AZUSA
21 days fasting and prayer
Washington D.C./Los Angeles/South Dakota
May 23rd - June 12th (Pentecost Sunday)
21 days because of 21 chapters in Richard Foster’s book “Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home” and 21 days in “Daniel’s fast” - ”In those days I, Daniel, was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant food, no meat or wine came into my mouth, nor did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled.” Daniel 10:2, 3
The Azusa Street Revival, beginning 1906 in downtown Los Angeles, birthed “Pentecostalism”.
The Gabrielino-Tongva are the Native American indigenous people for Greater Los Angeles. Azusa is a Tongva word meaning “healing” or “sweet water”.
The 100th year of a 100 year old prophecy was 2010. The prophecy: an even greater Azusa Street would take place in 100 years.
From 1999 book "Fire On The Horizon: how the revival generation will change the world" by youth leader Winkie Pratney: "Some years ago, a Native American friend of mine, who was called by the Lord to minister to several tribes, was given a vision. He saw an Indian warrior silhouetted on a horse in the intense red glow of a massive sun low on the horizon. Shocked and more than a little afraid, he asked, 'Lord, what does this mean? Is this the sunset of my people?" "No", came the reply, "it is the sunrise".
Washington D.C.
President Obama hosted the second annual Tribal Nations Summit on December 16, 2010. A gathering never before held in American history, the Summit was attended by hundreds of tribal leaders representing the 565 federally-recognized tribes.
From Summary of Closing Session by National Congress of American Indians:
Secretary Salazar (Department of Interior) thanked the tribal leaders for their attendance at the Summit and emphasized that the quality of the President’s team working on Indian Country issues and the number of Cabinet Secretaries and other senior officials in attendance demonstrate that working with tribal leaders is “not something that [President Obama] does because he thinks he has to do it” but is something he does because he wants to start a “whole new chapter” of working with tribal leaders. He underscored that the Summit “is just a step in a long, continuing work,” noting that “you don’t undo 400 years of history in…19 months.”
From President Obama’s opening address: “I want to hear more from you about how we can strengthen the relationship between our governments whether in education or health care or fighting crime or creating jobs. That’s why we’re here today. That’s a promise I made to you. I remember more than two years ago in Montana I visited the Crow Nation. One of many times I met with Tribal leaders on the campaign trail. You may know that on that trip I became an adopted Crow Indian. My Crow name is One Who Helps People Throughout The Land. And I want you to know that I’m working very hard to live up to that name.”
Los Angeles
The leaders of Tapestry International Ministry moved from South Dakota to Thai Town last fall to establish a Los Angeles branch. The Native ministry leader posted on the Tapestry website a lengthy report about a prayer initiative on the Cheyenne River Indian reservation. From the end of the report:
"In a phone conversation with Kimberly on Sunday night (11-21-2010); I shared the events that happened at Cheyenne River. We spoke of many things….one of those things was that on Wednesday night (November 10, 2010) on Azusa Street in LA….at this huge gathering of people to pray….a very well-known prophet Lou Engle was speaking and said “God is weaving a Divine Tapestry” ….calling in His people……WOW!!! In the midst of this huge crowd…..sits a little woman(Kimberly) from SD that God gave her this vision of Tapestry International Ministry……what more can be said….God is weaving this Divine Tapestry…..I am speechless as I begin to get a glimpse of God’s strategy….His Divine Plan….and the threads are connected from South Dakota to LA....each of us has our own experience as God touches us individually….these are my thoughts as I can best recall the profound and awesome events that occurred…”
South Dakota
South Dakota has Ziebach County, listed as the poorest county in America by the Census Bureau. South Dakota contains nine Indian reservations in some of the poorest counties in America. South Dakota also contains Wounded Knee, known for the massacre in 1890.
“Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee”, written by an obscure librarian at the University of Illinois in 1970, sold five million copies. The book was written as American history not from the point of view of east going west but as west approached from the east.
From nativeamericanmission.org – “Helping Native American Family's on Pine Ridge,
Standing Rock, & Cheyenne River Indian Reservations in South Dakota to supplement the hunger needs and provide the tools for self support. During the now economic hardship in our Country the people on these reservations are feeling it most with the cost of food and fuel raising daily and many who don't have the luxury of living in a town with a grocery store or gas station having to hitch hike or pay much needed food money for a ride sometimes 70 miles to the nearest Indian Health Service Hospital.”
Aglow International, founded by four women in 1967 during the Charismatic renewal, has the Prayer Guide for First Nations People of North America available on their website: aglow.org. The Prayer Guide contains fourteen Scriptural prayer points in two sections – “Historic Trauma” and “Redemptive Purpose”.
The 21 chapters of “Prayer: Finding the Hearts True Home”.
Part One: Moving Inward (seeking the transformation we need)
Chapter 1: Simple Prayer - Pray as you can, not as you can't Dom Chapman
Chapter 2: Prayer of the Forsaken - To come to the pleasure you have not you must go by the way in which you enjoy not Saint John of the Cross
Chapter 3: The Prayer of Examen - Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself Saint John Vianney
Chapter 4: The Prayer of Tears - Tears are like blood in the wounds of the soul Gregory of Nyssa
Chapter 5: The Prayer of Relinquishment - The Spirit teaches me to yield my will entirely to the will of the Father. He opens my ear to wait in great gentleness and teachableness of soul for what the Father has day by day to speak and to teach. He discovers to me how union with God's will is union with God Himself; how entire surrender to God's will is the Father's claim, the Son's example, and the true blessedness of the soul. Andrew Murray
Chapter 6: Formation Prayer - Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness. William Carey
Chapter 7: Covenant Prayer - What we need is a desire to know the whole will of God, with a fixed resolution to do it. John Wesley
Part Two: Moving Upward (seeking the intimacy we need)
Chapter 8: The Prayer of Adoration - In the school of adoration the soul learns why the approach to every other goal had left it restless. Douglas Steere
Chapter 9: The Prayer of Rest - Rest. Rest. Rest in God's love. The only work you are now required to do is give your intense attention to His still small voice within. Madame Jeanne Guyon
Chapter 10: Sacramental Prayer - The true sacrament is holy personality. P.Y. Forsyth
Chapter 11: Unceasing Prayer - When the Spirit has come to reside in someone, that person cannot stop praying; for the Spirit prays unceasing in him. No matter if he is asleep or awake, prayer is going on in his heart all the time. He may be eating or drinking, he may be resting or working - the incense of prayer will ascend spontaneously from his heart. The slightest stirring of his heart is like a voice which sings in silence and in secret to the Invisible. Isaac the Syrian
Chapter 12: The Prayer of the Heart - Heart speaks to heart. John Henry Newman
Chapter 13: Meditative Prayer - Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. Jeremy Taylor
Chapter 14: Contemplative Prayer - O my divine master, teach me this mute language which says so many things. Jean Nicholas Grou
Part Three: Moving Outward (seeking the ministry we need)
Chapter 15: Praying the Ordinary - Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. Teilhard de Chardin
Chapter 16: Petitionary Prayer - Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. C.H. Spurgeon
Chapter 17: Intercessory Prayer - Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the fellowship must enter every day. Dietrich Bonhoffer
Chapter 18: Healing Prayer - Many great and wonderful things were wrought by the heavenly power in those days; for the Lord made bare his omnipotent arm, and manifested his power, to the astonishment of many, the healing virtue whereby many have been delivered from great infirmities. George Fox
Chapter 19: The Prayer of Suffering - It is the prayer of agony which saves the world. Saint Mary of Jesus
Chapter 20: Authoritative Prayer - God has instituted prayer so as to confer upon his creatures the dignity of being causes. Blaise Pascal
Chapter 21: Radical Prayer - To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world. Karl Barth
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHURCH
“… every tongue tribe and nation…
Pentecost Sunday
LOCATION ETC. TBD
(hold your own 21st day birthday celebration)
The Moravian community led by Count Nicholas Von Zinzendorf experienced the Moravian Pentecost and from that came an around the clock prayer meeting lasting 100 years. The nickname for the time following the Moravian Pentecost was “the Golden Summer”.
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