Dear
Intercessors,
"So I
set armed men behind the wall in places here it was least
protected: I even thus used the people as families with their
swords, spears and bows...take from Him courage to fight for your
brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes."
Neh. 4:13,15 Amplified.
We see Nehemiah, a "cupbearer" to
King Artaxerxes, who was an officer of the palace of Susa while
still a captive Jew. His heart was with the remnant in
Jerusalem, and when he saw the walls
were broken down and the gates burned, he sat down, wept, prayed and
fasted. He then marshaled his people to complete the work of Ezra,
to rebuild the city walls. Nehemiah surveyed the city by night,
spoke to the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials and
encouraged them to know that the
hand of God was upon him for good! In spite of
opposition, the people "rose up with their brethren...their
families...to restore the gates." Their enemies taunted them and the
workers grew weak but the people of God
"made their prayer to their God and set a watch against them day
and night." Nehemiah set armed men behind the places where it was
least protected and even used the people as families
with their weapons! He encouraged them to fight for their families.
In NE Ohio in
the twenty-first century, we can draw comparisons between the people
of God in Jerusalem and our own regional challenges. We are about
to send thousands of children into the
Cleveland Municipal District schools to be part of a new
Transformation plan. Possibilities
of teacher shortages, larger classes, new school merges and a
different transportation plan might face our children and
grandchildren - not to mention the temptations of drinking, drugs
and illicit sex. The need to fast and pray and intercede for the
"righteous seed" is accelerated each year!
The opportunity
to pray corporately, with others, for the schools, is always
available. There are places to pray...at "prayer altars" all around
Cleveland and NE Ohio. NEOIN tries to provide a calendar, an
overview of events and places and times to gather unto our God.
Going on our website,
www.neoin.org will give you
pertinent information about City-wide Prayer and intercession as
well as conferences to encourage and build our faith!
Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010, from 10:00 AM -
2:00 PM will be NEOIN's Equipping the Saints Conference held at
Bethany Assembly of God,
6195 Broadview Rd., Cleveland, OH.
We are presenting Sentinel films, Transformation film, "An
Appalachian Dawn" showing transforming revival in Kentucky, plus a
slide presentation by Angela Locke of her missionary trip to
Mozambique, a missionary from World Trumpet Mission, plus worship
and food. Our scriptural theme is from Isa. 55:6,
"Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He
is near." A free-will offering will be taken.
Opportunities to
be part of the Adopt a School Program can be realized by
contacting Gail Reese's, Ministry of Reconciliation at
reconciliation3@sbcglobal.net.
Each school in Cleveland and NE Ohio can be adopted and prayed for
by a church in the region. It is exciting to think of the
possibilities of transformation as God's people obey His
leading. See You at the Pole
takes place on Wednesday,
September 22, 2010. Last year, many teachers joined their
students to pray at the flagpole.
Let us as the
family of God, take courage from Him
to fight for our brethren, our sons, our daughters, our wives, our
home
Carol A. Engelbert,
Director
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