GPA's World Prayer Watch - "Eritrea - We Honour You!"

[Music] good morning world war watch how exciting i don't know about you guys but every time i hear the intro music i just get really pumped and excited and seeing all the different nations around the world and so welcome um all the way from we've got some locals east kilbride canvas laying i saw going past and now we've got italy and larks and all sorts and then south africa so genuinely a community of world changers from around the world and so we are excited to get to go on this journey with you today and as you'll have seen in our comments and from just the posts in social media we're praying for eritrea today which is a nation that is on the east side of africa i had i had to visualize it in my head and not get a dyslexic moment but it's on the east side of africa and we're excited to pray for a nation that i think few of us have probably ever seen or heard of and we're also excited because it's a different posture today what we've been discussing in our prep time is that it's a day of honoring a nation that often times we come to world prayer watch to to be warriors and to come and to know go to war for nations or to bless nations or to call forth nations but today very much what we were hearing from the spirit of the lord is today is a day of honoring a nation that has been faithful to it's in the beginning word which you've heard us talk about with different nations that they generation after generation what we just keep seeing and sensing in the spirit is that they are a people that have been faithful to what the lord planted in them in the beginning and so we're excited to bring the different things that we're seeing in sensing and hearing but we do just want to set that table for you and give you a little bit of a road map of where we're going um and so welcome we've got sj and luke today as well and i'm excited i always love it when we get teamed up not that i don't enjoy charis but i think it's good it's great for you guys it's great fun it is it's super fun isn't it i get excited about friday mornings and i love it and thank you katrina for leading us this morning because i feel like this is a learning day for all of us we are all learning what it is to pray for nation that we are honoring and coming as students for to look to feel to see in the spirit and i have to say in all the years i've prayed for nations and for different areas i have never had the lord say that be students and so this is an important time i think this is an important day that we're learning from nations we're not coming to fix things we're not coming to sort it out but we're coming to actually partner with the lord in what he spoke as you say the in the beginning that john 1 in the beginning was the word and the word was over eritrea we're going to learn more about that and i'm so excited for this so let's get going i'm so excited so as we said we're gonna we're gonna spend a significant portion of time honoring eritrea and the different things that the lord has revealed to us but we also felt it was significant to repent and so i do want to start us in that place of repenting how often times in the west we look especially african nations with the posture of we are here to fix you we are here to be the the hero of the day in these nations and oftentimes we think that we have all the answers and we want them to mold themselves to look like us rather than us looking like them and learning from them and so lord in the name of jesus we repent for the ways that we have knowingly and unknowingly had that patronizing attitude where we have accidentally stepped into the place of thinking that we as westerners are the hero and the savior where we have thought that we needed to make the other nations look and sound and act like us where we've almost taken the cookie cutter of the west and tried to stamp it on the african nations and so lord in the name of jesus again we repent of that yes lord heal us of our preferences and our prejudices yeah just strip us of those things because it is not appropriate as we look at the nations as one family under god that means there's so much we have to learn from one another and so holy spirit would you help us to step into that place of student lord would you help us into that place as servant that we would be here to serve eritrea that we will be here to learn from them holy spirit again help us to lay aside our preconceived ideas our prejudices all the ways that we think we know better or that we know even better than you holy spirit we repent of that and we say bring forth the honor that is due this nation bring forth the honor that is due the people of eritrea the holy spirit we just begin by saying we are so delighted to have that revelation and we come as um almost like adventurers discovering and exploring a new land and so holy spirit would you teach us would you show us would you be the one that creates the map in the spirit nation looks like what these people groups look like we submit your identity for them lord and that's what sits at the core of this we are not here to give eritrea its identity instead we are here to just simply um stand in awe of the revelation and that's what i saw this morning in the spirit realm was that the lord was bringing eritrea into almost um like an awards ceremony where he was crowning them with glory and he was standing them in front of the nations and even the entire angelic realm and saying look at this people group look at this nation how incredible are they and we just we begin by saying how incredible are you that you have been faithful that you have been steadfast that you've honored and held on to your in the beginning word and so we just applaud you and we just stand in all of you and we say will you teach us as people who represent nations that maybe haven't done a great job in holding on to their in the beginning word and they're in the beginning identity we come and we sit at your feet today and we say eritrea teach us what it is to be faithful generation after generation after generation yes and so lord would you take us into that place all of us take us into the spirit lord today is a day of praying from the spirit and in the spirit as citizens of the kingdom of heaven and we just say eritrea we are here to learn from you we are here to honor you and so luke i just want to throw it to you first your word about them being the peacemakers is so important and as we start to honor them so would you just um take us there and share your word with us yeah um you can feel that in this era that we are in that the lord is leading us into the realm where only the big attitudes will do and he's establishing something in the spirit where nations are being raised up and being seen for the first time with different aspects and characteristics of the beatitudes and we felt so strongly in relation to eritrea um that their their peace in that was as peacemakers i mean if you if you are privileged enough to know anyone who is uh who is from eritrea um uh you will know that they are the most beautiful people they are the most beautiful people um culturally they are um generationally in their history you can feel the depth of the purity and the humility and we were talking beforehand it's almost as if they have a holy clarity and have a reality about them that is really just separates them from any other people group and any other nation in the world and so when we were before the lord just asking him where do people sit we could see so significant so strongly and actually so significantly that first at the table and i know sarah jane you've been talking about this the table of nations that the lord is establishing yes the first at the table is the nation of eritrea because the eritreans um are the incredible peacemakers and as far as the beatitudes are concerned in the spirit they sit in that place and in that role even to the extent of being priest and king now the honoring was so important because they are only there and are only taking that seat at the table because of the years and years and years and years of faithfulness to the in the beginning word that the lord called them to be but now they are coming to the fore and coming and taking their place first at the table why because as they do that it opens the way for other nations to come i think we would probably all agree that eritrea would be right down our lease list as far as naturally speaking the significant nations in the earth but my goodness the lord has done something and is doing something in relation to eritrea and giving them a place that is at the head of things because of the incredible incredible place of a servant that they have taken um in relation to this and so we speak to you eritrea this morning we recognize who you are that you are blessed by god as powerful peacemakers that you are an example of priests and kings in the earth and that you have a seat at the table and we want to join with you um as the western church who maybe haven't even recognized and thought that it was asking me and actually recognize your seat and honor you as it being your seat and we come around you and we lift you up and you we push you and place you into that place because in the servant heart that you have had we recognize that you have a piece that is essential for the establishment of this table of nations you have a treasure that we require you have a richness that goes so deep it's to the beginning of time and because of the place that you now sit at and we'll sit at at this table it means that other nations are able to come as well the gentleness of christ is all over you and this era of the beatitudes you are the first the table so we honor you and recognize you in that in jesus name yeah and we just speak over you eritrea that acts 17 26 verse which you've hear you've heard us quote so many times but just that sense now is your season and now is your time for the lord has said that this is your time of honor this is your season of honor so do not let the words of men do not let the dictates of men keep you from taking that place of visibility and honor and we just speak that over eritrea this is your season and holy spirit with those of us who are watchmen with those of us who are intercessors and prophets would we be so sharp with our words that we do not undermine the season that you have for this nation may we fix our eyes on your plan for the nations jesus that you would show us um just seeing it's almost like taking us in step in in time that we wouldn't tell the lord well surely this nation is more important holy spirit we yield and we submit to yours for the nations we yield to your timings for the nations and we just speak over eritrea this is your season of visibility we have need of you we have need to learn from you and so we make a space for you we make a space for you and we just you know even if you're at home and if you're able to i just sense that that um that posture of almost even getting on your knees that significant of humility and saying we get on our knees like a child would sit down at the feet of something that they're wanting to learn from and so if you're able to we just recommend that you do that as a prophetic act we sit at your feet eritrea and we say will you teach us we have need of you and this is your season yeah yeah we see eritrea as a servant nation a servant leading nation and i don't know that we understand what that is we know nations that are imperialistic colonialistic in their view where they come and they imprint and want to shape nations in their character in their culture and so lord we see right now and as luke prayed that sense of getting out of the way lord we make room we remove ourselves from in that place of saying almost like the disciples who is the greatest which nation can sit with you jesus and we've been nations like that particularly in the west who said lord make room for us we want that seat next to you lord we come away from the crowding of the western nations in particular who've been the imperialists who've been the empire builders you know britain in itself you know we have a lot to answer for to be honest and we're praying through a lot of that in the years that have been and we continue to pray as the lord leads but if you know that's your nation if you feel convicted about that we just want to say lord we do ask for your mercy and your forgiveness in the we have not been servant leaders we have been those who want to put our shape our cookie cutter culture over nations and lord we particularly repent in relation to africa where we remove that we make room for that servant leaders and place and position and we say eritrea thank you for making an example of what it is to be a servant leading nation and mary small you said something about the treasure earlier on in the in the stream chat that i was just picking up a few of your prayers you've got brilliant prayers there this sense of the the treasure of eritrea and also the treasure that is eritrea that it brings to jesus and says here we are god the the centuries in fact the thousands of years it feels like of faithfulness to being peacemakers who will be children of god and we know that this is the time where we get to follow christ like a child where he is saying to us the church be childlike you see the link the peacemaker and the child likeness and so lord we want to learn and we step into this peace place this peace be with you place that you are setting for the church to john 21 place lord that you spoke and are speaking again over the church we step into the peacemaking place where we receive not my peace not luke's peace not katrina's peace but your peace god your peace jesus we receive that and we let you wash us in that piece and learn from eritrea at this time and so i retray we bless you we bless your feet and if i had an eritrean in front of me right now i'd want to be like mary i'd want to be like one who prays for their feet those who have the the good news and they have the good news of being peacemakers and so we bless your feet eritrea bless your feet we bless the feet of the good news of the peacemakers and we make room we open up and agree for that borderlessness if you will around eritrea god has set borders his borders that are not man's borders wow man's borders draw lines on maps where god doesn't draw lines on maps he has his own borders for eritrea and that people who speak the ancient language the semitic language that is ancient linked to hebrew linked to aramaic this sense of actually the the language even the known language wow the known language of eritrea being anointed and so lord we bless and make room for all the characteristics of the people of eritrea across your borders lord through your borders and we say let it permeate the nations god would you wash us the nations in the west would you wash as nations of the earth in the anointing of the peace makers in jesus name amen david even shared pamela's um comment about you are not a displaced nation but you are placed right in front of the face of the lord we just declare over you eritrea that you carry the favor of the most high god that you are a people you see god face to face just as moses cried out lord i want to see your face i want to see your glory that you are a nation that stands in that place of seeing the face of god of seeing the glory of god and we just declare to you that wherever the air trains have been scattered across the nations that is not a displacement instead it is like a yeast that goes into the bread that activates it and creates life and we just speak over the air trans that are amongst all of the nations and we say be blessed and be activated to be the yeast in that nation to bring forth the glory of the kingdom of heaven to be a blessing to that nation and we speak to the nations that host air trains and we say make room for them make space for them and most importantly learn what it is to be still and to be silent so that you can hear the voice of the air trains that you can hear and learn from them and so again we just speak over you you are not displaced and said it is a holy scattering like the yeast going into the bread that you create and activate life in the nations and so we just again say to the host nations welcome them make space for them hear their voices and learn from them for there is much to learn from them and there is much to be gleaned from them and so we say on behalf of our nations we make space for you we desire to learn from you and we will holy spirit again teach us what it is to be still and to be silent so that we can hear their voices and hear what it is they have to teach us [Music] sorry somebody posted um i'm just doing a quick google you caught me uh did the queen of sheba come from um uh eritrea and yes you are spot on whoever that was i saw that um message there and lord that that sense of the honoring the honoring of god and the treasure of god again we're back to that and so lord um what the eritreans know of right nobility and honoring we saw that in the spirit the sense of the people of eritrea being a noble character a kingly character as well as this priestly anointing of beauty and of worship to the lord and the majority of them are christians but i have to be honest and a lot of times when you're praying for nations on the african continent you're very aware of the witchcraft at work but this time we're very aware of that purity the purity and heart the the the even the beatitude speaks about blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see god that sense of you know the marrying of the purity and the holiness and the pure motive of the people of god in eritrea again that we can learn from so lord we thank you for that we bless them for that lord we ask again for that conviction even in the west where we have been those who thought we knew the way to go who thought we knew how to preach the gospel who thought we knew lord everything there was to know but lord we see that you're teaching us the way of the king and the way of the priest in this new era did you bring that word already or was that pre-chat just uh no just a portion of it so there's something in relation to um where it talks in scripture about priest and king in the order of melchizedek um there is something that the lord is establishing in the earth in relation to that uh and in relation to the table of nations um and this portion for eritrea and this portion in the beatitudes of peacemaker is actually the key thing in relation to that you see the law can only attach that royal authority when first there is priestly position an eritrea through the thousands of years has been so faithful in the remaining of the priestly position um and uh that it has been uh ordained and enrobed um with a pr with a a kingly authority in the earth that actually steps into this whole realm of melchizedek which is priest and king which is incredible but even as far as the kingly portion is concerned it's ancient they've been faithful for thousands and thousands of years and so this is an old thing i mean it's incredible the nation of eritrea has gone through significant persecution over the years you know i i i knew a beautiful you know pastor friend who was from eritrea and had to flee eritrea years and years ago to the uk um but my goodness the response the response of him as an individual to what he'd gone through was just incredible um and you can see that the depth of the depth of priest is just has enabled this to be established in the people and in the nation of eritrea which is so key because actually the priest and king is the almost it's the in ephesians 4 when it talks about um unity in the bond of peace it is the place at the table that enables that in the spirit and so if we as nations are to be able to sit at the table in unity yeah that it is created through the bond of peace and it requires a peacemaker a priest and a king to sit at the table and eritrea is that space in the spirit and so their place at the table it's it's it's almost at the head but it their place at the table is so significant in the others coming around as well because of that that that priestly and that kingly joined together in the order of melchizedek um amazing yes on the back of that yeah yeah definitely so lord we just so we recognize again i just feel this feels such humility when we're talking about irritating praying for treyarch you know uh just undone either just the depth and the richness of what god's done and and has given to this people um and actually i would say as a a as as a priest in the house of the lord you know i just recognized and broken by the faithfulness over years and so again i just want to honor from that place even from that emotional place want to honor who you are and what you've done eritrea the significance of who you are in this era in this time recognize your seat at the table lord i just want to let go of um that a western thing that would say well that was my peace and honor the peace and the place that the lord has given you eritrea and so again we speak to that ancient word that was spoken to you spoke into your ground and into your people that you are called to be priest and king peacemakers sitting at the table creating a space of peace for others to step into into that place of unity we honor that we recognize that and we speak to you again that is your place that is your portion that is who you are come and take your seat at the table of nations yes lord we're jealous lord do you feel that people of god lord we are jealous lord for the peace that they carry lord we are jealous for the purity lord that they carry as a people lord what you have put in them and lord is saying see them as an example see them as an example of what it is to be those who are servant nations those who are washed in the purity and the clear beautiful white purity light of the living god that light that we read about in isaiah 60 that i'm light that is the light of life wow do you feel that i mean i am provoked as you were praying there like to jealousy and lord jealousy on my behalf as an individual but also jealousy on the nation's behalf it's almost like how did we not see what this actually is supposed to look like how did we think that actually to dominate nations and to impose upon nations was the way of the lord lord would you forgive our mindsets and would you wash us lord in this new mindset that you're releasing and thank you lord for your mercy that you're releasing this new mindset but god make us jealous and hungry for this purity lord that you have put in your people in eritrea that you are manifesting and we say lord we make room and we bless them when we are limited lord we where we put our walls we bless them even with our thinking for coming to world prayer watch and even when we first heard we're praying for every trey we were like oh okay we know how this goes lord we ask for your forgiveness and your mercy feeling like we're more than we actually are i don't know about you guys i feel so humbled right now i'm so humbled god is making us a people who are humble a lot of you are crying a lot of you on your knees that sense of actually the the humility and the jealous longing for something that is on the earth that we have not seen that we have not touched that we have not even thought of and so lord we thank you for opening our eyes for giving us that insight at this time and we bless you eritrea to flourish and to be seen to be the ezekiel 17 22 24 nation that is being made low so that it can flourish and be a sign of what it is to be humble at heart wow lord give us ah give us the teaching thank you lord thank you lord yeah and holy spirit teach us what it is to be students because even as you were you're praying sj there's almost the sense of holy spirit help for so long we've taken a posture of teacher and and those that have the answers and no and those that know bets that we don't you know i don't even know how to be a student anymore in some sense and so holy spirit would you enable us to be students again would you teach them to be students again would you teach us what it is to sit at someone else's feet rather than making all the nations sit at our feet and hearing our voices and again lord as those who represent nations that are loud you know oftentimes americans carry um an identity of being very loud and boisterous lord teach us what it is to sit in stillness to sit in silence to hear the voice of a different people group to learn from a different people group so holy spirit take us into that place of being students and again set our eyes on the unseen realm that we would understand that this is us molding and bending and being reshaped into the image that you want us to be rather than us dictating to the nations that you should look and sound like this and so holy spirit you know just that cry of help help us to be students enable us to be students and even as we go on from this you know this was just a simple 30-minute starter of how do we you know raising awareness of this nation this isn't the end of the story there's so much more to learn and so lord take us on that journey what does it mean to sit at the feet of a nation what does it look like in the spirit realm what does it look like in our day-to-day lives or would you open our eyes to see the air trains that are all around us to see the air trains that are already in our midst and in our nations that's the holy spirit enable us to to be the students teach us what it is to come in that place of humility and to truly be peacemakers and holy spirit would you take us on our journey i just i feel the challenges we go on as as world prayer just to really sit in the beatitudes and meditate on them and to allow them to soak into us how do we pray as watchmen from the beatitudes how do we pray as intercessors and prophets with a posture of humility and hunger and you know just that desire for more of the kingdom of heaven release that to you i just released you a new hunger for the word of the lord a new hunger for scripture and the scriptures of the season matthew 5 and acts and all of these scriptures that take us to that place of yieldedness and submission to the lord and submission to the holy spirit so we release that to you prayer watch those that are with us live and the lord will teach us and even those of us here that tend to lead on on a friday morning holy spirit take us on a deep dive journey and teach us in the spirit help us to learn from eritrea because lord we need it desperately yeah well guys we've reached the end of our world prayer watch so sj luke is there anything last night burning to know oh goodness i i just feel like i just want to pray for this nation and learn from this nation really just like spend the whole morning doing this you know i feel like there's so much that god is really opening up so i would just want to encourage us all as you've already said katrina to keep digging with the lord in in the e the way that it is and the easy way that we do what the father is showing us and and telling us and watch with him and learn with with the lord and learn with eritrea as students and nations let's learn the ancient ways of nations from from them as an example this is an amazing experience and actually i don't know if david you can find it there was a there was a post from joanna one of our team she's actually uh works with me as one of the managers in our prayer department at gpa she posted something about the first time the word kingdom was used in scripture was about the kingdom of priests and so i i feel like i don't know joanna if you've got that if you've still um got that um bible verse foreign that would be amazing if anybody in the team david you're usually good at finding these yes that's the the comment and so i think there's such a lot that we have to learn be bible students but be students of the spirit as well as scripture and see how these things are marrying isn't god amazing are we not learning a whole new way of praying and so people of god just be encouraged to pray in the spirit on all occasions yes all occasions like paul says not just on a friday morning [Laughter] it's like the beginning of a new adventure and a new journey and it's exciting it's so exciting it's the beginning it's just the beginning of something new for us and that's incredible well thank you world pro watch family we are excited um to see you next friday but in the meantime as always there's power hour on a wednesday and warrior women on a thursday and for those of you that are tracking with us i know that we've gotten many requests for prophetic checkups but just to let you know we have reopened prophetic checkups so if you would like to sign up for a prophetic checkup um you can go onto our website and do that and there's always global miracle clinic appointments as well so please connect with us we love connecting with you and it would be our joy and our delight to get to pray for you either in global miracle clinic or in prophetic checkups and i know many of us will be kick-starting lap tomorrow at the church which is going to be really exciting i'm excited to exercise those muscles again in a big way um but until next friday to glasgow and get blessed yes exactly see you friday see you next friday bye [Music] so [Music] you

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