2012 MEN’S CONFERENCE PRAYER CHALLENGE

Calling all ladies and men to prayer – I invite all God’s people everywhere, of all denominations, to join FBCW in focused prayer, (Acts 1:14; 4:31) for the Men’s Conference 2012.

Our Women’s Prayer Vigil is Thursday 7:00 PM, February 2nd 2012 in the Magnolia Room at FBCW, all ladies welcome. If it is possible, will you join us in a three day fast starting February 2-4, to intercede on behalf of the 10-12 thousand men, their families and our nation? For those in distant cities, I invite you to form your own prayer vigils. If you would like to contact me regarding a prayer vigil, please e-mail me at rondamaxwell@comcast.net. Feel free to use the prayer points outlined below.

Our nation and our families are being destroyed, our Churches are weakened and being pulled into the mire. Much ground has given way to a lack of spiritual discernment. Prayer is sorely lacking.

Now is the time to act, to intercede in prayer. Where are the men? We need, and God is calling out for Himself, courageous biblical men who will stand on the whole council of God’s Word: living and exemplifying it out to their families, workplaces, social situations, ministries, and to the nations; men who have the heart of God for the lost souls of the world. Men who meet with and pursue God daily in their lives, men of fervent passion and deep devotion to Christ above all else; men who fear God, men who understand and experience the power of prayer, who shut themselves in with God for the pleasure of God! Men with absolute dependence on God.

E.M. Bounds said in his book, The Power of Prayer, “Man is looking for better methods. God is looking for better men. Man is God’s method.” This is the hope for our nation, our families and the nations of the world – the Church raised up in her glory with Christ through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

We must return prayer to its rightful place; Jesus sought out intimacy with His Father daily (Luke 5:16). How much more do we, as His people, need to be in deep intimate communion with God for God, and to intercede for His people and the lost? (Col 4:2). The power of prayer is hardly being tapped into as in years long passed. The men of old knew their God, their sin, and the power of prayer, the absolute necessity of prayer!

We should be overwhelmed, in awe, that through repentance and prayer we can lay our hands on Yahweh, the Creator, Savior, Sustainer, the Holy One, the Righteous One, who calls us into His presence! Yet so few enter to meet with Him and dwell there, experiencing the power of prayer in their lives and God’s heart for His Kingdom to the exaltation of Christ. ( 2 Ch 7:14,15; Ps 91:1,2).

Andrew Murray said in his book, The Sstate of the Church, an urgent call to repentance and prayer, “Everyone who desires to live for Christ and His Kingdom should ask God to remove the terrible blindness which hinders men from seeing that there is just one thing lacking in the Church’s work: the power of the Holy Spirit. There is just one thing required: that the Church falls down in intense fervent prayer to wait until she is endued with power from on high.”


My heart-cry for all of us; O God raise our vision and intimate knowledge of Yourself in the GREATNESS and GOODNESS of You. May we be so inclined to rest our hearts and ears on Your bosom, to hear, perceive and know the wonders of Your person in all the fullness of Your Son – Your Christ to the glory of Your Church, that the world would see and know the true living God. Amen. (Php 3:7-11; Ps 63:1-8; Mt 28:18-20).

Pursuing God for God (Ps 42:1,2),
Ronda Maxwell

Prayer Points for 2012 Men’s Conference

Pray for:

• Pastor and the breakout speakers’ for total yielded ness to the Holy Spirit in prayer for His presence and power – manifested in their words – men to have ears to hear. Acts 6:4; Zec 4:6; 1Th 2:13; 2 Tim 3:16,17; Col 4:2-4.
  
• Salvation – broken, contrite and repentant hearts – that the Holy Spirit would enable men to examine their hearts before God. Ps 51:17; Acts 2:37-40; Acts 3:19.
  
• Men who are under deception, who think they are saved but truly are without Christ, to examine themselves in the Word by God’s Spirit. 2 Cor 13:5; Mt 7:21-23; 1 Jn.
  
• Men of prayer who pursue God daily – men of fervent passion and deep devotion to Christ – who know and experience the power of prayer – men with absolute dependence on God – shut in with God for the pleasure of God – Men who plead before God for His saints and lost souls. Ps 42:1,2; Php 3:7-10; Lk 5:16.
  
• Men who fear God – that the greatness, wonder and goodness of God would reign in them, resulting in implicit obedience. Pr 1:4; Ps 25:14; Jer 10:6-16; 1 Sa 15:22.
  
• That these men and all God’s people would call their families and church’s back to prayer in it’s rightful place – seeking God’s face above all. Luke 19:46; 1 Th 5:16-18; Acts 4:31; Acts 6:2-4; Col 4:2; 2 Ch 7:14,15; Ps 27:8; Ps 145:18.
  
• Sexual immorality – for the Holy Spirit to break the chains of Satan and the world from the minds and hearts of those in bondage to sexual sins and those on the threshold of temptations; that these men would see their sin is against God. Eph 5:3; Ps 51:1-4; 1 Cor 6:15-20; Ps 101:1-4; 1 Pt 2:9-13.
  
• Any stronghold that holds these men “captive,” i.e. – drugs – alcohol – unforgiveness – pride – lust – money – fear – anger and bitterness. Col 3:5-10; Ps 25:15-21.
  
• Families – men to be the priest of their home – to be strong and compassionate – love their wives as Christ loves His church – wives would be submissive to their husbands. Through Christ the men would be the hedge around their family. For Christ to be exalted in their marriages, and God’s Word and prayer woven through their marriage and children, into an inseparable bond with God; resilient to the onslaught of our flesh, the world and Satan’s schemes. Eph 5:22-33; Ps 112; Dt 6:4-9; Eph 6:10-18.
  
• Biblical, radical, zealous men filled, and impassioned with and for Jesus – igniting their lives – marriages – jobs – churches – ministries and communities for all Nations to be transformed for God’s glory. Eph 5:1-21; Phil 3:10,11; Jn 2:17; Mt 28:18-20.
  
• That these men, their families, and all God’s people would see their deep desperate need for a supreme reliance on God and distrust of self. Heb 4:14-16; Ps 62:5-8; Pr 3:5-7; Pr 28:26