demonic strongholds

Pray to Overcome Growing Totalitarianism

Discerning The Times, High-level Intercession

Dear Intercessors:

Blessings on everyone. Thanks so much for your prayers and for your participation in the engagements about which I have been writing to you.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, in his poem, “Morte D’Arthur,” has the dying King Arthur speak these famous lines:

“If thou shouldst never see my face again,

Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” …

“If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer

Both for themselves and those who call them friend?

For so the whole round earth is every way

Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.”

I have always been greatly moved by these lines spoken by King Arthur.

As we have been in these prayer battles together, I am seeing more and more the power and the role of prayer in bringing God’s work and presence into the world.

That is how I interpret the stanza about the earth being “bound by gold chains about the feet of God.” I am seeing this poetic image become reality through our engagements.

The changes wrought by heaven through our prayer also let us know the strategic role of intercession. Through our petitions the Holy Spirit advances the Kingdom of God in the earth.

Brad’s New Book and Mountain Top Equipping

Discerning The Times, High-level Intercession, Israel

Dear Intercessors:

Praise our loving God! He is opening up our vision and understanding.

And He is calling us to multiple fronts in our intercessory prayer work.

The discernment team and I are working through a number of discernment issues. This process of discernment takes considerable care and time to get right.

Currently we are preparing Discerning The Times updates and leading intercessory prayer cohorts on several fronts.

I will send out reports for guidance in prayer as soon as we are ready.

Though this is really exciting, we are facing strong head winds in spiritual warfare.

So in the meantime please cover us in prayer.

Now here are three advancements in God’s Kingdom to include in your prayer. [Read more…] about Brad’s New Book and Mountain Top Equipping

Do You Want to Join a Prayer Cohort for POTUS?

Discerning The Times, Prayer

We are being led to raise up a prayer cohort dedicated to cooperating with the Holy Spirit in fulfilling God’s plans to advance his kingdom through President Trump. It is urgent that this prayer work be set in motion before the New Year.

The Holy Spirit’s Call for a Prayer Cohort Focused on the Battle Around President Trump

By Brad Long

Giving Thanks For Defeating Antifa And Other News

Discerning The Times

Dear Intercessors: Right now, Martin and I and the PRMI team are in arrived in Israel to begin our Jerusalem Prayer Endeavor.

This Discerning The Times is unlike most – short! Just a word of giving praise and thanksgiving. God seems to have answered our prayer to bind the spirit of lawlessness that could have broken out with the planned Antifa protest during the weekend.

Many us had the urgent calling to step into the gap and to bind the demons. Apparently the Holy Spirit orchestrated an entire prayer movement in opposition to the Radical Left/Marxist strongholds that pose a real and present danger not just to America, but to the Kingdom of God.

I reported this in the Discerning the Times on November 3, 2017.

Praise God nothing substantial took place and the result was that the Antifa protest events fizzled and were so sparsely attended that basically nothing happened. There are many reports of this non-event. Here is one:

3 Results from South Korea Mountain Top Equipping Camp

Discerning The Times, Prayer

All Nations Intercessors (ANI) is part of the prayer movement in South Korea started 20 years ago by an anointed intercessor named Sarah Lee. In 2008 when the PRMI team of John Chang, Peyton Johnston and I went to Korea to provide teaching on the Holy Spirit at the Hallelujah Church, Ben Torrey asked ANI to provide intercessory prayer covering.

During that gathering, there was a tremendous outpouring of the Holy Spirit that took place upon the 150 Korean pastors and church leaders from many different denominations. This outpouring of the Holy Spirit was to result seven years later in the birthing of the Dunamis Fellowship Korea.

An Invitation to Teach

Last October(2016), when Paul Stokes, Cindy Strickler and I came to teach at the Growing the Church in the Power of the Holy Spirit Conference, I was invited to offer a one-day seminar for the ANI intercessors on the Prayer Strategy for Jesus’ Victory over Radical Islam. This one-day event led to the invitation to return and offer the Mountain Top Equipping Camp to a select group of ANI intercessors. This was an intensive 5 day equipping event.

The team consisted of Ben Torrey, Cindy Strickler, Martin Boardman and myself joined by Sara Lee, the Director of ANI. Sarah is a powerfully anointed prayer leader and visionary leader.

Several members of leadership team pray for each other (L to R) Martin Boardman, Sarah Lee, Ben Torrey, Brad Long and interpreter Becky Lee

During this amazing event, the Holy Spirit did strategic work in equipping the army of intercessors to defeat demonic strongholds and advance the Kingdom of God. [Read more…] about 3 Results from South Korea Mountain Top Equipping Camp

Praying For Our Leaders

Prayer

As we “discern the times” amidst the turmoil in the world today, one thing that becomes very clear is our need to pray for our leaders.

Most of us are familiar with the passage in 1 Timothy:

1 Timothy 2:1-2 “First of all, then, I urge that requests, prayers, intercessions, and thanks be offered on behalf of all people, (2) even for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life in all godliness and dignity.”

There are of course many ways to understand this mandate. But my understanding is based on John Calvin, who understood the interface between spiritual reality—the Kingdom of God—and the human institutions of government.