Prayer Guide January 2009

PRAYER FOCUS FOR January 2009

Dear Praying Friends,

May you have great joy before the throne in 2009, see His leading and enabling in every way.

Business in the Valley during this economic recession

When we held our Conference in November, Gordon Hickson (Rachels husband, who is the vicar of St Aldates in Oxford) came for a brief while towards in end of the conference. In the conference, God showed him that The Valley would be like the land of Goshen (Gen. 47:27) ‘So Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions there and grew and multiplied exceedingly.’ Israel settled in Egypt and escaped the plagues (Ex. 8:22 and 9:26 ) that came upon the Egyptians.

We need to pray that the prophetic word will become a reality in the Valley and that business will ‘buck the trend’ and will prosper and that businesses will move into the area to enjoy the blessing.

New things in 2009

Isaiah 43:18

Do not remember the former things,
Nor consider the things of old.
19 Behold, I will do a new thing,
Now it shall spring forth;
Shall you not know it?
I will even make a road in the wilderness
And rivers in the desert.

In these momentous days in which we live, pray that God’s people will be ready and willing to experience God working in ways that are outside of ‘the box’ of their past experience! While in the world it may be the worst of times, in the Kingdom of God we can experience the best of times. It is time for the saints to rise up into new levels of faith.

We know that the dating of the calendar is not divinely inspired and yet God can use man made dates to perform His purposes. We feel that the number 9 in 2009 is somehow significant in that there are the 9 gifts of the Spirit, 9 fold fruit of the Spirit. We feel that God wants to complete, bring to maturity, some of the work He has been doing in the area of character and gifting in our lives, so that we can move into far greater fruitfulness for Him. Also there are some projects in the Church and in business that have been launched, that to date are not well grounded and could easily go either way, that will see proper foundations laid for future development this year.

If you relate to this personally or see some of these things in the Church, pray this into being.