A. PREAMBLE
The German invasion of Poland that led to the Second World War happened in the season of the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Rwanda genocide of 1994 occured within the 32nd seven years of the United States when Bill Clinton was President. . In the 32nd year of Nigeria (26 September 1992) a Nigerian Air Force Lockheed C-130H Hercules (Serial Number 911) crashed three minutes after take-off from Lagos, because of multiple engine failure. Over 160 military officers perished in the crash, including 8 foreign nationals. The rise of banditry in Nigeria is happening in the 32nd seven years of the Sokoto Caliphate (from February 4, 1804). Not a new thing. Sennacherib threatened to invade Judah in the 32nd chapter of Second Chronicles. This 32nd week of the year, darkness and death will not invade your family and territory. Gate-keepers arise! Learn other ways to pray into the 32nd week of the year.
B. BIBLICAL PATTERNS FOR THE 32ND WEEK
The Bible reveals four things about the 32nd season that Intercessors and gatekeepers must take to heart.
1. The 32nd season is a season to watch against deceiving pressures and pleasures. People are prone to mistakes and errors in this season. The wise may do foolish things in this season. Aaron made the golden calf in Exodus 32. Moses was overcome by his emotions for what Aaron did and broke the two tablets of the Law he received on the mountain. Two and half tribes of Israel wanted to settle before the Jordan in Numbers 32. Jonah ran from God in the 32nd book of the Bible. The strong may be deceived by their strength in the 32nd season. Sennacherib the king of Assyria made a futile effort to invade Judah in Second Chronicles 32. His army suffered a huge loss of troops and his life ended in the middle of the siege. This is a week to bind spirits of deception and being overtaken by mental darkness. Pray against making wrong decisions in this 32nd week. Pray for wisdom and sensitivity of heart.
2. The 32nd season is a season of desperate cry to God for intervention and change. Jacob prayed for change in Genesis 32. He told the Angel of God that wrestled with him, “I will never leave you unless you bless me”. God changed his name from Jacob to Israel. Moses interceded before to forgive Israel in Exodus 32. Hezekiah prayed to God for intervention against the Assyrian siege in Second Chronicles 32. Jonah prayed from the belly of a fish in the 32nd book of the Bible. The people of Nineveh prayed and fasted before God against unending judgment in the 32nd book of the Bible. God heard them all. This is a week of stretched-out prayers before God. The Second World War broke out in the season of the 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Rwanda genocide of 1994 happened within the 32nd seven years of the United States – when Bill Clinton was President. This is a week to pray against the operations of the spirit of death in the nations. This is a week to pray against unjust invasion of families, communities, cities, and nations.
3. The 32nd season is a time of special guidance from God in which we must follow by faith. Psalm 32:8-9 is an assurance of guidance from God: “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye. [9] Do not be like the horse or like the mule, Which have no understanding, Which must be harnessed with bit and bridle, Else they will not come near you”. In Jeremiah 32, God guided Jeremiah to buy his uncle’s land by faith. Jeremiah obeyed. God guided Jonah to go to Nineveh in the 32nd book of the Bible but Jonah took another path in disobedience. This is a week to believe God concerning seeming impossible situations. In Jeremiah 32:27, God says, “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?” In verses 42-44, God also said, “For thus says the LORD: ‘Just as I have brought all this great calamity on this people, so I will bring on them all the good that I have promised them. [43] And fields will be bought in this land of which you say, “It is desolate, without man or beast; it has been given into the hand of the Chaldeans.” [44] Men will buy fields for money, sign deeds and seal them, and take witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the mountains, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I will cause their captives to return,’ says the LORD.”
4. The 32nd season is a time of judgment. That is the reason Psalm 32 opens with “Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. [2] Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit” (Psalm 32:1-2). Heaven was ready to pour out judgment on Nineveh in the 32nd book of the Bible but God stayed the hand of judgment when the people repented and fasted before Him. When sin is forgiven, judgment passes over. This is a week to pray that God’s warning will be released and heeded wherever it is needed this week – to stay the hand of judgment. We should pray that those who ought to speak out will not be silent this week and that those who ought to hear will hear.
PRAYER POINTS FOR THE WEEK
1. In the 32nd chapter of Exodus, Aaron was deceived to make a Golden Calf to replace the God of Israel. Israel was plagued for that. In the 32nd book of the Bible, Jonah ran from God’s call and ran into trouble. Pray against against rebellion and wrong decisions that could throw you, your family, ministry, church, business, organization, or nation, into trouble this week. Bind the spirits of error setting traps in different places for God’s people this week.
2. In the 32nd book of the Bible, God commanded the fish to vomit Jonah after he had repented and prayed. Pray this week that the fish that has swallowed some rebellious messengers of God and nations will vomit them. Pray for freedom from abductors and hijackers of the destinies of nations.
3. In Genesis 32, Jacob encountered God and was changed before meeting his brother Esau. He prayed for a change of story. God answered him. God also answered Hezekiah in Second Chronicles 32. In the same spirit of Genesis 32 and Second Chronicles 32, let us cry earnestly to God for a change of story in the nations. Pray that God will deliver nations from strong adversaries and forces as He delivered Hezekiah from Sennacherib and disease.
4. Pray that darkness and death will not invade or overtake families, communities, cities and nations this week.
C. SCRIPTURES FOR THE WERK
Psalm 32:7-8: You are my hiding place; You shall preserve me from trouble; You shall surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah [8] I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with My eye.
Jeremiah 32:27: “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?
Have a happy and a greatly blessed 32nd week of the year.
