CTNTP would like to bring this Call to Prayer to your attention that is being organised by Community Watchmen Ministries (CVM). cwmprayer.com
As the Church of England awaits the appointment of the next Archbishop of Canterbury, we (CVM), believe it is important for God’s people to stand in the gap in prayer and preparation.
We sense an urgency to go to each of the 42 Cathedrals in humility, to pray with repentant hearts and to release a declaration (already written especially for this assignment). This will happen preferably between 22nd – 24th September which happens to be the Feast of Trumpets.
We are encouraging people to visit Cathedrals across England to pray, calling God’s people to consecration and repentance.
1 Timothy 2:1-4 “I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people — for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This is good, and pleases God our Saviour, who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.”
We appreciate your prayers for our team as we go to Canterbury and for all involved as intercession is made in every Cathedral across our nation.
Our prayers will include: 1. Repentance for any sexual sin, known or unknown. 2. Repentance for anything that has taken God’s place. 3. A declaration to be made in each Cathedral.
We encourage you to be led by Holy Spirit and to remember we are praying FOR the Church and not judging or pulling down.
If you would like to consider becoming involved, for more details, please email Sue Sinclair at cvmprayer@me.com
The Lord spoke whilst riding my bike – by David Gilbey, Coordinator of CTNTP.
Davids bike atTeddington Lock
A week ago, I was cycling along the river Thames in south London, when I stopped at Teddington lock, the largest lock on the river.
It was there that I spotted a Memorial to the small boats and Miracle of Dunkirk, placed opposite where eighty-five years earlier, during WWII, around one hundred boats were gathered and set off on a rescue mission to France.
Memorial to The Miracle of Deliverance at Teddington
As I looked across from the Memorial, my attention was inexplicably drawn to one of several boats moored along the river bank. Not a particularly noticeable boat, but I thought, could it be that all these years later, it is one of the small boats of Dunkirk?
Looking across The Thames from the MemorialSmall boatFedalma II
Well it was! Fedalma II, was one of the very boats that was part of the Miracle.
Get ready to set sail!
It so happened that a few weeks before, I had been in conversation with several significant others, talking about revival in the UK, and how that could truly happen? The subject of national prayer and the Miracle of Dunkirk was spoken about.
So, it seemed that standing by the River Thames, God had confirmed something, that we are the ‘small boats’ he wants to use in 2025, to bring revival to the UK.
Individually, it may seem we can do little to turn the tide against Christianity in our Nation. But brought together, by the Holy Spirit, in prayer, a few little flames will become a blaze!
May I remind you of Jean Darnall’s 1967 Vision of small fires lighting around the UK, followed by a river of revival fire flowing the length of the Nation:
The small boats of Dunkirk and Prayer changed the course of our Nation.It is now your turn.
The Miracle of Dunkirk
Contemporary newspaper article
On Sunday 26 May 1940 during World War II a National day of prayer took place in the UK. It was at the time when the British army was outmanoeuvred and surrounded in France at Dunkirk and faced possible annihilation at the hands of Nazi forces.
On the day in question, the King and members of the Cabinet, together with millions in all parts of the Nation, Commonwealth and Empire gathered in Cathedrals and Churches to join in prayer.
At the same time, hundreds of small boats from around the country, were utilised to cross the Channel and help bring back our troops.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill stated at the time that maybe 20,000 to 30,000 might escape back to England. In the event, by a series of what even many secular commentators called ‘miracles’, over 300,000 were saved.
‘Therefore, tell the people: This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Return to me,” declares the Lord, “and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty.’ Zechariah 1:3
‘As the body of Christ, we are gathering across the UK and beyond; to humble ourselves, repent and pray for lives to be transformed by Jesus, as a spiritual awakening continues in the nations.‘
CTNTP are so pleased to be able to draw your attention to this significant initiative, which is a partnership of many UK Christian ministries, brought together by The Holy Spirit, for a time such as this in our nation.
‘NWoP is a moment for the UK to recognise the spiritual awakening in the nation and step into the promise God has given us – that He will dwell with us.’
Do visit the website of the National Week of Prayer for more details of how you, your church, your town or city can get involved: https://www.nationalweekofprayer.uk/
Discover the National Week of Prayer 2025 with Simon Maggs, Bear Grylls and Kam Flynn
The last major Revival in the UK, was around 75 years ago in the Outer Hebrides.
Two elderly sisters started praying and in time, after others joined them, the saving power of God literally shook those islands!
Read about it all here, in an article we have previously posted – click here
These words of Psalm 44 resonate with us!
1 We have heard it with our ears, O God; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago. 2 With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our ancestors; you crushed the peoples and made our ancestors flourish. 3 It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
23 Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever. 24 Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?
25 We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground. 26 Rise up and help us; rescue us because of your unfailing love.
Lord, through our prayers and intercession, we seek and request a fresh outpouring of Your Spirit upon the whole of our land.
Do check out the below update from the UK’s World Prayer Centre, of an event that took place in the ruins of the old Coventry Cathedral, a place known internationally as a place of Reconciliation.
We are reminded of Jean Darnall’s 1967 Vision of prayers from the UK, flowing over to Continental Europe.
‘As One’, at the old Coventry Cathedral ruins in 2018
CTNTP of course visited the Cathedral ruins in September 2018, to hold the first part of our ‘As One’ gathering, to release UK Revival Prophecy. Jean Darnall’s vision was an highly significant part of this.
Some of you will already be aware of the amazing vision for the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer in the West Midlands, in the centre of England.
Yesterday, 28th November 2022, BBC Radio 4 broadcast this inspirational podcast, which features founder of the project, Richard Gamble, who tells the story so far of the journey to build the Eternal Wall.
Click Here to listen from the BBC website. (Available until 28/11/23).
Written by the BBC:
Richard Gamble believes God has given him a mission: to build a huge national monument, made from a million bricks, each representing an answered Christian prayer.
It seems an impossible task for a sports chaplain who has no experience of construction. And yet over the past eight years, he’s managed to pull together a project team, raise thousands of pounds and launch a global design competition with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).
But before a single brick can be laid, they need to secure a site to lay it. Richard hopes lie in the Edmistons – a family multimillionaires and evangelical Christians, who own extensive land in the West Midlands.
Will his hopes be realised? Will he find a home for the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer?
Please visit The Eternal Wall website to find out more – eternalwall.org.uk
Please spread the word about this God inspired vision. Could you become involved somehow or make a financial donation?
Our last post, entitled: A church which is radically Biblical in the power of the Spirit, received some of its inspiration from the highly recommended regular newsletters of, Revd. Tony Higton’s, Network for Revival. The November issue starts a new series of thoughts and asks the question, are we the church prepared for revival?
Tony, as do we, puts an emphasis on the power of prayer and that the potency of prayer depends very much on unity. Tony quotes a key passage of Scripture, the words of Jesus himself about the importance of unity, (or being, ‘as one’), that we at CTNTP have long discerned as fundamental; namely John 17:20-23:
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one – I in them and you in me – so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me”
The national event in the centre of England that CTNTP organised in 2018, was called, ‘As One’. Click here, to read more.
We would commend Tony Higton’s newsletters to you. The November edition we have reproduced below. We are sure that Tony would be pleased to hear from you, if you wish to join his own regular mailing list – email: higton01@btinternet.com.
There is nowhere in the Bible that instructs Christians to ‘go (in)to church’. In fact, Jesus told us to go out!
Now wherever you go, make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. And teach them to faithfully follow all that I have commanded you… Matthew 28 19-20 (TPT)
If we are followers, disciples of Jesus Christ, both personally and corporately, we ARE The Church. Greek; the Ekklesia – literally, called out ones!
Now you are Christ’s body, and individually members of it. 1 Corinthians 12:27
The blueprint for how The Church, Believers in Christ should interact together and with the world, was laid down in the book of Acts. It is all very alive, active and mobile. Everyone played a part, all participated, all ‘went’. There were no purpose built buildings, no walls to restrict the flow of the Good News. The rapid spread of the gospel of Jesus Christ could not be contained.
On the Cross as Jesus died, the curtain of the Holy of Holy’s within the Temple in Jerusalem, the inner sanctuary of God’s presence on earth, was ripped in two. Ever since, without the need for (professional) priests and rituals, individuals can freely return right into to the Presence, into a personal relationship destroyed by original sin in the Garden of Eden, with their loving Heavenly Father.
The early church, the body of Believers as described in the book of Acts, bathed in the power of The Holy Spirit, totally embracing the teachings, freedom and new relationship that Christ bought. Thus like wildfire, the wonderful news of His almost too good to be true, reconciling gift to mankind, spread throughout the known world.
But over the centuries that have followed, so many Believers have attempted to sew the curtain back up! To make church neat and tidy and to keep God at a respectable distance again. Church at 11.15 each Sunday, maybe a Bible Study on a Thursday evening. That’s my Christian duty done!
Theological and religious constructs have constantly tried to restrict, to corral and control the freedom that the Good News of Jesus Christ brings to individuals. Churches formed with a genuine intent and sound doctrine, often skew into ‘extra biblical’ teaching and practice. Over time and generations these ‘extras’ quickly become part of a perpetuated, unquestioned and supressing tradition.
The religious leaders, the Pharisees we read about in the New Testament, were guilty of tying the Jews up in knots with dozens of extra rules and regulations of their own invention. Jesus was totally scathing of them!
In Mark, Chapter 7, Jesus makes these two important observations about the religious leaders:
8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.’
13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.’
And so it can so easily be within today’s churches and denominations.
This is not of course a totally black and white picture. A Church fellowship will seldom have it all wrong, although it is most unlikely any have it all right either! But many true Believers end up hamstrung, their effectiveness to go into all the world and make disciples reduced and restricted by their church or denominational rules, traditions and practices.
Time for the Called Out to Step Out
It is surely time. Time for the, ‘Called Out Ones’, to actually step out, indeed back into the role and destiny for which Christ chose and commissioned them. To go out and make fellow Disciples, wherever they are to be found, home, street, City and to the ends of the earth! People who are themselves and mentors of others, who are radically Biblical and filled with power of The Holy Spirit. A people who do not have a religious bone in their body!
The enemy wants The Church of Jesus Christ to be ineffective. Satan loves it when we are all constrained in our safe little buildings, away from our God given purpose, to reach the lost and dying of our world.
It is surely time for you, and I, to get our scissors out and cut through any ‘curtain threads’ that we or others have sewn and which have restricted our Faith. Seek out, ask God to show you fellow Believers who also want to ‘go’, with whom you can fellowship, be sharpened from the Bible and the guidance of The Holy Spirit. Then ‘GO’!
Paul’s words from Ephesians 6 comes to mind:
The Full Armour of God
10Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. 11Put on the full armour of God, so that you can make your stand against the devil’s schemes. 12For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this world’s darkness, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
13Therefore take up the full armour of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand. 14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed, 15and with your feet fitted with the readiness of the gospel of peace. 16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 17And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
18Pray in the Spirit at all times, with every kind of prayer and petition. To this end, stay alert with all perseverance in your prayers for all the saints. 19Pray also for me, that whenever I open my mouth, words may be given me so that I will boldly make known the mystery of the gospel, 20for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it fearlessly, as I should.
John Kilpatrick was blessed to experience the glory of God as Holy Spirit entrusted him with the pastoral oversight of the historic Brownsville Revival in Pensacola, Florida and the Bay Revival in Mobile, Alabama. He currently serves as the founder and executive pastor of Church of His Presence in Daphne, Alabama, USA.
In the last few days, a YouTube video has been released by John, of a ‘prophetic dream’ that John says he experienced on 18th October 2022. John says that he found himself on the streets of London and speaks of a soon to come ‘Wind of the Spirit’ that will sweep that City and other cities and towns across the globe. This will involving mass healings, miracles, and release from demonic oppression.
It is interesting to note that, on the same day that we were made aware of John’s dream, an unconnected source posted this meme on a UK prophetic group, referring to The London Underground:
Do take time to view, or read the transcript of John Kilpatrick’s telling of this dream, and be sure to weigh it before The Lord.
Call the Nation to Prayer 