PRAYER LIST No.6!--From WS [4/92]
--Rush Requests for Special Projects!
--Can Be Read by All!
Dear Family,
DO 4/92
GBY! Thank you so much for your prayers! We really depend on them, & it's marvellous what they have accomplished around the World! Your effectual fervent prayers have availed much as you continue "praying always with all prayer & supplication in the Spirit, watching thereunto with all perseverance & supplication for all saints."--James 5:16; Ephesians 6:18.
In this special rush Prayer List we would like to ask your immediate, desperate prayers for some special projects & the personnel involved in them:
Prayer Request for Creations Pubs Push: We'd like to ask for prayer as we're now involved in preparing literature & statements to be used for the Family's defence in the court cases in England & Australia. (See PL5:87, PL5:125 & PL3:55, for references to these court cases.) This is an "all-hands-on-deck" project, as we're pushing to get this material finished as quickly as possible, in order to get it to our lawyers within about three weeks, Lord helping us!
There is so much to do & the subject matter of these publications is so weighty that we know we can only depend on the Lord's supernatural help & guidance, & the prayers of others. While this material is initially being prepared to combat the persecution in England & Australia, it will also greatly benefit you, our Family worldwide, as it will eventually be made available to all areas.
We'd appreciate your prayers for the following points:
* For the strength & health of all those working on this material. Please pray especially for one of our main writers, who has been suffering from severe heart/chest pains & fatigue.
* That the Lord would make His Will very clear concerning our defence & how to go about preparing this material.
* For wisdom, good counsel, & that the Lord will clearly establish our thoughts & give us His Words when writing any articles or statements.
* That the Lord will lead in any research work being done & help us get the information we need.
* That the Lord will help us to work quickly, so we can get everything prepared in good time.
* For protection of our equipment & data.
* For our brethren in England & Australia who are directly involved in the cases, who are also preparing a Word-based defence.
"Treasure Attic" Video Shows #3 & #4: Two new Videos for the "Treasure Attic" Series. The filming of these two new beautiful & inspiring shows is almost finished, & the editing stage has begun.
Please pray for: The International Video Ministry (IVM) team & their continued progress on this project, for their equipment & the many, many details involved in the production of these shows--that the Lord will anoint & lead through every step & guide these shows through to completion!
Also for Solomon Costa Rica ("Uncle Jim"), for his left eye, which has been blurry, difficult to focus (& thus read), & causing headaches. He needs to use his eyes a lot in his important ministry of directing & helping produce the Videos.
Endtime Scripture Song Tape: A new addition to our GP DTD Scripture Song Tape Series: A Tape composed of the main Endtime Scriptures sung to powerful & thrilling new music, mainly designed to capture the attention of today's teens, but which will surely appeal to all who hunger & thirst to find out about the Endtime events foretold in the Bible!
Please pray for: Both of our international audio studios, for their anointing & inspiration as they final record the songs, for the Lord to keep their equipment, for new songs yet to be finalised & approved for final recording, for the auditioning of the songs, & for the Lord's leading regarding the Tape's format.
Endtime Video: A powerful new GP Video tool, the aim of which is to witness to & warn others that we're indeed living in the time of the End! Updated facts & figures for the script are being researched, & the Endtime Scripture songs to be included in the Video are now being final recorded. (See preceding point regarding the Endtime Scripture Song Tape.)
Please pray for: The compiling & writing of the script, the recording of the music & the actual filming. Also, the IVM desperately needs good contacts from which they can provision suitable film clips that portray current World trends, crises, events, leaders, etc. These clips will need to dramatically depict the "Signs of the Times" described in the script, forming the bulk of this Video. Please also pray for the Lord's anointing in the editing & weaving together of the script, music & visuals into an eye-opening & life-changing presentation!
New GP DTD "Older Kids" Audio Tape & New GP DTD "Younger Kids" Audio Tape: Both of our international audio studios have recorded many new children's songs for our new Video Series, & Mama has a burden to get these out on audio Tapes as well. There will be an audio cassette for "older kids" (ages 8-12), as well as an audio cassette of the "younger kids" songs (ages 2-7), thus providing our Family & the GP with two more tremendous children's Tapes packed with brand-new songs that cover a variety of topics!
Please pray for: Our musicians' anointing & inspiration as they continue with the final recording of those songs still in the works, for the auditioning of the songs, & for the many steps along the way to finalising these new GP tools!
A New Children's DO Video Series: A series of shows of not only fun entertainment for our kids, but even more importantly, a valuable vehicle for getting our younger children well grounded in our Family doctrines & beliefs, & more familiar with the MO Letters & the Word. This project is just beginning, with scripts being written, material being researched & demo Videos being done--but since there is such an urgent need for children's material on Video for the Family, we would very much appreciate your prayers for its quick production, so we can start getting it to our kids soon!
We urgently need your prayers for a project that the IVM & some of the studio musicians are presently working on: The Teen Inspiration Video! Following, in some respects, the format used in producing the Japan Inspiration Video entitled "Forever Young," this new Video will be performed mostly by our Family Teens--singers & dancers alike--along with some adults, & will be used as a DTD & follow-up tool. This exciting new Video tool will be a modern-day Holy Ghost Sample, & the contents will be rather "meaty." It will be composed of songs on the Endtime, Heaven, Salvation, & Discipleship, such as "Watch Out for 666," "Across the Sky," "I'm Born Again," "Now All I Want to Do Is Serve Him" & others!--12 to 14 songs in all!
Please join us in praying for: The selection of the singers, the musical & video preparations, & the actual filming (which is to be done on May 17 & 18th, D.V.), & that those involved will be anointed to perform with genuine enthusiasm & spontaneity, & shine with the freedom of His Spirit! TYSM for pulling together in prayer for this important project! PTL! WLY!
Following are excerpts of a message that Mama sent to the Teens & adults involved in the "Teen Inspiration Video" project:
1. "For our part, we have been going over & over the songs, & praying over each one, considering their message & wording. It's so much like a beauty contest--they're all tremendous & all with such a good message, & we wish we could use every one of them. We started out trying not to have any slow songs, & instead we ended up with quite a few at least moderately slow ones, because we felt led to concentrate first & foremost on the message instead of worrying about the style of music or the tempo, etc. We also were trying to have a good balance in the content, having a little of everything message-wise, but then felt led to eliminate most of the lighter songs in favour of our heavier, meatier message. So the final selection may seem rather unbalanced & pretty fanatical & radical, with songs about Salvation, service & Endtime only, but I figure this may be our one & only chance to reach a lot of young people, & we should give it our most powerful shot.--Make it the most powerful ammo possible, & if the one song `don't get'm, the other will!' Then we will certainly know we have delivered our souls & we won't be wondering if we could have done better & if we gave them everything that they needed.
2. "I know it's pretty meaty with the Endtime & forsake-all message, & serving the Lord fulltime, but if we never see those kids again we will be thankful that we told them not only how they could get saved, but also how they could live for Jesus. I know we have repeated the Salvation message several times, but we bring out different aspects of what Jesus does & why we need Him & why He loves us & why the World doesn't satisfy. And after they get all that Salvation message & invitation to a new life, there won't be any excuse for them not to understand & not to receive it. We're giving them every reason to receive Jesus & not leaving any room for excuses not to. We're telling them how Jesus can satisfy them, ease their troubled mind, protect them in disasters, give them peace from the attacks of the Enemy in their sleep, be a Friend that's always with them, help them not to be a phoney, free them from their chains & bondage, give them a wonderful life of service, & after all that & even much more, give them something greater than all their dreams or fantasies in a thrilling life in the next World with wonders & challenges beyond their imagination!--All this & Heaven too!
3. "It's all going to be right there in this one Video. I'd say that's a pretty balanced representation of our meatier message. Even Salvation on this Video is going to seem pretty meaty. And the reason I think it's going to be so powerful is not just because of the songs or their message, which of course are quite unique in some ways, but the Spirit & faces of you Teens are going to be what completely bowls them over.--God's Spirit exploding in you kids is going to be like nothing they've ever seen before, & is going to have His magnetic drawing power that will be irresistible to His sheep. I don't think it will really matter much what you say or how you sing it, as long as you're filled with God's Love & power & light & life & joy & enthusiasm & humility & abandon & uninhibited freedom. As long as you give it everything you've got, the Lord will take it & use it & multiply it many times over & make it shine with such brilliance that people will be in awe & wonder, just as the Lord has said in His beautiful Words to us about this Video. (See prophecies about this Video at the end of Mama's message.)
4. "I believe the more of you kids that appear on the Video, the more kids they see serving Jesus, the better. It's a form of positive peer pressure. And the more guitars you can show on some of these songs, the more impressed the worldly kids will be with our music & our musicians & our sample. Since they worship musicians, just to show that so many of you kids can play guitar will be very impressive & will show that kids who forsake all to follow Jesus are not dummies & mindless robots & unpopular, unhandsome, uncool, uneducated kids who can't do anything else. But you're the most wonderful, beautiful, spirited, knowledgeable, talented, loving, happy kids in the World!
5. "You're being an advertisement for God & His Kingdom of Love, definitely the best one they will ever see! Anything else they've seen related to religion has hardly been an advertisement or promotion, it's undoubtedly been the opposite, a complete `turn-off.' All they've seen is the reasons why not to be a Christian & not to live for Jesus. So let's go all out to make it irresistible! Make it attractive! Make it electrifying! Make it challenging! Make it wonderful! Make it great to be a citizen of the Kingdom of God, a member of His Endtime Army, salesmen for the Gospel!--Invaders from outer space!
6. "It's so important that you kids performing on this Video know that this has got to be the Lord, & that nothing you can do in the flesh will be enough. You just have to present your bodies a living sacrifice to the Lord & be willing to be nothing, that He might be everything! You must decrease, that He might increase, & be hidden in Him, so people will see only Jesus, then He's going to be able to do a great work through you. `I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God, Who loved me & gave Himself for me.'--Gal.2:20. So PTL! We are expecting great things because we know that the Lord is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, & because we know that with yielded vessels His power is limitless. He just needs the vessels, & He can turn the water into rich, sparkling, delicious wine that's going to intoxicate them, hypnotise them & mesmerise them right into His Kingdom! PTL! TYJ! We are all these things & much more! We are everything & have everything! Let's show'm what they're missing & make them want it! Amen? Praise God! Hallelujah!
7. "I want to tell you kids that there is absolutely no reason why you cannot sing a song about something you have not actually experienced--such as the extreme loneliness, heartache & desperation of a person who is lost & searching in the System--with just as much conviction & power as though you had personally gone through that. Think of the movies you watch--with gripping, emotional, moving stories that thrill you & excite you & inspire you. Who do you think played in such movies?--Just common everyday people who probably have lived pretty common everyday ordinary lives, with most of their time being spent in studios in Hollywood, & never once experiencing the tests & trials & emotion & final triumph seen in the lives of the characters who they are portraying, but they play it as though they are those people. And when you watch them, they have turned into those people. They're playing a role, but they play it well--so well that it's hard to imagine that they're not those people.
8. "Can't you play a role for Jesus? Can't you expect Him to make you into that person, to give you the feelings & emotions of the lonesome lost teen who wanders aimlessly about without any friends, without any love, without any hope? Or the teen who has tried this & tried that & tried some other thing to try to find something that will satisfy him & give him challenge & purpose in life? Can't you ask the Lord to give you the conviction to sing `Going Down the Road,' or `I've Got a Lotta Problems!', to become that person, to feel the emotions of that person & to feel the happiness & the joy & the satisfaction that comes when finally, at the end of a long search, they find the answer that had eluded them for so long?--Experiencing the wonderful thrill at finding that there is an answer & there is happiness after all?--The wonder of a new life in Jesus with new friends & new family & new attitudes & new things to do & be?
9. "I believe you can do anything Jesus wants you to do & be anything He wants you to be under the supernatural power of His Holy Spirit, Who will guide you into all Truth & give you all the conviction you need to sing it the way Jesus wants it, & to reach out & pull their hearts to Jesus. I believe you can forget yourselves, forget the way you look, forget the way you sound, forget everything but those poor, hungry, hopeless, unfulfilled, unloved teens who need you to share with them your most valuable possession. You're rich! You're spiritual billionaires! They're poor. They have nothing. Won't you do everything you can to love them into His Kingdom?--I know you will!"
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In confirming the importance of this project, here are a few of the prophecies the Lord gave:
"Say not ye there are yet four months & then cometh harvest. Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes & look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest. The harvest truly is plenteous but the labourers are few. Behold these tools which I have designed & I have fashioned, that they might increase your labourers, that they might increase your hands & your feet & your mouth to reach the hungry & the needy. Cast thy bread upon the water. Withhold not, for he that withholdeth, it tendeth to poverty, but he that scattereth abroad, it increaseth."
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"Their line is gone out through all the Earth & their Words to the end of the World. Thrust in your sickle & reap, & ye shall receive an hundredfold, with persecutions. Yea, all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. Preach the Word, be instant in season, out of season. Go ye into all the World & preach the Gospel to every creature."
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"The sheep of My pasture are men, & ye are the shepherds of the sheep of My pasture. Therefore withhold not good from them to whom it is due. For if ye feed them not, who shall feed them? For it is your responsibility to give the Words & the Spirit of David to those who are hungry, to those who reach out with their cups held high that they may be filled. And with what will ye fill them? Ye have the responsibility to fill them with good things & with meaty things. Therefore withhold not good from them to whom it is due."
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"As the children of Jewry waved their palm branches & cried, `Hosanna in the highest! Behold, our King cometh, riding upon an ass, prepare ye the way of the Lord!'--So shall My children sing & dance before Me now & wave aloft their palm branches unto Me & shall cry unto the World, `Hosanna in the highest! Hosanna in the highest! Behold, the King cometh; behold, the King of Kings cometh, Who reigneth above all! Prepare ye the way of the Lord, for the Lord cometh!'--And they shall look to you & see My glory & behold My Spirit & shall know that I am about to come & enter this World. Cry aloud, spare not! Stand & speak in the gates of the city & declare the glory of the Lord! Shine forth His righteousness & His light, & show all the inhabitants of the World that I come quickly. Behold, the World shall come out & see thee shine; & great fear shall strike the hearts of those who are not of Me, for they shall know that there hath been a Prophet among them, & that there are many in this World who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
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"Lo, I have set you as a light in the midst of darkness, that ye may go forth in the name of David, as David of old, with nothing but a pebble in his sling, to slay this mighty giant. Say not ye this is a little thing, for I will do great & wonderful things. For lo, this pebble shall sweep the nations. This is but a small tool in your hands, but yea, I am with you & I will use this tool to slay the mighty dragon! For though darkness shall cover the Earth, the Lord shall arise upon thee & the light shall be seen upon thee. Arise, shine, for thy light is come & the glory of the Lord shall be seen upon thee. For I would sing unto My people a new song. I would sing unto My people the song of light & life & glory, that all may see the light that is in thy heart. I would that this light be put on a hilltop that all may see this light."
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PROPHECIES GIVEN BY OUR WORLDWIDE FAMILY ON THE IMPORTANCE OF PRAYER!
Following are excerpts of some prophecies from FSM 215 (coming soon) which some of you, our precious Family, received when praying for Pearl & Lamb's situations. These are beautiful reminders on the vital importance of prayer, not only for their situations, but for any desperate problem that you may encounter. We're sure you'll find them inspiring, strengthening & convicting promises! (Please see FSM 215 for the full prophecies)
"Thou must fight with all thy strength & with all thy might through prayer. For I have given thee a weapon that none of thine enemies can stand against: and that is the power of prayer. Thy part is to pray; to pray with all thy heart in desperation & strong tongues & crying & weeping for My little ones."
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"The more you pray, the more I can do. The more you pray, the greater the victory can be. The more you pray, the more decisive the victory can be. The more you pray, the clearer it will be that it is I that fought for you. The more you pray, the greater the testimony shall be. So much depends on your prayers."
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"For the tide of the battle shall be turned according to thy prayers & thy supplications. By thy words & thy prayers & thy supplications, thou shalt be justified; & by thy words & thy prayers & thy supplications, they shall be condemned. For I have spoken it & I will perform that which I have spoken unto thee."
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"I have commanded you that ye should fervently pray one for another that ye might be saved! Therefore neglect not this important part. Neglect not to pray one for another, to earnestly pray one for another, because this is what makes My Family unified! This is what makes My Family different from the rest of the families of this World. If ye do so, I will answer your prayers."
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"Cease not to keep thy guard up & be attacking in prayer, diligent with every request unto Me, for I shall deliver thee, but I do expect thee to fight in prayer. For yea, I have called thee unto that ministry."
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"Prayer is powerful! When ye pray, things will happen & things will be different. It is through prayer that ye shall accomplish these great victories. For it is not by your might, nor by your power, but by My Spirit, as ye call upon Me in your prayers, as ye fall down before Me in utter desperation & look to Me, cry out to Me in your hour of need. For My ear is not deaf that it cannot hear the cries of My children. And I will partake of your prayers & delight Myself in them, as if breathing the beautiful fragrance of the lovely Peace Rose. For I dwell in the praises & the prayers of My children. And your prayers will be answered with the same strength with which ye shall pray them. If ye stir yourselves, then I will stir Myself. God forbid that ye should sin against Me in ceasing to pray for them."
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"It is a battle that is being fought in the Heavenlies with clashing of swords & mighty forces fighting against each other. But this battle is won through your prayers. Your prayers decide the outcome. Your prayers strengthen the victors. In this ye partake of the battle. In this ye take up the sword. In this ye do fight for the right, as ye do intercede & intervene with your prayers. For great battles have been won because of prayer, & others have been lost because men did not pray. Therefore do not cease to pray for these, My little ones, for in so doing ye will rescue them."
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"Men ought always to pray & not to faint. Be not weary in well doing, for in due season ye shall reap if ye faint not. Therefore uphold My little ones through prayer, strengthen them through your prayers. For in praying for them ye do strengthen them, & in praying for them ye do release the power that I would give unto them. In praying for them ye do My Will in releasing the forces of Heaven on their behalf."
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"All Hell would break loose against the Family to destroy their little ones, so ye must fight as ye have never fought before in prayer, & ye must claim My Word throughout the day, for it is My Word that will deliver!" PTL!
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