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Praying Home The Prodigals is a teaching and training event in which
participants learn about the greatest season in which to serve God
of all time. There have been more miracles and decisions for Christ
in the past half century than in all previous history combined.
In the last few years the Lord has created a season on steroids.
There is also a very dark season in which we live; God calls His
people to live in the Elijah season while being aware of the apocalyptic
side. Jim calls us to celebrate what God is doing on Friday Night.
On Saturday Jim teaches the Great Commission as an excercise in
warfare by honor. He shares how we can break off obsticals to our
abundant life and effective witness. Participants learn how to become
interventionist's for the kingdom. In the final learning session
of the day participants celebrate the awesome power of God that
is released when we engage God and one another -- and the event
concludes with a celebration of the Lord's Supper.
There is no charge for admission; love offerings are taken for PrayNorthState.
Watch the website for upcoming events.
Rise, Take Your Pallet and Walk is a weekend event in which participants
hear of the annointed season in which we live much as they would
as in Praying Home the Prodigals. On Saturday morning Jim teaches
-- and participants practice -- The Miracle of Healing in a morning
address. Included in the day are addresses on the Privalege of Repentance,
The Miracle of Inner Healing, and Breaking the Power Paradigm. The
event concludes the Supper of the Lord.
There is no charge for admission for this event; lover offereings
are taken to benefit PrayNorthState.
Prophetic Acts with Impact is a teaching and training
event in which participants are prepared to serve in Prayer Vanguard,
Bible reading marathons, projects of targeted prayer for the community,
prayer tents, and other prophetic acts of documentable and pragmatic
impact.
A seminar is held on a Friday Evening and all day
Saturday in a local hosting church and members of nearby congregations
are invited to attend with their pastor’s permission.
In the Friday session Jim teaches on growing a
prophetic culture based on the concepts of prayer for blessing and
sowing in the opposite spirit. He shares the vision God has given
for this amazing Elijah season in which we live along with awe inspiring
stories of what God has been doing in front of all of us.
On Saturday he offers practical do’s and don’ts
for these ministries and sends the people out to practice what they
have learned in the host church and in the community. Jim also teaches
on worship as warfare, breaking the power paradigm, and the whole
body joins for a communion and commissioning service to conclude
the event.
There is no charge for attendance, although love offerings for
PrayNorthState are taken on Friday and Saturday. Dates and locations
of current and upcoming summits are featured in the monthly PrayNorthstate
newsletter and on PrayNorthstate Radio.
An interdenominational group of intercessors
goes out once a month from a central location to visit churches,
schools and businesses. While onsite they pray God’s blessings
on the location, those who staff it, and those whom God has placed
in authority over it. They ask God to bless only those concerns
which are authorized by the host pastor, administrator or business
owner. They visit only sites where they are welcomed by host
leaders.
Participants must have their pastor’s
permission to attend and be teachable as to praying only blessings
and what we call sowing in the opposite spirit.
Prayer Vanguard began in 1998 after God gave to
Diana a vision of Christians being proactive in blessing their
neighbors and colleagues in the Body instead of reactive to
various crises that might be presented. Initially only churches
were visited. Later the ministry was expanded to include schools
– both public and private – and local businesses.
Today the ministry operates in ten Northstate
communities spread over six counties and each Vanguard group has
its own locally trained and commissioned leadership. More than
twenty public schools – in four counties – are presently
included in the ministry with the blessing of local
administrators.
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Lighthouses of Prayer was initiated in the late
1990s in various parts of the country and by various ministries.
It is a very simple ministry in which individuals and families
covenant to pray daily for the blessing of five of their
neighboring families by name.
PrayNorthstate trains Christians for this
ministry and establishes a supportive infrastructure in each
participating congregation. As in the case of Prayer Vanguard,
participants must have the blessing of their pastor and be
teachable in terms of praying only blessings and sowing in the
opposite spirit.
A Lighthouse ministry is established alongside
Prayer Vanguard whenever we begin to serve in a new community.
PrayNorthstate sponsored Lighthouse ministries operate in the same
ten communities as the Prayer Vanguard.
We have seen the neighbors who receive
sustained and focused prayer transforms in ways both subtle and
dramatic as time passes and the prayers continue. When these
ministries are introduced into congregations in communities in
which they already exist we simply integrate the new with the
old.
A Lighthouse ministry is designed to be
integrated into the existing prayer and small group ministries of
a congregation rather than become a new focus of attention.
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Yah is a Northern California Native American name for God. The
word means exactly what we mean when we refer to God as Yahweh or
Jehovah.
The Yah Project is an effort to recruit and train ten thousand
Christians to pray daily for the Kingdom of God to come in power
to Northern California. The concept is based on Hawaii’s
Spiritual Warfare Project – in which ten thousand Christians of
all denominations prayed for several years for Hawaii to know God’s
Kingdom. At a climactic moment in the project intercessors fanned
out and occupied sites of pagan worship and atrocity. They
blessed, forgave and celebrated communion on land they occupied
only with permission of the owners. Signs and wonders occurred
throughout the island – including sites that had been
ecologically dead erupting with new plant and animal life.
Thousands of people received Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior over
the following months. God is calling us to go and do likewise
In addition to praying daily for the Kingdom to come, we ask
Yah Project members to select one hour each Sunday to be in prayer
for Northern California and then for the whole state of
California. We ask that prayer be made for things we understand to
be impossible – like full employment and a crime and divorce
free region – because we believe God when He says in Luke 18:27
that what is impossible for men and women is possible for
Him.
We call on one another to pray for our region and state as
though we were each the widow who continually sought out the
unjust judge in Luke 18.
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On the first Sunday of each month worshippers gather
at 7:00 PM. Anyone naming Jesus as the Way and the Truth and the
Life is welcome to join with us for worship and strategic intercessory
prayer.
The service begins with communion for all. It
features sessions of worship followed by brief preaching followed
by sessions of strategic intercession in the spirit and style of
the Yah Project. Simplicity is the order of the day and people are
encouraged to stay with us as long as they are able – but to
feel free to come and go as they please.
The aim is to call on the Lord Almighty to
transform the region of Northern California as He has done in some
one hundred eighty communities around the world when a strategic
number of people of prayer seek Him consistently, concertedly, and
with focus on what He calls important.
The scriptural template is Matthew 11:2-6 – in which the dead
are raised and the lepers cured, the blind and the deaf restored
and the poor hear good news – and the Kingdom is populated by
those who take no offense at Jesus. The model for our worship is 2
Chronicles 7:14 – in which God’s people who are called by His
name humble themselves and pray and seek His face. Transformation
comes – in the words of George Otis Jr. – when the people seek
God to the exclusion of all other things.
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On the first and third Thursdays of each month this group of
local believing business persons gathers at a local restaurant
from 12:30 to 2:00 PM for prayer, fellowship, and vision casting.
Prayer is offered to God for the Kingdom transformation of the
community and region.
Members of the group update each other on ministry projects in
which they are involved and seek vision for new ways in which to
bless the community. Meetings are for prayer and fellowship only,
but members are welcome to schedule voluntary meetings outside of
the Thursday format for planning events that emerge from the
shared vision of some or all of the members of the group.
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PrayNorthstate Radio is heard on AM 1400 KQMS on Saturdays at
7:30 AM. Jim interviews one or two Christians who are doing
ministry outside of the box. The program – which is sponsored by
believing business persons – is the most listened-to for its
time slot for the past three years. Jim also contributes to Radio
KVIP’s Saturday Magazine – heard at 1:00 PM on Saturdays on FM
98.1 and AM 540.
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PrayNorthstate cooperates with and co-sponsors
ministry efforts that emphasize cooperation across congregational
or denominational lines, reconciliation activities, and any effort
that operates in Kingdom terms "outside of the
box."
Examples include 2002's Freedom Festival – in which
more than 3000 young people heard the Gospel at a free concert featuring
the Supertones and various local Christian bands, One Nation Under
God, the commemoration of September 11 – in which local officials
share their faith as well as their patriotism from the courthouse
steps, and The Bible: Up Close and Personal – in which the whole
of Scripture was read from the steps of the Redding City Hall by
more than three hundred Christians representing more than twenty
churches. PrayNorthState facilitates National Day of Prayer events,
Paah-ho-ammi projects of targeted prayer, and Culture of Life celebrations.
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Jim is a regular contributor to the Christian
Quarterly, and the Redding Record Searchlight -- as a blogger and participant invoices of faith.
He coordinates and contributes to GodTalk, a weekly feature of the Red Bluff Daily News. PrayNorthState
publishes a monthly news letter and a monthly prayer alert. Jim also contributes to various other publications as
as it comes around on the guitar.
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