Organised by the World Prayer Centre, Call the Nation to Prayer encourages you to go to what we believe will be an amazing day.

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER -Saturday 9th June 2018
THE INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION CENTRE, BROAD ST, BIRMINGHAM, B1 2EA

http://www.worldprayer.org.uk/events-calendar/prayer-gatherings/trumpet-call-2018

Do you want to see God move in your community and in our nation?

A move of God is always preceded by prayer, unity and praise. We need to see change in our nations.

It is time to turn to Jesus. It is time for His Kingdom to Come, and His will to be done.

Join thousands of Christians as we pray, worship and make strong declarations for God’s Kingdom to come in our families, churches and communities. It is time to pray for an unprecedented turning to God in our nation.

This is the eleventh Trumpet Call we’ve held in Birmingham and YOU ARE INVITED!

The Trumpet Call will be a day where we will spend time in worship (led by local worship leaders) and prayer (led by the Prayer Connections England Network) as we stand together and declare that ‘It’s Time to Turn’ for our nation.

Main speakers, R T Kendall and Malcolm Duncan.

A primary desire of Call the Nation to Prayer is to see the Christians of the UK truly united, truly loving each other, being ‘As One’ with each other as Jesus is with His Heavenly Father. (John 17:11).

So often, those of different denominations and traditions, tolerate, bump along, have a measure of cooperation and relationship, but then squabble about procedural or doctrinal matters! This might be somewhat a generalisation, but where it is happening  -and it even happens within the same denominations and streams – it’s got to stop if we are to see revival in out Nation! TIME IS SHORT!

‘…Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”‘ John 13:35

We feel to bring you this ‘word’, published on 24th April 2018,  from Steve and Derene Shultz, of Elijah List Ministries. As with all prophetic words, do weight it against scripture and with what the Holy Spirit says to you.

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God is Saying: Tear This Down – for the Next THREE MONTHS!

I’m just amazed at this…

Have you ever noticed that sometimes the shortest dreams, the ones that last only a few seconds, can be the most potent dreams of all?

Let me show you what goes right to the heart, and then I’ll add a second revelation from Chuck Pierce that will bring it on home.

So, a few years ago, this 15 second dream rocked my world: I was at an outdoor church picnic—not any particular church, just “a” church.

Friend and families were all playing together in such things as volleyball, egg tosses and other fun games.

What a picture of harmony among God’s people…

At least at a glance it appeared so.

Then I noticed that not just a volleyball net separated two sides, but also a fence—a brown picket fence—separated the people into two groups. You couldn’t walk around it. As I looked and looked some more, that fence went on as far as any eye could see. It went on until it disappeared from sight.

Then a voice came that only I could hear. The people didn’t seem to hear it, but I heard it.

“When you tear this fence down, when it’s all torn down, a revival will break out on earth such as the world has never seen!”

As I watched, the people began as a unified group, working together from both sides of the fence to force the fence to the ground. They even agreed on which way the fence would fall.

The dream ended.

When I awoke, it only took me seconds to grasp the meaning. God was saying, “When the Body of Christ tears down THE OFFENSES that are separating them from one another, THEN I can bring a revival upon the land—the likes of which the world has never seen!”

I ponder that dream a lot, and it came back to me a few days ago when Chuck Pierce spoke these words which have been transcribed for you here:

Prophecy, Danger and Warning – Not to Be Offended!
Spoken by Chuck Pierce on April 8, 2018:

You’ve got to shift your desires if you’re going to come and accomplish what Father wants right now. What He told Peter is: You are being bent. And see, 2018 is about “standing up straight”. And the word OFFENSE means: You’re being “bent over and stumbling at a key moment when you should be standing straight and standing strong.” 

So there is a danger now and a warning this week: not to be offended—and not to be offended over the next 3—I would have to say 3 months. Be careful that your offense is not aligned with some emotion that you’ve not dealt with. 

I have the fear of the Lord regarding taking offense over the next 3 months. I plan to take this word seriously and profit by doing so. I hope you’ll do this with me.

Let’s listen to the prophets and prosper.

Steve and Derene Shultz, Founders
Elijah List Ministries

http://www.elijahlist.com
email: info@elijahlist.net

 

Why does CTNTP have a vision for a gathering in the centre of England on 29th September 2018, to prophetically release revival? Here is more of our journey, with a recent and exciting update!

Peter Hill’s vision for a prophetic act

November 2017, Peter Hill arrived in the UK from Canada on his third visit to explore what The Lord had for CTNTP. Peter met with David Gilbey and just a few hours after touch-down, over dinner, Peter spoke of his vision for the joining of two shepherd’s crooks.

You can read the details of the Shepherds Crooks vision by clicking here

One of facets of this vision, was that it was to happen in the centre of the Nation. 

Peter mentioned that he believed Coventry to be about the centre of England, which made David’s ears ‘prick-up’! Just a couple of weeks before David had been on a train from London to Birmingham and had been prompted to take just one photograph… through his carriage window, that of a Coventry station sign!

David and Peter were planning to travel around England the following week to visit some far-flung contacts, but at the point Peter arrived, they had nowhere planned for the Tuesday and Wednesday. Later that evening, David felt God was telling them to go to Coventry. David felt that if necessary he and Peter would simply walk the streets and see what The Lord might say to them!

In his ‘former life’, David was a police constable, and looking for ‘evidence’ and ‘clues’ as to what The Lord might want to do, was a natural part of his thinking.

Meriden – historic centre of England

There is more that could be told, but David then discovered that, just to the west of Coventry, there is a village called Meriden and on its village green stands a five-hundred-year-old Market Cross. This location is widely regarded as the traditional centre of England and a plaque at the base of the market cross attests to this fact.

So, on Tuesday 7th November 2017, Peter and David went to Meriden, stood at the market cross to see what ‘clues’ The Lord reveal to them.

As he approached the column, David spotted a large brightly hand-painted stone laying in plain sight on the grass in front, seemingly waiting for him to find! It depicted blue sky, the sun shining, birds flying and flowers in bloom. (It was discovered in the local cafe, that this was a project by local children who would leave there stones, usually hidden, around the district for people to find). What was remarkable is that the stone was perfectly rounded, like an egg – David felt it symbolised new-life – something about to hatch, to breakforth!

Not only because of finding the ‘egg’, but David and Peter came away from Meriden that morning, strongly believing that God had led us to the place He had chosen for the prophetic act. They went on to Coventry itself, where they met certain people (and that’s another story!) and that belief increased.

Subsequently, a CTNTP Steering Team was formed – with representation in Coventry – and a process of engaging with certain local Christian leaders has been taking place – we knew we could not just turn-up in a City where we were not known and proclaim that we were going to hold a slightly unusual prophetic gathering, without explanation and first building relationships!

March 2018 – John and Pam Yates

Leading up to Easter, March 2018, relationships were such that we felt we could now release more details of our proposals to HOPE Coventry, the ecumenical group, connecting many of the City’s churches. 

A couple of days later, we unexpectedly received an email from a couple who had been told of our website, John and Pam Yates, who live on the Isle of Wight. 

We were amazed to hear that in 1979, John Yates received a vision from God about the centre of England.

This is an extract from Jon & Pam’s website, clarioncallministries.co.uk (click on the link to read more).

‘In the autumn of 1979 John had been alone praying, when the presence of God became very powerful in his room. God began to show John the importance of establishing His Kingdom presence in the heart of England, which would then ripple outwards nationally and internationally. This vision was so powerfully implanted within John that he pursued it wholeheartedly from that time on, whatever the cost.’

In 1990, John realised that the work he had been pursuing, called Heart of England Outreach, was to be centred in no less than Meriden.

When in 2010, John and Pam subsequently moved to the Isle of Wight, an amazing work, which included the establishing of a church in Meriden, a centre for prayer and ministry, prayer walking in the area, gatherings at the market cross and much more, was handed over to others. But in the last few years, it has ceased.

John Yates has published a fascinating book of his story, The Journey – click here to read it.

Picking up the ‘baton’

Having spoken with John and Pam Yates. we believe CTNTP may well have again picked up the ‘baton’, that of the vision The Lord originally gave to John in 1979 and which John and Pam established; to see ‘His Kingdom presence in the heart of England’.

Dare we also believe that the gathering and prophetic act we propose on 29th September, the joining of two shepherds crooks representing, the Spirit and the Word, will initiate that Kingdom presence. ‘which would then ripple outwards nationally and internationally.’?

Certainly that is what Peter Hill and David Gilbey felt when they first stood in Meriden last November and The Lord seems to have provided another very strong clue!

The actual ‘cross’ from the top of the column of the Market Cross in Meriden has long since disappeared. Instead a rod protrudes, rather like a lightning conductor? John Yate’s description of a ‘ripple’ going out from the centre of the UK,  reminds us of Jean Darnell’s prophetic vision – a description of lightning striking the UK, releasing ‘rivers of fire’ to flow across nation! Revival!

Please pray!

We are now starting to pursue the practicalities and details of how the gathering on Saturday 29th September will actually happen. Much is still unknown and we know time is relatively short. But we continue to sense God’s hand in the timing of it all.

Please pray that as we take further steps of faith and engage with others in the Coventry area, that we will see all the evidence of The Lord’s preparation fall into place.

We are gradually hearing of others who have been called by The Lord to walk the land of the United Kingdom in quite extraordinary ways. Recently we’ve been in communication with Via Beata – ‘A way of blessing’.

On their website, www.viabeata.co.uk, Via Beata describe themselves as, ‘A pilgrimage with a difference… with a dream to span Great Britain from Lowestoft to St Davids.’ – the most eastern point of England to the most Westerly point in Wales

Via Beata is headed up by Steve Eggleton and at the turn of the Millenium, he and others were led by God to establish, in their words, ‘a major trail of Christian art-works that will communicate His love for people, and for the UK’.

Steve was amazed to find that as they set the line from Lowestoft to St. David’s, it went straight through his own property in Banham, Norfolk and the first way-station was set up there in 2009. There is an aim to establish a way-station about every ten miles on the trail. There are already nineteen.

As you may be aware, part of the vision of CTNTP, is to be a catalyst to the releasing of ‘a sound of heaven’ being lifted over our nation. Via Beata has illustrated that this is not simply by way of music or singing… Expression through art, the sound of people praying, speaking blessing, the sound of their feet walking as they travel across the nation, is surely all part of this.

Do check out their website. you will find a map of the route and directions to way-stations and much more information.

 

Part of the mission of CTNTP, as The Lord directs, is to connect with others up and down the nation with a similar heart for seeing His Kingdom Come upon the UK. I have personally travelled many hundreds of miles in the last year or so. Many relationships have been formed.

Earlier this week, CTNTP Team member, Stuart Sadler and I, visited a lady who we had been introduced to by another contact. She was a little nearer than usual – only a few miles away from where we live in Chelmsford. I won’t give her details at the moment, as we are presently waiting on God to see what further he might have between us, but feel to relate this:

As we chatted, it became clear that this dear lady’s mission and longing in life, was to spread far and wide, the good news of The Father’s love; that we are his precious and loved sons and daughters, that he is our Dad.

As we spoke about this, she gave us some copies of The Father’s Love Letter. 

If you do not know what this is, visit their website, www.fathersloveletter.com, the home page of which says, ‘God Loves YOU. And He is the Father you have been looking for all your life’. You can download copies in various forms free of charge for distribution.

Often, when The Holy Spirit shows-up during a conversation I am involved in, I feel tears coming to the corners my eyes. It’s a sort of indication to me that he is trying to say something? As we continued, tears started to well-up much more than usual – The Lord was certainly speaking!

I then strongly felt to tell her something most profound, something that The Lord had brought to my attention many months ago and which I often repeated to people in the context of what I believe 24-7 prayer really is: that it’s a relationship – a walk in the cool of the day with our Heavenly Father, (see Genesis 3:8), which even as we read this verse, had been destroyed by sin. But, the Good News is that Jesus, by His death and resurrection, has restored our ability to intimately walk again with our Father.

As I related this, our host gasped! This was one of  the very things at the core of her own belief and understanding of our Heavenly Father’s desire to restore relationship with His beloved sons and daughters – each one of us who has, does and will walk this earth.

More than that, this lady has written some books on the subject of The Father’s love. She gave me one. The Forward was written by Barry Adams, who wrote The Father’s Love Letter. It began, to my delight, in exactly the same way:

‘From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible tells the story of God’s love for mankind. I would even say that the whole Bible is His love letter to all who will open their hearts to read it. The story begins with a man called Adam and a woman called Eve. Their only responsibilities were to tend the garden and learn to walk with God is the cool of the day. 

Though there have been many twists and turns throughout humanity’s history, I believe that the original calling found in Genesis as valid today as it was back then… to simply learn to walk with God. Whilst this would be impossible with our own human effort, our elder brother, Jesus Christ, has secured the way for us so we could find our way home. (John 14:6)…’

There are so many in our nation who need to discover God as Father, who are lost and need to discover the (only) way home. It is my longing to see this fulfilled and I am absolutely sure this wonderful lady and CTNTP too, are very much part of God’s plan for it to happen.

David Gilbey

www.fathersloveletter.com

My other ‘hat’ is leading Chelmsford 24-7 Prayer and last Saturday, I was on a Prayer Walk with a friend in our City Centre. We have two rivers running through and at one, I felt to pause and gaze into the water. It was murky grey with no discernable flow. It needed some LIFE!

I was just about to say to my friend that a canoe from our local club down river would stir things up and right on cue, one appeared from around a bend. It was remarkable to see that even a couple of minutes after it had disappeared from view, the waters remained choppy, full of life and movement, little half-moon shaped ripples dancing and bouncing off of the concrete lined bank.

I felt The Lord say to the effect, ‘See, simply by your presence you can instantly and dramatically change a situation and have a lasting effect!’

Then, a second canoe appeared – this time a two-seater – again the waters became turgid, with even greater movement. Eventually two more, with four guys rowing for all they were worth. A maelstrom!

Just one Christian, who is persistent in prayer and led by The Holy Spirit to intentional action, can dramatically bring ‘life’ anywhere there is hopelessness and stagnation.

And, if we join in real unity with others of like heart and mind, ‘as one’ with our Heavenly Father, then things will get really interesting! Together we can surely stir and change a community, a whole town or a city… or maybe even our entire Nation?

David Gilbey

 

 

 

Our attention was drawn to this short prophetic and declarational video, published on 30th March 2018 by Glasgow Prophetic Centre.

Does it speak to you? Do ‘weigh’ what is being said.

The Lord is continuing it seems, to want to draw Christians around our Nation together in genuine relationship and unity -to be ‘as one’, so we can stand strong for what is ahead.

“My [Jesus] 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. John 17:20-21

Here’s how the the video is described:

Welcome to our new weekly series called, ‘Shortbread’ – tasty, bite-size prophetic thoughts.

Have you felt isolated and like you’re constantly battling alone? If so, you’re not the only one. In this “Shortbread,” Emma brings a word about an ability to unite and a greater weight of tribe and family coming to you. Be blessed and encouraged as you watch!

https://glasgowpropheticcentre.ciscotland.org.uk 

The vision and mission of CTNTP is developing organically and is very much based on relationship. Just as we have a close relationship with our Heavenly Father, we simply allow God to direct us to those with whom we feel He wants us to connect. Friendships, sometimes partnerships are then formed and out of these the way forward is slowly but surely opening up.

We hope to have more to say about more of these developing relationships over the next few weeks but are pleased at this time to be able to anounce the following:

 

Early Autumn 2017, I became aware of Rob Parker, who had recorded an album. All I knew was that it was something to do with praying around the coastlands of the UK? Despite knowing so little, I immediately felt quite strongly that I needed to find out more.

Maybe three or four weeks later, I was at a small prayer gathering at the World Prayer Centre offices in Birmingham, when I overheard a man talking about CTNTP’s Peter Hill and asking if anyone knew him? It was none other than Rob Parker and I quickly introduced myself!

 

Awake you who sleep

Rob, who is based in Bridlington, North Yorkshire and who is director of operations for WINGS Prayer House, wingsprayerhouse.com, actually had with him copies of his just about to be released CD, Awaken the Coastlands, described by one reviewer: “This album takes you on a historical yet prophetic trip around the nations of the United Kingdom, leaving you hungry for more…”. I acquired a copy.

I believe one track in particular, Awake you who sleep, very much encapsulates the vision of Call the Nation to Prayer. Rob has graciously allowed us to make it available to CTNTP. I believe it truly is an anthem or theme song, for what CTNTP is all about.

The song is also set to a video – view it on YouTube – click here

We encourage you to purchase a CD or download of the album at Rob’s website: robparkerministries.com.

 

Partnering with Rob Parker and WINGS

I strongly felt that Rob had a role to play within CTNTP, particularly in view his clearly prophetic musical abilities with regard to our Objective, ‘Releasing a Sound‘ over the nation.

Rob came along as a guest to our Team meeting in Coventry in February and we are pleased to say that he has agreed to become part of the CTNTP Steering Team. WINGS  Prayer House will also be partnering with CTNTP and we will simply journey together and see what The Lord opens up.

 

Please pray that The Lord continues to nurture all of our relationships and without taking diversions, we keep walking the path we believe He has already laid for us.

David Gilbey

Now in it’s third year, Thy Kingdom Come is a global wave of prayer , taking place over eleven days, Ascension to Pentecost  -10th to 20th May 2018.

Thy Kingdom Come invites Christians around the world to pray for more people to come to know Jesus.  What started in 2016 as an invitation from the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to the Church of England has grown into an international and ecumenical call to prayer.

We encourage you to take part as an individual, family or church.

Visit the Thy Kingdom Come website for more details:   https://www.thykingdomcome.global/

How Justin Welby’s journey to faith in Jesus Christ affected by prayer…

 

 

‘I was amazed when I received your email… about God sending laughter!

One of my favourite Psalms is Psalm 100. I learned it off by heart when I was a child – I am 73 – and it has been very precious to me over the years.’

‘Almost two years ago the lovely hymn came into my mind…”All people that on earth do dwell.” I sang it around the house for a few days – I’m not much of a singer – and one morning I was in my lounge having my prayer time and I started to sing it quietly. I heard, with my spiritual ears, the Lord say “Did you know that hymn is based on one of your favourite Psalms…100.

I told the Lord I had never made that connection although I had known the hymn many years as we sang it at school when I was young. I started to sing it quietly again and the Lord spoke to me again. “Sing it louder” so I sang it a bit louder.

Then the Lord said to me “Sing it with gusto!” So I started to sing it even more loudly! “All people that on earth do dwell, Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice. Him serve with mirth”……..As soon as I sang the word “mirth” I felt a thump on my abdomen – it wasn’t at all painful – and I started to laugh uncontrollably!

I laughed and laughed and praised the Lord and rolled around on my chair for many minutes with tears streaming down my face. It was an amazing experience! I know the Lord did something new in my life that day.

Since that day I have prayed as I’ve never prayed before and have started a prayer group in my home and each week just a small number of us give thanks to our God and intercede for our church, our families, our nation and anything else that God brings to our minds.

About six weeks ago I had another similar experience whilst making a long drive home – again whilst I was singing In my car. God is doing amazing things in this nation of ours and I stand in awe of him!

I worship in a Pentecostal church but I have never before had an experience like that!’

(Name withheld by request)

 

Psalm 100  – The Passion Translation

A poetic song for thanksgiving

1 Lift up a great shout of joy to the Lord!
Go ahead and do it—everyone, everywhere!
2 As you serve him, be glad and worship him.
Sing your way into his presence with joy!
3 And realize what this really means—
we have the privilege of worshiping the Lord our God.
For he is our Creator and we belong to him.
We are the people of his pleasure.
4 You can pass through his open gates with the password of praise.
Come right into his presence with thanksgiving.
Come bring your thank offering to him
and affectionately bless his beautiful name!
5 For the Lord is always good and ready to receive you.
He’s so loving that it will amaze you—
so kind that it will astound you!
And he is famous for his faithfulness toward all.
Everyone knows our God can be trusted,
for he keeps his promises to every generation!