INTERCESSORS FOR NIGERIA
PRAYER GUIDE FOR THE
7 DAYS OF PROPHETIC NIGHT WATCHES
1ST MAY – 7TH MAY 2014 (12MIDNIGHT – 3AM)
DAY 1
LAMENTATION. CONFESSION AND ATONEMENT
– Take 3 or 4 songs and hymns according the Spirits’ leading.
– PROCLAIM JOSHUA 7:1-13
Pray and raise bitter lamentation over the lives of all Nigerians who were killed and injured in the 14th April Bomb Blast in Nyanya, Abuja; 71 persons died and
124 wounded. Like Joshua and the Elders of Israel in this scripture above (Verse
6),
– Let us humble ourselves again and identify with the perplexity, pain, anguish, sorrow, devastation that families have been thrown into because of that attack. Please be elaborate in this prayer point.
– PSALM 79:1-END – Proclaim this two times.
Raise the prayer of lamentation to another level using the language of the above Psalm. Pray it verse-by-verse.
– PROCLAIM ISAIAH 63:15-19
Repeat the proclamation two times
Enlarge every verse into a prayer of Lamentation for NIGERIA.
– Acknowledge that we have not prayed, fasted and waited enough before God in order to change the present security equation in the land. Ask GOD for forgiveness and mercy on the church.
– JOSHUA 7:10-12
Renounce and put away every accursed things in your personal life. Be practical and detailed. These accursed things make us victims instead of victors.
– These include among others: Promotion of self, showmanship, strife, deceit, competition with one another, hypocrisy, infidelity, rebellion, prayerlessness, worldliness, dishonesty and falsehood etc. Add to the list
– Let us through repentance, identify with the wickedness of abducting those female students of Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State. As at the time of this write-up only 39 of the 134 abducted girls have returned.
– Raise a cry of lamentation for GOD’S urgent and miraculous intervention in this matter that has become an international concern. Mothers should join hands in a circle and wail before GOD on behalf of these innocent helpless girls.
As the church, we lack the required sense of priority, urgency and unity to Spirituality manage this present security challenge.
Let’s acknowledge this in confession and deep repentance and pray for a season of enduring Spiritual re-awakening upon the church.
– ISAIAH 56:9-12
The watchman ministry of the church has greatly dwindled making it possible for the beasts of the forest to kill at will.
Raise a tearful repentance for our irresponsibility and negligence in this regard.
– PSALM 18:37
Confess and repent of the shocking inability of the church to act and speak consistently as one body in the place of Prayer to absolutely conquer this enemy called TERRORISM.
– JER. 26:15, DEUT. 21:6-9
Bloodshed brings very grave consequences upon the perpetrators, the land and the inhabitants.
Let us therefore plead with GOD to provide atonement for the entire nation so that innocent blood is not laid to our charge as a nation.
– PROCLAIM PSALM 51:1-END
Use it to seal the prayer of atonement over the entire land of NIGERIA.
– PROCLAIM ISAIAH 28:5-7 (3 TIMES)
Because of the Spiritual responsibility we have as watchmen, let us invite GOD as the Lord of Host to come and be for us the following:
- A crown of Glory
- A diadem of Beauty
- A Spirit of Justice
- Strength to turn the battle at the gate – (Spiritual strength, Emotional strength, Intellectual strength, Financial strength etc). Pls elaborate on this prayer point.
– Pray and renew your calling to be an Intercessor For Nigeria. Don’t only be a member of a Prayer-Band or an Intercessory Group. Ask GOD for the grace and discipline to maintain a vibrant altar of Intercession for the nation anywhere you are.
– Bring personal petitions and supplications to GOD in prayer.
– Break bread and seal your prayers with thanksgiving.
DAY 2
PRAYER FOR NIGERIA I
Commence Today’s prayer by singing this prophetic song many times.
NIGERIA will flourish again
NIGERIA will flourish again
NIGERIA will flourish again
NIGERIA will flourish again
GOD will heal the Land
Restore us again
NIGERIA will flourish again (2x)
– PROCLAIM ISAIAH 40:1-31
Use the verses of these scripture to extol and eulogize the GOD of Heaven. Declare that there is no one like Him and highlight the greatness of His power as revealed in this chapter.
– Take time now to review the recent Reported dream of the National Coordinator for INTERCESSORS FOR NIGERIA Which is attached here as APPENDIX 1.
– Arising from that revelation, make the following Prayers:-
Let us formally pray to receive this revelation as God\’s Word of Comfort and reassurance for NIGERIA.
– Pray and proclaim that GOD is able to fulfill His purpose for NIGERIA as He has revealed. Declare that truly as GOD has revealed – “NIGERIA SHALL NOT CRASH IN JESUS NAME” (Repeat 7 times).
– Let us re-inforce this revelation by praying PSALM 23:1-6, verse-by-verse over the nation, and her institutions.
– Some experts have cited nations like – Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq etc to prove that insurgency wherever it starts does not end. Let us reject this assertion and declare that “NIGERIA’S CASE SHALL BE DIFFERENT”. (Repeat it 7 times).
(We refuse to be like Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq etc).
– Pray and declare that despite our strange insecurity situation: the burning in the North and shaking in the South, that GOD will finally, in keeping with His prophetic promise, bring NIGERIA into a Sabbath of REST.
– Pray that in the midst of the present turmoil, GOD will reveal His “Davids” that He has been training over the years. They will manifest such grace and anointing that will silence these “Goliaths” of our time.
– Pray for President Goodluck Jonathan: that He will be an instrument in GOD’S hand to break the yoke of this insurgency in this season. Pray for Boldness and decisiveness.
– READ ISAIAH 63:4
Pray that this passing season of shaking, violence and destruction will be very short while GOD’S time of Redemption for NIGERIA will be for a longer season.
(Notice the use of day and year in this scripture).
– ISAIAH 14:24:27
Proclaim this scripture 5 times – Pray that only the thoughts and plans of GOD concerning NIGERIA and NIGERIANS shall stand.
– READ ISAIAH 37:31
Pray and declare that despite the present shaking and turmoil, NIGERIA shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
Adapt ISAIAH 37:35 to read as follows:
“For I will defend NIGERIA, to save her, for my own sake and for the sake of my Church”. Proclaim this seven times and turn it into prayers.
– PROCLAIM ISAIAH 33:22 – (Repeat it 7 times).
Invite GOD as our judge, lawgiver and king. Request Him to come and save NIGERIA from any further tragedies and destructions.
– READ PSALM 37:1-3, Isaiah 26:3
Kindly request GOD to break the cloud of despair, fretting, fear, despondency and hopelessness hanging over the nation. Pray that the people feed continually on GOD’S faithfulness.
DAY 3
PRAYER FOR NIGERIA II
Begin today’s prayers by repeating yesterday’s song – “NIGERIA will flourish again”.
– Proclaim with lifted up voices – ISAIAH 36 AND 37
Celebrate God in Prayer as the one who has the final say in Nigeria.
Review the content of Abubakar Shekau’s new video message and compare it with the above proclaimed scriptures. APPENDIX 2
– READ ISAIAH 37:14
Do a prophetic action by spreading this attached document before the LORD as Hezekaiah did. Ask God to read it and send Abubakar Shekau a REPLY.
– Pray and remind GOD the following and elaborate on them:
- That He is the LORD of Host
- The GOD of NIGERIA
- He dwells between the Cherubim
- Of all the kingdoms of the earth, He alone is GOD
– READ ISAIAH 37:1-3
Do a prophetic action by sitting on the bare floor and remind GOD that as a Nation, NIGERIA has come into a season of Trouble, Rebuke and Blasphemy. Plead for His timely intervention.
– ISAIAH 37:4-6
Remind GOD that this document is an effrontery against Him because NIGERIA is called by His name. Let His anger therefore burn against His enemies.
– ISAIAH 37:7
Ask GOD to send a Spirit upon these terrorists waging war against NIGERIA so they will hear a rumor and scatter, never to rise up again to trouble the nation and the saints. Pray this point strongly.
– READ ISAIAH 37:36-38
Ask GOD to mar the pride of all the champions of terrorism in NIGERIA and judge them in the land of their nativity.
– Ask GOD to send the Avenger of Blood to take them unawares and carry out an unforgettable massacre in their camp.
– READ ISAIAH 37:28-29
Pray that GOD will fulfil these scriptures in the midst of the camp of the terrorists in NIGERIA.
– READ ISAIAH 41:10-14
Ask GOD to visit NIGERIA and accomplish all these in her midst.
DAY 4
PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH
Open by singing a few songs and praying some preliminary prayers.
– ISAIAH 37:21-22
Now that the rate and volume of terrorist attacks are on the increase pray that the church, both leadership and followership will discern these times and take pro-active action in prayers to the point that GOD will be provoked to act to end this present madness.
Pray this prayer –
“Oh LORD pour out the Spirit of wisdom, courage, counsel and might on the church, so that we stand true to our name as the church of NIGERIA, and not just the churches of East, West, North or South NIGERIA”.
– Loudly proclaim MATT. 16:18-19 – (Repeat it 3 times).
Notice that the church alone has what it takes to win this battle for the soul of the nation.
– Pray that the church will synthesize a holistic, co-ordinated strategy to turn the battle to the gates of the enemy.
– Pray that GOD will use this present Boko Haram challenge to cause the church to do the following:-
- To be woken from slumber.
- To forge a common front in unity as a body to confront the adversity.
- To pray everywhere and every-time for our nation.
- Raise altars everywhere and do prayer-walks to possess the land.
- To assemble prophetic intercessors from across the nation to pray and seek GOD’S counsel on warfare strategies.
- To locate and confront satanic altars, thrones, gates, satanic priests and gate keepers.
- To teach every believer how to sacrifice and imbibe the “If I perish, I perish” attitude.
– READ HOSEA 12:13
Pray that GOD will raise and prosper His true and faithful prophets in NIGERIA in this time of our travail.
– Pray that GOD will disgrace and frustrate all false prophets who lead our nation and political leaders astray, especially those that go under the cover of Religion.
– Pray that prophets with servant hearts like David, Daniel and Joseph will manifest in NIGERIA today from our politics, educational institutes and public administrative places.
– EXO. 2:23-24
Let us remember to pray for Israel and the Jews. They have been at war almost every day. There has been a new wave of rocket attacks striking Southern Israel. Ask GOD to remember His covenant with Abraham and rise to shield Israel and to fight for them.
– Proclaim and declare MICAH 4:1-4 over the church and the nation. Be detailed.
– LORD raise in the church and in the land, leaders in the mould of Moses and Modecaiah:
To who You have revealed the substance and essence of the shaking in the land of NIGERIA. EXO. 32:7-10
Who will raise disciples and children who will be like them. People who will read books, do research, read newspapers, magazines, newsletters, government publications, watch and listen to news both local and foreign televisions and radio stations, attend church and non-church conferences. JUDGES 6:13
Who have powerful voices in the corridors of power to make demands which political gladiators will be forced to listen to – ESTHER 4:7-15 (Please elaborate on these prayer points).
DAY 5
PRAYER FOR NATIONAL CONFERENCE
Sing this song 3 or 4 times to come into GOD’S presence.
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done
Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
Thy will be done
Thy will be done
Thy will be done
– READ PSALM 127:1
Give GOD quality praise and thanks for the progress so far achieved in the ongoing conference.
Only GOD would have sustained the conference until now.
– The conference has presently broken into 20 Committees, meeting in 2 separate venues – The National Judicial Institute and the NICON Luxury Hotel in Abuja. Most of the committees have also set up sub-committees and they are deliberating on issues ranging from Economy, Religion, Politics and Governance, Devolution of Powers, Restructuring and National Security.
– Pray that the angels of GOD will encamp around the two venues of the conference so that the devil will not take over.
– Ask GOD to take hold of the chosen Chairmen and Co-chairmen of all the Committees; let them walk in GOD’S wisdom and in the interest of the nation.
– Pray that no blunder of the past will escape being corrected. No evil foundation and precedents will be retained.
– Declare mutual tolerance, patience, acceptance, understanding, patriotism and love for all the delegates. PSALM 133:1-END
– Pray that the overall Chairman, Justice Idris Kutigi will not use his position to pursue any hidden Islamic agenda. CAN is presently protesting the composition
of the Religious Committee, which has 12 Muslims and only 6 effective Christians.
– READ ISAIAH 7:7
Kindly beseech GOD that every plan of the devil to scuttle this conference shall not come to pass.
– 1 JOHN 3:8
Decree that every satanic altar raised against the conference shall fail in Jesus name.
– ISAIAH 28:15-18
Pray that every satanic sacrifice, transaction, covenant, tokens raised against this conference shall not stand in Jesus name.
– JOB 5:12-14
Pray that those who seek to use intimidation to misdirect, distract and confuse the course of the conference shall be frustrated and disgraced.
ISAIAH 8:9-10
Declare and decree that every attempt to blackmail the President and other ethnic nationalities into suspending the National Conference will not succeed or see the light of the day.
ISAIAH 54:14-17
Pray for the Christian delegation. Let every attack projected against them by forces of darkness be nullified by the blood of Jesus.
ISAIAH 60:1-3
Decree the success of the National Conference and positive restructuring of NIGERIA. Prophesy that NIGERIA, through this conference shall be restructured and the present status quo shall be destroyed.
LUKE 11:2
Pray that the kingdom and will of GOD will be done in this nation through the National Conference.
DAY 6
PRAYER FOR FAMILY
The family is the oldest, smallest and most important unit of society. Anyone who seeks to change society must begin at the family. Let us therefore, spend today praying for families.
– First give GOD praises and thanks for His wisdom in establishing the family institution.
GEN.1:28 – Give thanks to the Lord for His five-fold blessing on the family to: be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, subdue the earth, have dominion over everything.
– Offer repentance for breakdown in family values, wrong relationships, absentee parents, setting of wrong examples by parents, wrong exposure of children to vanity and independence.
– Offer repentance for rebellion, pride, lust, laziness, greed, vanity, etc among the youth.
– Take authority over the spirit of rejection that works against the family and make children feel unloved by their parents just because they scolded them.
– Take authority over the spirit of witchcraft and sorcery, working to scatter families.
– Release the blood of Jesus against covens where satanic plots are manufactured against families.
– REV. 2:20 – Take authority over the spirit of Jezebel that works against the order of God in families.
– PROCLAIM EPH. 3:14-20 on the families
– MAL. 4:6 – Pray for salvation of families and genuine reconciliation.
– MAL. 2:15 – Proclaim God’s purpose in setting up families (to raise godly offspring unto Himself) and declare that everything that contradicts this purpose will not take root including, homosexuality, same-sex relationships, single parenthood, immorality, godlessness, disorderliness.
– 3 JOHN: 2, DEUT. 28:1-14 proclaim God’s blessings on families: Exaltation, Good health, Reproductiveness, Prosperity, Victory, God’s favour and God’s friendship.
– PSALM 10:15 – Proclaim God’s judgments against institutions that work against the family including; promoters of pornography, brothels, cigarette and alcohol manufacturers. Ask God to search out their wicked devices and punish them severely.
– Proclaim a judgment of desolation against altars of wickedness in your environment. Mention beer palours, Prostitution joints, clubs and such centres around you and command them to become desolate.
– Pray that our government will have the wisdom and boldness to resist pressures from external countries to make laws that are anti-family and offensive to God.
– JOHN. 17:20-23 Pray for unity in families and for this unity to extend to the Church.
– EPH. 1:18-23 Pray that the families will have a proper understanding of their role in nation building, especially in the area of enthroning God in their neighborhoods, and spreading the gospel of Jesus across the land.
– Pray that families will be empowered to resist the wiles of the enemy and the lure into poverty-related sins.
– Ask the Lord to make Christian families into Altars of Prayer and Intercession for the land.
– Bring a strong lamentation on behalf of families asking the Lord to empower them to attack their attackers.
– Ask Jehovah Jireh to provide for needy families and break the spirit of poverty in them.
DAY 7
PERSONAL PRAYERS
Take 2 or 3 hymns as led by the Spirit of GOD. If you can lay hands on Sacred Songs and Solos then make SSS 38 one of them.
– Proclaim PSALM 34:1-22
Use it to thank GOD and bless Him for His numerous acts of faithfulness.
– Thank God for bringing you into the month of MAY. Reflect over all the things that happened in Nigeria in the last month and thank God for protection, provision and preservation.
– READ ISAIAH 58:11
Pray for yourself for Spiritual revival and restoration according to the provision of the above scripture.
– PSALM 32:8
Ask God to instruct you, teach you in the way to go in the new month.
– JOHN 12:24
Pray and request for the grace to daily die to self in this month of MAY and beyond.
– Pray that the Lord will increase your zeal in the service of GOD throughout this month and beyond.
– Ask the LORD to do a new thing in your bible study and prayer life. Pray for the grace to bring it to the level of an unbroken daily covenant.
– READ GEN. 41:47-52 – Beseech GOD to move you from one level of harvest to another.
– Pray for angelic visitation and intervention in every area of your personal life and endeavour. JUDGES 13:2-5
– Pray that the voice of God will henceforth become louder and clearer in your life. 1 SAM. 3:3-10
– Declare that you are marching into the month of MAY gallantly and triumphantly.
– Take authority and speak into the womb of the month of MAY. Abort all forms of danger, tears, sorrow, calamities, disasters and untimely death. JOB 22:26-29
– READ PSALM 122:6-7 – Speak to the sun, moon and stars and forbid them from cooperating with the agents of Satan to smite you and your family and business/ministry.
– Pray against any sorcery and enchantment by the camp of darkness to frustrate your business and endeavour in the month of MAY. Nullify their sacrifices and retrieve this new month from their hands. NUM. 23:23
– ESTHER 3:7,12 – Cancel every decree that have been made on any altar or projected from any coven against you and your family.
– Pray and redeem every moment, second, minute, hour, day and week in MAY by the blood of Jesus and program the will, blessings, peace, favour and breakthrough of God into them.
– READ ISAIAH 56:6
Use this scripture to break every yoke, oppression and bondage you have noticed over your life.
– READ HEB. 4:1-END
Beseech GOD especially in this season of perplexities in NIGERIA to bring you into His rest on every side – financial, health-wise, martial, academic, in relationships etc. Conclude with breaking of bread.