May 6, 2009

National Prayer Center Update

I recently returned from a week in Washington, D.C. and would like to report to you on my trip. A strong team of interns from City Church in Kirkland, WA was at the Prayer Center for over a week. We had powerful times of prayer and intercession strategically covering our nation and leaders. Bob and Char Grove are settling into life back in D.C. and at the Prayer Center. They send their love and greetings back to everyone here at Capital Christian.

Despite the tumultuous season our nation is in, I am greatly encouraged by the movement of the Holy Spirit in our capital city. This is a time for the believers all across our land to pray like never before that God’s plan and purpose for our nation will be fulfilled. Many things hang in the balance and I believe the tipping point for good to come to our nation is the strategic prayer of the saints continually bombarding the heavenlies over our nation and specifically Washington D.C.

The role of the National Prayer Center is needed now more than ever. Our nation is on the precipice of change and many of the changes are not good. The National Prayer Center is in a unique position to bring the realities of God and the power of prayer directly to the corridors of power in our nation by personally ministering to our elected leaders. For example, this past week as we were in a very important hearing with Christian Congressmen who were standing up on a critical righteous issue our team was in the room supporting and encouraging them as they battled. At the end of the hearing the lead congressman immediately came over hugged me and expressed his deep appreciation for our prayers and our standing with them in this critical issue. We are also joining with other Christian groups coordinating a concerted prayer effort among believers and churches nationally. The hour is at hand, the task is monumental, the needs in our nation are great but as the Body of Christ draws together to blanket Washington D.C. with fervent intercession and strategic prayer we know that there will be a turning of our nation and it’s people back to God and the biblical truths that it was founded upon.

I want to thank you personally for partnering with the efforts of the National Prayer Center both in prayer and financially in these historic times we live in. With your continued support we will together partner on the front lines of the battle to see the Kingdom of God come and His will being accomplished in our land.

You can send all contributions to P.O. Box 23768 Washington, D.C. 20036 or give it at church in the offering or send it to the church office. Thank you again for partnering with us both financially and in prayer.

It is a great joy to serve with all of you in helping to make America a more spiritually active nation. Thank you for your prayers and your continued interest in the NPC and all that we are doing. We simply represent you and consider it a great privilege to join with you in prayer for our nation. May you and you family be blessed in every way in 2009!

Partnering in Prayer for the Kingdom,

Pastor Ken Wilde

Capital Christian Center

National Prayer Center

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April 8, 2009

Passion Week

Please join us Thursday morning at 6am and Friday at Noon for a time of prayer.  Simply put, we just want to spend time focusing on Jesus!  This weekend is a time for celebration and to reflect on the length, width, depth and height of God’s love.  This is a weekend of salvation!  Spend time reading Mark 8-16 over the next few days.

Isaiah 53 (The Message)

1 Who believes what we’ve heard and seen? Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this?

2-6The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling,
a scrubby plant in a parched field.
There was nothing attractive about him,
nothing to cause us to take a second look.
He was looked down on and passed over,
a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand.
One look at him and people turned away.
We looked down on him, thought he was scum.
But the fact is, it was our pains he carried—
our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us.
We thought he brought it on himself,
that God was punishing him for his own failures.
But it was our sins that did that to him,
that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins!
He took the punishment, and that made us whole.
Through his bruises we get healed.
We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost.
We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way.
And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong,
on him, on him.

7-9He was beaten, he was tortured,
but he didn’t say a word.
Like a lamb taken to be slaughtered
and like a sheep being sheared,
he took it all in silence.
Justice miscarried, and he was led off—
and did anyone really know what was happening?
He died without a thought for his own welfare,
beaten bloody for the sins of my people.
They buried him with the wicked,
threw him in a grave with a rich man,
Even though he’d never hurt a soul
or said one word that wasn’t true.

10Still, it’s what God had in mind all along,
to crush him with pain.
The plan was that he give himself as an offering for sin
so that he’d see life come from it—life, life, and more life.
And God’s plan will deeply prosper through him.

11-12Out of that terrible travail of soul,
he’ll see that it’s worth it and be glad he did it.
Through what he experienced, my righteous one, my servant,
will make many “righteous ones,”
as he himself carries the burden of their sins.
Therefore I’ll reward him extravagantly—
the best of everything, the highest honors—
Because he looked death in the face and didn’t flinch,
because he embraced the company of the lowest.
He took on his own shoulders the sin of the many,
he took up the cause of all the black sheep.

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April 1, 2009

Seeking God for our City (Day 36)

Seeking God to be honored by the ending of wars.

8 Come, see the glorious works of the Lord:
See how he brings destruction upon the world.
9 He causes wars to end throughout the earth.
He breaks the bow and snaps the spear;
he burns the shields with fire.

10 “Be still, and know that I am God!
I will be honored by every nation.
I will be honored throughout the world.”  -Psalm 46:8-10

PRAY:

  • that Christians in our city would be known for their brokenness and humility.
  • that the fear of the Lord would melt the hardened pride of people’s hearts.
  • for Christ to be honored by the reconciliation of longstanding feuds in our city.

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March 19, 2009

Seeking God for our City (Day 23)

Seeking God to grant repentance from our violent ways.

“People and animals alike must wear garments of mourning, and everyone must pray earnestly to God. They must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence. 9 Who can tell? Perhaps even yet God will change his mind and hold back his fierce anger from destroying us.”  -Jonah 3:8-9

“And one of them struck at the high priest’s slave, slashing off his right ear.51 But Jesus said, “No more of this.” And he touched the man’s ear and healed him.”  _Luke 22:50-51

PRAY:

  • for Christ to speak to us, as He did to Peter, forbidding us to defend the cause of Christ with violence.
  • for Jesus to touch and heal people wounded by the words or hostilities of Christians.

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March 18, 2009

Seek God for our City (Day 22)

Seeking God to intervene for what is true and right.

14 Our courts oppose the righteous,
and justice is nowhere to be found.
Truth stumbles in the streets,
and honesty has been outlawed.
15 Yes, truth is gone,
and anyone who renounces evil is attacked.

The Lord looked and was displeased
to find there was no justice.
16 He was amazed to see that no one intervened
to help the oppressed.
So he himself stepped in to save them with his strong arm,
and his justice sustained him.  -Isaiah 59:14-16

PRAY:

  • for God to save lost neighbors, family members and friends.
  • for God to save His people from lies, delusion and selfishness.
  • for Jesus to restore that which has been lost in our cities.

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March 14, 2009

Seeking God for our City (Day 18)

Seeking God to be praised by those who were lost.

1 And you will say in that day,
“I thank you, God.
You were angry
but your anger wasn’t forever.
You withdrew your anger
and moved in and comforted me.

2“Yes, indeed—God is my salvation.
I trust, I won’t be afraid.
God—yes God!—is my strength and song,
best of all, my salvation!”

3-4Joyfully you’ll pull up buckets of water
from the wells of salvation.
And as you do it, you’ll say,
“Give thanks to God.
Call out his name.
Ask him anything!
Shout to the nations, tell them what he’s done,
spread the news of his great reputation!  (Isaiah 12:1-4, The Message)

PRAY:

  • for breaking stories of God’s work to be told and retold.
  • for God to be honored for transforming lives.
  • for new believers to become extravagant worshipers.

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March 9, 2009

Seeking God for our City (Day 13)

Seeking God to draw the lost with His persistent love.

“And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]!(A)O people who dwell in Zion at Jerusalem, you will weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry; when He hears it, He will answer you.”  -Isaiah 30:18-19

PRAY:

  • for Christians to express the welcome and honor of the Father’s forgiving love to those still on the way back home to God.
  • for God to strengthen the hearts of parents waiting for wayward children to come home.
  • for massive movements of people coming home to God.

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March 8, 2009

Seeking God for our City (Day 12)

Seeking God to call people to sincere repentance.

PRAY:

  • for God’s kindness to comfort the people you know who are hardened to the gospel.
  • for God to reveal His mercy anew to someone in your family.

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March 7, 2009

Seeking God for our City (Day 11)

Seeking God to manifest His presence and glory.

“I will make my home among them. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 28 And when my Temple is among them forever, the nations will know that I am the Lord, who makes Israel holy.” -Ezekiel 37:27-28

“So the Word became human[a] and made his home among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness.[b] And we have seen his glory, the glory of the Father’s one and only Son.” -John 1:14

PRAY:

  • for Christ is preoccupy our attention and master our affections.
  • for God to reveal Himself as holy and magnificent to people throughout your community.

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March 6, 2009

Seeking God for our City (Day 10)

Seeking God to restore our families.

“He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else I will come and strike the land with a curse.” -Malachi 4:6

We pray that You would again bring together the shattered pieces of families in our city. Confront them all with Your incredible healing grace. May they now, as then, come to know You as the Savior of all.

PRAY:

  • for children who have grown up in broken homes to be embraced by healthy church families and guided by wise parental figures.
  • for God to heal the wounded hearts of parents and children who are alienated and distant.
  • for Jesus to reveal Himself as the Wonderful Counselor, bringing new peace in homes.

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