National Day of Prayer & Fasting

Sunday 19 February 2012Great Hall

Parliament House Canberra

Guidelines for Prayer

1. Worship and Repentance

• Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.

• Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.

• Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. PS 51:10-12

2. Forgiveness and Restoration

“Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you, leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to them; then come and offer your gift.” Matthew 5:23-24

3. Leaders and those in Authority

“The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him – the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord – and he will delight in the fear of the Lord.” Isaiah 11:2-3

4. Australia to come to know the Truth

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.” Luke 4:18-19

5. Individuals to find faith in Christ

“Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35“to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins...” Acts 26:18

6. A harvest of souls in Australia

“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.” Ezekiel 37:9-10

Declaration for the HarvestWe declare that now is the time to make a stand for the truth.

Now is the time to share the good news of God’s love through Jesus Christ.

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Now is the time to see a harvest of souls come into the kingdom of God.We pray that you Oh God will thrust out labourers’ into the harvest fields for the fields are white for the harvest.

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We pray the church will arise and be renewed and begin to declare the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ as never before because the Gospel is God’s power to salvation.

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We declare that now is the time to see this nation fulfil its destiny as the ‘Great South Land of the Holy Spirit’. Now is the time for a sovereign outpouring if the Holy Spirit.

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God, pour out your spirit just like you did in Acts chapter two.

Fill us afresh with your Spirit and your fire.

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Now is the time for the Holy Spirit to convict Australia of sin and righteousness and judgment.

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Now is the time for this nation to turn from darkness and to light, from evil to righteousness because “Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach for any people.”

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We speak to the valley of dry bones which represent the Australian people and we speak the blessings of God upon you.

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We say, you are dead in your trespasses and sin but because of Jesus and what Jesus has done you can be alive.

Jesus died that you “might have life and have it more abundantly”.

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Jesus has paid the price for your sin. His blood has been shed for you.

We pray the veil of darkness will be taken off your eyes so you can see Jesus and know the truth and the truth can set you free.

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You have been called to be a blessing to the nations of this world. Breath of God blow on the valley of dry bones.

Let the wind of the Holy Spirit blow across this great South Land of the Holy Spirit and release a harvest of souls for the glory of God. (end)