A CALL TO PRAYER FOR HAMPSHIRE COUNTY
"Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men."
Psalm 12:1
A call to prayer is going out to each church, each family and each individual soul. We are in crisis right now across our county and we are in desperate need of the Lord God. The situations we hear and see across our country is being experienced right here in our own county. Crumbling families, children being raised without morals, without a knowledge of God, drug and alcohol deaths and habitual issues of dependency, adultery, fornication, gambling is every week and every day happening all around us. And the one people that should be able to help, the church, seems blind and unwilling to meet the need at hand. The church is powerless and in need of a mighty moving of the Spirit of God upon us. We need revival!
Instead of the churches being full and overrunning with crowds and people, the jail and entertainment places are filled and overflowing. In the summer time, the river has more people than the house of God. We see a crisis at hand that has the potential for worsening over the next weeks, months and years unless the church rises up and responds to what is going on. Satan and hell are having their way with our young people and families. With a population of 24,000 (estimated) people in our county, on any given Sunday worship services, only about 3,000 are in church. That means almost 90% of our population is out of church. No doubt, this is directly related to our present condition of problems. A change needs to happen.
Almost a year ago, we began a monthly prayer meeting for the sole purpose of seeking God's mercy and help for our county, families, and churches. This prayer meeting was increased to two Saturday evenings each month. We will continue with those Saturday night prayer meetings. But Zoar Baptist church is desiring to increase prayer as well. Most churches have a Wednesday night bible study. Zoar's has always been on Tuesday night. At 6 PM an hour of prayer,followed by bible study at 7 PM. They wish to cancel bible study and make Tuesday night each week a prayer meeting for all churches and Christians to come and pray for the conditions of our county.
We are inviting you to come and join us for this needful time of prayer. Prayer is the very directive that God has commanded His people to do. 'My house shall be called a House of Prayer'; 'Pray without ceasing'; 'continue in prayer'. If we would be honest most churches never have a serious prayer meeting. There is a lot of prayer concerns mentioned, a lot of sickness prayed over, but very little of prayer for the sins and lostness upon our county. We need our brothers and sisters in Christ to respond to this time of prayer. Pastors, you lead the way;if you don't pray, little can be hoped that your church will pray. And to the band of intercessors out there, we need you to come and join us.
Zoar Baptist Church is located in Augusta on Ford Hill Road; roughly 4 miles off of Route 50 (across from Dr. Hott's Animal Hospital). This will begin May 1, 2012 at 6 PM; if work or other restraints are an issue and you cannot come til 7 PM, come when you can.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
APRIL PRAYER LETTER, 2012
APRIL PRAYER LETTER
Greetings,
Ministry Updates:
- continue pastor duties at Zoar and Fox's Hollow Baptist church; two Sunday school classes and 3 worship services on Sunday; Sunday's are very busy and full with 6 services; Tuesday night at Zoar is prayer meeting at 6; and Bible study at 7; should finish Genesis verse by verse study in the next two weeks, will begin Exodus and will go through chapter 20 to the 10 commandements; also share tidbits of prayer notebook;
Fox's Hollow, Thursday night Bible study and prayer time; finished Genesis and starting Exodus as well;
--continue Bible study and prayer time on Sunday evening at our house;
--lead prayer time for Hampshire county every other Saturday night; Zoar will be reaching out to the other churches the first of May to have prayer times on Tuesday night. This will be weekly.
--still continue Daily Prayer Email for 66 people; This has been such a great outlet for me to share what God is doing and teaching me.
--Still working on several projects of word studies and sermons; Have recorded all the 'IN THAT DAY' out of Scripture. There are over 112. continue to record all of God saying, 'I will'; estimating that there are over 2000, reached 500 for now. A very blessed work of instruction of what God says He will do.
Continue to work on 'JUDGMENT'. A new work on 'RESTRAIN'.
--looking at in the next month or two to have prayer conference in Hampshire county and Mineral county to draw the pastors together and fight spiritaul warfare over the counties.
--have set into motion Broken Before the Throne; waiting on a few speaker confirmations; dates are tentatively July 22- 28; place, waiting for confirmation on FBC, Lilburn, GA.
Family:
Track season for Joshua, Elizabeth and Timothy is on going right now. Hannah is helping coach for that, so half the kids are in that.
--Joshua graduates high school next month; has been looking at the reality of college;
--spiritaul warfare continues for the children; Praying for their hearts desire to know Him and follow after Him.
--other essential needs continue to lifted up to the Lord for His leading, providing and guiding.
--not a huge winter sickness for us; we thank God for His mercies and provisions;
Prayer Focus:
--seeing more opened doors for evangelism of people being put in my life through the churches, extended outreach; Dealing more and more with completely ignorant souls of the Gospel.
-- marriages continue to be a burden in the community; two more married couples in separation/divorce over adultery; ABsence of God in many of them; Satan having his will and way.
--Praying more and more for extended family members of church folk; a greater urgency and desperation is occuring in them for these lost family members.
--still using notebook for 5 circles; it is an easier way for me to daily, and weekly keep up with prayer requests;
--One Cry has started; I am a little more relucant of this movement than what I was a few months ago. A great initative, but a very poor application of its importance.
--lost souls - over 100;
--Hampshire county and Mineral county is pressing and thus my need to have a prayer conference here;
-- only a few murder/suicides have been reported; a swing now to straight out violent murders and abductions across the nation;
--a deeper longing for fullness of Spirit;
Books:
-- finished 'Might Prevailing Prayer' by Wesley Duewel; a must for all prayer warriors; finished 'the Hidden Life of Prayer' by David McIntyre, did not want this book to end;
--two new books - Life of Henry Martyn; How Christ Came to Church by AJ Gordon;
--still working through Ravenhill's, 'Why Revival Tarries'; looking at getting back to Gurnall's, 'The Christian in Complete Armour'; Andrew Murray, "Prayer" 5 books in one; 'Looking unto Jesus' by Ambrose; 'almost finished 'JO Fraser';
The writing now dominates my time over reading.
I thank you for reading this and lifting up these different aspects of my life and minstry unto the Lord. I thank you for the comments and sharing that many do. Such a great encouragement for me to know how God is speaking, leading and using.
until,
Dan Biser
Greetings,
Ministry Updates:
- continue pastor duties at Zoar and Fox's Hollow Baptist church; two Sunday school classes and 3 worship services on Sunday; Sunday's are very busy and full with 6 services; Tuesday night at Zoar is prayer meeting at 6; and Bible study at 7; should finish Genesis verse by verse study in the next two weeks, will begin Exodus and will go through chapter 20 to the 10 commandements; also share tidbits of prayer notebook;
Fox's Hollow, Thursday night Bible study and prayer time; finished Genesis and starting Exodus as well;
--continue Bible study and prayer time on Sunday evening at our house;
--lead prayer time for Hampshire county every other Saturday night; Zoar will be reaching out to the other churches the first of May to have prayer times on Tuesday night. This will be weekly.
--still continue Daily Prayer Email for 66 people; This has been such a great outlet for me to share what God is doing and teaching me.
--Still working on several projects of word studies and sermons; Have recorded all the 'IN THAT DAY' out of Scripture. There are over 112. continue to record all of God saying, 'I will'; estimating that there are over 2000, reached 500 for now. A very blessed work of instruction of what God says He will do.
Continue to work on 'JUDGMENT'. A new work on 'RESTRAIN'.
--looking at in the next month or two to have prayer conference in Hampshire county and Mineral county to draw the pastors together and fight spiritaul warfare over the counties.
--have set into motion Broken Before the Throne; waiting on a few speaker confirmations; dates are tentatively July 22- 28; place, waiting for confirmation on FBC, Lilburn, GA.
Family:
Track season for Joshua, Elizabeth and Timothy is on going right now. Hannah is helping coach for that, so half the kids are in that.
--Joshua graduates high school next month; has been looking at the reality of college;
--spiritaul warfare continues for the children; Praying for their hearts desire to know Him and follow after Him.
--other essential needs continue to lifted up to the Lord for His leading, providing and guiding.
--not a huge winter sickness for us; we thank God for His mercies and provisions;
Prayer Focus:
--seeing more opened doors for evangelism of people being put in my life through the churches, extended outreach; Dealing more and more with completely ignorant souls of the Gospel.
-- marriages continue to be a burden in the community; two more married couples in separation/divorce over adultery; ABsence of God in many of them; Satan having his will and way.
--Praying more and more for extended family members of church folk; a greater urgency and desperation is occuring in them for these lost family members.
--still using notebook for 5 circles; it is an easier way for me to daily, and weekly keep up with prayer requests;
--One Cry has started; I am a little more relucant of this movement than what I was a few months ago. A great initative, but a very poor application of its importance.
--lost souls - over 100;
--Hampshire county and Mineral county is pressing and thus my need to have a prayer conference here;
-- only a few murder/suicides have been reported; a swing now to straight out violent murders and abductions across the nation;
--a deeper longing for fullness of Spirit;
Books:
-- finished 'Might Prevailing Prayer' by Wesley Duewel; a must for all prayer warriors; finished 'the Hidden Life of Prayer' by David McIntyre, did not want this book to end;
--two new books - Life of Henry Martyn; How Christ Came to Church by AJ Gordon;
--still working through Ravenhill's, 'Why Revival Tarries'; looking at getting back to Gurnall's, 'The Christian in Complete Armour'; Andrew Murray, "Prayer" 5 books in one; 'Looking unto Jesus' by Ambrose; 'almost finished 'JO Fraser';
The writing now dominates my time over reading.
I thank you for reading this and lifting up these different aspects of my life and minstry unto the Lord. I thank you for the comments and sharing that many do. Such a great encouragement for me to know how God is speaking, leading and using.
until,
Dan Biser
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