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Awaken: A 21-day Prayer Journal has been used in churches across Louisiana by individuals and churches praying for revival and spiritual awakening in their churches, communities, and across the state. Now they are preparing for a "wave of prayer" across the state as groups plan to gather in March and April at courthouses in every parish (county) to pray for awakening.

Is this a model for your community or state to pray for spiritual awakening?

To read or download the prayer guide devotionals and/or view daily video clips (in Spanish also) go to: http://www.lbc.org/Awaken/21Days/

Send us a revival and spiritual awakening, Lord Jesus, for Your honor and glory!

Rick Shepherd, Prayer/Spiritual Awakening Team Strategist for the Florida Baptist Convention, testifies to God's response to the cries of His people during days of prayer called by spiritual and political leaders. Calls to prayer about wildfires, drought, hurricanes, and the Gulf oil spill have been issued in recent years. God has responded with mercy. He said, "God gets our attention to focus our attention so we will pay attention." 

To download a guide click: Praying... About the Weather

Dennis Pethers, author of More to Life, shares the background of "The Rooftop" experience to help people receive a fresh vision of God's heart for the lost. Dennis writes:

"The church in North America is at a crossroads. New generations of people no longer attend church as their parents and grandparents did. The number of people who don't know Jesus or recognize that they should know Him is growing.

"As this new reality increases and spreads throughout North America, many churches experience the growing awareness of the crisis that is looming. This crisis is often described in terms of fewer people attending church.

"But what if that is not the crisis? What if the real crisis is that those who attend church are not sharing the gospel with those who aren't? What if we saw the crisis as an opportunity?

"The Rooftop is an initiative to help churches face this new reality and grasp the opportunity to encourage a new culture of faith sharing. And it begins with an encounter with God."

For three video segments go to:

http://vimeo.com/album/1806390

For more information go to Lifeway.com/TheRooftop

Our great need in North America is for a spiritual awakening that transforms lives, families, cities, and ultimately our society and culture by the working of God's Holy Spirit. Awaken 2012 is a 21-day prayer guide to direct the prayers of God's people toward revival and awakening. First written for Louisiana churches, it is available for all who wish to join in prayer and fasting for revival and awakening. In this video I challenge churches to undertake the following:

• December 31, 2011 Celebrate a Watch-night Service (or Cry at Midnight)
• January 1-21, 2012 Follow the guided prayer of "Awaken 2012"
• January 22, 2012 Call a Solemn Assembly for the following Sunday and begin an 8-day process of preparation using "Consecrate the People."
  
• January 29, 2012 Celebrate a Solemn Assembly and Renew Your Covenant Commitments to Jesus Christ.

Awaken 2012 Print Files:

Download one of the following files for a 40-page version. One is single pages and the other can print double sided pages and be stapled into a booklet format.

Use this 36-page booklet with your planning team to develop your church's strategy for intentional discipleship. This was first published in 2008. I'm posting it here to make it available for those who need a tool like this for planning their disciple-making strategy.

A missionary working in the slums of Lima, Peru, gave me this copy of Experiencing God (Spanish). The owner had been beaten by her husband as he burned this book and her Bible. He threatened to kill her if she ever went back to church. She brought this book to the missionary and asked for a new copy to continue the study. I yearn for that kind of hunger for God and His Word.

Last December (2010) I had the privilege of interviewing David Franklin about God's activity in Bartow County, Georgia, that is transforming lives, churches, and the community. God is working in such encouraging ways that I've become a "prisoner of hope" (See Zechariah 9:12.). I pray that God will find pastors and churches all over the nation who will surrender to His use and purposes to see a similar work in their communities.

To watch other videos about God's work in the county see my Vimeo Album at:

http://www.vimeo.com/23652961

I came across a statement in an Andrew Murray book that pointed me to the homage ceremony. It has become for me a powerful reminder every time I pray of my need to fully surrender to the Lordship of Jesus Christ.

The homage ceremony of the Middle Ages gives us some powerful imagery of full surrender. Christians translated that into a posture for prayer that included full surrender to King Jesus as Lord and Master. Added to the definition of "consecration" as "to fill up the open hands," we have a wonderful invitation from our Lord to consecrate our lives to Him, or as Paul put it "present your bodies as a living sacrifice." Will you join me in full surrender to our Lord Jesus Christ?

God is using the stories of His work in Lynch, Kentucky, to stir many others to respond to His invitations that require a walk of faith. In Part 1 you will hear of Lonnie & Belinda's call to minister to mountain. You will hear about a "hedge clipping ministry, the Freedom Center clothing ministry, Hair & Nail Day, a back to school ministry, and God's provision for remodeling a theater for Christian community programs. These testimonies come from the DVDs in "Experiencing God: Knowing and Doing the Will of God" by Henry & Richard Blackaby and Claude King. They are used by permission from LifeWay Christian Resources. Go to www.Lifeway.com for more information about Experiencing God and two books co-authored by Lonnie: "By Faith" and "Miracle in the Mountains."

You can watch and/or download all five segments or one clip that includes all 55 minutes at my Vimeo Album at: www.vimeo.com/23652961

July 25-28 I'll be leading the discipleship track for 4Groups at Ridgecrest Conference Center in North Carolina. My plenary session will focus on discipling toward maturity in keeping with Paul's goal of presenting "everyone mature in Christ" (Col. 1:28). My breakout sessions will include: (1) Growing Disciples Who Pray, Care, and Share; (2) Launching a Men's Discipleship Ministry with Courageous (the movie); and (3) Mastering the Challenge of Multiplication in Disciple Making.

Other leaders include Allan Taylor (Sunday School Groups), Bill Donahue (Small Groups), and Dennis Pethers (Evangelism Groups). Chris Adams will be training women's ministry leaders.

Listen to this invitation from Dennis Pethers (author of More to Life)

An Invitation To 4Groups from Dennis Pethers from BiblicalSolutionsFor on Vimeo.

Will you join me at Ridgecrest? For registration call 1-800-588-7222 or go to www.lifeway.com/event/361

The first 200 registrants receive: Building Biblical Community DVD Leader Kit: Celebrate. Learn. Love. Serve. by Bill Donahue and Steve Gladen.