Approximately 90 leaders of prayer ministries and networks from Mexico, the USA and Canada met in beautiful Newfoundland and enjoyed deep times of prayer and sharing in the Lord as well as a lot of fun together! It was a time of rebuilding and strengthening our relationships and the connections between our national prayer movements as well as praying for some of the current issues that affect our continent. 

From the very beginning, as we let “God be God and the Body be the Body”, we sensed that because of Newfoundland’s history there is a portal or gate (both vertical and horizontal) through which the Holy Spirit wants to flow into the rest of North America. We prayed a number of times about this, including on Signal Hill overlooking the city: “Welcome Holy Spirit, come! Welcome into North America. Launch a new Great Awakening!”

We also reaffirmed our unity in the Spirit that even transcends our national cultures and boundaries as members of His “eternal family”. One participant saw our national delegations as acrobats, standing on each other’s shoulders, pulling one another up, so that each nation finds its deeper destiny as part of a whole, integrated North America.

One prayer leader shared his dream of leaders in celebration, full of victory and joy. There was nothing but victory as if they had just won the Super Bowl. All were receiving gold rings. The global prayer movement is now in prime time, establishing its new authority as God’s sons and daughters to exercise governmental authority. “I am looking to position my people from Heaven’s perspective.” We should not react to things around us, but since He is the Captain of this team, we need to huddle around Him and then execute His plans. Sure victory will result. This is the season to release victory throughout the world.

We prayed for all three nations and for the continent as a whole, especially that the current NAFTA renegotiations to benefit all three nations.  It needs to be stronger because of China! We were inspired by the presentation on how God has transformed Juarez, Mexico through a movement of united prayer and action led by Pastor Poncho Murguia.

An expert on Islam warned us to pray about the threats posed by the Islamic jihad to subvert and conquer North America, Europe and other currently non-Muslim areas of our world. (You can read his more detailed assessment of what their strategy is in another article in this Connections edition.)

Jerry Tuma, a “prophetic economist from Texas” spoke to us about how humanism has gotten a stronghold in our cultures and thinking about population growth, which is what God has always wanted. “Be fruitful and multiply” has never been rescinded. Paul Erlich’s Population Bomb, is full of assumptions and outright lies. Satan has used such thinking to steal human lives. More than 57 million US children have been aborted partly because of this erroneous scarcity mentality. Now an entitlement crisis is coming. Humanists have influenced our nations, but God is not lacking and there is no lack of resources. "The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof." There are still enormous resources, and prosperity is associated with growing populations. Jerry told us we need to return to biblical economics. We need a transnational entity connecting the three nations. True collaboration is needed so let’s continue to be in prayer for the NAFTA renegotiation. 

Some of the Common Issues Identified and Prayed About

We need to continue praying about these things in all three nations:

Identity – gender and ID in Christ

Unity in the church

Identity for the church – stewardship of the culture

Pornography

Homosexuality and redefinition of families

Churches’ apathy and lack of involvement

Lack of fear of the Lord

Lack of love to children

Adultery

Trafficking

Drug use

Family redefinition and sexual perversion

Public corruption

Homelessness

Lovelessness/lack of forgiveness

Lack of prayer in church leadership

Bloodguilt for indigenous people

Breakdown of family

Sexualization of society

Church is asleep

Church too much like the culture

Antisemitism

Focusing too much time on giant issues – not enough on Jesus

Broken covenants

Euthanasia

Growing legal persecution of churches/ministries

Homosexuality

Healing

Younger generations out of church

Lawlessness

Evangelism lacking

Lack of conflict management

Lack of fear of the Lord

Attack on Truth

Family issues

Abortion and Sanctity of life

Justice being twisted – inequities

Radical feminism

Freedom of speech eroding- political correctness affecting society e.g. Canadian law re. speaking out against Muslims, LGBT, etc.

Proliferation of drugs

Drugs/addictions rather than Christ

Church shirking duties – need to speak Truth to overcome deception

Have unity in church (John 17) – appeal to heaven to bring it

Tolerance in the church instead of Truth

Love of Father God – express Truth in love – to heal hearts

Death and violence

Greed

Idolatry

Witchcraft and occult connections and influence in government

Untimely death and culture of death

Lack of principled values

Distraction of social media – rebellion

Hidden agendas in schools – homosexuality, drugs, racism

Churches focused on inward vision rather than mission

Orphan spirit

False spirits in media and perversion of truth

Student debt

New media – standard of truth lacking

No discipleship in churches

Continental immigration vision

Freedom of speech

Religious liberty

Islamic deception

Economy 

Wicked political leaders

Unity of the prayer movement

Prayer Needs for the USA:

Jason Hubbard- “One Church, One Day” initiative is building canopies of united sustainable prayer over communities. America Prays- every state will be covered in 24/7 40,000 local churches taking one day per month. Being launched during the Awaken the Dawn prayer effort on the DC Mall on October 7. 

Jonathan Friz- “10 Days of Prayer” initiative. God wants to raise up movements of John 17 unity in our cities. City-wide churches, not separate kingdoms. 10 Days is a strategy to see it happen in our areas. Fasting, mourning and repentance. Jonathan had a vision of it going many places around the world and this year 34 cities in USA and Africa will take part. Please pray for the success of these and other new movements prayer led by younger leaders.

Jon Graf from the U.S. National Prayer Committee urged us to pray for the National Day of Prayer and its new leadership to become a movement, not just one day per year and that a national rhythm of prayer for the next Great Awakening will take shape.

2 Also that it will become a multi-generational, multi-denominational and multi-ethnic movement of prayer. Many of largest prayer ministries will merge into it or significantly partner. 

3Pray for Unity and Wisdom as massive changes in the leadership of prayer movement happen. Every revival happened at times of political and social desperation.

Prayer needs for Canada:

1Progressivism creeping in regarding criticism of Muslims and LGBT.

2 Need prayer for French-English division. 

3 First Nations see English colonization as a tragedy and do not celebrate Canada Day. Native kids were forced into residential schools. Still a deep rift needing healing. 

4 Gateways in Vancouver and St. John’s, Newfoundland. Send a mighty move of God through these cities!

5 Quebec- wants to be loved and accepted as they are. Great revival as result!

6 Unity of the church and prayer movement.  At the150^th anniversary of Canada, July 1^st- “WE ARE ONE!” 

Mexico’s Prayer Needs (please see the separate article in this Connections attached below)

Australia

Jamie Pryor, a prayer leader from Australia, told us about the unity of the prayer movement in Australia. Their leaders are praying every week together and building familial relationships. They don’t try to become one organization but follow the same values in unity. They believe such an approach will help ready us for persecution. He asked that we pray for Australia that the plebiscite on homosexual marriage will be defeated.

Some suggested next steps for the North American Prayer Summit:

1 Lack of intergenerational transference- how to accomplish this? Sobriety re. lack of discipleship of the next generation. Children and youth- we have not included the kids thus far. Can we bring them into the NAPS? Bring one youth each next time? National prayer summit aimed at youth? 

2 We need a strategy to take action. Make NAPS more diverse ethnically, generationally. Sacrifice time and resources to bring youth and other ethnic groups. 

3 Building unity- how do we come together in unity as prayer movements and prayer leaders? We have different gifts and need to draw them together. We are family and need to stay in communication to pray what is from His heart. Use teleconferencing or Zoom. Respond to issues and intercede. Focus on the positive and what He is doing. An email prayer alert would help. 

4 God wants to raise up a movement of prayer across the three nations. Come together once a year. Pray for each other’s nations. How about triplet prayer on the phone with a Canadian and Mexican once per week or month? We need each other. 

5 It is time to rise up. Work and pray for a transnational identity. Incorporate worship and prayer together. Develop an app with categories for use so we can call each other and pray. 

6 Promote a Kingdom mentality and get beyond our own groups. Use the Moravian model for intercessory unity. Prayer in cities and involve the pastors. As the Church operates in unity through love, the city can be transformed. Loving our cities. 

7 Love the Muslims and speak truth in love to them. Pray for the children of Islamic world.

We sang out the prayer song “You Said”: Ask and you will receive…I’ll heal your land…your glory will fill the earth..the harvest is here,the Kingdom is near… ask and I will give the nations to you.. distant shores and the islands will see your light as it rises on us.” (Psalm 2:8) Pray that we in North America will play our part in praying for and reaching the still unreached peoples of the earth, that transcendent call of God known as the Great Commission.

This excellent video on NAPS by Eric Teitelman covers the NAPS prayer tour we took to pray for our continent from its easternmost point  https://youtu.be/dHOY5FYgid0