Pentecost Sunday, The Global Day of Prayer
There are several prayers for the world today in the ten-day prayer guide for the Global Day of Prayer. If you aren’t aware of this, every nation in the world together prays specific prayers concerning the Glory of God bursting through specifically for ten days leading up to Pentecost Sunday. Then tonight, in stadiums all over the world, thousands of people are praying together and praising God and asking for Christ to be revealed among the nations!! People in Africa are joining together right now, as it is morning here in America..I just LOVE that we are all asking for this together, we are partenering with Jesus and spreading the Good News of our Savior Christ.
The first few prayer acknowlege the AWESOMENESS and HOLINESS of our God, the next few confess our brokenness and our desperate need for a savior even though we are already saved. And then…
“Lord Jesus Christ, because You were dead, but are now risen; and because the Father has given You a Name above all names, You will defeat all powers of evil.
You have declared that the gates of hell will not prevail against Your Church. We pray for deliverance from demonic oppression. We pray for the tearing down of the strongholds and ideologies that hinder and resist the spreading of the knowledge of God.
We resist the plan of the enemy to keep nations in darkness and pray that You will remove the veil that covers the peoples. We ask for open doors so that the gospel can enter every nation. Restrain the evil that promotes violence and death.
Break the hold of slavery, tyranny and disease. Fill us with courage to preach Your Word fearlessly and faithfully. Give us a spirit of intercession to cry out on behalf of the lost.”