The 44th week is for clash of powers and for show of Superior Power. The 44th book of the Bible (Acts) and the 44th chapters of the Bible indicate that the 44th season is a time to demonstrate that ultimate power belongs to God. This is a season to exhibit power through prayer and the release of faith.
That is the reason the 44th book of the Bible opened with Jesus telling His disciples “You shall receive POWER when the Holy Spirit comes upon you”. In the 44th book of the Bible, God’s power transformed ordinary men into extraordinary people, worked miracles, healed the sick, delivered the oppressed, raised the dead, opened closed prison gates, gave supernatural perception and confounded sorcerers. This is a season to push through barriers by the power of the Holy Spirit. We need water everyday but God gives rain in a particular season. We wear clothes all the time but certain seasons demand we double the clothes. The power of God is for all times but there are also seasons of power. The 44th season is a time to release power – if you have it. Those who political power, military power, economic power, personal power, occult power, or God’s power are often pushed to use it in this season.
In Genesis 44, Benjamin was arrested by the Egyptian authorities for an offense he did not commit. Joseph commanded his servants to hide his silver cup in Benjamin’s sack. As Benjamin and his older brothers journeyed back home, Egyptians went after them, stooped them, searched them, and arrested Benjamin for ‘stealing’ Joseph’s cup. They brought the travelers back to the city. Joseph knew they did no wrong but had his reasons for doing what he did; but his brothers did not know what was going on. He used his power and authority on them This is a week when those who have done good and those who have done no wrong can be accused, arrested, and called to judgment. This is a week of traps and snares. In this 44th week, the upright may seem to be in big trouble but God will turn things around to favor them.
In Psalm 44, God’s people, remembering the ancient works of God, called on God to step into their case with help. This is a week of desperate cry to Heaven for intervention. The enemy is working very hard to stop or frustrate God’s purposes in the nations. He must be stopped with prayer-force.
In Isaiah 44, God is the Redeemer of Israel – His people whom He formed and chose. In this chapter, God mocked idols and those who worship them; and promised to restore Judah. Idol worship has no place in the 44th season. In the 44th book of the Bible, people turned from idols to serve the living God. The 44th season is a season when the power of God is revealed. God demonstrates He is final authority in the 44th season if He has people crying out to Him.
Jeremiah 44 is God’s counsel against unbelievers who heard His Word from Jeremiah but rejected it and went to Egypt. Jeremiah 44:28 says, “and all the remnant of Judah, who have gone to the land of Egypt to dwell there, shall know whose words will stand, Mine or theirs”. God is the Ruler and Lawgiver in the 44th season.
In Ezekiel 44, God gave the new rules for the Temple. In this chapter, the Lord is absolute authority. The gate He passed through is to be shut and no one is to pass through it; because the Lord passed through it. The Lord also gave commands concerning the Prince, the Levites, and Priests. They are all subject to God’s commands.
In the 44th book of the Bible, God sent the Helper, the Holy Spirit, to the Church to enable her fulfill her mandate of taking the gospel to the ends of the earth. In the book of Acts, aggrieved Jewish authorities used every tool at their disposal to fight the Church of Jesus Christ seeking to stop the spread of the gospel. The church submitted to God rather than submitting to the dictates of the human authorities. There were reactions from the authorities (false accusation, physical abuse, imprisonment, and killings) but God always proved Himself greater than the authorities and their schemes. He granted mysterious escapes and deliverances to His persecuted people. God demonstrated that human prisons and security guards are like toys before Him. Through prayer and manifestations of the power of God, the Church remained unstoppable; and even wore out the human authorities. The Lord clothed His Church with power at the beginning of the 44th book of the Bible because the 44th season is for ‘clash of powers’ and ‘show of force’. As the Early Church was unstoppable in the 44th book of the Bible, that is how God’s peoole in the nations should be unstoppable in this 44th week of the year.
This week, we are taking the strongholds of the enemy by the power of God. 1944 was the year of Operation Overlord when the strength of the Nazi adversary was broken at the Battle of Normandy – the beginning of the end of the War. In the season of the 44th President of the United States (Barak Obama), the strong man of Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, and the strong man of Libya, Muammar Ghadafi, fell.
This week, receive strength to pray; and expect intervention in your nation and territory. God will send needed help as He did in the 44th book of the Bible. Mysterious interventions are on the way. Be strong. Someone is praying for you! Happy 44th week!!!
PRAYER POINTS FOR THE 44TH WEEK
Give thanks to God for leading us through the 43rd week of the year; for the mercies we received; for the deliverances He granted us; for the troubles He spared or saved us from.
Pray for an awakening from the Holy Spirit in your life, in your family and in your church or ministry.
Pray for the supernatural opening of prisons for those held unjustly by cruel forces – as in the book of Acts. Pray for the release of those held for ransom by human abductors. Pray that the Lord will send His angels and earthquakes against the camp of abductors. Pray also for the safety and preservation of the abducted. Pray that ancient gates holding nations back will give way.
Pray for unwavering commitment of those holding on to the manifestation of God’s kingdom in the nations in various ways. Pray for a fresh empowerment of the Holy Spirit in and among them.
Pray that God will knock down the wicked in the nations this week – as He knocked down Saul of Tarsus, Herod, Bar-Jesus, and Felix, in the book of Acts. Let the plans and efforts of sorcerer’s and wicked people backfire and come to nothing in this week.
Pray that this will be a week of healing, deliverances, and material supplies in families across the nations – as in the book of Acts. Let this be a week of supernatural help and intervention in the nations.
Pray that the word of God and the name of God will be magnified in the nations in this 44th week. Let those who trust in idols or in their own strength be put to shame this week.
Pray that prayers will go up without ceasing in prayer altars this week; and that the remnant will not be distracted from prayer and the ministry of the word. Prayer worked wonders in the 44th book of the Bible and will do the same in the nations this 44th week Pray for missionaries laboring in different fields in nations in this Book of Acts week. Pray that the innermost and uttermost parts of nations will submit to God.
Pray that the Holy Spirit will move in nations closed and resistant to the gospel in this 44th week as in the 44th book of the Bible (Acts).
Pray for the unmasking of idols in nations this week. Pray and break the hold of witchcraft and sorcery over the nations and their leaders.
BLESS ISRAEL
This is the 31st week from Nisan (the beginning of the Ecclesiastical Year) and the sixth week from Rosh-Hashanah (beginning of the civil year). This week, bless Israel from those two angles.
THE 31ST WEEK FROM NISAN
The 31st signifies an end and a new beginning in the Bible. Jacob departed Laban’s house after 20 years of sojourn in Genesis 31. In Exodus 31, God brought in Bezalel and the other artisans to undertake the construction of the Tabernacle. In Numbers 31, Israel fought a war of vengeance against the Midianites. Balaam died there. Moses inaugurated Joshua as Israel’s new leader in Deuteronomy 31. The reign of Saul ended tragically and abruptly in First Samuel 31. Job 31 ends with “The words of Job are ended”. Proverbs, the book of wisdom, ends at the 31st chapter; that chapter ends at the 31st verse. Jeremiah 31:31 is God’s announcement about the new covenant. This week, pray and speak change and a new beginning over Israel. Let the old end and let the new begin.
THE 6TH WEEK FROM ROSH-HASHANAH
The sixth season is a season of conflict in which victory goes to the bearers of the image of God – but they must wage war with counsel. The narrative of the sixth day of creation, the sixth book of the Bible and the sixth chapters of the Bible bear witness to this. This week, pray and decree that God’s people in Israel will triumph. This week, let Mordecai be honored and Haman shamed as in Esther 6.
SCRIPTURE FOR THE WEEK
Isaiah 44:24-26: “Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, And He who formed you from the womb: “I am the LORD, who makes all things, Who stretches out the heavens all alone, Who spreads abroad the earth by Myself; [25] Who frustrates the signs of the babblers, And drives diviners mad; Who turns wise men backward, And makes their knowledge foolishness; [26] Who confirms the word of His servant, And performs the counsel of His messengers; Who says to Jerusalem, ‘You shall be inhabited,’ To the cities of Judah, ‘You shall be built,’ And I will raise up her waste places”.
DECLARATION FOR THE WEEK
Psalm 44:5: “Through You we will push down our enemies; Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us”.
