National Day of Prayer and Fasting in Australia

Today is the National Day of Prayer and Fasting. “Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.” Hebrews 12:2

In simple terms fasting is giving up things in the natural to birth things in the spiritual. It’s a period where we grow in our spiritual walk by denying the pleasures of flesh.
Some might fast food, others coffee, tea or alcohol.

The focus of this year’s prayer and fasting is for “God’s ongoing revival and transformation of Australia from 10 February to 20 March 2016.” Australia’s 40 days of prayer and
fasting is effectively the Lent period.

For more information and to register now for the National day of Prayer visit the official website: www.nationaldayofprayer.com.au

A JESUS Prayer and Declaration

Those churches or fellowships, who want to have a 10-minute spot in their program to pray for Australia, can use the JESUS Prayer and the JESUS Declaration below. These will be used in Parliament House in Canberra and around Australia. Please feel free to modify these to suit your situation. You can also look at Guidelines for Your Event and a Sample Service for more ideas. Thank you for your participation.

JESUS Prayer

Loving Lord JESUS,
As we come before You this day we acknowledge You as the Son of God and the Son of Man. Your Name is above every other name.
God sent You into the world not to condemn the world but to save the world 1 through Your shed blood on the cross 2. You who had no sin, became sin for us that we might receive God’s free gift of eternal life.3 We are forever grateful.

1 John 3:17
2 Colossians 1:20
3 2 Corinthians 5:21
4 Luke 4:18
5 John 17:4
6 1 Peter 2:21
7 Matthew 18:5,6
8 Romans 8:37,39
9 Revelation 3:16,17
10 Matthew 25:35,36

You declared that You came to preach good news to the poor, proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind 4. You brought glory to the Father by completing the work He gave You to do 5. We stand in awe of Your great love.

Help us to be Your witnesses as salt and light in our Australian society and the public square. Help us not to be overcome by evil but to overcome evil with good. Help us to follow in Your steps 6 and share in Your sufferings so that we may also share in Your glory.

You who welcomed a little child and warned of the serious consequences of causing a child to sin 7 help us to protect and nurture our children in Your love. Be Lord of our families, our communities, and our nation that our children will come to You and flourish.

In a world that has become increasingly dangerous, thank You that we are more than conquerors through the power of Your unconquerable love. Nothing can separate us from the love of God that is found in You 8. With You at our side we are not afraid.

In our affluence help us not to feel that we are self-sufficient 9. We repent of putting our trust in wealth and forgetting the hungry, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the unborn, the fatherless, the downcast, the foreigner and those in prison.10 Use us to reach others with Your love.
You prayed that all who believe in You would be brought to complete unity so that the world may know Your love and the love of the Father.11

11 John 17:23
12 Hebrews 12:2
13 Jude 25
14 Matthew 16:16
15 Colossians 1:15
16 Hebrews 1:3a
17 John 1:14
18 1 Timothy 2:5
19 John 8:12
20 John 1:9
21 Mark 10:45
22 1 Timothy 1:15
23 1 John 3:8
24 Matthew 11:29
25 Colossians 3:1
26 Romans 8:34,Hebrews 7:25
27 2 Corinthians 3:18
28 Revelation 19:16
29 Matthew 24:30
30 Revelation 22:20

JESUS we cry out to You that Your name will be lifted high in Australia. Let this be a powerful testimony to the nations of the earth.
In obedience to Your command we pray to the Father to send workers out into His harvest field. Use the Body of Christ in Australia in a great end-time global harvest of souls. We long for the Day of Your appearing

To You Lord JESUS, the author and finisher of our faith 12, be all glory, majesty, power, authority 13, dominion and praise. In Your powerful and most precious Name we pray. AMEN

JESUS Declaration

Leader: JESUS alone is the answer for the revival and transformation of Australia. Let us stand in the presence of God and make this declaration together to Jesus.

1. JESUS “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God” 14 – We worship You.
2. JESUS You are “the image of the invisible God”15 and “the radiance of His glory”16 – We declare the glory of Your Name over Australia and into the heavenly realms.
3. JESUS You are “the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth”17 – We thank You for becoming a man and showing us the way.
4. JESUS You are “the one mediator between God and man”18 – We look to You alone. No one else can reconcile us to God.
5. JESUS You are “the light of the world”19, “the true light that gives light to every man”20 – We bask in Your light so that we can reflect it to a lost and dying world.
6. JESUS You “did not come to be served, but to serve” and to lay down Your life as a ransom for many 21 – We are forever thankful for Your shed blood on the cross.
7. JESUS You “came into the world to save sinners”22 and “to destroy the devil’s work”23 – We rejoice in our great salvation.
8. JESUS You are “gentle and humble in heart”24 who shares our burdens and our sorrows – We rest in Your love. We long to see you face to face.
9. JESUS You are “seated at the right hand of God”25 and always “interceding for us”26 – We are blessed in You with every spiritual blessing.
10. JESUS You sent the Spirit of Truth the Counsellor to be with us forever – We rejoice that we are being transformed into Your likeness with an ever increasing glory. 27
11. JESUS You are “KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS”28 – We will serve no foreign god. Reign King Jesus reign in all the earth!
12. JESUS You are coming soon at the last trumpet “coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory29 – We long for Your appearing. “Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!”30