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World Prayer Assembly – Day 4
Day 4 of the WPA started with me getting woken up at 4am by a text from England! what didn’t help matters was that I didn’t get to sleep till 12.30am. So I knew that today was going to be a pretty hard day. So I tweeted a request for prayer to help me through the day.
The first session of the day introduced the My Home initiative www.myhomeindonesia.org which encourages people to adopt there street, there school, there office and commit to pray for them to see change.
We were told that even the secular media have given the world prayer assembly a positive coverage. They ask what is the result of WPA? That prayer will move out into the marketplace and for prayer towers to be erected across Indonesia. That people will adopt their street, school or office. That prayer revival will be ignited around the world.
We then had a time of prayer for Indonesia. Prayer points:
* Clean and just corruption-free government
* Pray for remote parts that need special attention so that justice and propserity enjoyed by every indonesian
* Open doors for religious freedom over Indonesia
Next, Bill Wilson from the International Centre for Spiritual Renewal spoke about the Empowered 21 Asia initiative. www.empowered21asia.com. There was also a call for all pastors to reclaim Pentecost Sunday for the Holy Spirit by committing to teach about the Holy Spirit on that day.
There will be a Global Congress in Jerusalem on 17-22 May 2015.
The vision is that every person will have wn encounter with Jesus by 2033 which will be the 2000th anniversary of the out pouring of the Holy Spirit and we will pray that it will happen again around the world.
Pastor Niko Njotorahardjo who heads the Healing Movement ministry and is the pastor at the world prayer centre where the WPA has been held, then spoke about prayer and revival and how the ‘new wave is coming a d that it would start here at the WPA in Jakarta.
He was then followed by S.Korean pastor Lee Younghoon speaking about prayer and revival in the church.
Finally we heard from Enoch Adeboye who is the Overseer of the Redeemed church of God. He was such an excellent speaker and so knowledgeable about the word. He spoke on ‘Does God answer prayer?”
Spectacular stadium event
After this session finished we then made our way to the Gelora Bung Karno stadium for a massive event. We arrived around 3.30-4pm and the event started around 6pm with worship. It was so hot and humid but it was amazing to see 80,000 people fill the stadium, 20,000 of which were children. It was an amazing spectacular event with worship, speakers and prayer. The performance could only be likened to the opening ceremony of the Olympic games which must have been performed by approximately 2,000 young people. It was an amazing event, even though we were hot, tired and flagging by 9pm. We then left to return back to our hotels where I had the best ever cold shower after a long, hot day! But I got through it and I have to thank those that rayed for me because I know that it could only be God that got me through it on 3 and a half hours sleep!
me and Sara Kandiah from Tearfund
What an awesome day! 
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