October 2009

There has been such excitement and anticipation as we’ve been meeting together to seek the face of our Lord, worshipping and praying. We all sense something significant is about to happen and our desire is to be awake, alert and watching….not distracted or indifferent. We believe it is so vital to spend even more time in prayer, personally as well as corporately so we can be positioned for the Holy Spirit to do in our hearts what needs to be done to prepare us for whatever lies ahead.

We as a core team at SHOP have been praying for people to take their position in the various gates in our province, along with praying for a specific strategy to mobilize the Church to pray. God does answer prayer! At the beginning of September, I was introduced to Blake Penson, a resident of Saskatoon that is now serving as a missionary in Cuba. Blake, along with another pastor in Cuba did extensive research regarding the ‘watches’ of the Lord and found numerous scriptures from the Old and New Testament of God’s divine pattern of the 8 watches within 24 hours. Blake taught “The Divine Prayer Clock” in Yorkton for the first time in North America on September 5th, before going back to Cuba on the 9th. He has been teaching this revelation throughout Cuba and now Central America and is seeing the Church mobilized in prayer like never before. I first met Blake on the phone and then a week later in person and instantly we felt the oneness in heart and spirit, sharing the same desire regarding intimacy with Christ and prayer. Blake had been praying for someone to receive this teaching that would run with it in Saskatchewan and beyond. At the end of the day Blake gave us the release to share this teaching as well as gifted SHOP with 2000 books that will be published in December.

I personally was so inspired with the teaching, for it gives us a track to run on, a biblical pattern to know God’s heart and when and how to pray. In the New Year we will be sending the book to pastors throughout Saskatchewan, making this teaching available. Our main aim and focus at SHOP is to call out, mobilize and inspire people to pray…to first become an individual ‘house of prayer’ and then connect with others of like mind and heart to seek and hear the Lord together. We want to invite those we have relationship with to come together on Saturday, October 31st to hear this teaching before we release it to the larger body.

Some topics Divine Prayer Clock covers:
– a biblical base that exists with times and themes established by God
– how the Body can ‘pray without ceasing’ as Paul wrote in I Thessalonians 5:17
– how God views time and how to align ourselves with His Kairos times
– how we are to become a ‘house of prayer’ and how we become a part of the ‘house’ God is building
– how Satan attempts to deceive others concerning his power through the teaching of a spiritual astral clock
– establishing the Tabernacle of David is the key to the world harvest of souls

Patricia Fraser and SHOP Team