 Bryan Tomes, senior pastor of Crossroads Community Church, Fitchburg MA, praying with the youth generation. Report on the Global Day of PrayerNote: DVD
or CDs of the event are available for purchase. On Pentecost Sunday, more than 2500 believers from all over New England gathered in Fitchburg MA at the Royal Plaza Trade Center, uniting with believers all over the world in the largest prayer gathering in the history of the world. Collectively we praised and worshiped our great God, repented, interceded on behalf of the world, and urgently asked Him for renewal in the Church and the transformation of our culture. The
event opened with a welcome from George
Small, whose church is
one of the primary sponsors,
followed by the Indian Children's Choir. The video of the history
of the Global Day of Prayer, with highlights from events around the
world in 2006, was presented on large screens.  Edson Porto praying for George Small, event co-chairman and pastor of the event's host church, Horizon Christian Fellowship, Fitchburg MA. Paul
Jehle gave an exhortation on New England's Rim of
Gold, describing the history of revivals in the region.
Roberto
Miranda spoke on Transforming New England. He
urged believers to attend similar corporate gatherings over the next
year, beginning at the State House on June
14. The audience fully
entered into the worship music was provided at different times by
Randy Long, Renese King, Heritage Bible Chapel and Ministerios
Cosecha. Behind the scenes,
Brandt
Gillespie provided video production of the event and a
real time video feed from Global Day of Prayer, USA headquarters in
Dallas. Linda Clark, organizer of Massachusetts Prayer Network, says, "God is using these prayer events to spark life and breathe new life into New England. God has, not a small, but a huge remnant o here in New England People left rejoicing and rejuvenated." Prayer was led at various times during the three hours:
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Bethany Yeo
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Corporate prayer for repentance and personal revival |
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Mark Boucher
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Small group prayer |
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Jeff Marks
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Corporate prayer for global awakening across the
continents |
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Dan Meiners
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Corporate prayer for Fitchburg and central New England |
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Paul Berube and
Dick Kiernan |
Corporate prayer for the six New England states |
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Brian Tomes
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Corporate prayer for youth |
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Ronald Cooper
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Corporate prayer for Afro-Americans, particularly to strengthen
the family |
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Sergio Perez
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Corporate prayer for all ethnic groups and their particular
giftings; for organizations with special missions, such as
Vision New England and the Emmanuel Gospel Center. Prayer for
the wealthy. |
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Corporate prayer for children with special needs |
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Howard Shadd
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Small group prayer |
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Prayer for Israel |
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Col. Kris Mineau, USAF
(ret.)
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Prayer for the military, for those serving our country
overseas, and for the battle for Judeo-Christian principles in
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 Dr. Paul Jehle, event co-chairman and senior pastor of New Testament Church, Plymouth MA, with Alan Juarez, translator and senior pastor of Iglesia Cristiana Nueva Vida, East Boston MA. The event closed with
George Small's Exhortation on Memorial Day, a Color Guard
from the Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School, and "God
Bless America", sung in heartfelt manner by Renese King and all
participants.
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 Report on the 10 Days of Prayerby Jonathan Friz I'm rejoicing because of what God has done in the last 10 days in Northfield, MA. I'd like to send out my heartfelt thanks to all those who participated for a (literally) awesome time. We sought the Lord's heart, listened to and followed the Holy Spirit, became one in heart, mind, and spirit -- and God loved it. 122 people came to pray at Northfield. We had been asking God to have 120 full time people, and it was amazing that He sent almost exactly 120 people our way. We had a core group of fifteen people who really carried the prayer. For those who couldn't
come out to Northfield, please look for a final update on the
Covenant
website to tell pieces of the story. God worked
in healing, prophecy, and deliverance. He brought us into a
greater unity than I have ever experienced in the Church. He
brought us into greater agreement with His Word and His purposes.
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 Are Your Prayers Important to God? Summary of a chapel talk delivered by Bob Bakke
Executive Director of the Global Day of Prayer
Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary Chapel
April 20, 2007 This is the greatest moment in the history of the world to be alive. People have dreamt about this, prophets have foretold this; people have longed to see this. Leif Anderson, a friend of mine and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, freely says that when we get to heaven, people will come running from all over heaven to find out what it was like to be alive at this moment in history. They'll take us by the arm and beg us to tell them what it was like to be alive at this moment in history. Let me set the scene in
Revelation 8. Jesus has revealed himself to John in glorious splendor
and majesty. In a vision, John enters heaven. There's an emerald
rainbow around the throne. Around the throne are twenty-four
elders wearing white robes and golden crowns. Around them are four
beasts who shout: "Holy, holy, holy,
Lord God Almighty,
Who was and is and is to come!" Around them are
thousands upon ten thousands of saints, all of them resounding with
the praises and wondrous adoration of Christ and His Father. And then, this moment...
 Hearts were touched by devotion to Jesus expressed in song by the India Children's Choir. God inaugurates the
consummation of the age as a scroll is received by the Son, who is
the Lamb looking as if He had been slain. The scroll has seven seals.
And when the Lamb breaks the seventh seal, something remarkable
happens. This is the most dramatic moment in history, I believe,
except for the Cross and Resurrection of Christ. This is the moment
God has been longing for since the foundations of the earth were
laid, the moment that will finally set into motion the things that
will bring heaven to earth, God amongst His people again, the healing
of the Universe, and the restoration of God's relationship with
humankind as He has always longed for it to be. And when he comes to
this very moment, watch what He does. When He, that is, the Lamb,
opens the seventh seal, there is silence in heaven. When the seventh
seal is broken, everything in heaven stops. One minute, three
minutes, ten minutes goes by. Not an angel moves. "Heaven is mute
and still," Matthew Henry writes. Twenty five minutes, twenty eight
minutes. At thirty minutes, one
angel begins to move. And you know that everyone's watching. If
there's blood pressure in heaven, it's beginning to rise. If
there's adrenalin in heaven, it's starting to course. Something's
coming. "And I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and to
them were given seven trumpets. (Rev. 8:2)" You know how
important trumpets are, shofars are. In fact, Jesus is going to come
on the blast of the final trumpet.  People of many different races and nationalities praying together in unity for our region, nation and the world. "Then
another angel, having a golden censer, came and stood at the altar.
He was given much incense that he should offer it with the prayers
of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the
throne. And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the
saints, ascended before God from the angel's hand. Then -- then
-- the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and
hurled it to the earth. And there came peals of thunder, lightning,
and an earthquake. (Rev. 8:3-5)" When God comes to the most dramatic moment in all of history except for the Cross and the Resurrection of His own Son, that moment that will lead to the restoration of all things, He comes to that very moment and stops. All of heaven stops with Him. And they wait. For
what? For the prayers of the saints. And it's not until the
prayers of the saints arise to the nostrils of God like incense that
He gives the permission for the end of all things to come. Did you have any idea
that your prayers were that important to the sovereign workings of
the God of the Universe? He has so willed it that His purposes will
be accomplished in collaboration with and response to the prayers of
the fallen, but the redeemed.
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