Dear Friends,
It seems like just a few short days since my return to the states and my internal timeclock has finally adjusted, yet suddenly, I find myself once again on an airplane. This is a good thing, and I'm looking forward to a new assignment in Sri Lanka and Thailand; two countries I have never visited. The visit has been arranged by my friend and interpreter Pastor Lee from Korea, who has been a missionary with the United Methodist Church in Thailand for some 25 years and recently began a new work in Chiang Mai. My primary assignment is to encourage, build up, and strengthen pastors and other church leaders during their annual gathering. For further information on the persecuted Church in Sri Lanka click here.
Thank you for praying for Carlene and I during this season of intense travel. Many leaders have suggested the church is moving through a gateway of new beginnings. 2008 was marked as a year of transition in politics, the economy, and the Church. This next season, many of us will step into our new assignments. This has certainly been true for Carlene and I as we remain committed to care for her mother, who is recovering from hip surgery in Bremerton Washington at rehabilitation center. Port Townsend, Carlene's hometown where we first met at a Baptist Church in 1974 and were married two years later, has become a destination point for us in this season of transition. We plan (unless the Lord directs differently) to retain our second Sunday, monthly Worship at the River gatherings for the Portland region, the next one being December 14, 2008. Our last gathering featured Carlene's Family Spaghetti Dinner....WONDERFUL!
I'd like to invite you to join with us in a daily prayer focus over the next few weeks. I've described intercession in this way: as Covering Fire, similar to a combat operation, where military soldiers covered each other as they advanced. I have assigned topics and Scriptures for each day, and I believe this focused prayer will not only bring protection and grace to Carlene and I, but will have application in your life and Ministry. We have sometimes utilized Chuck Pierce's Focused Prayer Schedule as the Holy Spirit leads us. Since we will be out of the country in for 17 days, I'd like to amend Chuck Pierce's strategy he released some years ago for a period of 17 days. I'll continue to post audio podcasts during this expedition, especially since these new countries will be filled with new experiences and needs.
This 17 Day Prayer Focus is also attached as a Word document for easy printing. I would encourage you to post it on your refrigerator or in your Bible. Join us!
Bless You!
Darrell and Carlene
17 DAYS OF PRAYER TO RELEASE COVENANT VICTORY STRATEGY
November 15 - December 1, 2008
There is a key plan that God is releasing. This plan is falling piece by piece from heaven to secure the blessings today that will effect the next generation. This plan effects us individually, corporately, and nationally. In the next 17 days the Lord will be releasing key revelation to each one of us personally. This revelation will affect the manifesting of your covenant blessings for the future. For the next 17 days we must diligently seek God. When I looked up the number 17, I found that its meaning is victory. There will be a key unlocking and setting in place of our future over the next 17 days. How we pray in these next 17 days will help to determine our victory in the future. These next 17 days will also set us in God’s perfect timing to advance.
Saturday, November 15: Pray for the President Bush and President-elect Obama to hear God (Romans 13). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's airline travel with smooth passport and customs transitions.
Sunday, November 16: Declare that God’s plan of judgment against His enemies be established. May this plan overrule any of man’s desires. The Lord sends forth judgment unto victory (Matt. 12:20). Pray for Darrell's accuracy in the discerning the Holy Spirit's intent in every conversation, public and private.
Monday, November 17: Declare that any unwarranted plan of destruction initiated by the anti-Christ system will be thwarted. Declare death and the grave will have no victory (1 Cor. 15:55). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's physical health and safety, especially in areas of political unrest and with Sri Lanka's persecution of believers.
Tuesday, November 18: Pray for your personal vision and destiny (1 John 5:4). Pray for Carlene's sensitivity to the Holy Spirit's revelation of her Ministry to the wives of pastors and leaders.
Wednesday, November 19: Review how you are moving forward and the resources you have (1 Kings 17). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's every aspect of transitioning, whether it be taxi, plane, moving from one home or meeting place to another, or one city to another.
Thursday, November 20: Ask God for a new stewardship plan (Luke 19, Proverbs 3:5-10). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's accurate accounting of all resources, both given and received.
Friday, November 21: Ask the Lord for faith strategies (1 Sam. 17). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's sensitivity of when to say no and rest.
Saturday, November 22: Ask the Lord to remove hidden grief from past losses in your life (2 Sam. 19:2). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's discernment of every country and cities redemptive gift, and how to encourage the people to trust God in their identity.
Sunday, November 23: Ask the Lord to break a spirit and shadow of death from you (Isa. 25:8). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's sensitivity to understand the history of the land and our assignment in it. Pray especially for the church in Thailand... for its growth, and maturity.
Monday, November 24: Put off a garment of defeat and put on a garment of victory (I Cor.15:54). Pray for Carlene's ability to celebrate and dance upon injustice. For Darrell's creativity in declaring God's promise of victory.
Tuesday, November 25: Ask the Lord to reveal to you His building plan for the future. Praise Him for all that He has done in the past to get you as far as you have come (I Chron. 28, 29). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's children: Nate and Krista and son Calvin, Danielle, Matthew (with the Marine Corps on desert training in California... training for deployment the end of January to Iraq), and our youngest couple Paul and Tyla... ready to celebrate their one-year anniversary.
It seems like just a few short days since my return to the states and my internal timeclock has finally adjusted, yet suddenly, I find myself once again on an airplane. This is a good thing, and I'm looking forward to a new assignment in Sri Lanka and Thailand; two countries I have never visited. The visit has been arranged by my friend and interpreter Pastor Lee from Korea, who has been a missionary with the United Methodist Church in Thailand for some 25 years and recently began a new work in Chiang Mai. My primary assignment is to encourage, build up, and strengthen pastors and other church leaders during their annual gathering. For further information on the persecuted Church in Sri Lanka click here.
Thank you for praying for Carlene and I during this season of intense travel. Many leaders have suggested the church is moving through a gateway of new beginnings. 2008 was marked as a year of transition in politics, the economy, and the Church. This next season, many of us will step into our new assignments. This has certainly been true for Carlene and I as we remain committed to care for her mother, who is recovering from hip surgery in Bremerton Washington at rehabilitation center. Port Townsend, Carlene's hometown where we first met at a Baptist Church in 1974 and were married two years later, has become a destination point for us in this season of transition. We plan (unless the Lord directs differently) to retain our second Sunday, monthly Worship at the River gatherings for the Portland region, the next one being December 14, 2008. Our last gathering featured Carlene's Family Spaghetti Dinner....WONDERFUL!
I'd like to invite you to join with us in a daily prayer focus over the next few weeks. I've described intercession in this way: as Covering Fire, similar to a combat operation, where military soldiers covered each other as they advanced. I have assigned topics and Scriptures for each day, and I believe this focused prayer will not only bring protection and grace to Carlene and I, but will have application in your life and Ministry. We have sometimes utilized Chuck Pierce's Focused Prayer Schedule as the Holy Spirit leads us. Since we will be out of the country in for 17 days, I'd like to amend Chuck Pierce's strategy he released some years ago for a period of 17 days. I'll continue to post audio podcasts during this expedition, especially since these new countries will be filled with new experiences and needs.
This 17 Day Prayer Focus is also attached as a Word document for easy printing. I would encourage you to post it on your refrigerator or in your Bible. Join us!
Bless You!
Darrell and Carlene
17 DAYS OF PRAYER TO RELEASE COVENANT VICTORY STRATEGY
November 15 - December 1, 2008
There is a key plan that God is releasing. This plan is falling piece by piece from heaven to secure the blessings today that will effect the next generation. This plan effects us individually, corporately, and nationally. In the next 17 days the Lord will be releasing key revelation to each one of us personally. This revelation will affect the manifesting of your covenant blessings for the future. For the next 17 days we must diligently seek God. When I looked up the number 17, I found that its meaning is victory. There will be a key unlocking and setting in place of our future over the next 17 days. How we pray in these next 17 days will help to determine our victory in the future. These next 17 days will also set us in God’s perfect timing to advance.
Saturday, November 15: Pray for the President Bush and President-elect Obama to hear God (Romans 13). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's airline travel with smooth passport and customs transitions.
Sunday, November 16: Declare that God’s plan of judgment against His enemies be established. May this plan overrule any of man’s desires. The Lord sends forth judgment unto victory (Matt. 12:20). Pray for Darrell's accuracy in the discerning the Holy Spirit's intent in every conversation, public and private.
Monday, November 17: Declare that any unwarranted plan of destruction initiated by the anti-Christ system will be thwarted. Declare death and the grave will have no victory (1 Cor. 15:55). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's physical health and safety, especially in areas of political unrest and with Sri Lanka's persecution of believers.
Tuesday, November 18: Pray for your personal vision and destiny (1 John 5:4). Pray for Carlene's sensitivity to the Holy Spirit's revelation of her Ministry to the wives of pastors and leaders.
Wednesday, November 19: Review how you are moving forward and the resources you have (1 Kings 17). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's every aspect of transitioning, whether it be taxi, plane, moving from one home or meeting place to another, or one city to another.
Thursday, November 20: Ask God for a new stewardship plan (Luke 19, Proverbs 3:5-10). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's accurate accounting of all resources, both given and received.
Friday, November 21: Ask the Lord for faith strategies (1 Sam. 17). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's sensitivity of when to say no and rest.
Saturday, November 22: Ask the Lord to remove hidden grief from past losses in your life (2 Sam. 19:2). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's discernment of every country and cities redemptive gift, and how to encourage the people to trust God in their identity.
Sunday, November 23: Ask the Lord to break a spirit and shadow of death from you (Isa. 25:8). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's sensitivity to understand the history of the land and our assignment in it. Pray especially for the church in Thailand... for its growth, and maturity.
Monday, November 24: Put off a garment of defeat and put on a garment of victory (I Cor.15:54). Pray for Carlene's ability to celebrate and dance upon injustice. For Darrell's creativity in declaring God's promise of victory.
Tuesday, November 25: Ask the Lord to reveal to you His building plan for the future. Praise Him for all that He has done in the past to get you as far as you have come (I Chron. 28, 29). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's children: Nate and Krista and son Calvin, Danielle, Matthew (with the Marine Corps on desert training in California... training for deployment the end of January to Iraq), and our youngest couple Paul and Tyla... ready to celebrate their one-year anniversary.
Wednesday, November 26: Fast, to gain the prophetic strategy that will properly position you for victory over the confederated enemies that are set against you (II Chron 20). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's understanding of both the time and season, and especially what to do.
Thursday, November 27: Pray and memorize Jeremiah 33:3. Declare it over the government of your nation. Ask the Lord to open your eyes to revelation that has been hidden from you. Never think that you know more than Jesus about the redemptive plan for your life. (Jer. 33:3 Amp.). Pray for our discernment and the wisdom with regard to the things that have been hidden that God wants to reveal in nations, cities, and churches we will visit.
Friday, November 28: Read Psalm 20 out loud to the Lord. Let the Holy Spirit direct your prayers for yourself and your nation. Pray for the persecuted Church in Sri Lanka. Pray for their ability to endure and that their faith would grow, and each leader would be are assured of God's call on their life.
Saturday, November 29 Sing the song of the Lamb (Moses’ Song). If you can’t sing, read it loudly. It is key to understand right now! (Rev 15:1-5). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's sensitivity to the new song of deliverance, and boldness to sing it.
Sunday, November 30: Worship in a new way. Read your favorite three Psalms. Allow the Lord to raise up a song of victory in you (Psalm 98). Pray for Darrell and Carlene's ability to encourage pastors and leaders to move from traditions which inhibit the freedom of worship, and to sing the new song.
Monday, December 1: Exalt Jesus as ruler of your life, your vision, your city, and your nation. Establish Him as victor. Declare Him as victor ( 1 Cor. 15.57). Join with us as we reenter the United States (an 18 hour flight) and celebrate the season of our Messiah's birth, but also his victory. Let this day be a Day of Exultation!
