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Intercessors love the Presence of the Lord, and they love to pray. The only thing they love more is when God answers. It’s such a beautiful testimony of His power and faithfulness. The mainstream media is often complicit in spreading fear, stoking discord and hate. One could easily focus on the negative aspects of it all. After speaking with some IFA state prayer leaders, I was blessed and confident that God heard our prayers. Here are a few ways IFA State Groups saw answers in 2024. I hope this encourages you as much as it did for me. 

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Contending for Life in Massachusetts

In Massachusetts, abortion is still legal for up to 24 weeks. An assignment from the Lord for the state group has been to pray for Pregnancy Resource Centers. Suzie MacAskill, who leads IFA’s Massachusetts state group with her sister Lynne, shared how Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRC) that seek to save the unborn are under attack. This is due to a campaign by the Mass. Governor. Offensive ads were slandering and falsely accusing Resource Centers. In August 2023, during a prayer call while praying for PRCs, a rep. came on and asked for prayer for a mother who was ready to abort her twins at 24 weeks. So, they prayed for her. 

Since Pregnancy Resource Centers receive no financial support from the state, they rely on fundraisers. The following year, in August 2024, a mother testified at a PRC fundraiser given by the same rep who requested prayer the prior year. The woman testifying was the woman they prayed for. It was a triple victory for life! The mother received salvation, and the twins received the gift of life and are being raised in a Christian home. Thank you, Jesus! Suzie was able to meet them.

The Lord led Suzie to host their Monday night prayer time from inside a pregnancy resource center. She said they had the worst interference. “Calls were getting dropped and cut off, and that’s never happened,” Suzie said. But God…The fight for life is continuing in Massachusetts. Suzie and Lynne discovered that the ACLJ got involved in the battle, and the government had to pull down the offensive ads. Another answer to their prayers: Thank you, Jesus. 

Lord, we praise You for what You are doing. We stand with Massachusetts for life and ask for more testimonies of men and women choosing Jesus and choosing life for their preborn.  

We know that at the right time, we will reap a harvest from the prayers. What you are doing there: You can do it anywhere. Do it in every nationwide state group and prayer gathering. 

Prophecy Closer to Fulfillment in Wisconsin?

IFA Wisconsin’s State Leader, MaryJo Coleman, has been praying on-site with her team as the Holy Spirit highlights places in different cities. Wisconsin has a rich Native American heritage. Twelve Native American nations reside there. She learned of many prophetic words about revival and jubilee coming to the Natives, dating back to 1948. According to the prophetic words, when Native Americans see revival, it will spread throughout the nations. This is often the heart of IFA Wisconsin’s prayer time. They pray for unity among the tribes and a hunger and passion for Jesus. 

The Lord recently connected MaryJo and the IFA Wisconsin team with a Pastor named Joel Cornelius of the Oneida Assembly of God. He is of the Oneida Nation near Green Bay. He has relocated to Wisconsin in the past few years through the Holy Spirit’s calling and is on fire to see the tribes set free!  He is connected to other Pastors and networks. MaryJo said, “We have been able to pray for Pastor Joel several times on our prayer calls.”

Another praise comes from their connection with First Nations Milwaukee Pastor Jacob Valtierra (Ojibwa, Mexican), who lives in Franklin, Wisconsin, a Milwaukee suburb. He is the Transition Coordinator at Indian Community School, where roughly 400 students of many ethnicities attend. He has also prayed with the Wisconsin Team and prays for elected tribal officials, justice for missing Indigenous women, and Bible education. Like MaryJo, he also prays for God to raise up leaders in each tribe to lead their tribes spiritually to Christ. 

She also connected with Tanya Naomi Ann Metoxen, an anointed native female from the Oneida tribe who is outspoken about Christ everywhere she goes. MaryJo believes that as the gospel spreads through the tribes, they are one step closer to awakening. Their prayers have been to see an awakening among the natives, and God is connecting them to Native Pastors with a heart longing to see revival. Isn’t that amazing? Only God can set up these divine encounters.

Lord, we agree with Wisconsin in praying for revival among the tribes and throughout America. Have your way. 

A Divine Intervention in Texas

In Texas, a prayer target given to our IFA State Leader, Donna Phillips, was to pray for safety and to “restore order to the border.” Being a border state, Texas has a high crime rate in the larger cities, as well as large numbers concerning drugs and human trafficking. We have been humbled to see God answer our prayers for safety miraculously.

Since safety is also a faithfully covered topic, we pray for our power grids, ship channels, nuclear plants, and anything that could be weaponized. Several intercessors in the Texas group had dreams of nefarious plans or were awakened to pray in the early morning and received words to pray against attacks. Other Texas prayer networks reported their intercessors receiving similar words and dreams. We took this seriously and brought it to the Lord in prayer. 

At the end of February, the Texas Panhandle saw one of the worst wildfires in history, the Smokehouse Creek fire. Over a million acres were burned. The greatest threat of all was the fire’s proximity to the Pantex Plant, a nuclear weapons facility. It could have been a Chernobyl-type disaster. The plant was evacuated as a safety precaution. Prayers were ongoing for those in the path of this fire. And then something miraculous happened: it snowed. Almost overnight, the snow calmed the fires, making it easier for the firefighters to contain them, and a major crisis was averted. Thank you, Jesus! 

Order At the Border

We also saw God answer our prayers concerning border safety when, in February of 2024, the U.S. Border and Customs seized 6.5 tons of methamphetamines, the largest seizure ever at a port of entry. It was valued at 117,000,000. It was a direct answer to faithful intercession for our state and children and families affected by drug addiction.

 Several answered prayers occurred for order at the border when Texas Governor Greg Abbott also designated a Venezuelan Cartel (Tren De Aragua) as a foreign terrorist organization. It was a sigh of relief for many who lived in fear. Governor Abbott recently issued two executive orders concerning the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The first order was to protect Texans of Chinese descent from being harassed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC) or CCP. The second order is to protect Texas’s infrastructure, including communications, energy, water, and wastewater systems, and any threat to our national security posed by the CCP. This is precisely what we have been praying and to watch God answer has been humbling. 

Spiritual Leaders Step Up

We committed to intercede for Pastors and spiritual leaders regularly. Month by month leading up to the election, we received praise reports about Pastors actively engaging the government. They spoke boldly to their congregations. Some even made local headlines as they stood to fight to protect children and Biblical values. It was a blessing to witness, connect with, and hear from these men and women of God trailblazing in Texas. 

Positioned for Revival

If you have studied revival, repentance, and surrender, unity and prayer are the catalysts for any awakening. After talking to the state leaders from Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and Texas, I was hopeful to hear about the prevalent hunger for prayer and unity in the church and prayer groups. 

Many of you will recall that in April 2023, Boston hosted SatanCon. Intercessors in Massachusetts and nationwide prayed for the event. Suzie shared that one year after SatanCon, Massachusetts, IFA held a Prayer and Policy event that sold out quickly. “This has never happened before, except for the Intercessor for America’s 50th Gala. It was interesting that we sold out exactly one year after SatanCon. People took the opportunity to gather together. There has been a hunger for prayer and intercession to pray for the state as we’ve never seen,” she said. 

 MaryJo is thankful and excited about the unity and different prayer hubs supporting each other.

Jeanne Wagner, the Wisconsin Her Voice coordinator, shared with MaryJo that there are currently 142 Prayer hubs in Wisconsin! There is an increase in prayer gatherings. People are hungry for the Lord. In Texas, a partnership is also being formed with different prayer organizations. What God is doing and wants to do is so much greater than we can imagine. All we have to do is partner with Him in prayer. We need all hands-on deck in 2025.

These are but a few victories from IFA State Groups. I wish I could have shared more. 

God has been answering prayers, not because of us, but because He is faithful and good. All the glory and praise go to the Lord as we celebrate what He is doing through our obedience to pray for our state and nation. This is also a chance to connect with your state’s prayer group if you’re looking for a place to belong. 

Lord, we thank you for every answer to prayer, including the rise in Houses of Prayer. We know unity, prayer, repentance, and surrender will bring revival. Come what may, we are alive for such a time as this.  So, we commit to a fresh yes to stand in the gap for America and see your purpose for this nation be fulfilled. In Jesus name, amen.

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land (2 Chronicles 7:14 NIV). 

I have heard all about you, LORD. I am filled with awe by your amazing works. In this time of our deep need, help us again as you did in years gone by. And in your anger, remember your mercy (Habbukuk 3:2 NLT).

What answered prayers are you thankful for in 2024? Take some time to reflect and praise.

IFA contributing writer Gloria Robles is a passionate intercessor with a prophetic voice for today. For more from Gloria, go to Spotify or Anchor and listen to her podcast. Photo Credit: Intercessors for America.

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Mary Simani
January 1, 2025

Standing with you all in prayer support across our Nation and around the World.. as we are feed up with too much materialism and daily junk!
We want more of Righteousness and Truths of the Lord ! Amen

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LaDonna Phillips
January 1, 2025

Yes, Praise God. I Love this and You!

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Darlene Estlow
December 31, 2024

We praise you, Father. We thank you and ask that you would continue your work in our nation.

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Richard Goodall
December 31, 2024

I am a New Zealand -born Japan-resident, feeling and being very small. But you have inspired me by your network of intercessors for America. I wonder whether I can set the New
Zealand saints to intercede for NZ –and of course for the world
I think you have marital troubles in America. Isaiah 50:1 says that even God has experienced divorce. It’s painful but it’s not the end of the world. Look to God.
My NZ Mother married a gambler but one day the NZ Army sent a man with Mother’s gambler husband’s wages to her place. The happy shock got Mother saved there and then. The gambler died of that Spanish flu and never got back to NZ. Mother obeyed God and (1st Timothy 5:14) married a 46 year old man and bore us 7 seven children in 9 years and 44 days. Al 7 of us either became missionaries or their supporters. Praise God, Your turn now to obey??

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    Mary Beth S
    December 31, 2024

    Richard, YHVH can do anything!! May you know and obey the Lord’s leading in encouraging prayer and intercession for NZ and the nations. Blessings!

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    Rich Swingle
    December 31, 2024

    What a beautiful testimony! And we wish you and all of New Zealand the first “Happy New Year!” on the planet! Praying the Lord moves mightily in NZ in ’25!

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