To:
Terry Harper;
Seth Polk;
Greetings,
I wanted to touch base with you over a few things to consider before November.
1. A note needs to be sent out to and through WVCSB about ‘The Response.’ The prayer and fasting on August 6 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, TX. Gov. Perry called for this and has invited other governors and states to participate. It is a simulcast event and pastors, churches and concerned Christians can hook up or hosts this 6 hour prayer meeting. I think our convention should respond and at least posts the info.
http://theresponseusa.com/
2. In Hampshire county, where I pastor both churches, August 6 is also the first county wide prayer meeting for revival. I have gathered other pastors, across denominational lines to join in one prayer petition - For Revival. A Serious Call to Prayer among WV must begin. And why not with us? My suggestion is to bounce off this nation wide call of Gov. Perry’s and encourage churches to be proactive in stepping out to pray in August, September, October and November. Perhaps using Delton Beall’s 10:2 prayer initiative.
There should be content of: the need of God’s Holy Spirit leading, directing, empowering and filling us; a prayer for the lost 1.4 million; a prayer for the churches; a prayer for families; a confession and repentance of sins.
3. Seth, you made reference to use Claude King’s, ‘Consecrate the People’ for a prayer agenda. I don’t know when the next newsletter goes out, but August should be used to set up prayer times all over the state, for those that would gather to pray for November. Ask the pastors or churches to open their doors for prayer. We cannot control whether they come or not, but we can obey to do it.
AS you may know, my concern that Kevin Ezell and NAMB removed the office of prayer and spiritual awakening. They are currently working on a prayer status for NAMB. I have no idea what that will look like. Frank Page and the executive committee downsized and removed Ken Hemphill and EKG , which was its discipleship program. Lifeway removed theirs along time ago. There must be a return to prayer and spiritual discipleship. Prayer link has been the catalyst to generate prayer among Southern Baptist. Its current role is uncertain. I am working now to revise it and revive it however the Lord might do this.
Let us believe God for an awakening among our 200 some odd churches. Let us lay before the Lord His Holy Name sake to reach the lost. We are not the only Christians in this state, but there is no reason why God can’t come to a people that is dry and thirsty and ‘pour water on the dry and thristy’ and fulfill His promise of giving us the fullness of His Holy Spirit. That we would be set on fire for His glory and see our churches filled and overflowing. And that truly we wouldn’t have to worry about downsizing and minimizing, but we would have to worry about building churches and accommodating the 100,000’s that would come to Christ in a short space of time.
Let us trust the Lord for these things. Let us do it the way He commanded ‘I dwell in the high and holy place, with him that is of a contrite and humble spirit. To revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.’
Until,
Dan Biser
Rdbiser@live.com
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