*PRAYER POINTS FOR THE 24/7 PRAYER CHAIN FOR THE BODY OF CHRIST & NIGERIA, Oct 31 - Nov 6, 2021*
The prayer points below have been adopted from a National Prayer alert issued by the Intercessors for Nigeria, IFN, for a week long prayer engagement. They are longer than what is usually laid out here for 30 minutes weekly commitment. If you can stretch yourself as a special sacrifice and even support with some fasting, please do; otherwise do the much you can. Thank you.
THANKSGIVING: Praise and magnify the Lord for life, for your family, for God's protection, provisions, for the sustenance of democracy, and for the preservation and the ensuing transformation of Nigeria
REPENTANCE: Repent for all sins of you and your family, the Church and Nigeria; pray for grace to do better and to "turn from...wicked ways" that our land may be healed (2 Chron 7.14).
FOCUS OF THE WEEK & PREAMBLE: Governorship elections are due in Ànambra State this week. During the build up to the elections, violence and destruction in the state got so rampant that a top Federal official pronounced possibility of imposing a State of Emergency, which others later disclaimed. Nonetheless, the elections remain a C-R-U-C-I-A-L test for the immediate future of Nigeria, its peace, stability and democracy. It is a matter to address with the greatest possible focus and vigour in the place of prayer.
_*For the Lord will help me, therefore I will not be disgraced; therefore I have set My face like a flint. And I know that I will not be ashamed.*_ *ISA. 50:7*
Setting your face like flint connotes maximum focus on God, seriousness, and unflinching determination to secure answers to your prayer. Just as Jesus Christ our Master did, we are expected as faithful watchmen to be unflinching and unshakable in the discharge of this particular crucial assignment of 'delivering' Anambra State at such a time like this.
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*PROJECT SONG:*
_Return Oh Lord to Anambra State_
_Repair Oh Lord her damages_
_Raise up her desolations_
_Rebuild the Tabernacle of David_×2
PRAYER POINTS:
1. *COL. 1:15-20*
Praise and affirm the Lordship of Jesus Christ over all creation in all of the 21 local government areas of Anambra State.
2. Proclaim that everything in Anambra State whether visible and invisible, thrones, dominions, or principalities or powers were created through Christ and for His pleasure. So the ownership is His.
Absolutely nothing is outside His creative authority, so decree that He alone will have the final say in that election.
3. Restate and declare the superior credentials of Jesus Christ for all creation in Anambra to hear:
- The first born over all creation *vs. 15*
- Creator of all things *vs. 16*
- The one who is before all things *vs. 17*
- In whom all things consist *vs. 17*
- The one who is the head of the Church *vs. 18*
- The beginning *vs. 18*
- The first born from the dead *vs. 18*
- The reconciler of all things *vs. 20*
- He made peace through His blood *vs. 20*
- The one that must have the Preeminence in all things *vs. 18*
4. *ISA. 56:9-12* *Psalm 65:3*
Ask God for forgiveness and mercy on behalf of the Church in Anambra State. Confess and make atonement over the sins of disunity, denominational pride, love of money, prayerlessness, selfish ambition, deceit, hypocrisy etc
5. *HEB. 9:12-14*
Repent and bring lamentation on behalf of the Anambra Society for sins and iniquities.
These will include sins of Pride, witchcraft, idolatry, sorceries, worship of money, occultism, armed robbery, blood shedding, kidnapping, corruption, violence.
6. *REV. 12:9 / ISA. 25:7 / 2 COR. 3:15-17*
Pray to break and overthrow the veil of deception and confusion over the entire Church and the State. May the people see light through the light of God.
7. *ISA. 41:10-14*
Pray and come against the covering of fear that has descended over the entire people and the land.
Ask God to send help to Anambra State and to uphold her. Plead with Him to bring shame and disgrace to all the troublers of the land.
8. *ISA. 44:25 / JOB 5:12-14*
Pray that God will frustrate and disappoint all the volumes of satanic sacrifices and investments that have been made towards this coming election. Invite God to stop those who will seek to disrupt and vandalize this election. May God catch them in their traps and craftiness.
9. *ZEPH. 1:12 / JER. 48:44*
Ask God to search the entire Anambra land to fish out all the wicked and unreasonable princes plotting to sell off the state in order to achieve their selfish ambitions. Let none of them escape this season of their punishment.
10. *PSALM 10:15 / JER. 48:11*
Beseech God to target all His enemies who are bent on manipulating the system so that the wrong candidate will emerge. Ask God to cut off their horns and to break their arms.
11. *ISA. 44:28*
Ask God for the emergence of a Cyrus type of leader for Anambra State, who will build the State and do all the pleasures of God for the people.
12. *Psalm 121:4*
Just like God is the Keeper and Proctector of Israel, even so bessech Him not to sleep or slumber over Anambra during this crucial season. Pray for wisdom and protection for all the electoral officers, accredited observers and the electorate.
13. *Psalm 46:1-11*
Proclaim this Psalm over the people and the Land to procure a comprehensive insurance over the whole conduct of the election. Let the doors of calamities and deaths be shut.
14. *Exodus 34:5-6*
Pray to secure that 6th of November, 2021.
Invite God to descend in the cloud of His glory and mercy upon that day to hallow it. Let His name be fastened upon that day. Pray against any form of bloody confrontations.
16. *Psalm 68:17*
Plead with God to dispatch His thousands and thousands of angels to cris cross the whole territory of Anambra land to quieten the state.
17. *John 17:21*
Pray that the body of Christ in Anambra will work in harmony and begin to see eye to eye.
18. Psalm 65:1-2.
Declare that mighty praise awaits God in Anambra state. He will surely have cause to rejoice over His inheritance in that land.
19. *Psalm 36:8-11*
Pray to arouse God's jealousy over the people and land of Anambra. Ask that the above scripture be fulfilled in the state. May Anambra state be abundantly satisfied with God's fullness and mercy.
20. Pray that the election will be manifestly conclusive and the the outcome will not be enmeshed in unnecessary controversies. Give God praise for answered prayers.
OTHER PRAYERS
Pray for the release of Lead Sharibu and others held by abductors. Pray that God will bring relief to Nigerians regarding the rapid escalation of prices of food and other basics; and "guide our leaders right" per stanza 2 of Nigeria's anthem. Pray against the spread of Islamic laws or judicial system (Sharia) which threaten democracy in Lagos and anywhere else in Nigeria. Pray OTHER PRAYERS as led or burdened, including thanks and praise for ALL those. Pray that agitations by Nigerians will be Spirit-led, not of flesh, as “seemeth right”
REGISTER & INVITE OTHERS: Please join this 24x7 prayer chain. Choose suitable day and time each week that you will pray for just 30 mins. Register at http://repent.csmnigeria.org/ Please share & invite others too. Thank you.