Jubilee Prayer Guide
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Foreword “O God of all Creation, Bless this our land and nation” Kenya is truly a blessed nation. This beloved first line of our national anthem is a petition to God. The word ‘bless’ is the Hebrew word ‘barak’, which means to impart life, to be empowered to succeed, congratulations or exalted. So every time we sing our National Anthem, we’re asking God to ‘barak’ our nation – to impart life, exalt, congratulate and empower our nation to succeed! On December 12th last year – 12/12/12 – Kenya entered her year of Jubilee, the 50th year since independence. The year of Jubilee is one of the feasts of the Lord; it is a time set by God for the release of incredible favor and blessing upon a nation (Lev 25:10-13; Ps 102:12-15). It is a time for Repentance, Restitution, Release, Recompense, Rest, Restoration, Resurrection and Rejuvenation. What would happen if the body of Christ all over the nation, from different backgrounds and walks of life, resolved to humble themselves, and pray, and seek God’s face, and turn from their wicked ways, asking the Almighty God to release His Jubilee blessings on our land? We would truly birth a divine turn-around in this nation! It is one thing to ask God to bless our nation, it is quite another to ask Him to do so in the year/season He has set for releasing national blessings. It is a guaranteed win-win! This booklet is an invitation to every Kenyan to participate in birthing this turn-around. It provides a daily guide to help you pray for our beloved country over the 50-day period beginning 23rd October and ending on 11th December. In Deuteronomy 32:30, God promises a ten-fold increase in power and effectiveness whenever one believer joins their heart and voice with others in unity around God’s agenda. These are truly exciting days. Join thousands around the nation in this exciting adventure as we decree and establish the prophetic future and destiny that God has ordained for this nation! May the Lord ‘barak’ you as you do so. With compliments from the editors: Dr Geoffrey Njuguna – Senior Pastor, Deliverance Church Langata Hudson Mukunza – Coordinator, Africa House of Prayer Rene Kiamba – President, International Christian Chamber of Commerce – Kenya Chamber Othniel Mwabili – Senior Pastor, City Revival Temple; Convenor, Global Spheres Apostolic Network John Magangi – Pastor Arnold Orono – Senior Pastor, Hekima Centre Editors note Kindly note that this is a first revision of the original hard copy version that was printed in October 2013. Acknowledgements We ascribe glory and honor to the Almighty God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. We bless God for Emmanuel Kure and Chuck Pierce for their obedience to the voice of God to visit Kenya in our year of Jubilee to proclaim the prophetic words and apostolic decrees incorporated in this guide. We are grateful to Pastor Abu Bako for his investment towards the Jubilee season in Kenya. Thanks to many other servants of God and lovers of Kenya who have prayed that our nation does not miss her time of divine visitation. We also thank God for the support from the Spiritual Fathers in Kenya. May the Lord write a memorial for you all. We thank God for the following organizations and their support: The Evangelical Alliance of Kenya, God Bless Kenya Prayer Movement, National Council of Churches of Kenya and World Vision Kenya. We genuinely value the support accorded to us by the Churches and Ministries represented by the editors and indeed the entire body of Christ in Kenya. This is our Jubilee. Shalom and more Grace to you! The Editors. Table of Contents 1.0 Preamble ............................................................................................................... 2 2.0 Use and purpose of prayer guide ............................................................................ 3 3.0 Prophecy Watch ..................................................................................................... 3 4.0 50 day Prayer Guide ............................................................................................... 5 5.0 The Banner of the Lion of the tribe of Judah ......................................................... 24 6.0 Significance of the 50th year .................................................................................. 26 7.0 National Anthem of Kenya ................................................................................... 27 - 1 - 1.0 Preamble On December 12, 2012 Kenya entered her Year of Jubilee. Despite the many uncertainties and ills that seem to bedevil our Beloved Country, we stand at the threshold of entering Kenya's best moment. There is great hope for this Nation which has a great destiny amongst Nations. We are in a new Season. Biblically speaking, Jubilee is a time for Repentance Recompense, Rest, Restitution, Restoration, Resurrection and Rejuvenation (Leviticus 25). Set yourself to Accelerate, Multiply and Maximize in this Season of Jubilee. The Set Time has come! (Ps. 102:12-15) Since independence Kenya has been a Country of Refuge. God by His Grace and mercy has sent innumerable Prophets to declare God’s call for this Nation over the years. This is our season of divine visitation. We call on Kenyans to obey and have Faith in God. He has released His Word of Blessing over this Land and in this Jubilee Season we can ‘Birth a Turn Around’ for this Nation. God has a great purpose for this Nation and is calling His Church to be repositioned so as to be a vehicle for Transformation in the Nation of Kenya. The Jubilee is the foundation of the Feasts of the LORD. These are appointed times, divinely set appointments when God commands all creation - men and nations to meet with Him, and rest as they worship Him. The Jubilee is the foundation of all God’s appointed times & season in God’s spiritual timetable and is celebrated after every 49 years. God Instituted the Jubilee Law as the basis of all the Feasts of His Kingdom (Lev 25: 8-10). In the Jubilee year, God moves individuals, communities and nations to another level of grace. He moves them from the natural to the supernatural. This unprecedented leap in status, authority, anointing and grace, ability, wisdom and other gifts is totally dependent on the Lord and Him alone. The Jubilee is a season of bringing balance to various levels, including relationships of people with people, relationships of land with people, and relationships of creation with God. There are significant words used to describe various experiences a people or nation should go through in this season: Rest for people and land, Return to family and possession, Redemption for land, Release of slaves and from debt, Liberty proclaimed throughout the land. These all indicate a great restoration to a state of blessedness and bliss. Jubilee is also a time of reflection on the past failures, repenting of them and turning to move in the right direction before dedicating ourselves to God for the next period of fifty years. The Lord has released Frenetic Favour on the Nation of Kenya and it will overflow into Africa and the rest of the Nations. Since 2007 Africa entered a Season of Jubilee that must not be allowed to pass unnoticed, but to accomplish what God ordained for nations in such a season. We can confidently say Africa also has received the sixth year blessing that characterizes the arrival of Jubilee where the land would produce threefold for the time it would rest. We have seen discoveries of diverse and large deposits of minerals, oil and gas in Africa in the recent past. Prophesy is being fulfilled that Princes will come from Africa…. (Psalms 68:31) In Kenya, places once relegated to the periphery and marginalized have come into the limelight with discovery of oil in Turkana, and water, enough to sustain the country’s needs for the next 80 years! This indeed is favour from God for the season. We need to be informed and challenged in such moments to take our position, play our roles and hence put our country on the radar of nations. It has been repeated severally that Kenya is a Father Nation, and as a long distance runner with stamina, Kenya will finish strong. We are the Gateway into Africa and the Light House of Africa that will send Missionaries to the Nations. Recently, in the Jubilee Convocation - 2 - Prayer Summit, both Apostle Chuck Pierce and Apostle Emmanuel Kure declared that the Prophetic picture of Kenya in the Heavens is a Lion. They saw this Lion receive back its roar and the Nations acknowledging that this is truly Kenya’s time. We therefore realize that it is no coincidence that a prophetess living in Israel sent the largest flag in the World to Kenya with the Prophetic Picture of the Lion of Judah which now waits to be unveiled to the whole Nation. This is the flag of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, and He is here to roar in this nation. 2.0 Use and purpose of prayer guide This guide has been put together for the purpose of raising corporate prayers so that we can DEDICATE THE NEXT 50 YEARS TO GOD AND CALLING FORTH THE FUTURE KENYA. Through the prayers of many believers we believe that the church in Kenya will lay a new foundation upon which our nation will prosper, flourish as she espouses righteousness. The Bible teaches us that “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord”. In the next phase of our nation we do solemnly choose the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ our God as our guide, anchor and mainstay. We thus take 50 days of prayer and fasting praying over different aspects of our nation, dedicating them to our God. An individual can take a day each week to fast or a continuous period to join in this effort. A church, fellowship, ministry can arrange a chain fast to cover the period or ask members to take the whole period.