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Focus National Day of Prayer and Fasting: 27 May 2023 Intention Our going with the gospel creates joy for God. Scripture “The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone [...]

Then and Now A short time ago my husband Kym and I viewed the Jesus Revolution movie which led us to a time of reminiscing about how the Lord drew us to Himself in the early seventies. It was an exciting time as depicted in [...]

Intention To be a generation who will know Him and make Him known. Scripture “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein, for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. Who [...]

It is a blessing of God that he does not tell us all that will befall us as believers in the years ahead. How many new Christians would be deterred from going on if they had a fuller picture of what they would have to go [...]

Intention To be obedient to God’s call to be His witnesses, trusting in His power to do so. Scripture “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and [...]

This next portion of “Messiah” deals with the spreading of the Gospel message among those who accept it and among those who reject it, and God’s response to the latter, leading on to the prophetic foretelling of His eternal lordship. As I mentioned in a [...]

We must not be surprised at the opposition we will all get as we seek to do God’s work. In Ezra 4 we read that when the Israelites who came back from exile were determined to rebuild the temple, they were met with adversaries who [...]

Intention For us to see the importance of abiding with God, in sharing the gospel message. Scripture “But they constrained Him [Jesus], saying, ‘Abide with us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent.’ And He went in to stay with them. Now it [...]

Intention That we, the ‘grafted in’ pray fervently for the Jewish people, for Israel and for the peace of Jerusalem. Scripture “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To align ourselves with God’s love for the people in the world, while shunning the things of this world. Scripture “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To pray for Christians to be mobilised to share the gospel boldly with miracles following. Scripture “Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To rest in the full confidence that Jesus Christ is unstoppable. Scripture “And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of hell [Hades] shall [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To focus our attention on the One in whom we have unity. Editor’s Note: The writer of this devotion is an Indigenous Christian leader who has deep concerns about the Voice. We thought it wise [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To grow in prayer as the foundation for sharing Jesus. Scripture “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To encourage us to be aligned with God’s heart in prayer. Scripture “He presented another parable to them: ‘The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To understand the incredible gospel Jesus commanded us to proclaim! Scripture “Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you… For what I received I passed on to you as of first [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To ready ourselves to use prayer to push through the spiritual darkness to spiritual breakthrough. Scripture “And now, I pray, let the power of my Lord be great, just as You have spoken, saying, ‘The Lord is longsuffering [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention To resolve our hearts to focus only on the Lord. Scripture “Then a champion came out from the camps of the Philistines named Goliath, from Gath, whose height was 2.7m (9ft) tall. And he had a [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention For us to grasp the necessity to pray for Israel. Scripture “I have posted watchmen on your walls Jerusalem, they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the Lord, give yourselves no [...]

Focus Shift the Nation: 24/7 Prayer 12–22 May 2023 Intention The beauty of hiddenness is birthed in the overwhelming glory of the One in whom we are found. Scripture “One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in [...]