BRAGA SOLEMN ASSEMBLY (BSA). JOEL 2:15.-17; 2 Chro 7:14.
WE DESPERATELY NEED YOUR PRAYERS!
On April 15, a group of pastors and missionaries in Braga who have been meeting weekly for some time agreed to hold the Braga Solemn Assembly, BSA as follows:
Date June 14; Time: 9am-4pm; Venue: Igreja Missionária, Braga
The BSA is a time that interested churches and ministries in Braga city, (and environs), will gather to cry out to God, seeking Him in repentance according to JOEL 2:15.-17; 2 Chro 7:14. It is a time to cry for an outpouring of the Spirit upon Braga, Northern Portugal and indeed the whole of Portugal. It is a time of crying to God for revival in the lives of individuals and churches in Braga and Portugal.
In preparation, this group of leaders began meeting daily for prayers on May 25 and will continue till June 3. The participating churches will gather daily in their respective places of meeting for prayers as from June 4 till June 13. The leaders in Braga praying together are like a woman in laboring to give birth to her first baby.
Yet, much, so much more prayer is needed in order to realize God’s plan for Braga and to fulfill the reason for the BSA.
This is where you can be involved. We plead with you to KINDLY PRAY, AND PASS THIS TO YOUR AREA OF INFLUENCE, REQUESTING THEM TO PRAY CONSISTENTLY FOR THE CITY OF BRAGA, THE BSA AND PORTUGAL. Here are some prayer points.
Thanks giving and prayers
Thank God for:
1. Setting up and sustaining this meeting of pastors and missionaries and enabling them to meet every Tuesday.
2. Uniting this group to hold the BSA.
Please pray that:
1. Repentance-God will release the spirit of repentance upon believers in the city, enabling us to repent genuinely enough to release God’s forgiveness and blessing upon the land.
2. Plead with God to grant believers broken and contrite hearts, the type that He will not despise.
3. Spirit of prayer-God will pour upon Braga city a spirit of prayer causing the believers to pray in the power of the Spirit, releasing God’s move upon the city.
4. Unity/Harmony-Pray that God will cause harmony/unity among the leaders of participating groups. Pray that God will cause the believers in the city to unite to such an extent to enable a release of the power of God through the church in the city.
5. Humility-that God will enable the church in Braga to humble herself sufficiently to bring about the fulfillment of the Word in 2 Chro 7:14.
6. Pray specifically for the daily meeting of these leaders that God will grant each one of these leaders repentant hearts, revive each one and harmonize them so that His blessings can come upon the city. See Psalm 133.
7. Pray that these leaders will be supernaturally enabled to travail till the purposes of God are accomplished in Braga and even Portugal.
8. Genuine personal heart preparations towards the Day-that God will create genuine and sustained hunger for Himself in the hearts of believers in Braga, causing us to seek Him with all our hearts.
9. Program for the Day-God will give us His program for the Day.
10. Out pouring of the Spirit-God will fulfill upon this city, His promise, “I WILL POUR ..” Joel 2:28, 29.
11. Revival-God will revive the church in Braga. That God will do whatever pleases Him in Braga.
12. Judgment-God will judge the gods of Braga and of Portugal.
13. Other cities-what God does in Braga will be replicated in other cities in Portugal resulting in a national revival. (Braga is called the city of archbishops, the Rome of Portugal-meaning that it is like the religious capital of the nation-what happens should flow to other cities.)
14. United Prayer for Portugal (UPP)-that God will use BSA to kick start the UPP. The UPP is a vision to mobilize the entire church in Portugal to pray with fasting seeking the face of God for at least 3 years. Pray that God will raise people in Portugal that will give the UPP credibility and visibility.
15. Pray for a shift in the heavens over Braga and over Portugal. Pray for open heavens over the city and the nation.
16. AFTER THE SOLEMN ASSEMBLY, what next? Pray that the leaders will understand what God wants them to do AFTER the Day of prayer in order to maintain and grow the fire. Pray the leaders will follow God’s plan. Pray for a deep and lasting work of the Spirit in Braga and in Portugal.
17. Pray for a mighty move of the Spirit in Braga that will result in thousands coming to the faith. Pray the same for Portugal that the Spirit of God will sweep of millions of Portuguese into the kingdom and maturing His church in the nation.
Please pray all manner of prayer as the Lord enables you, for Braga, Portugal and the Portuguese world.