PRAYER REQUESTS

Alliance Intercessory Prayer Ministry
Prayer Requests
Healing and Keeping Prayer (Robert C. Canton Healing Ministries)
Morning Prayer
God of Miracles

AFCCPC INTERCESSORY PRAYER MINISTRY

The Chairpersons in the AFCCPC Office of Intercessory Prayer are: Liza Jablonski, Dey Pinzon, Fe Enriquez, and Fe Lacbain. Sister Liza is based in the East Atlantic Region. Sisters Dey, Fe E. and Fe L are based in California. Each person has her own group of prayer warriors.

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PRAYER REQUESTS

Send your prayer requests to this email address: narsalbarra@yahoo.com. Your request(s) will be forwarded to the Office of Intercessory Prayer and may also be published in this website.

Join the Alliance in prayer for the following petitions:

1. For the success of the Rocky Mountain Regional Conference scheduled on March 19-21, 2010, and guidance and anointing on the conference Chair, Bro. Jojo Concepcion.
2. For the success of the East Atlantic Regional Conference scheduled on July 2-4, 2010, and guidance and anointing on the conference Chair, Sis. Purita Vazquez.
3. For blessings and anointing on Bro. Ramon Mescallado as he assumes the editorship and publication of our newsletter, The Trumpet.
4. For blessings and anointing on Bro. Al Albarracin as he represents the AFCCPC in the NSC Council.
5. For continued blessings and anointing on Bro. Bob Canton in his healing/teaching ministry, in his leadership of the AFCCPC, and in his role in ICCRS representing the English-speaking prayer communities in North/Central America and the Caribbean.
6. For the success of the ICCRS Leadership Training Course scheduled in September of 2010 and for the AFCCPC’s role as collaborator and supporter of this project.
7. For the AFCCPC Board (Bob Canton, Val Kiamco, Ging Mangaliman, Gus Mora, Agnes Nepomuceno, Purita Vazquez) that they, as an executive body, be sensitive and attentive to the Holy Spirit’s guidance in the pursuit of the goal and mission of the Alliance.
8. For the planning and preparation for the next AFCCPC National Convention in 2011.

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HEALING AND KEEPING PRAYER (Robert C. Canton Ministries)

Heavenly Father, I thank you for loving me. I thank you for sending your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, to the world to save and to set me free. I trust in your power and grace that sustain and restore me.

Loving Father, touch me now with your healing hands. For I believe that your will is for me to be well in mind, body, soul and spirit. Cover me with the most precious blood of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ from the top of my head to the soles of my feet. Cast out anything that should not be in me. Root out any unhealthy and abnormal cells and multiply my healthy cells. Open any blocked arteries or veins and rebuild and replenish any damaged areas. Remove all inflammation and cleanse any infection by the power of Jesus' precious blood. Let the fire of your healing love pass through my entire body to heal and to make new any diseased areas so that my body will function the way you created it to function. Touch also my mind and my emotion, even the deepest recesses of my heart. Saturate my entire being with your presence, love, joy and peace and draw me ever closer to you every moment of my life.

And Father, fill me with your Holy Spirit and empower me to do your works so that my life will bring glory and honor to your holy name.

I ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.

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MORNING PRAYER

O God, our Father, who makes the light shine out of the darkness, we thank You for waking us to see the light of this new day.

Grant us the grace not to waste any of its hours; not to ruin any of its moments; not to neglect any of its opportunities; not to fail in any of its duties.

And bring us to the evening time undefeated by any temptation, at peace with ourselves, at peace with our fellow-men, and at peace with You.

We ask these in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

(William Barclay, slightly modified to contemporize)

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THE GOD OF MIRACLES [adapted from The God of Miracles]

Just as subatomic particles are kept together, so are events in our lives.
God orchestrates our existence just as He orchestrates the forces in outer space. When we pray about even the smallest details, everything about us also "holds together." We are on the way to cohesion. Breakfast is perfect, the car starts right up, and people are unusually pleasant to us.

Does that mean praying about every detail will make everything smooth every time we do so? There are trials. Often, one day is excellent and the next is the opposite.
But give it a chance -- pray for every little thing before you're even out of bed, every detail you can think of -- and then keep your mind on God the rest of the day. Ask Him to direct your every move. Go through all you need, every item, and make your requests.
"Ask and you will receive," says Scripture (John 16:24) -- and often we simply forget to do that.

Don't limit yourself. Pray slowly; focus on each word; slow prayers pierce the clouds.
God is our shield and when we draw nearer to Him, we draw nearer to a sense of well-being. It's that simple.

When we do that a unity exists between night and day, life and prayer, thought and action, God and neighbor. As a friend who is a priest recently pointed out, when this order is established in our lives, peace will begin to shine like a light in our faces.
There's nothing you can do that will bring as much protection. And closeness comes through praise. It comes through thankfulness. As we feel honored by and close to those who appreciate us, so too is it with God: praise brings Him near. When you see people with arid, joyless lives, it's often because they complain.

Jesus said we can request the favor of God (Matthew 7:7-9) and this we should do knowing that if something is good for us, and in the plan of Christ -- plus asked with faith, which means in a way that is both loving and fearless -- it will be granted.  
We could call that "acknowledgement." We acknowledge His role in everything. We listen for Him. We do as He prompts. This takes us from basic faith to the level of persistence, which deepens into surrender and causes effects for which we are eternally grateful.

See how it dovetails? Surrender involves not only faith but humility, love, and appreciation -- which is extremely powerful in drawing down the God of miracles, Who is humble but wants to be appreciated; in this way does He enjoy our love. Can you blame Him? It is why we were created.

The more directly we show our gratitude, the more powerfully He intervenes.
What we receive is often in direct proportion to our thankfulness. God especially loves it if we thank Him when it doesn't seem like things are going our way.

A priest ice fishing on a frozen Canadian lake, in one of those wood-heated portable shanties, wasn't having much luck. This was January 4, 2005, near Nipawin in northern Saskatchewan on Tobin Lake. His name was Father Mariusz Zajac, and it was just before 5 p.m. when -- having put in a few fruitless hours of fishing -- he resolved to call it a day.
"I had a few nibbles but that was it, I didn't catch anything," said the Polish-born priest.
But before packing up, Father Zajac decided to recite the Canticle of Mary -- an evening prayer from the Gospel of Luke, which gives thanks to God for each day (despite the bad luck fishing).

"On these words, I got a bite," recalled the priest. A bite indeed!

As it turned out, the fish he reeled in was an 18-pound walleye. It was 36 inches long -- the world record for ice fishing!

Bigger yet was the lesson:
No matter what you may be going through -- pain, depression, worries, frustration, fruitlessness, or simple bad luck -- if you praise God He will bring you fruits.
Love Him more than you have ever loved anyone. He sends graces that defy our circumstances. He brings joy where there should be depression. You can judge closeness to God by how much joy is around a person.

There are those who are lonely. There are those in poverty. There are those with cancer. There are those with sons who are addicted to drugs. In God they find hope. A frown brings us down. In God we find gladness. It is happiness -- even in trials -- that makes the world wondrous.

"By truly understanding this and letting His Light work through us, we gain sensitivity, peace, and power that we have never experienced before," notes one healer. "We become greater than we are. We understand that which is beyond the realm of reality. And then we see miracles unfold before our very eyes. All kinds of them!"

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