About the Global Watch
The Need
As times intensify, a necessary shift in the body of Christ is now rising in the nations. In response to the challenges today, a grassroots mobilization of prayer is taking place. People are beginning to realize the need to collaborate and to stand shoulder to shoulder. Starting with our own families, churches, to neighborhoods and on to the nations, Watchmen are being called to build the walls of prayer.
Nehemiah 4:19-20 states it well: “The work is great and extensive and we are separated far from one another on the wall. Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there, Our God will fight for us!” How can we respond to the trumpet if we do not know where it is?
As such, a grassroots movement of not only worship/prayer but building community impacting culture is underway. Consequently, a culture of corporate prayer in a community is rising. In fact, it was Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf, from Herrnhut, Germany who said, “There is no Christianity without community.[1]” The Global Watch vision carries the mandate to build a culture of prayer and community leading to transformation and revival.
[1] http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/denominationalfounders/nikolaus-von-zinzendorf.html
Nehemiah 4:19-20 states it well: “The work is great and extensive and we are separated far from one another on the wall. Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there, Our God will fight for us!” How can we respond to the trumpet if we do not know where it is?
As such, a grassroots movement of not only worship/prayer but building community impacting culture is underway. Consequently, a culture of corporate prayer in a community is rising. In fact, it was Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf, from Herrnhut, Germany who said, “There is no Christianity without community.[1]” The Global Watch vision carries the mandate to build a culture of prayer and community leading to transformation and revival.
[1] http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/people/denominationalfounders/nikolaus-von-zinzendorf.html
The History
The Global Watch, though new in its formation, has carried a long history marked by God’s amazing interventions and confirmations. Birthed in an open vision of 9/11 in October 2000, the construct and context of what a Global Watch looks like has been a journey marked by encounters and “Only God could do” moments. Now, almost seventeen years later, God’s care-filled wisdom has removed the stumbling blocks and has opened vistas of revelation for such an entity to come into being. The construct of this Watch carries the spiritual DNA of Herrnhut, Germany. Herrnhut means the "Lord's Watch" and was the sight of an outpouring some call the "2nd Pentecost" in 1727 resulting in over 100 years of 24/7 prayer and unprecedented missions movement. Participation in the "Global Watch" does not interfere with personal ministry call, established ministry or church leadership structures. Rather, the construct protects and builds every family participating, much like in Nehemiah's time when everyone building had a "Mind to work," Nehemiah 4:6. In building the walls of prayer across the nations, we are building an infrastructure that will go beyond our years to establish global participation as God rouses His Body to become the Bride. Those participating will be part of God's plan to usher in the end-time harvest burgeoning at the door and escort the church into its finest hour!
The Three Biblical Mandates of the Watchman:
Individual Call:
Watchmen are committed to intimacy with God and their "Identity in Christ" through worship, prayer, and His Word.
Watchmen are committed to intimacy with God and their "Identity in Christ" through worship, prayer, and His Word.
- Habakkuk 2:1 (NKJV) "I will stand my watch and set myself on the rampart, and watch to see what He will say to me,
and what I will answer when I am corrected. - Genesis 2:15 (NKJV) "Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep (watch) it."
- Matthew 26:40 (NKJV) "Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What! Could you not watch with Me one hour?" Also Mark 14:37
- 1 Corinthians 16:13 (NKJV) "Watch stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong."
Corporate Call: Watchmen are mobilizers and collaborators passionate in building a culture of prayer and community (their ramparts) for ongoing and strategic prayer intervention. They communicate and build with one another and with leaders in cultural spheres for strategic intervention.
- Nehemiah 4:19-20 (NKJV) “The work is great and extensive, and we are separated far from one another on the wall. Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.”
- Isaiah 58:12 (NKJV) "Those from among you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations;
and you shall be called the Repairer of the Breach, the Restorer of Streets to Dwell In." - Acts 2:1 (NKJV): "When the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place."
- Acts 2:46-47 (NKJV): "So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved."
- 1Peter 4:7-8 "But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers. And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”
End-time Call: Watchmen are skilled in discerning the times and seasons. They understand the import of their role and of Israel and Isaiah 19 in God's end-time plan. The end-time movement of watchmen is being released to "Prepare the way," for the rule and reign of Jesus.
- Isaiah 62:6-7 (NKJV) "I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day or night. You who make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent, and give Him no rest till He establishes and till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth."
- Isaiah 52:8 "Your watchmen shall lift up their voices, with their voices, they shall sing together, for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord brings back Zion."
- Isaiah 19:24-25 "In that day Israel will be one of three with Ebypt and Assyria a blessing in the midst of the land, whom the Lord of hosts shall bless saying, 'Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel My inheritance.'"
- Matthew 25:13 "Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming."
- Hebrews 10:24-25 "And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching."
- Revelation 16:15 (NKJV) "Behold, I am coming as a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his garments."
