WORLD-WIDE WOMEN’S PRAYER CHAIN
A Prayer Chain is a connected, flexible series of links, used especially for holding things together or for transmitting spiritual power. After prayer and following God’s direction, the Women’s Ministries Department for the Church of God of Prophecy is starting a prayer chain. This will be a World-Wide Prayer Chain designed to initiate continuous prayer for requests or directives that are given globally.
You may submit your prayer request to us, and you may also submit your testimonies of answered prayer. The intent is to bring women together in unity to call on the Lord for His help and direction.
Your women’s group can complete the form from our website to let us know who you are and when you will be meeting for prayer, so we can stay in touch and encourage each other. Join this prayer force and help us spread the word for others to join. Let’s reach the world for Him! Expect God to hear us and grant miracles in the lives of those for whom we are praying. As we pray, we will not only see Divine intervention, we will be drawn into a more intimate relationship with God.
One word of caution would be; believers often wrestle with God, feeling stuck trying to get Him to take care of our needs rather than simply enjoying time with Him and experiencing His presence. Holding onto the hem of His garment and esteeming Jesus above all else releases God’s purposes to fall into place in our lives.
If we grasp the reality that the Father and Son created room for the world to exist, we have to believe that prayer or communing with Him is a privilege more than an obligation. God did not need the world to realize Himself, since the Persons (Father, Son, Spirit) are already fulfilled in one another. At the same time, the Trinity does not hoard its love. Its love is ecstatic and open to the world. Humanity is chosen in the context of the Father’s love for the Son.
In his book, Flame of Love, Clark H. Pinnock shares:
Our desire for God did not originate with us. We did not initiate the possibility of this relationship. The Trinity made it possible and kindled the desire within us…It is God who invites us to join the Trinitarian conversation already occurring. The triune God invites us to share in intimacy with God and summons us to enter the communion of self-giving love...Prayer is joining an already occurring conversation. The spirit calls us to participate in the relationship of intimacy between Father and Son and to be caught up in the dance already begun. In prayer on the earth, we join the dance and begin to experience the movement and interplay of the Trinitarian Persons.
All of our Christian endeavors, including prayer, should be born out of intimacy with Him. Paul said to the Corinthians, “But I am afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds should be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ” (2 Corinthians 11:3). When our motivation for prayer is not communion, we tend to get into the habit of just presenting our needs list and running on about our day. When Jesus taught the disciples to pray, He did not begin with “Our Provider, who art in heaven, generous be Thy name.” Nor did He encourage us to start with “Our Master, who art in heaven, assignment-giver be Thy name.” No relationship built upon using the other person is very lasting and meaningful. One built upon communion and the pleasure of friendship most always results in serving one another. Birthed out of our intimate relationship with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, will be a beautiful service of interceding for one another around the world.
