Amazing how many references there are in God’s Word about mountains, and of course, the greatest and most important is Mount Zion, the City of the Great King.  It is called His “holy mountain” in the Word of God!  We are presently watching over and praying for the Economy/Business Mountain; there is much activity going on at the top of this mountain, therefore, it is a key time to be praying over it.  As one President/CEO of a major company said at the beginning of the year, “the breakdown happened at the top level due to the greed and corruption of many top leaders.”  He went on to say that the people who really make things happen, the workers, the middle income people, are still working hard and continuing to create, birth new ideas and believe for them to manifest bringing about new growth and change necessary for growth and prosperity.  THERE IS HOPE! Another leader said this, “the money didn’t go away or get lost,”  it’s still out there waiting for someone with courage and wisdom to lay hold of it and steward it wisely.

PRAY to be a wise steward of your resources, time and finances!  Pray for those in key positions to make wise decisions that will benefit many, not just one person!

PRAY for your workplace or business!  Pray that it be a place where God’s Presence is welcome and needs are met as the workers are free to pray, share the Gospel and lay hands on the sick. 

PRAY for signs, wonders and miracles to take place in your workplace or business, that many will be awakened and turn to the Lord!

PRAY that integrity and honesty, as well as godliness guide the decisions, motives and actions of business leaders.  Pray against all compromise and for all in your business or workplace to live their lives at work and outside the workplace in ways that honor and glorify God, especially in the area of finances.

PRAY that all business that promote promiscuity would be clearly seen for what they are, would be closed down and their owners, managers, workers receive Christ as their Savior.  This has been a major concern in the past few years, especially those that are in close proximity to schools or places where youth and children frequent!

Offer your praises to God for the people who have so diligently pursued city and county officials to force the closure of these businesses!  Bless the city and county officials who have willingly and readily cooperated in seeing this happen!

SUNDAY, JANUARY 18, 2000 – RIGHT TO LIFE GATHERINGS AT COURTHOUSES ACROSS AMERICA AND IN WASHINGTON, D.C.    

Tomorrow at 2:00 PM, many will gather at their CountyCourthouses to pray and take a stand against the abominable practice of ABORTION!  In our nation’s capitol, they are expecting the largest gathering to protest ABORTION that ever has been!  PRAY THAT THOUSANDS, EVEN MILLIONS FILL THE STREETS OF WASHINGTON, D.C. to clearly show our next president Barack Obama that abortion is not acceptable to the majority of the U.S. of America’s citizens!  Pray for President-elect Barack Obama to have revelation of the truth of this practice and CHOOSE LIFE for millions of unborn babies!  Pray that everyone of these gatherings be marked by God’s tangible presence and pray that multitudes of lives be changed by a supernatural encounter with God.  Pray that God’s Spirit be manifested during these gatherings.

TOMORROW, let Deuteronomy 30:19 be our cry, “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you LIFE AND DEATH, BLESSING AND CURSING; therefore CHOOSE LIFE, that both you and your descendants may live…” NKJV

Also pray and cry out to the Lord, “Turn the hearts of the FATHERS to the CHILDREN, and the hearts of the CHILDREN to their FATHERS…”  Malachi 4:6 NKJV.

MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 2009 IS MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY!  Pray for all who have laid down their lives that others might be free including our soldiers on foreign fields and those who have returned from the battle fields.  Pray for healing of body, soul and spirit for those who are still living.  Pray for their families who have suffered along with them to be blessed and receive the “peace that passes all understanding.

Pray for all the gatherings where Martin Luther King, Jr. will be honored that the godly spirit that drove him will come to many in this hour and the truth of his sacrifices be known and honored!

DECLARE “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His own inheritance.”  Blessed is the BUSINESS whose God is the Lord; Blessed is the family whose God is the Lord.  Declare we choose LIFE & BLESSING and we choose the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY!  Scripture reference is Ps. 33:12 NKJV

Blessings of great grace, great strength, great wisdom, and new vision as you watch!

Blessings,
Sallye Burton, Apostolic Coordinator

Tomorrow at midnight, we will complete the three days praying for the RELIGION Mountain!  Let’s finish strong, lifting up the Lord’s church!  Two scriptures stand out to me which express the Lord’s will for His church!  In Matthew 16:18, Jesus speaks of building His Church and states that “the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”

PRAY for submitted hearts to the Lord, allowing Him to build His church, and pray that, we, His people have “willing and obedient” hearts, minds and lives.  PRAY that we stand together united so the gates of hell cannot prevail against the Lord’s church.

In Hebrews 12:1 & 2, the writer exhorts us to “lay aside the sin that so easily besets us.”  In the Complete Jewish Bible, it reads, “put aside every impediment---that is the sin which easily hampers our forward movement---and keep running with endurance in the contest set before us, looking away to the Initiator and Completer of that trusting, Yeshua….”

PRAY that each member of the Body of Christ has the finisher’s anointing.  Also, pray I Thessalonians 5:23 for ourselves and each member of Christ’s Body!

PRAY for the mindset of triumph and that of an overcomer!  Ask Holy Spirit to help you see yourself as an overcomer!

As we pray for the Lord’s Church, pray for the many who are held captive in false religions and false doctrines.  PRAY blinders be removed from their minds; pray they have a dream, vision or revelation of who Jesus Christ, the Son of God is.  PRAY they be overwhelmed by the LOVE OF GOD, and pray that it also comes through us!

PRAY for God’s chosen, appointed and anointed leaders in the Body of Christ; PRAY Ephesians 4:11-16 and Isaiah 9:6&7.

BEGINNING at Midnight Thursday, January 15, the next three days, our PRAYER TARGET is the ECONOMIC or BUSINESS Mountain!

PRAY for the incoming administrations in our NATION & in our state!  PRAY for the wisdom from above to be given to them in all matters of decision!

PRAY each person be surrounded by Godly counselors AND that they will listen carefully and heed Godly advice!

PRAY for those at the top of this mountain, for their salvation!

ASK Holy Spirit for wisdom with your own personal, business and/or ministry finances!  Ask the Lord to help you to be a good steward of all that He has entrusted to you!

Claim II Corinthians 10:3-6, pulling down the strongholds of poverty, debt, lack and want and CLAIM III John 2, Psalms 1:1-3, Isaiah 48:17 and Deuteronomy 8:18.

PRAY blessings on your church, business & employer; CLAIM Ephesians 3:20 and II Corinithians:8-11.

MONDAY, January 19 begins our three days to pray for the GOVERNMENT Mountain!  This is also MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY!  TUESDAY, January 20 is

INAUGURATION DAY!  These are important days to be praying for our nation!

Don’t forget:    FIRST FRUITS GATHERING, January 31, 10-12:00 noon at New Wineskin Ministries, 4501 W. 38^th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46254

            Now is the time to connect, align, be strengthened and ADVANCE!

God bless you with grace, renewed strength, great wisdom, fresh hope and abundant joy!

Blessings,
Sallye Burton, Apostolic Coordinator

For the purpose of strength and to be a help to one another, Indiana has joined the Heartland Apostolic Prayer Network.  It is not like the US Global Apostolic Prayer Network.  This is more for the purpose of strength and help as we co-labor in various ways.

Please read this and pray!  Apostle Jay Swallow is a part of this network as well.  There are a total of 18 states co-laboring together across the heartland at this time, Indiana being one of them.

Blessings of great grace,
Sallye Burton, Apostolic Coordinator
 

TO:  HAPN / OAPN Leaders and Intercessors 

The US House of Representatives will be going back into session Wednesday, November  19, 2008. 

Pray for the passage of the Indian Health Care bill with the Resolution of Apology to Native Americans attached.  The House will only be in session for a short period and it is imperative that the Resolution of Apology come to a vote and be passed.

Please pray and pass this on to intercessors within your network.
 

John Benefiel
HAPN/OAPN Apostolic Coordinator

Recently, one of our leaders sent me this poem the Lord had given her for Indiana!

           “We hear His voice of thunder
            As it echoes from His throne.
            His Power never fails us!
            INDIANA is His own.

            We see Holy God arising
            We hear His mighty roar,
            We see prodigals returning,
            We see innocence restored.

            In all our lakes and rivers
            From all our hills and plains
            The voice of God is calling
            INDIANA, hear the rain.
                                    Becky Phillips 

INDIANA is the Lords!  What can we do to make it secure in His plans and purposes?  I keep hearing and reading the importance of the WATCHES!  In the October 2008 issue of Christ For the Nations,  Cindy Jacobs is interviewed.  Her message is titled “24/7 Prayer Power!”  In it she takes note of the “at least” 60 colleges and universities in America that have a 24/7 prayer house on their campus.  Cindy calls these 24/7 prayer rooms the “spiritual nuclear plant,” for God’s plan for our nation and the nations of the earth. She writes, “Regular concerted prayer is needed both day and night.  If one cannot do it all night, it is important to start the day off by taking authority over the plans Satan has for the day.  Many people often ask me, “Cindy, what is God saying to the prayer movement?”  One of the most impacting words God is giving me and others right now is this, “It is time for early morning prayer!” 

One man who learned the value and the joy of early morning prayer was George Washington Carver.  It was during these times the Lord would give him creative ideas to change farming in the South.  It was he who introduced peanuts and the hundreds of uses for the peanut.  First the South was blessed and became more fruitful, then it spread to other parts of the nation and beyond, all because one man was willing to meet with his Creator in the early morning hours. 

Jesus, too spent many hours with His Father seeking Him, listening to His directions as He said in John 5:19, “….Yes, indeed!  I tell you that the Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does too.”  And in John 10:27, “My sheep listen to my voice, ….” CJB  As He is, so are we in this world!  There is yet much to be done, as we spend time in His Presence, listening to His voice, fellowshipping with Him, worshipping Him, He will show us greater things! 

Of Paul and Silas, it says in Acts 16:25, “And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God:  and the prisoners heard them.”  Their backs beaten and bleeding, their hands and feet in stocks, Paul and Silas chose to sing and pray.  This resulted in God sending an earthquake which shook the prisoners free and the jailer and his family heard the story of salvation and their lives were eternally changed!  What a God, what power, what a plan and we get to be a part of His great plan!

A key scripture for the early morning watch is Job 38:12,13, “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?”  It is imperative that we pray during this watch or the wicked will try to overtake us with their lawless deeds.  As Cindy Jacobs puts it, “The Lord is speaking to many that it is time to get up and shake the wickedness out of our day!”  We are not helpless, we have a strong Helper and He desires that His Kingdom come, His will be done “on earth as it is in heaven.” 

Tonight, during the First Fruits Gathering at Glory of Zion, Chuck Pierce asked the saints to take the seven days from December 12-19 and commit to praying during one of the four evening watches; the evening watch from 6-9:00 pm.  This watch, according to Genesis 1:5, “…So there was evening, and there was morning, one day,” establishes the beginning of each day at sundown.  Therefore, this watch is important to setting things in God’s order for the next 24 hours.  The next evening watch is from 9-12:00 and leads into the time when darkness tries to prevail and bring destruction into the lives of many.  The midnight watch is from midnight to 3:00 am and is important in establishing God’s kingdom and rule over darkness, this being the time that witches and warlocks, those involved in occult activity work to establish devastation and ruin in people’s lives.  As we watch, we rule with Christ; we declare His Word and His victory won at Calvary.  One drop of His precious, holy Blood is enough, but He shed it all for us.  Galatians 3:13 is an important scripture for us to remember and declare, “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, ‘cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree,’ that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles.”  God wills His blessings for us and He desires that we become those whom release the blessings upon the earth that lives, cities, regions and nations might be changed, discipled and aligned with His Kingdom. 

And of course, the early morning watch called the “Breaking of the Day” watch is also considered the miracle watch.  Many of Jesus’ miracles came following His keeping the early morning watch.  It was following one of these watches that He “came walking on the water,” to His disciples who were being tossed and turned by a storm on the Sea.  This was also when Peter asked the Lord to “bid him come,” and He did!  Peter then walked on the water also.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all 92 counties in Indiana had at least one watch covered during these 7 days?  Might we expect there to be miracles, salvations, healings, lives, families, people groups changed for the glory of God!

As Becky Phillips penned in her poem, “The voice of God is calling….INDIANA, hear the rain!  Declare, INDIANA TRANSFORMED/REFORMED, ALL INDIANA SAVED!  Invite Holy Spirit to come; ask the Lord to grant you the grace and the strength to do at least part of one of the night watches ALL SEVEN DAYS from December 12-19 and WATCH & SEE what the Lord will do! 

Ask the Lord to grant you the “spirit of wisdom and revelation knowledge,” increase of the gifts and the fruit and to bring them into maturity!   

Ask the Lord to assign you to pray for your city, your region, a neighborhood, the schools of your county, the county government, the justice system; seek Him for direction!

Tell your spirit to WAKE UP, be strong and ask the Lord to “strengthen you with might in the inner man by His Holy Spirit.” 

Pray and agree for there to be at least one watch in all 92 counties during these 7 days.  If you think there may be those who would be willing to do this and may not be receiving our emails, call them and alert them to this.  Invite them to do a watch in their county!

Every day, cancel the plans of the devil by appropriating the Blood of the Lamb and petition the Father to enact and establish His plans for that day!  Especially declare the plans of Satan rendered null and void and harmless by the Blood of the Lamb in the lives of the children and youth!  Declare “Let there be light,” to shine on and expose the wicked and their evil plans.  Petition the Father for His divine intervention to stop these plans.  I think of drug dealing for one thing!  Ask the Lord to expose any drug rings in your area and cause them to cease to exist.

Pray that any sex/slave activities also be exposed and stopped.  Declare kidnapping stopped and exposed before anything happens.

Pray divine protection over children and young people.

Pray for every child, every young person, every person in your realm of authority to be delivered from the hold of drugs and other addictive substances.  That is God’s will for them; pray they receive the help they need to break completely free and to stay free.

Pray against and cancel every planned abortion; declare life to babies in their mother’s wombs.  Pray the funds of abortionists and their clinics be dried up and the clinics completely shut down.

Pray that those contemplating armed robbery, physical harm to another human being be stopped, caught and if need be, brought to justice.  Pray for their souls.

INDIANA, hear the rain!  Come Holy Spirit, breathe on our peoples, our lands, breathe the breath of life to dispel the death culture.  Empower the people of God to do the will of God!  KINGDOM OF GOD……COME!   WILL OF GOD….BE DONE…..on earth, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!

Mark your calendars, begin now to pray, asking the Lord for His direction for the WATCHES, December 12-19!  It’s God’s time for INDIANA TO WATCH TO ADVANCE!