40 DAYS WITH JESUS…NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER...GLOBAL DAY

Global Day of Prayer - May 4th
Tillamook County’s Global Day of Prayer
This yearly event actually originated with a prayer gathering of 45,000 people in a rugby stadium in South Africa, spread throughout the African continent over the next few years, and was in 2005 expanded around the world through an invitation for every nation to participate, making it literally a “Global Day of Prayer.” Officially taking place each year on Pentecost Sunday, by the year 2007 there were 204 of the world’s 220 nations participating. Tillamook’s celebration of Global Day of Prayer will be held today (even though Pentecost is actually on the 11th) at the Tillamook High School Auditorium at 2:00pm. It’ll be a wonderful time spent together worshipping our Lord with music and praying about many needs in our own community, state, nation, and around the world.

Father, I bring you the gift of my pain, and I lay it down before your throne. I confess that my feelings have been sinful, but I have not known what to do about them.
In the name of Jesus and as an act of my free will, I purpose and choose to forgive (the person) from my heart for (what they did). In the name of the Lord Jesus, I cancel all (the person’s) debts or obligations to me.
In the name of Jesus, I break and cancel Satan’s power over me in this memory and the resulting pain. In the name of Jesus, I command all the tormentors that have been assigned to me because of my unforgiveness to leave me now.
I invite you, Lord Jesus, to come and heal me of this pain and this hurt. Holy Spirit, please tell me your truth in this situation.
Thank you Father, that because of the work Jesus did on the cross, all of this is possible. In Jesus’ name, Amen.

Adapted from Biblical Foundations of Freedom by Art Matthias, Wellspring Ministries, Anchorage, Alaska