NIGHTWATCH FOR EUROPE: week beginning Sunday January 28th 2007
‘Could you not watch with me for one hour?’ (Mtt26: 40)
WELCOME TO THE NIGHT WATCH FOR EUROPE
Last weekend, we met for the first Nightwatch training and prayer weekend, with 33 of us from countries across Europe. Over the coming weeks, we will pray into some of the issues which the Lord spoke to us about during our time together. A number of the delegates indicated how difficult they sometimes found it praying through the Nightwatch alone. We spent some time praying for one another in this and for the Lord to help take us to a higher level. It is important to remember that we are not alone, but that we are in covenant relationship with the Lord and with one-another. We are standing together in unity, partnering together to see His purposed fulfilled in our continent. Praying in tongues is also an important weapon (especially when we pray it loudly!) as it helps us overcome our fears and bypass our mind, getting our spirit in line with the Holy Spirit.
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We will send you a brief outline for prayer each week according to the prophetic direction coming from the contemporary prophetic movement in Europe. You will not always agree with everything in the watch material. Go with what you can and trust the Lord to help you with the rest. We are looking to carry on for another year and ten months, while realising that some can’t commit right now for as long as that. We are pleased for you to enlist for as long as you can. If you have to miss an occasional watch it’s OK as the rest of us will carry it. A six-month commitment is probably a good start.
THE CONTENT OF THE WATCH FOR THE WEEK BEGINNING SUNDAY JANUARY 28th 2007
1. TAKE 10 MINUTES TO RESIST THE DEVIL
Jesus’ death and resurrection gives us absolute authority over the enemy and all his schemes. We must keep pushing back the influence of the enemy in our continent. Take your stand, in unity with all the watchers across the continent, and rebuke him away from yourself, your home, family, street, your village, town or city, your region, nation and the nations of Europe. If he resists you, lift up the name of Jesus in worship and remind the enemy of his defeat at Calvary and Jesus’ resurrection from the dead.
2. TAKE 20 MINUTES TO PRAY AND REFLECT OVER THE NEXT EXCERPT FROM SUE MITCHELL’S WORD FOR THIS YEAR
(The full text is available at www.passion.org.uk)
“We assert that these years will see fresh and new supernatural wisdom released in the earth, which will be first perceived by ‘unlikely’ people. It needs to be sought and cultivated seriously by any of us standing in the gap for a new day in the land. As Samson’s strength was located in his vow not to cut his hair in the manner of the age, Jesus’ resurrection appearance reveals his hair to represent the wisdom of the Ancient of Days and the ripping out of his beard clearly a rejection of his revealed maturity, of a wisdom and identity far greater than that of the leaders of society or the synagogue, so the Lord is calling for an identification with revelational wisdom, far beyond even ‘sanctified’ common sense. In this season we cannot ‘cut corners’ off of the wisdom of God. It is to be a time of intense study, enquiry and fresh theological pursuit, such as Paul (an ‘unlikely’ disciple) engaged in (for 14 years!) before he could apply the essential revelation of Christ to the ‘new’ culture for which he was being prepared. Living casually out of received wisdom or being immature, or worse, selfish with revelation in this season will cause us and the land, like Samson, to lose spiritual strength suddenly and potentially lethally. There will be a loss of present sight, gloriously so, as long and widely-held beliefs will suddenly be understood to be only half truths, as on the day when slavery ceased to be an acceptable lifestyle. Alongside this, of course, there will also be the risk that some truths that should still stand may be cast aside as half-truths and great and humble enquiry of the Lord will be our only safe place as major shifts take place in Christian scholarship.”
3. TAKE 15 MINUTES TO PRAY AND REFLECT OVER THE FOLLOWING:
At the Europe Africa Reconciliation Process conference in Berlin in November 2005, one of the African brothers said that if we wanted to see revival in Europe, we needed to revisit the story of how the Gospel came to our continent.
Read Acts 16:14-21 and take note of the things that happened then that are significant for Europe today. Begin to pray into them. Please let us know about any important revelation insights you get.
4. TAKE I5 MINTES TO READ AND PRAY OVER THESE EXCERPTS FROM A REPORT ON THIS WEEK’S SERBIAN ELECTIONS:
"Serbia's nationalist Radicals won the most votes in the country's parliamentary election, but several pro-democratic groups collected enough seats to form a new government. The Serbian Radical Party, loyal to late ex-leader Slobodan Milosevic and staunchly opposed to Kosovo's independence, won 28.3 percent of the vote. But that was not enough for the party to govern alone. The Western-backed Democratic Party of President Boris Tadic was second with 22.6 percent, and the centre-right Popular Coalition (Democratic Party of Serbia) led by Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica had 16.3 percent, according to official results with about 70 percent of the vote counted.
Sunday's vote was the first since the break-up of Serbia's union last year with Montenegro, its last partner from the former Yugoslavia that split up in wartime campaigns conducted under Milosevic in the 1990s. Shortly after the vote, a U.N. plan for the future of Serbia's breakaway Kosovo province is expected to be published. The West had feared a crisis if the Radicals had emerged as outright winners and Kosovo were given independence, as expected. Tadic and Kostunica have lobbied internationally to keep Kosovo within Serbia's border, offering broad autonomy to its majority ethnic Albanians who are seeking nothing but full independence. The vote results indicate that any Serbian acceptance of a U.N. Kosovo plan will be difficult. Kosovo has been an international protectorate since the 1998-99 war between Milosevic's troops and separatist ethnic Albanians. U.N. envoy Martti Ahtisaari is expected to present a proposal for Kosovo's future to diplomats this week, which many believe will include some sort of conditional independence."
(From The Turkish Daily news: Tuesday Jan 23rd 2007)
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