USA: migrant surge expected
04 May 2023
An additional 1,500 active-duty troops will join the 2,500 National Guards on the US-Mexico border in anticipation of an influx of migrants when the Covid-era restrictions expire on 11 May. Their assistance will free up resources so that US Customs and Border Protection can operate freely while soldiers fill gaps in ground-based detection, monitoring, data entry, and warehouse support. They will not be doing any law enforcement. Many believe further militarisation of the border is unacceptable in the middle of a humanitarian crisis in the Western Hemisphere. Deploying military personnel signals that migrants are a threat. Nothing could be further from the truth. More encounters at the Mexico border are expected as smugglers take advantage of the changes. They are already hard at work spreading disinformation that the border will be open, placing strains on the entire system. There were 7,000 daily encounters on the US southern border recently. Numbers are expected to rise in the coming weeks.
Peru: stop press! ?
04 May 2023
Criminals in Peru have wrong-footed themselves during a robbery at a shoe store. Three people broke into a shop in Huancayo and made off with more than 200 trainers - but they were all for the right foot. The lame attempt at a lucrative robbery was captured by security cameras. Offloading 200 right shoes may not be an easy task.
110 cities
03 May 2023
Our vision is to see the 110 most unreached cities in the world reached with the Gospel, praying for thousands of Christ-exalting churches to be planted among them!
We believe prayer is key! To this end we are reaching out in faith to cover this outreach with the powerful prayers of 110 million believers - for breakthrough, praying around the throne, around the clock and around the globe!
WILL YOU JOIN US?!
Watch the video invitation to pray with 110 million people for 110 strategic cities! (Psalm 110:3)
Here’s 3 ways you can get involved with 110 Cities!
The 110cities.com website is chock full of resources to use in whatever way suits you... browse the 110 Cities and their prayer points along with the 24-7 worship and prayers of our Global Family 24-7 Prayer Room or stream the International House of Prayer Kansas City worship and intercessions.
Join us now at: https://www.110cities.com/
Come to the Table
03 May 2023
Come to the Table is a collaboration of worldwide prayer & missions networks & movements, uniting in global prayer, communion & mission in 2023.
The 40+ leaders gather monthly to hear from the Lord and each other, and to pray. We are excited to be experiencing a growing unity that is bound by our common vision to see all peoples reached with the message of the Gospel. (Luke 10:2)
We agree that prayer and mission together is the key!
The listing on the website contains just some of the many joint worldwide events that are taking place this year.
We invite you to bookmark the page and to visit us regularly for updates!
Easter to Pentecost Declaration - Ian Cole
03 May 2023
Ian Cole, Senior Advisor to IPC and founder of the World Prayer Centre, Birmingham, UK has written an Easter to Pentecost Declaration to declare the truths of God from Easter through to Pentecost. Read / pray it below!
AN EASTER TO PENTECOST DECLARATION 2023
I declare today the greatness and love of God the Father.
The supremacy of His Son Jesus the Christ, and the power and eternal work of the Holy Spirit.
FATHER GOD. I declare You are perfect in all your ways; in love, justice, goodness, wisdom mercy and grace.
Your love for the world You created and all its people never ends.
Father God, I declare you are my Rock, my Deliverer and my Sustainer.
I declare your love for me, my family, my friends and my community, never ends.
JESUS. Today I declare that you lived, died, rose and ascended to the right hand of your Father, there to intercede for me.
By the grace of God, I declare you are my Saviour, Redeemer, Healer and coming King.
I declare that through your blood Jesus, I am ransomed, healed, restored and forgiven.
I am a child of God!
Today, I declare that in your name Jesus, through your victory at the cross,
I will silence the lies of satan and nullify his schemes.
HOLY SPIRIT. Thank you Holy Spirit for inspiring people to write my bible reading today.
I declare that this same Holy Spirit, who raised Christ from the dead, is dwelling in me.
Holy Spirit, “It is your breath that enables me to live, serve, worship,
praise and represent Jesus to those I meet today.”
I declare that the same courage and boldness you gave the early Christians
at Pentecost is available for me to use every day.
My prayer today
Thank you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I live every moment with your presence, promises and power surrounding me, because you promised never to leave or forsake me. Hallelujah!
Thank you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit that your answers far outweigh
the problems and challenges I am facing. Hallelujah!
Thank you, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the plans You have for me,
supersede satan’s schemes and attacks. Hallelujah!
Thank you, Father Son and Holy Spirit that I can join with all of heaven and with millions of brothers and sisters around the world in praise, thanksgiving and worship this Easter to Pentecost season.
CHRIST IS RISEN HALLELUJAH!
2023 © World Prayer Centre. The declaration can be copied and distributed freely acknowledging World Prayer Centre
www.worldprayer.org.uk
Ian has also written “A Gift of Hope”. The new e-book contains the Trilogy of Hope articles written by Ian Cole and the Daily Declaration.
May the Gift of Hope bring you joy at Christmas! If you would like to purchase the Gift of Hope e-book, you can purchase and download here.
He has also written a Daily Declaration. Let us declare faith, hope, and truth for us and our families.
Download a PDF of the declaration
prayer.global
03 May 2023
Prayer Global is an interesting new prayer tool that enables you to strategically pray for specific places and peoples in the world!
The site has a method for integrating a community together to pray for 4,770 provinces/counties (1 "lap around the world") - "300 people, each praying 16 minutes, can pray for every place in the world --1 lap-- in one week."
Very easy to use and engaging! Prayer.Global is available on iPhone/iPad and Android platforms.
Check out this 10-minute video describing it
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent. You [intercessors] who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves; and give Him no rest until He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth [at Jesus’ return]. (Isa. 62:6-7, NAS)
We are pleased to bring you this May 2023 edition of IPC Connections!
I trust that you will be blessed and encouraged as you read the articles, news and resource info that follows! So many answers to prayer and glimmers of amazing, God-filled breakthrough!
This edition brings the launch of Come to the Table – a collaboration of prayer & missions networks & movements around the world, uniting in global prayer, communion & mission in 2023. Do visit the website which details numerous events and initiatives taking place this next several months. Lots of amazing things happening!
Over the last couple of months, we have met with leaders from across Africa and formed IPC’s Africa Regional Prayer Council under the Directorship of Bishop Austen Ukachi. Our South East Asia Prayer Council ‘ring of fire’ nations met, led by IPC’s Senior Advisor – Tom Victor, and blessed the Church and people of Vietnam. Many of you took part in the Exalting Jesus series, written by David Bryant which due to its popularity is just beginning a re-run in the lead up to Ascension Day!
Reports and testimonies are still coming in of huge numbers who were praying during the recent One Miracle Night - Global Day of Prayer for 24 key Muslim cities. We are thankful for the thousands of Christians across many of these cities who were sharing Jesus with their friends and neighbours, many using the Jesus Film!
SAVE THE DATE! - Please save the date of our next Global Day of Prayer – Pentecost 2023, on Pentecost Sunday – May 28th, when we will be praying for the peace of Jerusalem, for Israel and Jewish people worldwide. See the Prayer Guide. There will be a 26-hour streamed broadcast including 2 hours live – from the Southern Steps in Jerusalem! Our friends at 10 Days will be holding 24-7 prayer for the 10 days leading up to Pentecost, do join them.
ISAIAH 62 FAST - This month, IPC are partnering with Mike Bickle, IHOPKC and numerous worldwide networks in a 21 day Isaiah 62 Fast in the lead up to Pentecost Sunday, during which over 1 million believers are expected to engage in prayer for Israel - daily for an hour. Join us as we pray for the increase of God’s salvation promises and plans for Jerusalem and Israel!
WPA2023AU - We are pleased to announce that registrations are OPEN for the World Prayer Assembly 2023 in Perth Australia!! “Blessing all nations, peoples and cities with the transforming love and goodness of our God!”. Join thousands of Christians of all ages from the worldwide Church and Prayer and Missions Movements for this unique gathering in unity – to repent, to worship, and to contend for the fulfilment of the Great Commission! More info follows below.
ASBURY+ - All our eyes have been on the Asbury revival in recent months! We are bringing you an insightful and thought-provoking article from IPC Council Member and friend, Jason Mandryk that explores several other awakenings that have taken place, but that are not so much in the public eye. Grateful thanks to Jason for this insightful piece.
THANKFUL MEMORIES - This last few weeks, two more giants of the faith, George Verwer (OM) and Pastor Charles Stanley (In Touch Ministries) went to be with the Lord. We honour and recognise these two men for their faithful and biblical teaching and mission work which has birthed truly global impacts. We are running one of Charles’s articles once more below, which I know you will find inspiring
CORONATION - Our thoughts are with our UK and commonwealth friends this month, as King Charles III is crowned amidst much celebration and a national holiday. Praying with you that the Gospel message will come through the sermon that is delivered to a huge global audience during the Coronation. Also praying that King Charles will be a true defender and ambassador for the Christian faith through his role as Governor of the Church of England. See this blessing from the Church over King Charles
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May we express grateful thanks to Andy Page and the IPC Editorial Team who put this email together each month.
Every blessing,
Jason Hubbard - Director
International Prayer Connect
This Pentecost, May 27th and 28th will mark the beginning of a decade of prayer, evangelism and discipleship, launching a ten-year journey of global collaboration between churches of Bible-based denominations, and mission organizations responding to the Commission of Jesus to make disciples of all nations – mobilizing the whole body of Christ for a Bible, a believer, and a body of Christ within everybody's distance. Everybody needs to know somebody who's a Christian. Everybody needs to have access to scripture. Everybody needs to have a church that they can get to and why?
Because of the absolute worth of Jesus – he is all deserving of all our worship, all of our obedience and all of our affections.
We are currently in the year 2023 - 10 years away from 2033 - the 2000 yr anniversary of the death, burial, resurrection, the ascension of Jesus, the Commissioning of the church and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. Organizations and collaborations across the Body of Christ are joining together in obedience to the call of the Lord -
The first Protestant missions’ movement sprang up from a group of Moravians led by Count Zinzendorf, who dedicated their community to a scripture found in Isaiah 62
“On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest, and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth”. (Isaiah 62:6-7)
The Moravian community established night and day prayer and worship after a move of the Holy Spirit and from this community a 100 year, 24/7 prayer meeting was launched, resulting in one of the greatest missions movements in the history of the Church.
Like the Moravians I believe today we are seeing the convergence of a global prayer and missions’ movement around the world - until Jerusalem becomes a praise on the earth!
This Pentecost will also be the 3rd Global Day of Prayer for more than 100 Million plus believers from Jewish, Arab, and Gentile backgrounds focused on Praying for the salvation of Israel and the Jewish people worldwide. With the promise from Paul in Romans 11:11-12,
“I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. 12 Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!”
Each year from 2023- 2033 the global prayer movements are committed to praying for the 110 most unreached cities in the world on four global days of prayer each year – for the Buddhist world, the Muslim world, the Jewish world and the Hindu world! We are praying together for Jesus Christ to be enthroned as King over these unreached cities, and nations with the vision to make disciples of all nations!
2033 COMMITMENT:
A CALL TO THE GLOBAL CHURCH FOR A DECADE OF GREAT COMMISSION EFFORT
Recognizing the need of the more than 8 billion individuals on earth to hear and respond to the good news of Jesus Christ,
Believing that God our Savior has provided the way of salvation for all people through the mediating work of His Son and that it is not His will that any should perish but that everyone should come to repentance,
Responding to the commission of Jesus to go and make disciples of all nations, preaching the gospel to everyone in the power of the Holy Spirit,
Approaching the 2000 year anniversary of Christ’s Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost,
We therefore unite to:
- Collaborate with one another toward the fulfillment of the Great Commission
- Pray for the salvation of our family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and the people of the nations of the world
- Mobilize the followers of Jesus entrusted to our ministry and local churches in reaching every person on earth with His grace and truth
- Invest increased resources in evangelistic efforts especially for people who have never heard the gospel
- Go with the good news using every means available so that everyone has the opportunity to know Jesus Christ.
We dedicate our lives to obeying Christ’s command and call for the global Church to unite with us in making the next ten years the greatest decade of Great Commission effort in history.
1 Timothy 2:3-6; 2 Peter 3:9; Matthew 28:19-20; Mark 16:15
To become a signatory of the 2033 Commitment, please complete the form HERE. Thank you!
More info and sign up for Amsterdam 2023: https://amsterdam2023.com/
May the Lamb who was slain receive the due reward for his sufferings as we unite together in prayer and mission in this next decade 2023-2033!
For the Supremacy of Christ in all things,
Dr. Jason Hubbard – Director
International Prayer Connect
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