But you are a forgiving God, gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love. (Nehemiah 9:17).

In the last newsletter, we looked at importance of prayer in rebuilding the broken areas taking Nehemiah’s example. We saw Apostle Peter giving a corresponding wall of life that has to be built. ...make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love... they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge ... 2peter 1:5-8. In this bulletin, as we prepare for the HCFI prayer week (1st – 7th January 2014), we are looking at God’s word and confession as steps for effective prayer basing on Nehemiah 8 and 9.

The first week of January is a prayer week for HCF globally, and we are called upon to be zealous in following the order sent to us from HCFI and we are adding on our national, then our healthy facility/Health Center/Hospital prayer requests. Let us have time to gather or meet for this cause. Nehemiah stresses out about seven (7) characteristics of an effective and fruitful meeting or assembly which I believe if we take them can make our week of prayer fruitful:

Let us now look at the impact of true worship and prayer meeting basing on the above characteristics: