Beloved ones,

UPDATE ON GLOBAL PRAYERQUAKE 2004 (5TH JANUARY, 2004)

This day's conference started with prophetic intercession, praise and worship at 7am.

Then came a plenary session with the topic: Prayer, The Master Key in Global Missions, handled by Steve Olumuyiwa.  It was purposely put as first to set the pace of walking in the spirit of prayer. He emphasized that prayer is the missionary force. He also reminded everyone, especially the Africans that this is the time appointed by God through prophesies for Africans to impact the nations through missions. He further stated that God is depending on Africans to impact the Middle East. Nigeria, he said, is destined to be at the forefront of making this prophecy come through.
To butress this, he quoted Cindy Jacobs who said that God has also decided to affect Nigerian Campuses, eradicate cultism and make Nigeria a peaceful place to stay. There will be out pouring of the Holy Spirit that will convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment, he empasised.

The second speaker on the plenary session, The Role of Women in Today's Missions confirmed through the records of the works women did in the Bible, that women indeed have great role to play. One of such major role is that they have the ability of receiving and carrying in their womb 'seed' or 'seeds' that they nurture until delivery. He encouraged women to receive the plans of God concerning their children and uphold them through prophetic prayers until their manifestation. This was also a time of praying for the dejected, the hurting, the despised and the broken ones for healing.

William Lau, a minister from USA, preached on God of Elijah. The spirit of Elijah is the spirit that proclaims, "The LORD, he is the God" (1 Kings 18:39). The spirit of Elijah has visible proofs. He encouraged believers to demonstrate the God-given authority thy have. He too demonstrated this by calling out people that have cases of pains (minor infirmities) and they were healed. Prayer sustains authority, he said.

Ted Elmore (USA), spoke on Today's America, A Mission Field.  He stated that in spite of the blessings they receive from God; "America stands in need of spiritual awakening". He saw the church in Nigeria as a kind God will use to reach America and other nations. He encouraged everyone to yield to God whole-heartedly for such assignment. Prayer of commitments and breaking of bad attitudes were made.

The Last speaker of the day in the plenary session, Arch Bunmi Adedeji (President of FGBMFI, Nigeria) spoke on a topic, The Roles of Lay men and Women in Missions, showed that a clergy may be the one that lights the fire while the laity is the firework that catches the fire before there is a burning. This means that everyone is indispensable in the house of the Lord, the work is done together.

We also had about 23 Schools of Ministry. Serious prophetic and intercessory prayers were made on a personal, family and national level for conquering new grounds. God's grace helped us to pray fervently.

6th of January will be Europe/Australia's day. Pray for us.

Chinyelu Nwofulundu
Secretary
For Ministers Prayer Network