivered a Nation.

(Esther 4:8, 10 & 11, 13 &14, 15&16,)

Mordecai also gave him a copy of the order to kill the Jews, which had been given in Susa. He wanted Hathach to show it to Esther and to tell her about it. And Mordecai told him to order Esther to go into the king’s presence. He wanted her to beg for mercy and to plead with him for her people.

Then Esther told Hathach to say to Mordecai, “All the royal officers and people of the royal areas know this: No man or woman may go to the king in the inner courtyard without being called. There is only one law about this. Anyone who enters must be put to death. But if the king holds out his gold sceptre, that person may live. And I have not been called to go to the king for 30 days.”

Then Mordecai gave orders to say to Esther: “Just because you live in the king’s palace, don’t think that out of all the Jews you alone will escape.  You might keep quiet at this time. Then someone else will help and save the Jews. But you and your father’s family will all die. And who knows, you may have been chosen queen for just such a time as this.”

Then Esther sent this answer to Mordecai: “Go and get all the Jews in Susa together. For my sake, give up eating. Do not eat or drink for three days, night and day. I and my servant girls will also give up eating. Then I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I die, I die.”

How Do We Order this Child?

“And Manoah said, Now let thy words come to pass. How shall we order the child, and how shall we do unto him? And the angel of the Lord said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware. She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, nor eat any unclean thing: all that I commanded her let her observe.” (Judges 13:12-14)

“ But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And thou shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” (Luke 1:13-17) 

For It is God, Who is the Parent.

Philippians 2:13

“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” (KJV)

“[Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight.” (AMPC)

“Better yet, redouble your efforts. Be energetic in your life of salvation, reverent and sensitive before God. That energy is God’s energy, an energy deep within you, God himself willing and working at what will give him the most pleasure.” (MSG)

Prayer points

•  Please Lord come and uproot every idea, philosophy, training we have received and we are following regarding the education, training, and upbringing of our children.

•  Dismantle every structure of parenting that the old man has already deposited and is already ingrained into our family life.

•  Please come and rewrite every programme of the old man that have been existing before now in my home in terms of parenting, disciplining for children, caring for them, training them, teaching them.

•  The NEW man, Christ is inside me now, Lord please I give you space and chance, break down every arrangement prior till now in my mind about what my children must become and achieve in their life.

Prayer points

•     Lord, please begin to give us specific, detailed instructions about how you want to raise our young ones in this way of the cross.

•     Lord, begin to show us what you sent our children and young ones to the world to do. There is a specific assignment for every child/young person, Lord open our eyes to your purpose in the name of Jesus.

•     Lord, begin to build these children/teenagers according to your own pattern, according to your own purpose for the life of each child.

•     Oh! Lord, please teach us how to order our them in the direction of the cross, in the direction of your heart, in the direction of becoming truly your agents of transformation in not too many days from now.

•     Open the hearts of our children and teenagers to us, let them open up to us, to you word, please grant us access into their hearts via your word in the name of Jesus.

•     Create a hunger, an appetite for the word of God for the life of Christ in the hearts of our young ones.

Prayer Points

•     Some of our young men and young women may have already developed their own structure, pursuit, ambition based on this world system. Let us cry oh! Lord please bring them back in.

•     Let us beg the Lord this afternoon for our young adults, some have gone away already, some have not seen the cross truly, some have seen hypocrisy in our lives and they have revolted against the cross. Please let us beg the Lord to show us mercy and bring them back to the way for the cross.

•     Lord please send your word to them wherever they are, Oh! God we beg you send your word like a hammer, a hammer of their size and break open their hearts in the name of Jesus

•     Show us mercy concerning our prodigal young men and women, Lord please bring them to their senses and let them trace their way back home.

•     Have mercy on us Oh Lord, have mercy on us. Recover our young men and women oh! Lord we beg you in the name of Jesus

Audio / Visual Aids

•       Tell me and I forget.

•       Show and I remember.

•       Involve me and I understand.

•       Discipleship is where God tells us about the life of Christ and shows us that life in others.

•       It’s like seeing Jesus living in our house as our mummy, our daddy, our aunties, our uncles.

•       So we can see how Jesus will live His life if He was living in our house and we can then follow Him.

•       Mordecai was Esther’s audio, visual aid.

Mordecai, Esther, Audio / Visual Aid   

“Accept my work and learn from me. I am gentle and humble in spirit. And you will find rest for your souls. The work that I ask you to accept is easy. The load I give you to carry is not heavy.” (Matthew 11: 29 & 30)

“And He appointed twelve to continue to be with Him, and that He might send them out to preach as apostles or special messengers.” (Mark 4: 14)

“ The two followers heard John say this. So they followed Jesus. Jesus turned and saw them following him. He asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi, where are you staying?” (“Rabbi” means “Teacher.”) Jesus answered, “Come with me and you will see.” So the two men went with Jesus. They saw the place where Jesus was staying and stayed there with him that day. It was then about four o’clock. These two men followed Jesus after they heard about him from John.” (John1:37-40)

Prayer points

•   Accelerate the outworking of the new creation life and the manifestation of the personified

   Christ inside my life so I can be the correct visual aid for the young people in my circle of influence.

•   Please help me not to delay, procrastinate, postpone the workings/operations/ of every aspect of the “Mystery of the Gospel” in my life.

•    Let every segment begin to work actively, day to day, moment by moment in my life.

•   Lord I plead with you this afternoon, help my life as a mother, a father, a nurse, a handler for your young people. Let me be the correct audio/visual aid showing nothing else but the life of Christ.

•   Don’t let me portray anything else from now all, all the rubbish they have collected from me, as I begin to actively declutter, let them also begin to see and begin to declutter.

•   Let me carry the death of Christ in my body daily, burying all dead works out of sight, allowing the resurrection life to manifest, affect and impact my children not mainly in teaching but in living.

                        

Let us allow the Holy Ghost to pray through you for your children. Teenagers, young adults, even adlut children both birth, adopted, foster, those we look after in children/teen/youth departments in our churhces and christian organisations.

Call them by their very names and beg the Lord for their lives dear Holy Spirit please intercede through us this afternoon in Jesus name.

Join this HeartCry Prayer- Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11.30am -1.30pm (UK time) 

Nsanje People of Malawi

Join this HeartCry Prayer - Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11:30am - 1:30pm (UK time)

Acts 17:24-31

God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;  Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things; And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.  Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.  And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

A Cry for the Nsanje People of Malawi

Malawi is a small nation located in the south-eastern area of Africa with a large number of rural people. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. It is the least developed countries in the world and economically dependent on agriculture.

The country is divided into 3 regions namely: Central, Northern and Southern region.

The Southern part of Malawi is made up of 13 districts and Nsanje is one of them. Nsanje is the poorest district in the Southern area and very dependent on NGO and foreign aids. Deeply cultural people who worship a deity called “Mbona” who was believed to have been beheaded 100 of years ago and out flowed a river of blood called Ndione.

One of their cultural practices is sexual cleansing ritual which is performed by some selected men called “hyenas”

The “hyenas” of Malawi

A hyena is a traditional position in some parts of southern Malawi held by a man who initiates young women into adulthood through sex. A hyena is a man paid to have sex with young women between the ages of 12–17, as a part of a rite of passage called "kusasa fumbi" (‘shaking the dust’) or (sexual cleansing). Hyenas are paid from $4 to $7 each time. They are chosen for their moral character and are believed to be incapable of contracting diseases such as HIV/AIDS.

Sexual cleansing is a practice viewed as a way to ritually cleanse girls after their first period, usually within a three-day window. Some families tell girls they will get infections if they don't have sex with a "hyena”. (2 Kings 16:3; 2 Kings 17:17; Jeremiah 32:35; Ezekiel 16:21).

According to a study on sexual cleansing rituals in Western Kenya from 2007, sexual intercourse is seen as a sacred rite when performed as a ritual — and has the power to cleanse evil spirits and sanctify.

Eric Aniva told the BBC that he was hired by families to have sex with more than 100 young women, including children.

Eldson Chagara/AP

Prayer Focus:

• Father, we ask for mercy concerning this community of people who engage in this practice. We ask for mercy because they have relied on broken cisterns that cannot hold water, that cannot sustain, save, deliver and genuinely cleanse them. Jer 2:13.

• Father, we ask for mercy concerning families that have given their children to this evil practice. Just like King Ahaz who caused his children to walk on fire in service to heathen gods. 2 kings 16:3.

• Father, we ask that by the power of the cross the deceitfulness of this practice and lies that have thrived for long be revealed and completely exposed.

• Father, there is no other name under heaven by which men (boys, girls, children, hyenas etc.) can be saved only by the name of Jesus. Acts 4:12.

• Father, let it be known that it is the LAMB OF GOD that takes away the sins of people, He alone breaks the power of evil not any “hyenas”. John 1:29.

• Father, raise a voice that would cry out in the district of Nsanje against this practice and would proclaim the gospel of Christ, the Lamb that was slain for their redemption. John 1:23,29.

THIS IS MY FATHER’S WORLD

This is my Father's world,
And to my listening ears
All nature sings, and round me rings
The music of the spheres.
This is my Father's world:
I rest me in the thought
Of rocks and trees, of skies and seas;
His hand the wonders wrought.

This is my Father's world,
The birds their carols raise,
The morning light, the lily white,
Declare their maker's praise.
This is my Father's world,
He shines in all that's fair;
In the rustling grass I hear him pass;
He speaks to me everywhere.

This is my Father's world.
O let me ne'er forget
That though the wrong seems oft so strong,
God is the ruler yet.
This is my Father's world
The battle is not done Jesus who died shall be satisfied

and earth and heav’n be one

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

 Join this HeartCry Prayer - Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11:30am - 1:30pm (UK time)

Children, Teenagers and Young People - Timothy

Join this HeartCry Prayer- Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11.30am -1.30pm (UK time)

Acts 16:3-5

"Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which were in those quarters: for they knew all that his father was a Greek. And as they went through the cities, they delivered them the decrees for to keep, that were ordained of the apostles and elders which were at Jerusalem. And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily."

1 Timothy 4:12, 14-16

"Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity."

"Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee."

2 Timothy 1:1-3

"Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, to Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord. I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience, that without ceasing I have remembrance of thee in my prayers night and day."

1 Timothy 5:23

"Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities."

TIMOTHY, A DISCIPLE OF PAUL

God raised Paul as a father, a disicpler that will take Timothy to the next stage of his walk with the Lord which will launch him into the ministry.

Paul’s concern for Timothy covered his spiritual life and his physical well-being.
His mother and grandmother laid the foundation, just as some of us are laying, but the gap or omission is that when these children have outgrown our discipleship, there are no fathers or mothers to take them out of our hands and push them into the next level.

They are left uncatered for and unattended to; and they lose their consecration, passion and in some cases, their faith.

God’s aim, plan, and purpose for the church is for young people to be disicipled until, they also can become ministers of the same gospel that they have received.

PRAYER POINTS

• Lord, please make us, send us fathers, mothers, disicplers, handlers, nurses who will take Your young people to the next level in their walk with you.

• Lord, please send to Your young people disicplers who will carry them along, and pour into them what they have received from the Lord; who will take notice of young men and women of good report.

• Lord, we beg of you this day, please send labourers, nurses, midwives into the nation of children and young people.

• The harvest of young people is ripe and rotting; please our Lord of the harvest, please send men, women, brothers, sisters who have received, believed and imbibed the true gospel, who are authentic followers of Jesus Christ who will teach, train , show our young people the way to go and help launch them into their destiny in ministering the gospel to their own generation, in Jesus' name.

• Lord, do not let the passion for Your name fizzle out, diminish, and finish in the hands of our youth. Lord, please fan the passion for Your name to a greater height in the hearts of our young people.

TIMOTHY DISICIPLED INTO MINISTRY

1 Corin 4:14:17

"I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you. For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me. For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach everywhere in every church."

2 Timothy 2:1-2

"Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also."

1 Thessalonians 3:1-2

"Wherefore when we could no longer forbear, we thought it good to be left at Athens alone; and sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellow labourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith."

PRAYER POINTS

• Let us pray for our children, teenagers, young men and women and ask that the Lord will make them faithful to the gospel they have received.

• Lord please do not let the world, its systems, its practices, its children, its expectations, its pressures, turn them to become faithless and unbelieving in the gospel. 

• Lord, please make them strong in the grace that is found in Christ Jesus; let them see, understand, appropriate this grace in every area of their lives.

• Lord, please let the grace that accompanies every word of the gospel and doctrine of Christ be made available to them in Jesus' name, so they can be an example of the believer in word, in deed, in action, in thoughts, in every area of their lives.

• Let our young people not despise their youth and look upon themselves as youth or children; please help them by the Holy Ghost to step up with Your power to put to use the gift of God deposited in them.

• The gift of teaching, of praying, of administration, of living in and of understanding, Holy Ghost please bring them out of our young people in Jesus' name. 

PRAYER POINTS

• Lord, please let them give themselves wholly to the truth of the gospel; let them mediate on these things; let them throw their lives hook line and sinker into the living the gospel and making the gospel known.

• Every other way, every other life, every other pursuit that makes the gospel to be in the back burner of their heart, or that makes the gospel even non-existent to them, Lord, please we beg you, uproot them out of their hearts, out of their lives in the name of Jesus.

• Please Holy Spirit, let the gospel profit them and let this be evident in their lives.

• Lord, please do not let all Your labour over the lives of our young people to be in vain.

Like Timothy please raise our young people as sons, able ministers of the gospel and fellow labourers with others who are labouring for revival in our generation.

Join this HeartCry Prayer- Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11.30am -1.30pm (UK time)

The Church - A Call to Repentance

Join this HeartCry Prayers - Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11:30am - 1:30pm (Uk time)

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)

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 I will hear from heaven,

 and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Joel 2:1-17, Revelations 2 and 3

When the Lord calls for repentance, it’s because there is forgiveness. God is always looking for a way to forgive!

When the Lord’s call to repentance is ignored, there are consequences.

Jesus Himself called the church to repentance on several accounts

Rev 2:5 - The church of Ephesus: carrying on without their first love

•  Lord, in Your mercy bring Your church to true repentance. Open the eyes of the church to her lack of love for You and the danger of carrying on with activities, services and other labour without Your love burning in the heart.
• Lord, baptise the church with the spirit of repentance – let her have sight of her sins so that repentance can be deep and genuine.
• Lord, help the church to see where she has fallen from, so that there will be sorrow and mourning and true repentance.

Rev 2:16 – The church of Pergamos: the compromising church, adopting and making allowances / excuses for doctrines of demons. Strange practices arising inside the house of God.

•  Lord, have mercy on Your church for every compromise. Pour out Your Spirit to convict the church of compromise with strange doctrines, non-biblical doctrines, immorality. Lord, have mercy!
• Lord, cause there to be repentance that results in a turning from every wickedness in the church.
• Lord, let there be repentance with mourning for every evil perpetuated in church leadership that has led many people astray.

Rev 2: 21- The church of Thyatira:  corrupted by false prophets and prophetesses.

•  Lord, have mercy on the church for every evil that has brought corruption, pollution and contamination. Have mercy on the church for allowing strange spirits to perform miracles in Your name.
• Lord, bring the church to repentance for allowing the spirit of Jezebel to parade itself as Your prophet. Lord, have mercy!

Rev 3:3 – The church of Sardis: the dead church that is carrying on as if it’s alive.

•  Lord, have mercy on the church for carrying on with dead works, works tarnished by the flesh and the world. Have mercy on the church for forsaking the complete gospel, the gospel of the cross that deals with the old nature and its dead works.
• Bring the church to repentance for embracing a gospel that celebrates dead works.

Rev 3:19 – The church of the Laodiceans: the lukewarm church, blind to its real condition and its need of the Lord- the breeding ground for much evil.

• Lord, have mercy on the church for its lukewarmness – not cold, not hot, not here, not there!
• Have mercy on the church for its self-sufficiency and lack of insight to the real condition.
• Lord, bring the church to the point of genuine repentance for every sin, every evil work and wickedness that has been breeding because of lukewarmness.

Revive Thy Work O Lord

Revive Thy work, O Lord,

Thy mighty arm make bare;

Speak with the voice that wakes the dead,

And make Thy people hear.

Revive Thy work, O Lord,

Disturb this sleep of death;

Quicken the smold’ring embers now

By Thine almighty breath.

Revive Thy work, O Lord,

Create soul-thirst for Thee;

And hungering for the bread of life

O may our spirits be.

Revive Thy work, O Lord,

Exalt Thy precious name;

And, by the Holy Ghost, our love

For Thee and Thine inflame.

Revive Thy work, O Lord,

Give Pentecostal showers;

The glory shall be all Thine own,

The blessing, Lord, be ours.

Albert Midlane

Join this HeartCry Prayer - Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11:30am -1:30pm (UK time)

Children, Teenagers and Young People - Stephen

Join this HeartCry Prayer- Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11.30am -1.30pm (UK time)

“Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.” (Acts 6:3)

“...Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost…” (Acts 6:5)

“And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.” (Acts 6:8)

“And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.” (Acts 6:10)

“And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him, saw his face as it had been the face of an angel.”(Acts 6: 15)

“But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.” (Acts 7:55-56)

“And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.” (Acts 7: 59-60)

The Dimension of the Holy Ghost

“But this is that which was spoken by the prophet Joel;(Joel 2:28-29)

“And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy:”  (Acts 2:16-18)

“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” (Acts 2:38-39)

Empty Versus Full

“Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few. And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full” (2 Kings 4:3)

“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.” (2 Corinthians 4:7)

•         The Holy Ghost will only fill empty vessels.

•         Men who are full, content, occupied, satisfied with their state will not cry out for the Lord or for the Holy Ghost.

•         Such men don’t see the need, or the reason why they should be crying and begging God to be filled.

•         If you present the Holy Ghost to them, they will shrug Him off because they do not realise they are in need of Him.

•         Even if we pray for them now and continue to cry as long as they are completely full of self, full of the world’s expectation of them, full of their own aspirations and ambitions outside of God, there will be no space for the Lord to pour into.

Prayer Points

•         Empty our young men and our young women of everything that has filled them up instead of You.

•         Open the tap of their lives and empty them of all ambitions, aspirations, plans, desires that are not in line with God’s purpose for their lives.

•         Our young adults, teenagers, children are completely filled and satisfied with what the world has to offer. Lord, make them begin to have a distaste for what the world and its systems offers them.

•         Change their taste, O Lord! We plead with You in the name of Jesus; let them begin to hate, reject, discard, turn their backs on everything and anything that has occupied the space that God ought to occupy in their hearts, minds and imaginations.

•         Create a hunger and a thirst for You, Your purpose and Your kingdom, instead wanting to build my own kingdom; let their desire be "Thy Kingdom come, O Lord in me, by me and through me."

•         Baptise our young men, our young women, our teenagers, our children with the Holy Ghost and with power.

•         Father, pour Your Holy Spirit upon them in bodily form in a way they have never experienced before.

•          Lord, You promised in Joel and it happened in Acts; we are standing upon Your promises. Please baptise them with fire from on high.

•         We are actually waiting for You. Your promise was for every member of the family, young, old, male or female. Lord, we present our children before you this day. Please dear Lord, do not withhold from us. Pour upon Your heritage; fill them up to overflowing with the Holy Ghost and power.

•         Holy Spirit, we welcome You afresh on behalf of our young ones; O Lord, please hear us we pray in the name of Jesus.

Join this HeartCry Prayer- Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 11.30am -1.30pm (UK time)

The Sick and Infirm

Join this HeartCry Prayer - Every Monday - Wednesday and Friday11:30am - 1:30pm (UK time)

1 Corinthians 11: 23-32. “Anyone who eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Master irreverently is like part of the crowd that jeered and spit on him at his death. Is that the kind of “remembrance” you want to be part of? Examine your motives, test your heart, come to this meal in holy awe. If you give no thought (or worse, don’t care) about the broken body of the Master when you eat and drink, you’re running the risk of serious consequences. That’s why so many of you even now are listless and sick, and others have gone to an early grave. If we get this straight now, we won’t have to be straightened out later on. Better to be confronted by the Master now than to face a fiery confrontation later.” (MSG)

James 5; 14-15. “Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”

Repentance: For not discerning the Lord and His suffering and death.

Faith: To pray for sick brethren for miraculous healing.

• Lord, we come in repentance for all your people who are afflicted with one form of sickness or the other, especially in their bodies or minds. Whichever way the enemy gained an upper hand due to carelessness or their weak connection with You, please Lord forgive and have mercy. Restore their hearts to You. Take away condemnation of the enemy and replace it with genuine repentance, confession and forsaking of sins to obtain mercy and receive strength in the inner and outer man. LORD HAVE MERCY.

• Lord we come by faith to pray and receive healing for Your afflicted people. According to Your promise of James 5:15. “And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.” Please save and heal them from all their afflictions and oppression. Forgive their sins and cleanse them spirit, soul, and body. Give them a vengeful heart against the wicked one (devil) that took advantage in the time of their weakness. Amen.

Philippians 2:25-30. “Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants. For he longed after you all, and was full of heaviness, because that ye had heard that he had been sick. For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow. I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful. Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation: Because for the work of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lack of service toward me.”

• Lord, have mercy on Your servants who are sick because of the much labour on their hands. Like You mercifully healed Epaphroditus, please heal them so they can carry on in selfless labour towards You and Your saints. Amen.

• Lord, we also pray for our loved ones who have not yet received the Gospel and are ill in their bodies. For Your mercy's sake, please touch their bodies and preserve their lives from death so they can receive the Gospel to save their souls.

• We pray for our loved ones that are on their death bed. Please Lord, reveal Yourself to them in this weak period of their lives. Prevail over the enemy and touch their hearts unto salvation so they can be with You in heaven when they pass on. Amen.

• Mention the names of the sick around you and plead for them in whichever category they may fall in their sickness. Let the mercy of God prevail and let them receive a miracle of healing; spirit, soul, and body. Pray for them by faith to receive from the Lord who went about doing good. Amen.

Thank YOU Lord JESUS, Our Great Physician. We give You praise for all You do to help Your people and to restore us back to health when we are sick. May we always love and serve You while we are in this body, and may we live with You forever in heaven when we leave this mortal body. THANK YOU LORD!

Matthew 4:24. “And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them."

Join this HeartCry Prayer - Every Monday - Wednesday and Friday 11:30am - 1:30pm (UK time)