03-03-03 Prayer!!

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RE: URGENT CALL FOR 03-03-03 TO BE A "WORLDWIDE DAY OF PRAYER"

The World Prayer Center is calling all Christians worldwide to a Worldwide
Day of Prayer on Monday, March 3, 2003.

Ted Haggard, President of The World Prayer Team, says his office has been
flooded with messages from people all over the world saying that God is
impressing upon them to prepare to pray on 03-03-03. "These believers do not
know one another, nor are they connected to one another. They do not know
that the others are saying the same thing. Clearly, the Holy Spirit is
speaking to His church, and He is calling His people to pray," says Haggard.

"As these reports began to come in, we sensed in our hearts that God wants
us to promote a huge outpouring of prayer on this special date. Many believe
there is significance to this date because of its numerical sequence
(03-03-03) which reminds many Christians of the Trinity. Moreover, the Holy
Spirit has highlighted Jeremiah 33:3 (again, three 3's) as our call to
action, 'Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and
unsearchable things you do not know,'" says Haggard.

The magnitude of this date is not lost on the non-Christian world as well.
The Global Consciousness movement (New Age) has for years been planning a
worldwide "Largest ever experiment into global consciousness" to take place
on 03-03-03. Their effort is slated to begin at 3:33am (Figi local time), on
the 3rd day of the 3rd month of the 3rd millennium. It has gained widespread
notoriety in New Age circles.

Should this not be enough to cause Christians to pray, the significance of
03-03-03 becomes even more pressing as America could launch a war with Iraq
at about that very hour, against a leader, Saddam Hussein, who has only
recently embraced Islam as a way of gaining support from the Islamic world.
Such was not the case with the first Gulf War. According to the Islamic
calendar, March 3, 2003 is the eve of the Islamic New Year (Islamic year
1424 begins March 4, 2003). It is also the last day of the Hajj, the annual
pilgrimage to Mecca, when pilgrims are encouraged to make a sacrifice (The
Festival of Sacrifice or Eid al-Adha). The key verse in the Qu' Ran about
this festival to take place this year on March 3, 2003 is, "Truly, my prayer
and my service of sacrifice, my life or my death, are all of AllahS" This
date therefore holds great significance to the Islamic world.

While all of this is beneath the radars of the secular news media, it is
clear to many Christian leaders that the world is on the brink of a
spiritual battle of monumental proportions. The epicenter of this struggle
is the Middle East-a battle is going on for Jerusalem and Babylon (Iraq),
biblical centers of spiritual light and darkness.


The World Prayer Team therefore calls on all Christian churches and
individuals to set aside at least 3 minutes to pray at 3:33 PM in their time
zone on 03/03/03.


PRAYER FOCUS: Pray that the armies of heaven will push back the powers of
darkness in the Middle East. Pray that Saddam Hussein will leave the country
before war is required to remove him from power. Pray that a spiritual
shield will contain hostilities within the Iraqi borders (if war cannot be
avoided), such that it doesn't spill over to the entire Islamic world. Pray
that weapons of mass destruction, if they are deployed on any side of the
battle, will be powerless. Pray that this date, rather than being a focal
point of darkness, will be overwhelmed by the Light of God through the
worldwide prayers of His people.


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