“21 Days for A New Awakening,” was originally sponsored by Awakening America Alliance but subsequently has been joined by more than 90 national Christian leaders including major Christian organizations, ministries, and denominations such as:  Christian Broadcasting Network, Moody Broadcasting, Assemblies of God, Youth With a Mission, and Every Home for Christ, with more being added daily.

Participants are committing to respond in a number of different ways including: partial fasts, water fasts, Daniel fasts (only fruits and vegetables) and complete fasts. Some have committed to fasting for three days, one day a week, and even the entire 21 days.

Response: There are more and more Christians this year looking for and desperately seeking revival for our land. Come Holy Spirit continue to sow the seeds and let the Heavens be open. Let Your Kingdom come and Your will be done in our midst. Amen.            *Top

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Isaiah 35:8: “A highway will be there, a roadway, and it will be called the Highway of Holiness. The unclean will not travel on it, but it will be for him who walks that way, and fools will not wander on it.”

The ‘I-35 Initiative’ is a campaign sponsored by Light the Highway which is a movement that wants to bring spiritual reformation and revival to our land and to the nations. According to the Founder, Cindy Jacobs:

“We want to start to build a Highway of Holiness for God that unites our nations, from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, and eventually extends around the world.”

For 35 days, the ‘I-35: Highway of Holiness’ initiative will sponsor 24-hour prayer rooms in at least 12 cities along I-35.

From Oct. 28 – Dec. 1, there will also be a number of special events and several evangelistic campaigns in cities along the entire 1,500-mile length of I-35, from Laredo, Texas to Duluth, Minn. Including revival services to be held Nov. 27-30 at First Trinity Church in Cedar Hill (Dallas area), and then on Dec. 1 at Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas.

The organizers are asking us all to respond in prayer for our own city and for the I-35 Initiative:

“Pray for God to remove the roots of violence in your city. Repent on behalf of the bloodshed that has occurred and ask for God’s cleansing and forgiveness to cover the land, Let’s prepare the highway for our God!”

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These folks are praying for world wide Revival! Check out their site:

“Following the example of the first believers who “joined together constantly” in prayer (Acts 1:14) until the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the Global Day of Prayer is calling Christians from all nations to unite in prayer.”

If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land
(2 Chron.7: 14)

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I believe that It is important for all Christians to unite in prayer today over the spiritual condition of this country and to seek Revival and a spiritual awakening for our land and people. With thousands praying, today would be a great time for the beginning of a break through.

Lord, let your light break through the darkness that engulfs our land and bring a new spiritual awakening to our people from coast to coast, from Alaska to Hawaii. Let your let shine from the east to the west, from the north and to the south, bring revival Lord. In Jesus name Amen.

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I’m a middle-aged professor of theology at a well-known Christian university. I’ve written award-winning books. My name is on Christianity Today’s masthead. For years I’ve taught that God still speaks, but I couldn’t testify to it personally. I can only do so now anonymously, for reasons I hope will be clear.

A year after hearing God’s voice, I still can’t talk or even think about my conversation with God without being overcome with emotion. That’s one reason I know it was real; I’m not a person who shows emotion easily. Plus, I’m a skeptic about things supernatural. Not that I don’t believe they can happen; I just doubt most miracle stories except the ones in the Bible. I’ve even been known to criticize publicly what I consider to be overly experiential forms of Christianity. I suppose that makes this story especially ironic.

Here’s the link and the title: “My Conversation with God“. It is well worth the five minutes or so it takes to read it. warning: Kleenex might be needed. I had to hunt some up half way into it. Read my comments following:

Comments: Stuff like this happens every day in Charismatic/Pentecostal circles. However, when the Spiritual gifts start breaking out in the life of an regular Evangelical -admittedly non-Charismatic- theology professor who continues to be self-conscious about it, can real Revival be that far behind? I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Actually I am doing both right now.

I really believe that the Lord is going to be moving in new and unique ways among all Christians, particularly among leaders and Pastors. Watch for healing and Spiritual gifts to informally break out in churches and places where they have never been recognized before. This is like a small first wave. Look for more to come later.

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I really believe that this is a good picture of where we (the church) actually stand at the beginning of the new year. I believe that our Lord wants greater intimacy with his church and his people in 2007. ‘Greater intimacy with God’ is the one message that I have heard and read over and over again from numerous prophetic sources in reference to the new year.

I was reminded last night that Rev. 3:20 really applies in context to the church, when I read a word for 2007 posted by David Copeland of Revival Journal. Since then this picture keeps coming back to me.

It reminds me of a word that I received a few years ago. The ‘Left Behind’ book series was popular at the time and many Christians were talking about how Jesus would soon be coming back for his church. I was in church one morning thinking about how this was all going to work out, after all, the gospel needed to be preached in every nation, and many of us were hoping for and expecting a major world revival. Then a clear word came to me:

I am coming soon, but this is not the day when I am coming for my church, this is a day when I am coming to it.

I believe that Jesus is coming to his church in a special way in 2007, open the doors and let him in.

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Bill Johnson is the senior pastor of Bethel Church (AG) of Redding, California, but more than that, he is one of those leading the charge towards true revival. ‘When Heaven Invades Earth’ is more than a clever title, this book identifies how life can really change for the better when ‘The Kingdom’ really does come into one’s life, after all our prayers asking for it.

I found myself reading the chapters slowly in order to receive the entire message. There is a lot here to consider. It is a clarion call to leave behind the ordinary and enter into a new way of thinking and a new way of life where healing and miracles are looked for and expected. It is a call for a change of world view. It is a challenge to leave the regular religious stuff behind and to really seek first the Kingdom and to really seek a closer relationship with God. To really expect the Kingdom to be manifest in power, and not merely in words.

Bill Johnson really does live and aspire to what he is talking about in his book. Several years ago I had the opportunity to pray for the sick along with Bill and several others on our ministry team. It had been a long night and midnight was closing in. A young man hobbled up to us with one leg obviously shorter than the other by three inches or so. I must admit that I had some doubt at first. Bill had him lay down and we began to pray for him. With full confidence, Bill Johnson held the young mans foot and commanded the leg to grow and it did. We kept on praying until the leg was fully extended to the same length as the other one. It was a night that I will never forget.

This book goes far beyond what one can explain in a short review, this is one of those rare life changing books that only comes along every once in a while. At least it was for me.

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“I desire a royal road for My glory across the earth. A way for My holiness, power and anointing to pour out. It is time for a new holiness move. This new move will not be like the last one, but it will flow with new wine and miracles.

This is a time of uprooting of the ancient things in My cities that have stopped My glory and power from manifesting. Uproot corruption, pornography, abortion, homosexuality, terrorism, violence and any other thing that opposes My will.

Declare a siege against wickedness, and those things in society that war against holiness. It is time for purity sieges. I am coming with the fire of My holiness like in the Cane Ridge Revival in Kentucky, and the days of George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards. The fear of the Lord will fall as never before as I release My anointing in signs and wonders.

Prepare the way through fasting and prayer. Build up the highway, take out the stones, and pray for the sick. Lift My name up as a banner across the face of the earth and I will come with sweeping moves of My power.

The enemy has come down with great wrath, but I, the Lion of Judah, am beginning to roar throughout the face of the earth with the sound of righteousness and justice: justice for the unborn; justice for the poor; justice for the widows. Build a Highway of Holiness and name it Justice,” says the Lord.

Cindy jacobs is co-founder of Generals International, a ministry that trains believers in prayer and spiritual warfare, based in Red Oak, Texas.

Received from: Charisma Online -Streams of Revival, October 24, 2006

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While Christians do not traditionally recognize the special days or events in the Biblical (Jewish) calendar, ‘Messianic’ Christians do, and many others are enriched by the symbols, and find significance in the times and seasons that are represented. The Lord’s Supper and The Resurrection cannot be completely separated from ‘The Passover’, and the ‘Day of Pentecost’ is one Biblical/Jewish day still recognized in the church calendar.

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Kris is the head of the Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry, and Senior Associate Pastor at Bethel Church in Redding, California (Bill Johnson is the Senior Pastor). He is also a recognized prophetic minister who has been involved in training and overseeing a large number of prophetic teams in the United States and internationally.

This is essentially a ‘basic training manual’ for prophetic ministry. A valuable tool for those who are developing prophetic teams, growing into the ministry as an individual, or for Pastors who would like to develop and guide prophetic ministry in their church.

Some of the topics covered: ‘Learning to Hear The Voice of God’; ‘The Purpose of Prophetic Ministry’; ‘The Difference Between The Office of Prophet and The Gift of Prophecy’; ‘Judging and Receiving Prophetic Words’; ‘Ministering in and Receiving the Gift of Prophecy’; ‘Prophetic Etiquette’; ‘False Prophets’; and ‘Practicing Prophecy’.

I highly recommend this book for those growing in the prophetic, and also for Pastors seeking guidelines for how prophetic ministry should work, edify, and complement other ministries in the local church. It is amazing how this manual is easy to understand, and yet at the same time, it is quite comprehensive and profound. All of the important stuff is here in 95 pages, with study guides included. The book may be ordered through: Bethel Church-Store

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