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Editor Speaks from the War Zone
Prayer for the Nations is the product of God’s heart-burn for the nations of the world. The world map is God’s road map to agonize for the nations of the world. Intercessors are the warriors of God who sense the heart-beats of God and accordingly pray with passion for the perishing world. This is an end-time mission of God and a mandate to rescue people from the clutches of the devil and those slipping into raging fires of hell. It is a rescue mission located a few yards away from the hell. It is also a dangerous mission for the intercessors and the Ambassadors manning “Prayer for the Nations” who are spearheading the mission of a direct confrontation with the devil. Those engaged in the confrontation have no alternative but to fight. No match fixing with the devil is possible no matter how intense the battle is and how disastrous the consequences are. If you touch the devil the devil pounces on you but whoever touches you, touches the apple of the eye of God. That is the assurance and hope of the warriors. At the head quarters in India “Prayer for the Nations” a member engaged in preparation of prayer maps were attacked by sting rays in the heart of the city of Visakhapatnam. They came from no-where and attacked him. They severely bit the man and me who tried to save him by scattering the sting rays. The man had to be rushed to the hospital for urgent medical treatment. Attacks of the kind are engineered by invisible forces of darkness and the irony is that in a city with millions of population only me and my colleague was targeted. There is no logical explanation to such precisely targeted attacks of the devil. Devil’s actions find expression in different ways and means. Devil attacks on the health of near and dear ones, family members and squeezes one financially and engineers un-natural attacks to have it’s last laugh at the end of the day. But as the scripture says that we are not ignorant of his devices. His devices are to water down the intensity of the warfare and to divert the attention of the warrior from warfare. The devil does not waste time attacking every one but it surely does not spare those who shake it’s foundation, the foundation of the devil’s domain. Those engaged in intercession are his potential enemies. Those engaged in warfare cannot on the other hand fiddle with love for money, women on the wrong side of life and with trivialities of life. Intercessors are the supersonic fighters of God’s kingdom. Either they consume the fires or the fires consume them. I am sending this magazine with a great sense of urgency and with fervent prayers that this would be a vital link with branches of Prayer For the Nations and that this would be instrumental in igniting flames of revival as a result of fervent prayers by intercessors for “the church under attack” as never before in the history of Christian church. It is my burden that many would catch the spirit of prayer and intercession and order for “Prayer Maps” besides making this magazine the largest circulated in the world. Your prayers are being solicited for expansion of “Prayer for the Nations” in all the nations of the world and for appointment of Ambassadors to represent the mission in every country.The objectives of our mission is to …..(a). Put prayer first and foremost (above all) for the nations (b). Produce 100,000 Prayer Centers throughout the world. (c). Place intercessors around the clock for the fulfillment of God’s promises. (d). Bombard the throne of God with prayer until His will be done on Earth. (e). Reveal the heart of our Heavenly Father through prayer for the nations. We have the biggest world map in the world. For those who want to start prayer cells of Prayer for the Nations in their areas concerned, prayer map will be provided. Please pray about supporting this move of GodIrrespective of your standing in the society, God wants you to join us in prayer. Elijah was a man subject to like passion as we are but he believed God as was demonstrated when he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months; And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit” (James 5:17, 18). God is looking for Elijahs to trigger in a spiritual revolution. The birth of prayer for the nations ministry had taken place after spearheading a ministry spanning over four decades. During the time God took me to minister in 25 nations and unknowingly lay the foundation for the ministry of prayer and intercession. This is your time to pray with tears. God bless you abundantly! With passion for prayer. Rev. PrasannaKumar.
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! Supersonic Fighters!
! Supersonic Fighters ! Intercessors are not ordinary people. They speak to God for others. They don’t care about themselves. They live hazardous lives. Always on the danger zone fighting with an unpredictable enemy. They live for others. They pray for others. They don’t care for the things of the world. They risk their families and dear ones for you. They are the supersonic fighters in the God’s army. Many times the missiles hit their dear ones but the battle goes on with no scope for match-fixing. Some wonderful things are happening in the Body of Christ on this Globe today. The Holy Spirit is stirring the church triumph in prayer at this time more than any time in the history of the Globe. The final destructive attack against the strongholds of the enemy has started and it is intercessors (prayer warriors) that will carry the day. The intercessor will turn the battle to starting point to a destination of the enemy completely and through their prayers power and glory that will bring to Jesus the King of kings and the Lord of Lords. Now days the Holy Spirit is giving personal invitation to you to discover where real power lies today. He is searching for perfect people in their hearts. He is searching in all continents some one who will give their knees and Tears. "For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth to show himself strong on behalf of those whose hearts are perfect towards Him" By intercession we release the limitless power of God to work in our behalf. Your intercession is the key into a new dimension of God's power and Glory that has not witnessed before. This is possible as you connect God in solid intercession. Jeremiah 33:3 is waiting is to be proved in your personal life. How your intercession will effect in your life: 1. You must be in proper relationship with God. Daniel 11:32 says "But the people who know their God shall be strong and do great things. David's heart always after God because he said "As the deer pants after the brook of water, so pants my heart after you, O loving God" Ps. 42:1. If you are going to pray and pray and pray you must know your God personally, intimately. And he must know you as His own. 2. Your heart must be Clean and Pure. "Blessed are Pure for they shall see God" Mt.5:8. And two cannot walk together except they are in agreement. Therefore you must be Holy. Daniel was such a powerful man of Prayer because he chooses not to defile himself. A compromise people cannot be strong in their prayers that are the reason you must be man of strong conviction. 3. You must be sensitive to the Holy Spirit. Not only be filled with the Holy Spirit but you must obey to the leading of the Holy Spirit discipline. The Holy Spirit is the one that helps our problems in hard circumstances and He is the one that tells us what to pray and how to pray. Let the Holy Spirit occupied you with full of intercession than your prayer shall be very effective. 4. You must care enough. If you do not care about a person, your nation, or a situation God will not give you a prayer concern for it. But when you lay it to heart and it is important to you, the Holy Spirit will begin to speak to you. 5. You must build your faith with God's word. Only your relation with God will take you to faith life and without faith it is impossible to please God, that means your close relation with God is the only instrument to build your faith in God. He that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarded of them diligently seek Him. If you want your faith to be strong, you need to feed it with positive word of faith. 6. You must pray of specific answers for definite expectations. You cannot afford to be vague or uncertain in your mind about what you really want. You must be specific and particular. Vague prayer is only a waste of time. Specific prayer will bring specific result. 7. As an intercessor God will reveal to you all His secrets. You will experience staggering answers. Your prayers will give such power that can change your Nation. You must be humble and give God the glory. And if you lay it to heart to give Him the glory He will take you from glory to glory in the place of prevailing prayers. People have different weaknesses. Some people have weakness to talk too much. For some eating too much. For some not to know how to resist temptation. The same way your prayer life is your weakness that you pray too much. If you would be like Daniel you can pray your way into several things. Let us look at the meaning of the word "intercession". The English word intercession is the same word that means meditation, arbitration or negotiation. It is simply standing in the gap on behalf of another person, people or nation. In the Old Testament when God was going to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, He spoke with Abraham but Abraham did not just hear, he took a step further to i Here the purpose of intercession is clearly defined. Paul used few words "first of all". In intercession there is an authority. Intercession is for all men, no matter how rich he may be , a life without Christ is in crisis, he needs your intercession. The same for the colleague in your office, your boss or your subordinate. The primary purpose is for the salvation of their souls. You must take the place of the person you are interceding for in prayer and fervently pray for them. Do not pray casual. When you are praying for a person or a Nation, you must watch what type of spirit is working on them and take the conformation from the Holy Spirit then fervently pray for him. Intercession is not the place of Judgment or condemnation, but it is the place of Compassion and forgiveness and pity. Compassion and pity will take you to extra mile to do something for losing lives. Abraham pleaded with god for Sodom and Gomorrah and for Lot. Some times the Holy Spirit will inspire you wake up quite early and put a burden in your heart for some person, you might not know what the change is, but thank God you are a helper for one soul. You cannot measure the cost of the soul. Dear brother and Sister better you go back to quality time of prayer and pray and pray and pray and pray and pray. God strengthen your hands and knees and tears.
With Love, Rev. S.Prasannakumar
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It’s About the Man and Woman God Uses …
It’s About the Man and Woman God Uses … For God it is the man and woman who matters and again it is the inside and not the outside that matters. People who could fit into the mould of God are the need of the hour. While the world is looking for improved technology, the historical God is harping on the right person. White, black, brown or yellow, God is least bothered. Heart is the heart of all.
Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two; your life preaches all the week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words from God. Luther spent his best three hours in prayer. -- Robert Murray McCheyne .WE are constantly on a stretch, if not on a strain, to devise new methods, new plans, new organizations to advance the Church and secure enlargementand efficiency for the gospel. This trend of the day has a tendency to losesight of the man or sink the man in the plan or organization. God's plan is to make much of the man, far more of him than of anything else. Men are God's method. The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking forbetter men. "There was a man sent from God whose name was John." The dispensation that heralded and prepared the way for Christ was bound up in that man John. "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given." The world's salvation comes out of that cradled Son. When Paul appeals to the personal character of the men who rooted the gospel in the world, he solves the mystery of their success. The glory and efficiency of the gospel is staked on the men who proclaim it. When God declares that "the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him," he declares the necessity of men and his dependence on them as a channel through which to exert his power upon the world. This vital, urgent truth is one that this age of machinery is apt to forget. The forgetting of it is as baneful on the work of God as would be the striking of the sun from his sphere. Darkness, confusion, and death would ensue. What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use-- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He doesnot anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer. An eminent historian has said that the accidents of personal character have more to do with the revolutions of nations than either philosophic historians or democratic politicians will allow. This truth has its application in full to the gospel of Christ, the character and conduct of the followers of Christ -- Christianize the world, transfigure nations and individuals. Of the preachers of the gospel it is eminently true. The character as well as the fortunes of the gospel is committed to the preacher. He makes or mars the message from God to man. The preacher is the golden pipe through which the divine oil flows. The pipe must not only begolden, but open and flawless, that the oil may have a full, unhindered, unwasted flow. The man makes the preacher. God must make the man. The messenger is, if possible, more than the message. The preacher is more than the sermon. The preacher makes the sermon. As the life-giving milk from the mother's bosomis but the mother's life, so all the preacher says is tinctured, impregnatedby what the preacher is. The treasure is in earthen vessels, and the taste of the vessel impregnates and may discolor. The man, the whole man, lies behind the sermon. Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the out flow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon, because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows. The sermon is forceful because the man is forceful. The sermon is holy because the man is holy. The sermon is full of the divine unction because the man is full of the divine unction. Paul termed it "My gospel;" not that he had degraded it by his personal eccentricities or diverted it by selfish appropriation, but the gospel wasput into the heart and lifeblood of the man Paul, as a personal trust to beexecuted by his Pauline traits, to be set aflame and empowered by the fiery energy of his fiery soul. Paul's sermons -- what were they? Where are they? Skeletons, scattered fragments, afloat on the sea of inspiration! But the man Paul, greater than his sermons, lives forever, in full form, feature and stature, with his molding hand on the Church. The preaching is but a voice.The voice in silence dies, the text is forgotten, the sermon fades frommemory; the preacher lives. The sermon cannot rise in its life-giving forces above the man. Dead men give out dead sermons, and dead sermons kill. Everything depends on the spiritual character of the preacher. Under the Jewish dispensation the highpriest had inscribed in jeweled letters on a golden frontlet: "Holiness to the Lord." So every preacher in Christ's ministry must be molded into handmastered by this same holy motto. It is a crying shame for the Christian ministry to fall lower in holiness of character and holiness of aim than the Jewish priesthood. Jonathan Edwards said: "I went on with my eager pursuit after more holiness and conformity to Christ. The heaven I desired was a heaven of holiness." The gospel of Christ does not move by popular waves. It has no self-propagating power. It moves as the men who have charge of itmove. The preacher must impersonate the gospel. It's divine, most distinctive features must be embodied in him. The constraining power of love must be in the preacher as a projecting, eccentric, an all-commanding, self-obliviousforce. The energy of self-denial must be his being, his heart and blood and bones. He must go forth as a man among men, clothed with humility, abiding in meekness, wise as a serpent, harmless as a dove; the bonds of a servant with the spirit of a king, a king in high, royal, in dependent bearing, with the simplicity and sweetness of a child. The preacher must throw himself,with all the abandon of a perfect, self-emptying faith and a self-consuming zeal, into his work for the salvation of men. Hearty, heroic, compassionate, fearless martyrs must the men be who take hold of and shape a generation for God. If they be timid time servers, place seekers, if they be men pleasers or men fearers, if their faith has a weak hold on God or his Word, if their denial be broken by any phase of self or the world, they cannot take hold of the Church nor the world for God. The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.The training of the twelve was the great, difficult, and enduring work of Christ. Preachers are not sermon makers, but men makers and saint makers, and he only is well-trained for this business who has made himself a man anda saint. It is not great talents nor great learning nor great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God -- men always preaching by holy sermons in the pulpit, by holy lives out of it. These can mold a generation for God. After this order, the early Christians were formed. Men they were of solid mold, preachers after the heavenly type -- heroic, stalwart, soldierly, saintly. Preaching with them meant self-denying, self-crucifying, serious, toilsome, martyr business. They applied themselves to it in a way that told on their generation, and formed in its womb a generation yet unborn for God.The preaching man is to be the praying man. Prayer is the preacher's mightiest weapon. An almighty force in itself, it gives life and force to all. The real sermon is made in the closet. The man -- God's man -- is made in the closet. His life and his profoundest convictions were born in his secret communion with God. The burdened and tearful agony of his spirit, his weightiest and sweetest messages were got when alone with God. Prayer makes the man; prayer makes the preacher; prayer makes the pastor. The pulpit of this day is weak in praying. The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. Prayer is with the pulpit too often only official -- a performance for the routine of service. Prayer is not to the modern pulpit the mighty force it was in Paul's life or Paul's ministry.Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life andministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God'scause in this world. With Love Rev. S.PrasannaKumar
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