PRAYING FOR SALEM!

Identify with the sins of the city - We can all identify with the roots of any sin in our city. We have been lax in travailing for Salem. We need to identify in personal and corporate repentance. Nehemiah identified with the sins in his city and prayed: “I confess the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have committed against you” (Nehemiah 1:6-7)  But now we rise up united in Prayer!

 

Cover Salem with continuous praise and worship - God gives you His heart for Salem through worship and a positive attitude. Instead of complaining and reacting toward the sin in Salem, praise God for the good things. Satan is already an accuser, so praising God and declaring by faith the eternal purpose and dream of God over Salem brings in His presence and defeats the enemy.

 Ask God to give you HIS heart for Salem-

When you have God’s heart, you will pray with a love that seeks God’s plan for Salem.  You will love Salem as He loves Salem.  Your prayers will be much more effectual and fervent.   

Prayer for Salem

Dear Lord, change the atmosphere of our city through our prayers. Help us to guard Salem as watchmen.  Salem belongs to You Teach us to continually cover it with praise and worship day and night. We long to release Your fire in the night season. Give us insight into how to pray for Salem and how to take action in love as we wait on You. Teach us the secret of travailing prayer. Give us great faith for peace and revival for Salem. We will pray until Your deliverance comes. We choose to give ourselves no rest (Isaiah 62:6-7). We praise You for You are mighty and powerful, and You can do all things. We choose to remember Your name in the night. We praise You for what You are going to do in our city as we pray and reach out to the lost. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Let the sweet love of Jesus shine through you! Soul Saving Center Street Journal 2021

 

There's nothing like walking up to a group of young men who are engrossed in their conversation and looking like they want no parts of anything you have to say....so you introduce yourself and give them an invitation to church, they politely take it...and say "Thank You!"  But the icing on the cake is when you get to the last of the crew and the guy doing most of the talking is your cousin!  We hugged a big hug and said, "I love you Cuz!"  That alone made the other guys pay attention and show even more respect!...."Oh, she's his family!

It was a beautiful day to walk, pray and share the gospel.  No one refused the invitations....everyone was so accepting which just let me know that people need Jesus in their lives.  Their eyes tell the story. 

I encountered a young man who grew up in a very VERY strict church and he told me that when he became an adult he never wanted to see the inside of  a church ever again....(we had our conversation while he was rolling something, but that didn't matter)  He told me how he couldn't play sports, play with other kids, go to the movies and a list of other No No's.   He said he has 3 children and he has never taken them to church.  He told me he even used to play the piano but after feeling so condemned about everything, he stopped playing.  He wasn't blaming God for his upbringing....just that church.  The world must see Jesus first!  Feel His genuine Love flowing from us!   All of the other religious man-made rhetoric, is of the devil and I believe that God will judge this kind of thing...

In all my years of sharing the gospel on the streets, I have run into people who were backslidden, other religions or even atheists.  But this was the first time I've ever had a conversation with someone who was hurt so badly as a child by the church.  Our conversation was lengthy to say the least and he knew that my focus was Jesus and what He does in our lives once we accept Him as Lord and Savior.  

I walked away praying for him and praying that the seeds I planted all fell on good soil and produce good crops, In Jesus' Name.

Pray with me that Jesus invades the hearts of the men and women and teens that I talked to today.  And that Jesus brings them to repentance.  My prayer was that they feel His love through me as I shared Him with them.  I know Jesus did that!  I just know He did!