January Logistics

Thursday, January 3rd is the first Thursday of the month. We will have our monthly prayer meeting at City Hall and at HOBI International. If you do not live near one of our locations, then please prayerfully consider starting a prayer meeting at your City Hall on the first Thursday of each month. We gather to pray using the ACTS model of prayer. This months suggested verses are:

• Adoration: Luke 2:14
• Confession: Zephaniah 2:1-3
• Thanksgiving: Ezra 3:11-13
• Supplication: Psalm 7:1-2

We have decided that this year, we will pray for our nation EVERY Thursday. While we will only gather at City Hall on the First Thursday of each month, we would encourage prayer for our nation every Thursday. Will you join us? Here is an email with the background and some suggested prayer points:

I recently sent an email titled, “A Nation that has forgotten God”, the day after the election. But after sending it, I thought what I should have titled it is,  “There is still hope for a Nation

that has forgotten God.” There is always hope because our great God is sovereign. Even when we see tragedy after tragedy such as what happened on last Friday when 20 children and 6

adults were murdered, there is still hope! I believe we are experiencing the consequences of a Nation whose majority and it’s leaders have forsaken the only true God and His Son, Jesus

Christ! I believe, the Lord is removing His protection and we are being judged by our sin and rebellion against Him. Please read Jeremiah, chapters 1-5 and notice how God’s chastening and

punishment against the Nation of Israel parallels what is taking place before our very eyes because of this Nation’s all out rebellion against the Lord. Murder, sexual immorality, idolatry,

theft, you name it and it is being practiced. I wonder if the Lord has just about reached His threshold with us and there is no human remedy for this problem. How could there be, because our sin against God is the problem. It is a spiritual problem. We do not wrestle against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness in this world. See: Ephesians 6:10-14.

And don’t you love how the media will blame anything other than the root of our problem which is sin. Rather than recognize our rejection of God and our rebellion against Him, they prefer to place the blame on anything other than our own moral depravity. And in the case of this most recent massacre

the media has even chosen to make an inanimate object the culprit. Wow! Are firearms really our problem? It is terribly tragic that the lives of 20 innocent children were taken and appalling that  thousands of children’s lives are taken every year and none of these media personalities, our president, the leadership of our government or the majority of our population is looking for the real solution to that problem. Why would they? To the contrary, in addition to many other atrocities; they condone, help fund and protect the murder of innocent children by law. How accurate is God’s word when in Psalms 94:20,21

it says, “Shall the throne of iniquity which devises evil by law have fellowship with you? They gather together against the life of the righteous and condemn innocent blood.” Do you think it has ever crossed their minds that our sin against God and the gross disregard for human life might encourage an event like what happened on Friday? I can only conclude that the majority of our nation has been completely deceived and blinded by sin! See Jn 9:39-41 Oh’ the hypocrisy of it all!

So what are we to do? You know the answer. We have to seek the Lord’s face and plead with Him to help us and we have to do it now! We need to join with the prophets and Godly men of all ages and call upon Him to help us! Read of the prayers of Daniel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Solomon, Hezekiah, Jehoshaphat and so on. We need to fast and pray to our God to deliver us. Therefore, I am calling upon you as brothers and sisters in Christ to join Deb & I in asking the Lord to save our nation. We will set aside every Thursday of each week to seek the Lord’s face. You may pray and fast as the Lord leads.

I have thought of at least 6 different prayers we can ask of the Lord:

• That the body of Christ would confess it’s sins and walk in holiness before the Lord. See: 1st Peter 4:17, Psalms 66:18 As Christians, we do not want our prayers to be hindered because of unconfessed sin and a lack of repentance in our own lives.
• That the Lord would raise up believers to intercede for and seek the lost, just as Christ did. See: Matt 18:11
• That the Lord would be glorified in His Body, the church! See: Ephesians 4:25,26
• That the Lord would convict the nation of it’s sins and bring them to repentance and faith in Christ! See: John 16:8
• That the Lord would forgive the sins of our Leaders and this nation as a whole. See: 2nd Chronicles 7:14
• That there would be a revival that would sweep the nation and that we would glorify God with our lives and that we would receive His blessing once again! Zephaniah 3:17