WHISTLE - Letter No 17

25 November, 2008

WHISTLE

·         A branch of HealNZ 24/7 prayer, with a specific focus on prayer regarding abortion in NZ.

·         Announcing "FULL TIME" to abortion in NZ.

·         Arranged by Sue Rowe and The Whistle Team, coordinated from Hamilton.

·         "He lifts up a banner for the distant nations, He whistles for those at the ends of the earth. Here they come swiftly and speedily!"  (Is 5:26)

At the time of writing this email letter 14 people have signed up to pray an hour a week for abortion.

Several volunteered for Saturdays!

Keep those emails coming to me with the day and hour you have chosen to pray.

Lorraine in Hamilton  shared an encouraging vision.

During September I was listening to a song by Julie True called Breeze, and just soaking in the Lord's presence.

to the words:  "There's a breeze blowing in my heart, for new places, new places.

                    You are taking me to new places, there is a new wind blowing in my heart.

                    Open up the doors and let it come in, open up the doors, let it blow.

                    There is a new wind that you are carrying me on, blow, blow, gentle wind."

The Lord showed me a white tent with the tent ropes pegged out all around.  It was a large oval shaped tent with two of the front flaps rolled up.  The Lord started to blow into the tent.  His great love filled the whole tent until I felt my heart would burst with His love.  As the breeze continued to blow, the tent roof and sides started to billow out almost like it was a hot air balloon.  Then the tent pegs had to be moved outwards.  Many people helped to move the pegs.  One person at each peg.  And still the breeze continued to blow and kept swelling the tent so that the pegs had to be moved outwards once again.  The tent miraculously seemed to stretch bigger and bigger.  But the most

awesome thing about it all was the sense of the Lord's love just swelling my heart more and more.

I now believe that this is what the Lord wants me to be involved in. (The Whistle 24/7 Abortion Prayer Network) He is saying that He will enlarge my heart and the hearts of all those involved and He will take me to new places in the Spirit, in prayer, in NZ and all I have to do is open up the door and let His love come in and that love is what will carry me to pray for all that He wants for NZ and the people here.

(After Lorraine read Whistle email letter 12, dated 30 October, where I wrote of the intercessory tent curtains having been stretched over the whole nation and the tent pegs being firmly in place, she understood her vision.)

UN PETITION

Some of you have probably seen the email circulating for several weeks now about the petition to the United Nations.

On Dec 10th, radical pro-abortion groups will present petitions asking the UN General Assembly to make abortion an universally recognised human right.

A petition has been launched that calls for governments to interpret the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as protecting the unborn child from abortion.

Together with pro-life groups from around the world these petitions will be presented at a press conference at UN headquarters.

If you have not signed the petition and would like to, go to this Catholic website:

http://www.c-fam.org  click UN Petition for the Unborn Child

SOME FEEDBACK:

~  The Waikato Times had a small report on 19th Nov "Birth Numbers Shoot Up"

    "The first nine months of the year produced the highest number of recorded births since 1962.

    Statistics NZ data showed there were 64,450 live births in the year to September."

    Something has happened!!

~  The election result was a VERY clear majority for National.  Let's keep praying.

~  A small team of us meet 8pm on 18th here in Hamilton and declared the declaration as the final event for the 40 days. At the same time two women stood on the beach at Greymouth and a farmer's wife at Motu, and they also declared the declaration.  I guess there were others through out the nation, but these are the only ones I have heard from.

~  Esther wrote:  We have a kowhai tree outside our house.  Every winter it sheds its leaves, and in the early spring they start to grow again.  For the last few years it has been visited by a native wood pigeon, which has systematically stripped all the leaf buds and shoots.  It took me a while to realise this was happening and that the tree could never flower because the wood pigeon was destroying the flower buds.  After several years of hardly any flowers on the tree I declared serious war against the wood pigeon. I discovered these birds can be quite territorial. If I was diligent and persistent and consistent enough, chasing it away every single time it came to our tree, then after a while the message got through. It realised that it was not allowed this particular tree.  This one tree was not its territory any longer. Eventually it stopped trying so hard to kill all the baby leaves and flower buds. From time to time it came back and checked things out, but if we are on guard and chase it away with sticks and stones, it doesn't come back in a hurry.  Sometimes it sits in another tree at a distance and watches us, just to see if we are still guarding the tree.  If we do, it won't come down.

This year, thanks to our vigilence, the tree had the best crop of flowers it has ever had.  Currently it is

a bushy mass of green leaves and looks very healthy.

    This is a picture of what the enemy has been doing through abortion.  It has taken us quite a while to realise that all the new growth has been stripped away.  We have declared serious war on Satan and have attacked him with our 'sticks and stones' of prayer and declarations.  He is getting the idea that this is no longer his territory.  BUT he is hanging around to see if we are vigilent in our guard. The birth number stats mentioned above ties in with the best crop of flowers.

    Once again I invite you to sign up for one hour of prayer a week - to use your sticks and stones to keep the enemy at bay.  If we back off he will be back!  He will not easily give up his territory. He doesn't go on holiday.

Blessings,

Sue Rowe

Sue Rowe Email:  roy.sue.rowe@clear.net.nz 

Supported by: Brian and Trisha Caughley of Intercessors For NZ, and John Fulford of Vision Network (Prayer).