8 Hour Statewide in Harrisburg Saturday

Come on out to the Statewide “8” in Harrisburg. This time will be crucial for connecting to other prayer centers throughout the state, and focusing on God’s mercy on our upcoming elections. 9am to 5pm at the State Capitol Room 8E A & B.

24 Event October 10-11, North Philly

Doing another 24 sans nightwatch this Friday Oct 10 until the wee hours. Resuming at 6am Saturday the 11th and moving onward to Penn Treaty Park for some drum circles.

Venue is at Germantown & Cecil B Moore, Faith Love Outreach, pastored by Steve Loffreda, a real shepherd type guy. This is the place where they organized ministry teams throughout the day last time, and a bunch of people got saved and ministered to.

Pittsburgh on Deck – September 12-13

Pittsburgh made an impressive showing here in Philly 3 weeks ago. There were two groups easily totalling 30 people who drove across the state to pray with us. Now they’re hosting this weekend – they will be “Releasing the Keys of Change.”

If you need to carpool for this event just leave a comment or contact us. The location is Shepherd’s Heart Fellowship,

13 Pride Street
Pittsburgh, PA 

This will be a powerful event.

Statewide 24 THIS Friday-Saturday Aug 22-23

This event will be held This Friday, August 22 – Evangelical Fellowship Church, County Line Road and Beechwood, in Huntington Valley. This chuch is located between RT 232 and Bustleton Avenue. A state senator will be in attendance Saturday morning.

Here’s the PDF – 24 PA Philly 8-22

Report – LIFE stand, Locust Avenue

Saturday I stood in front of a clinic in center city for 4 hours with Bound4Life Philly. During that morning some ~30 people walked past us to get into the clinic. Our group was there to pray for everyone who showed up, not to condemn them – we don’t bring signs and pictures, nor do we try to prevent anyone to go in. There’s no need to interfere with things or get arrested. Instead we pray for God to turn the hearts of everyone involved in the situation and to end abortion in America.

We also do not believe God’s sovereignty precludes us from contending for the heart of our city. We do our part as God does his part.

Ironically while I was standing there, I was getting some unexpected impressions about it. Whenever you show up at a clinic, the clinic sends escort people to make sure that people don’t restrict the access. I realized a couple things –

1. The clinic escorts were there for the  same reason we were – to try to help women
2. Our group, as well as the escorts are sincere – but both cannot be correct.
3. We need to pray for a higher level of truth/revelation for the escorts and clinic staff.
4. Since the clinic is located in center city, I would have expected a lot of overt spiritual resistance or persecution.
5. However, the worst things I heard were from religious people like me – a couple people drove by shouting epithets  – “hey isn’t this where they kill the babies?”
   – true statement
   – completely counterproductive to why we were there
6. This is an example of what I would label a “religious spirit”. When truth is used to accuse and condemn instead of to redeem, it can be counterproductive.
7. Other than a curious guy in a wheelchair shooting pictures of us, no one did anything to taunt or harass us at all. That made the driveby comments in #5 even more damning from the “religious” guy.

I was impressed with the leadership of this group. Coming into center city just to stand on a sidewalk is not a wise use of time to our way of thinking. However it will change things if we persevere. I’m looking forward to more.

New Connection: Bound 4 Life Philly

Today I found out about a sister stream in the city – Bound 4 Life Philly.

They are located in the University City area and affiliated with Lou Engle’s ministry which stands for Life. This is really encouraging, and I am posting their next siege information below.

It’s time to unite together in prayer for the next generation!

Calling all Intercessors!

In preparation for The Call… Bound4Life Philly is looking for 260 intercessors to build a wall of prayer in front of the Planned Parenthood on Saturday August 9, 2008 @1144 Locust Street from 8am-12pm. God has called us to stand like Joshua and pray for the walls of abortion to fall. For this Siege we will need to know if you plan to attend. Come take a Joshua Stand with us!

Friday Aug 08, 2008 [Saturday August 9, 2008] – (correction by 24philly)
at 8:00 AM

Where::
Planned Parenthood
1144 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19151
United States

It’s not a Protest It’s a Prayer Meeting

I’m marking this down on my personal calendar and taking a stand with you!  It is important to contact Bound 4 Life Philly as there is limited participation per zoning. If you’re coming, reserve a spot before they run out of space!

8-22-8 Statewide Gathering Outside NE Philly

We’ve been asking for it… praying for it… here’s the start of it…  Asking God to build a foundation of prayer in Pennsylvania and this region. What’s special about this is that people from all over the state will be coming to stand with us.

Our first gathering was deeply impacting out in Meadville, and our little group was changed – somehow the ceiling came off our prayers as we stood with the others.

Date:

7 PM on Friday, August 22 through 7 PM on Saturday, August 23.

Location:

Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006   (stay tuned for specs)

Focus:

Revival in PA & USA, Government, statewide & local ministries

Structure:

The schedule will be set up in 2-hour blocks.

Guest:

A state representative attends on Saturday morning.

The Call DC – 8-16-08

There’s going to be a LOT of people there for this day of fasting and prayer. The country needs your prayers. If you want to carpool or know of such a situation, leave a comment. Nashville was amazing last year. BYO H2O.

This is a pretty in your face promo video, but it’s where we’re at in the nation.

Kicking off 2008 Right… Meadville style!

Our bedraggled band of delegates from the Tabernacle of David in Philadelphia returned early Sunday morning from a convocation of HOPs (houses of prayer) all over Pennsylvania. Special thanks to Dennis, Ralph, and the rest of the nameless, faceless servants and prayer warriors out there at the Altar HOP in Meadville.

Most of us out here in the city hadn’t really heard of Meadville (it’s on the opposite corner of the state, south of Erie), but the town is definitely known in the Spirit at this point.  Some really effective prayer went down last weekend there, which surely shall impact the Commonwealth.  Prior to that, this HOP has been praying for an impressive 8 years or so, with very little honor or recognition.

So for what it’s worth, all of us out here from the Philly delegation were completely slammed by your hospitality, welcoming spirit, and honor that you showed to us.  I think most if not all of us were unaware that people outside the region were praying for SE PA just as hard as we were. This blessed us tremendously, and warmed our somewhat hardened east-coast hearts. 🙂

So if you ever find yourselves passing through the region, give us a call and we’ll grab a cheesesteak! God bless you guys!  And for anyone from Philly reading this blog entry, we encourage you to come out with us to the next statewide meeting.

Report on the “8” – 9/8/7

The first 4 hours of this event, hosted by God Seekers Church with Pastor George Bell,  featured a hybrid band from several different churches. It was great to see different musicians worshiping together.

The final 2 hours were of the “blowout” variety by the Bodybuilders. The whole room came down to the front and there was a lot of jumping around.

Before that session, we took a lot of ground in prayer. I am listing these prayer points so that you can agree with us in prayer.

• We prayed for God to pour out his love on Philadelphia, the “City of Love”
• We then took this a step further and prayed for every neighborhood represented in the room.
• People broke up into small groups in order to do this.
• One group prayed for those in the neighborhood who are bound up in drugs, immorality, and other bondages.
• On behalf of the Church of Philadelphia we released mercy and love to those in such situations, and we bound ourselves through prayer to love them instead of condemning them.
• We proclaimed over people in the city “there is mercy in the house of the Lord” and sang this refrain dozens of times.
• Then we asked pastors and leaders to identify themselves – and sang the same refrain over them, on behalf of the church. We turned away from the trap of criticizing our pastors, and blessed them, speaking mercy and strength into their being.
• The remainder of that slot was a “beauty realm” session where we positioned ourselves to receive the love of the Father and operate from that posture.