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National Day Prayer and Fasting Sunday 7 February 2016 10am to 4pm Great Hall Parliament House, Canberra
Call to Pray for Australia
National Day of Prayer and Fasting
Sunday 7 February 2016
The National
Day of Prayer and Fasting will take place on Sunday 7 February 2016. It is a
day for Christians and churches from all denominations to unite together to
pray and fast according to 2 Chronicles 7:14 for revival and
transformation for our nation. See YouTube promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-1x3xJDOnk
Wesley Leake
from the Prayer Day Team said, “We have a vision for Australia where our
children can flourish and play safely in the streets. Where happy marriages
produce happy families and build a strong and vibrant nation for the greater
good of all; where the contribution to the local community and nation by people
of faith and the church is valued. We believe the Judeo-Christian ethics and
values that our nation is built upon are the source of Australia’s national
prosperity and we want to preserve them for future generations.”
“To quote from
the National Days Vision Statement The Australia We Live to See:
‘We live to see
a society where justice, fair play and the common good provides the foundation
for the legal, governmental and social framework that protects every Australian.
And that the same protection is afforded to the ageless institutions of
marriage and family and the Judeo-Christian heritage and traditions that our
nation has been built upon.’
Warwick Marsh
from the Prayer Day Team said, “Australia’s Constitution, written in 1901 says,
‘Humbly relying on the blessings of
almighty God’. Sadly we have strayed far from our Judeo-Christian
foundations. The fact that one in three marriages ends in divorce and the
reality that many do not even choose to get married, shows how far we have
moved away from our Christian heritage. The resultant moral chaos is producing
an epidemic of fatherlessness and family breakdown, leading our nation further
and further into a moral vacuum and spiritual poverty. Moral chaos leads to
economic chaos.”
Dr Graham McLennan, head of the National
Alliance of Christian Leaders and part of the Prayer Day Team said, “President
Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the chaos of the civil war called for a
National Day of Humiliation, Prayer and Fasting on the 30 March 1863. His proclamation read, ‘And whereas it is the duty of nations as
well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to
confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow… yet with assured hope
that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon… ‘
‘We have
been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved,
these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and
power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God… we have
vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings
were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with
unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of
redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It
behoves us then, to humble ourselves… to confess our national sins, and to pray
for… forgiveness.’
David Rowsome
from the Prayer Day team said, “We as people of faith can take inspiration from
Abraham Lincoln’s call for prayer. President Lincoln, by the grace of God, was
able to defeat slavery and reunite America. Australia is at a crossroads. We
have been intoxicated by our unbroken success but now is the time for us as a
nation to return to God. Let us accept the challenge, rise to the occasion and
seek God. ‘Come let us know, let us press on to know the Lord . . . and He
will come to us . . .’ Hosea 6:3. The only answer for us as a nation is a
national awakening and a fresh revelation of Jesus Christ and His finished work
of Redemption through His blood. We encourage the Christian people of Australia
to rise up and ‘stand in the gap on behalf of the land’ as found in
Ezekiel 22:30.
Rod Schneider from the Prayer Day team said, “The National Day of Prayer &
Fasting to be held in on Sunday 7 February 2016 is totally worthy of
your involvement. We encourage you to invite your friends, family and church
members. The theme this year is ‘Jesus’
and we're excited about the 40 testimonies of Jesus told by Aboriginal and
Torres Strait Islanders that will be featured over the 40 Days of Prayer and Fasting from
the 10 February – 20 March 2016.” See ‘40
Stories’ YouTube promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YzrsDK1c1g
You can support
these historic prayer initiatives in four ways:
·
Come
to Canberra and celebrate the National Day of Prayer & Fasting between 10AM
– 4PM in the Great Hall of Parliament House in Canberra. Make a prayer
pilgrimage to the heart of the nation to pray and stand in the gap on
behalf of the land.
·
Tell
your friends and networks about the National Day of Prayer and Fasting and
encourage your local church to observe the National Day of Prayer and
Fasting.
·
Help
organise a pre-event for the National Day of Prayer and Fasting in the lead up
to the day in your local area. For more information check out www.nationaldayofprayer.com.au
·
Why
not sign up for the 40 Days of Prayer & Fasting following the National Day
and be inspired by our Indigenous brothers and sisters to seek Jesus on behalf
of our nation. www.40daysofprayer.com.au
Wesley Leake:
0418 225 212
Warwick Marsh:
0418 225 212
Dr Graham
McLennan: 0427 003 549
David Rowsome:
0438 967 116
Rod Schneider:
0412 127 442
www.nationaldayofprayer.com.au
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