Prayer Alert for California

FROM: REV. JERRY BOWERS, DIRECTOR of PRAY CALIFORNIA

SUBJ:  A 40-DAY CALL TO REPENTANCE FOR CALIFORNIA

Dear Leaders,

There have been a number of Words issued concerning a visitation of the Lord upon California.  I will include an attachment which you can open to read and evaluate these words. I believe the Lord is calling us as a State to a time of Repentance, Fasting, and Prayer as outlined below. I pray that the people of prayer in California and other nations will join in praying during October for California. This state impacts the nations of the world. A Spiritual Awakening in California would touch the world. What is given in the text below is also included as an attachment along with a call to pray for Jerusalem on Oct 2nd. The document below is about 4 Pages. It gives a detailed weekly outline week-by-week for the 40 Days.

PRAYER ALERT FOR CALIFORNIA

In light of recent words given concerning California, and the moral crises we face as a state, this 40 Day Call for Repenting & Blessing is being issued to pray and fast for this state. The 40 Days begins the evening of October 2 nd and goes through November 8 th   to the special elections.  It starts with the Jewish New Year, goes through the 10 days of fasting to Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) on Oct 12 th, and then through to the special elections in November. A more detailed explanation of words given for the state and strategy can be found at www.praycal.org.

A word from Mike Bickle : Leader of the International House of Prayer in Kansas City: (There have been a number of words given this year concerning our State and need for repentance. Our state influences the nations of the world.) Additional words are given on the web site. Note: Calls concerning judgment usually are opportunities for God to show His Mercy and to bring restoration.

Mike had a dream recently where “angels of the Lord went to blow a trumpet of judgment over California three times".  And he paused three times and the word was that California has a minute. We have a minute before judgment to repent. He also got Ezekiel 22:30-31. Mike also stated that a casual response by the church will be detrimental to our state, California, and to the USA.

During this 40 Days of Prayer & Fasting we need to address the sins and moral decay in our state and ask God to revive us again (Psalms 85:6,7) and restore us to His purposes. As we acknowledge our sins before God, He promises to forgive and heal (restore) our land. (2 Chron. 7:14,15) In other words, He desires to demonstrate mercy as we turn to Him. At issue this past year has been: Abortions, Embryo Stem Cell research, exporting of violence, immorality, and sexual perversion. Other issues include promotion of homosexuality through the legislature, Idolatry, rejection of God through humanism/secularism, and the excluding God from the educational and judicial system. We have tolerated the abuse of women and children, tolera! nce of witchcraft, occultism, Harry Potter, Lawlessness (murder, drugs, gangs, thefts, rape, domestic violence), prayerlessness, coldness, indifference. Our state leads the nation in the shedding of innocent blood through abortions and embryo stem cell research.

For these sins and others, may we turn to Him and ask for a revelation of His Mercy and Love to be demonstrated in our state so that all may know Him and choose to serve His kingdom.

Oct. 2nd: National Day of Prayer for Jerusalem. See: www.daytopray.com

• 10 Days of Fasting begins at Sundown
• Pray repentance & blessings for Israel. (Psalms 89). The U.S. has agreed with the giving of land belonging to Israel in exchange for peace. This is breaking covenant with God. This land was given by God to Israel. (Gen 12:3) “Those who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse her will be cursed.” Pray for God’s intervention in the Middle East and for true peace. Let’s pray there will be an outpouring of His Love and Mercy in the Middle East.

Week of Oct 3-8: Rosh Hashanah. Read Psalms 24

• 10 Day Fast Continues. Rosh Hashanah means head of the year. At the beginning of the New Year until Yom Kippur were 10 Days of fasting, repentance and prayer. They asked God to redeem the sins of the past year and to seal them for a new beginning for the coming year. It was called The Feast of Trumpets.
• Declare Christ as our only one and true King. The Jews started this holiday by declaring God as their “one and only true king.”
• Ask God to cleanse our hands from shedding innocent blood and  give us clean hands and pure hearts to demonstrate His goodness.
• Repent for: Shedding of innocent blood, Abortions, Embryo research, lawlessness. Pray His mercy, His love, and His forgiveness for those who have participated in these things this year.
• Repent for the passing of laws that agree with evil. Psalms 94:20,21
• Pray for and bless those in the Legislature, in authoritative positions.

Week of Oct 9-12: Begin the week with Psalms 148

• 10 Day Fast Continues (Our prayers for those enslaved in sin should always include our desire to demonstrate and pray for them to know God’s love and mercy)
• Declare a renewed covenant with God in California that the people of our state will know Him from the least to the greatest based on Heb. 8:10-12.
• Repent for sexual perversion in all forms including Homosexuality. Rom. 1:21-28
• Repent for toleration of witchcraft, occultism, Harry Potter, participation in Halloween. Ask for a revelation of God’s true power.
• Pray for those in bondage to occultism and homosexuality that they may know God’s love and mercy; pray that they would choose to turn from their wicked ways and would draw near to God with a newfound passion.
• Repent for the idolatry and worship of other gods. Gen 20:3-5

Day of October 11: Special Focus: Day before Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) had a special focus. Atonement stands for At-one-ment with God. The Jews believed that during this 10 days of repentance, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, God reviewed the past year. This judgment/review would determine their destiny for the next year unless they repented. Repentance allowed God to change what they deserved and “inscribe and seal” a new destiny based on blessing/mercy such as he did for Nineveh who repen! ted. They would speak a blessing to one another, “Be sealed and inscribed for the New Year.” This met they were to seek God for a new beginning each year! A new destiny!  Each would seek a time of personal repentance to prepare for this new beginning. We need to take stock of where we have been and are going in California and ask God to restore His redemptive purposes for our state.

• A time for personal repentance below:
• Make a personal declaration that you are crucified to the world. Gal. 6:14
• Make a commitment to holiness: Give God permission to discipline you:
  • Demonstrate charity/mercy to others,
  • Seek forgiveness from others you have wronged or spoken ill of or offended – especially family, friends,
  • Return things you have taken,
  • Turn from questionable habits and practices God would not approve of,
  • Make a commitment to set no unholy thing before your eyes (Ps 119:37),
  • Obey God in everything He has asked you to do,
  • Seek to be filled with the fruits of the spirit (Gal 5:22).

Day of October 12: Special Focus: Yom Kippur “Day of Atonement”

• Last day of 10 Day Fast. At the end of Yom Kippur the Book of Jonah  was read concerning the 40 days God gave Nineveh to repent to show that God desires to bless and not judge. He wants to show His mercy as we turn to Him!  Note: Christ addresses the churches in Revelation by the names of their cities/territories and holds them accountable for the sin in their Midst. (See Revelations Chapters two and three. He calls upon them to repent for the moral conditions in their cities/regions. Then He promises a blessing.)
• Make a declaration for California to behold the lamb of God who takes away our sins. (John 1:29-34)
• Pray for all the families in our state that biblical marriages will be preserved.
• Partake of Communion to rededicate yourself/family to God.
• Break the 10 Day Fast with Communion this evening.
• Prayer declaring the Cross of Christ over California for a new beginning this year.. “Be inscribed and sealed for the New Year.”

A Blessing for California:

“We declare that the power of God to those who believe in the Cross, has come and been released through the State of California. California shall boast in the cross, the source of her spiritual strength. We repent for any agreement with efforts to remove the cross in our state.

We confess that all pride and self-exaltation is brought low and crucified so that our faith may be perfected, and we may live unto righteousness. Therefore, all unrighteousness, injustice, lawlessness, and materialism shall bow at the feet of Jesus.

We proclaim California that He died that you may no longer live for ourselves  but for him. Pick up your cross and follow Him!

We bless California with peace and declare that the chastisement of your well-being has fallen upon Christ and He has reconciled you to Himself through the blood of His cross.

Though you were dead ( California)  in trespasses and sin, He has made you alive together with Him, having forgiven all of your transgressions!

We further announce by faith that the walls between believers in this state are  broken down. Christ has removed the wall of division between Catholics and Protestants, Denominations, Jews and Gentiles that He might reconcile all to God the Father through the cross putting to death enmity which has divided us. We declare that Christ is our peace, our hope, and the way.(Ephesians 2:14-18).

We believe  that His Cross will continue its journey in this state bringing forth grace, mercy, healing, reconciliation and revival” 

We Call on the cleansing refiner’s fire of God to fall on our State!

We seek the one who bore our sins for revival and restoration:

“He will sit as a refiner and a purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi, And purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.” Malachi 3:3

We ask you, O God, to inscribe and seal the destiny for California for this coming year in a way that will cause our state to fulfill its destiny you have ordained.

Let us continue the Journey! 

Oct. 13-16: Declare a breakthrough for believers and churches through the power of the Cross.

• Proclaim “The Dawning of Righteousness & Justice each morning for the remainder of the 40 Days
• Repent for Covenant Breaking in our state which include divorce and other agreements.
• Study the meaning of the Cross for our day: I Cor 1:18; Col 2:13,14; I Cor 2:1-5; Gal. 2:20; Matt. 10:38,39; Gal 6:14; I Pet 2:24; 2 Cor 5:15-17; John 12:32; Col 1:20; John 3:16; I Pet 2:9,24; Phil 2:8-10; Rev 1:5,6

Oct. 17-23: Declare a new inheritance for the Children of California.

• Declare “The Dawning of Righteousness & Justice” each morning.
• Declare Psalms chapter one over your children and the fatherless.
• Pray for the Marriages in the state to be strengthened and that God would be the center of each household. Pray that God-loving men would rise up as involved, spiritual leaders over their families.
• Speak words of blessing over your children & grand children.
• There is a great need for spiritual fathers to speak blessings over children so that children understand what mercy on display looks like. Mal. 4:5,6

“Heavenly Father, We appeal to you to restore the institution of marriage in America and in California. We repent for the broken covenants represented by divorce and fornication. We invite you visit every home in the 58 Counties of California and restore honor in the marriage relationships so we will honor you across this state. We petition you to call forth the fathers of our homes and impart to them the authority and wisdom to know how to impart spiritual coverings for the families. Where fathers are unable to impart this spiritual covering, we implor! e you sovereign Lord to impart a spiritual covering where it is lacking and heal the marriages in the families of our state. Teach us this year how to love and honor one another so that you are lifted up in our society as the way, the truth, and the life. Turn our hearts towards home in a new way in 2005. Let us be your mercy on display this year in our homes.”

Oct. 24-29: Declare a release of godly wisdom, truth, knowledge into the School Systems.

• Declare: “The Dawning of Righteousness and Justice”
• Repent for our society embracing Humanism, Secularism, and Darwinism so that God is excluded from our institutions. Reject the spirit of anti-Christ that has moved into our institutions through these philosophies and ask for a new revelation of God and His Love to be infused into all our institutions.
• Pray for the educational systems for godly administrations and teachers to come forth.
• Pray Proverbs 3:1-26 over the schools in your community.
• Pray for the State Universities who were once called “Normal Schools” to reclaim their spiritual foundations they started out with: The founder of Normal Schools Horace Mann gave this truth about these schools that we can use to pray over them and claim back their heritage. Listen to the hope in this description of the original purpose of our State Universities:

  “I believe Normal Schools to be a new instrumentality in the advancement of the raceI believe that without them free schools would be shorn of their strength and their healing power, and would at length become mere charity schools.. the universal diffusion and ultimate triumph of all glorious Christianity itself must await the time when knowledge shall be diffused among men through the instrumentality of good schools, Coiled up in this institution, as in a spring, there is a vigor whose uncoiling may wheel the spheres.”

Oct. 30-Nov 5: Pray God’s Blessing over the Transportation Systems, Waterways.

• Declare: “The Dawning of Righteousness and Justice”
• Declare they will be used to export a knowledge of God.
• Pray over our harbors for these gateways to be protected.
• Pray Psalms 24 over the gateways of our state.
• Pray Psalms 24 over the gateways of your city: Gateways are spheres of influence, spheres of authority, spheres of access, spheres of commerce.

Nov. 6-9: Pray for the spiritual condition of the Body of Christ in our state.

• Declare: “The Dawning of Righteousness and Justice”
• Repent for our lukewarmness towards God and the toleration of evil in our midst and ask God to give us greater love and passion for the lost.
• Read: Christ’s message to the churches of Thyatira, Laodicea in Rev 2:18-26; 3:14-22). Both messages apply in California. Note the specific call to repentance Christ gives at the end of each word He gives. Calls to repentance should be specific. At the end of each word is a message of hope and mercy.
• Pray Isaiah 62:4-7 over California a new vision of God’s blessing.
• Pray Isaiah 60:1-5 over California for a new expectation of mercy.
• Pray Isaiah 9:5-7 over Government Offices for a new foundation of righteousness
• Pray Senator Morrow’s Prayer Points for Government :
• Fear of God : Pray that the Governor, legislators, Supreme Court justices and other officials receive wisdom that comes from the fear of God.
• Sanctity of Marriage : Pray state leaders will respect the sanctity of marriage between a man and a women
• A Resurgence of Moral Values : Pray there will be a resurgence of moral values among state law makers and legislators when writing legislation and in voting for laws. (Include: Pray this will include a reverence for life that will negate the agreement with abortion and embryo stem cell research)
• Improved Communications between citizens and legislators : Pray the citizens/residents of California will become better informed, more passionate and actively involved in communicating their views with legislators – whom they hold accountable.
• A New Emphasis on civility in the Capitol : Pray there will be a new emphasis on civility in the capitol when debating contentious issues.
• A Sense of Justice : Pray that all politicians will govern justly and wisely.