Recently, one of our leaders sent me this poem the Lord had given her for Indiana!

           “We hear His voice of thunder
            As it echoes from His throne.
            His Power never fails us!
            INDIANA is His own.

            We see Holy God arising
            We hear His mighty roar,
            We see prodigals returning,
            We see innocence restored.

            In all our lakes and rivers
            From all our hills and plains
            The voice of God is calling
            INDIANA, hear the rain.
                                    Becky Phillips 

INDIANA is the Lords!  What can we do to make it secure in His plans and purposes?  I keep hearing and reading the importance of the WATCHES!  In the October 2008 issue of Christ For the Nations,  Cindy Jacobs is interviewed.  Her message is titled “24/7 Prayer Power!”  In it she takes note of the “at least” 60 colleges and universities in America that have a 24/7 prayer house on their campus.  Cindy calls these 24/7 prayer rooms the “spiritual nuclear plant,” for God’s plan for our nation and the nations of the earth. She writes, “Regular concerted prayer is needed both day and night.  If one cannot do it all night, it is important to start the day off by taking authority over the plans Satan has for the day.  Many people often ask me, “Cindy, what is God saying to the prayer movement?”  One of the most impacting words God is giving me and others right now is this, “It is time for early morning prayer!” 

One man who learned the value and the joy of early morning prayer was George Washington Carver.  It was during these times the Lord would give him creative ideas to change farming in the South.  It was he who introduced peanuts and the hundreds of uses for the peanut.  First the South was blessed and became more fruitful, then it spread to other parts of the nation and beyond, all because one man was willing to meet with his Creator in the early morning hours. 

Jesus, too spent many hours with His Father seeking Him, listening to His directions as He said in John 5:19, “….Yes, indeed!  I tell you that the Son cannot do anything on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does, the Son does too.”  And in John 10:27, “My sheep listen to my voice, ….” CJB  As He is, so are we in this world!  There is yet much to be done, as we spend time in His Presence, listening to His voice, fellowshipping with Him, worshipping Him, He will show us greater things! 

Of Paul and Silas, it says in Acts 16:25, “And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God:  and the prisoners heard them.”  Their backs beaten and bleeding, their hands and feet in stocks, Paul and Silas chose to sing and pray.  This resulted in God sending an earthquake which shook the prisoners free and the jailer and his family heard the story of salvation and their lives were eternally changed!  What a God, what power, what a plan and we get to be a part of His great plan!

A key scripture for the early morning watch is Job 38:12,13, “Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place, that it might take hold of the ends of the earth, and the wicked be shaken out of it?”  It is imperative that we pray during this watch or the wicked will try to overtake us with their lawless deeds.  As Cindy Jacobs puts it, “The Lord is speaking to many that it is time to get up and shake the wickedness out of our day!”  We are not helpless, we have a strong Helper and He desires that His Kingdom come, His will be done “on earth as it is in heaven.” 

Tonight, during the First Fruits Gathering at Glory of Zion, Chuck Pierce asked the saints to take the seven days from December 12-19 and commit to praying during one of the four evening watches; the evening watch from 6-9:00 pm.  This watch, according to Genesis 1:5, “…So there was evening, and there was morning, one day,” establishes the beginning of each day at sundown.  Therefore, this watch is important to setting things in God’s order for the next 24 hours.  The next evening watch is from 9-12:00 and leads into the time when darkness tries to prevail and bring destruction into the lives of many.  The midnight watch is from midnight to 3:00 am and is important in establishing God’s kingdom and rule over darkness, this being the time that witches and warlocks, those involved in occult activity work to establish devastation and ruin in people’s lives.  As we watch, we rule with Christ; we declare His Word and His victory won at Calvary.  One drop of His precious, holy Blood is enough, but He shed it all for us.  Galatians 3:13 is an important scripture for us to remember and declare, “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, ‘cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree,’ that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles.”  God wills His blessings for us and He desires that we become those whom release the blessings upon the earth that lives, cities, regions and nations might be changed, discipled and aligned with His Kingdom. 

And of course, the early morning watch called the “Breaking of the Day” watch is also considered the miracle watch.  Many of Jesus’ miracles came following His keeping the early morning watch.  It was following one of these watches that He “came walking on the water,” to His disciples who were being tossed and turned by a storm on the Sea.  This was also when Peter asked the Lord to “bid him come,” and He did!  Peter then walked on the water also.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all 92 counties in Indiana had at least one watch covered during these 7 days?  Might we expect there to be miracles, salvations, healings, lives, families, people groups changed for the glory of God!

As Becky Phillips penned in her poem, “The voice of God is calling….INDIANA, hear the rain!  Declare, INDIANA TRANSFORMED/REFORMED, ALL INDIANA SAVED!  Invite Holy Spirit to come; ask the Lord to grant you the grace and the strength to do at least part of one of the night watches ALL SEVEN DAYS from December 12-19 and WATCH & SEE what the Lord will do! 

Ask the Lord to grant you the “spirit of wisdom and revelation knowledge,” increase of the gifts and the fruit and to bring them into maturity!   

Ask the Lord to assign you to pray for your city, your region, a neighborhood, the schools of your county, the county government, the justice system; seek Him for direction!

Tell your spirit to WAKE UP, be strong and ask the Lord to “strengthen you with might in the inner man by His Holy Spirit.” 

Pray and agree for there to be at least one watch in all 92 counties during these 7 days.  If you think there may be those who would be willing to do this and may not be receiving our emails, call them and alert them to this.  Invite them to do a watch in their county!

Every day, cancel the plans of the devil by appropriating the Blood of the Lamb and petition the Father to enact and establish His plans for that day!  Especially declare the plans of Satan rendered null and void and harmless by the Blood of the Lamb in the lives of the children and youth!  Declare “Let there be light,” to shine on and expose the wicked and their evil plans.  Petition the Father for His divine intervention to stop these plans.  I think of drug dealing for one thing!  Ask the Lord to expose any drug rings in your area and cause them to cease to exist.

Pray that any sex/slave activities also be exposed and stopped.  Declare kidnapping stopped and exposed before anything happens.

Pray divine protection over children and young people.

Pray for every child, every young person, every person in your realm of authority to be delivered from the hold of drugs and other addictive substances.  That is God’s will for them; pray they receive the help they need to break completely free and to stay free.

Pray against and cancel every planned abortion; declare life to babies in their mother’s wombs.  Pray the funds of abortionists and their clinics be dried up and the clinics completely shut down.

Pray that those contemplating armed robbery, physical harm to another human being be stopped, caught and if need be, brought to justice.  Pray for their souls.

INDIANA, hear the rain!  Come Holy Spirit, breathe on our peoples, our lands, breathe the breath of life to dispel the death culture.  Empower the people of God to do the will of God!  KINGDOM OF GOD……COME!   WILL OF GOD….BE DONE…..on earth, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!

Mark your calendars, begin now to pray, asking the Lord for His direction for the WATCHES, December 12-19!  It’s God’s time for INDIANA TO WATCH TO ADVANCE!