March, 2012
Greetings,
We come into this new month with more facing us across this nation than it seems ever before. At the beginning of this year there was a major emphasis by several Southern Baptist state conventions for a call to prayer. I rejoiced in this. Many groups have adopted Claude King's, 'Awaken 2012' for a 40 day prayer emphasis. Right behind this initative was Life Action's revival emphasis, "One Cry". One Cry is a movement to set the church to praying for God's power to come in revival and for a spiritual awakening. All these things are needful and helpful to draw us back into a right relationship with our Lord. There continues to be a group, a remnant, of men and women seeking the Lord for His mercy and help during these troubling times.
In a conversation this past week, with David Ford, he has been led to hold a Keswick Convention in Phoenix. This will be held in May 13 -19 (?) with Al Whittinghill. The Keswick Convention was one of the things I studied in forming Broken Before the Throne. I had received a book on the great sermons of the Keswick Convention. Along that same time I had been reading Praying John Hyde's biography and was much moved by this man of prayer. He had been led, due to the poor spiritual condition of the church and individual Christian lives, as well as the darkness of the Indian people to be a part of the Sialkot Convention. These two conventions, of days gone by, was for a restoration of the basic principles that govern our Christian walk. These principles are based on confession and repentance of sin in the beliver; exalting of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior; consecration; and Spirit filled living through prayer and obedience;
My leading for Broken Before the Throne was centered a few years ago to go to these prayer conferences that were being held and learn from them. I came away with this lesson, that most of these prayer conferences talked about prayer, preached on prayer, had great prayer warriors there but did very little in praying. There are not as many of these conferences on prayer today as what there had been. We are left with a people in the church who don't pray and don't know how to pray. Pastors have confessed that they have no prayer life. We see this across the board for denominations and churches.
Broken Before the Throne is a time set apart before the people not just to hear the Word and the ways on prayer, but to actually be in prayer. Speakers are given time to preach or teach on prayer by what the Spirit would have them bring and then give time to pray and cry out to God. Ability to take part in corporate prayer, small group praying and quiet individaul time alone with God is given. And as one service on one night makes for a hurried time, almost tempting God to work according to our schedule, we give days for God to come among us. The disciples waited for 10 days before the Lord. It does take time to get away from the traps of Satan in our busy life to 'be still and know God'.
I believe the darkness is pressing fast upon us. There needs to be an immediate response by the church. This response is not just to have meetings, it is to go to war on our knees. Broken Before the Throne allows for such an opportunity. I have tried to assemble those dear, precious saints that have been a part of revival in days gone by. Quickly those saints are dying and age is rapidly limiting them. This generation knows nothing of those days of revival. It does not change the fact that revival is needed and our only hope is in Him.
I am asking you to consider praying for God to lead and direct Broken Before the Throne. Asking for God to lead us to a place that would hosts this prayer time; asking for the right speakers to be there and assembled; asking for the saints to respond to this call to pray; and trusting in God for the finances to cover this. All the years that we have done BBtT, there was no registration fee, we simply trusted in God and as always, He was and is faithful to provide for us.
Please join me in prayer and let us seek the face of the Lord together. At this time His wrath is being poured out on our nation, church and families and we should be seeking Him for His mercy and for a mighty cleansing.
Thank you,
Until,
Dan Biser
rdbiser@live.com
http://www.brokenbeforethethrone.com
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