I was ecstatic as I read the ChristianPost's report The good (Christian) news you didn’t hear from India yesterday. It began with the bad news which underscored the fact that India has become the 10th worst country for Christian persecution. The good news came out of Andrah Pradesh! It provides proof that 1Church1Day (One Church One Day) puts history in the hands of a connected praying church (many local congregations praying together).

In 2009 a young pastor found our website and connected with us. I began mentoring him and teaching him about how then Operation Rolling Thunder which became 1Church1Day in 2014 worked. He began to mobilize congregations with one church taking one day to pray 24/7. The last time we visited him in 2017 many of the pastors from the churches brought their watch list showing me the watches their people covered in their day of 24/7 prayer. Now, back to the article. Check this out!

Excerpt with underlines I added from The good (Christian) news you didn’t hear from India... "But there is good news from India as well. Really good news.First, the gospel continues to spread powerfully in that vast nation of more than 1.3 billion souls. As reported by Dr. Ralph Wilson, “the percentage of Christians has increased substantially from 2.5% a decade ago to about 5.8% today. That represents a huge increase in the growth rate. Something is happening!”
And in some states, the growth is much greater, with Christians representing as much as 10-15 percent of the total population.
This is truly unprecedented.
Second, this surge in Christian population was in evidence in the election results in the state of Andhra (that is, Andhra Pradesh, a state I have visited annually since 1993). End of excerpt.

The unprecedented growth began in 2009, the same year the 1Church1Day strategy began to be used to mobilize continual prayer in Andhra Pradesh. Now I am not claiming that these were the only churches praying. I know there had to have been others.  But this does reflect the kind of Church growth we've seen in times past.  Secondly, they are applying the principles we teach praying into the 7 mountains.  They were praying for this party and candidate.  This is a powerful testimony and example of what can happen with the Church unites together to pray as one.

Discipling Nations & the 7 Spheres

This article was first published on Kingdom League's old blog in 2011.  I'm re-posting it here because 1Church1Day is the same strategy as ORT.  It's just a different name and the lessons learned are still true 14 years later.  ​

It’s been over six years since God spoke to me on December 14, 2004 about the Operation Rolling Thunder (ORT) strategy.  I spoke that strategy first to three leaders.  It is October 5, 2011 today.  I quit trying to keep up with all the statistics in participation in 2009. It became overwhelming.  By then we'd seen leaders in 23+ nations and over 10,000+ churches participate.  At last count leaders in 34+ nations have utilized this strategy to mobilize and deploy the body of Christ to engage the seven spheres of society and to establish 24/7/365 prayer in a city or region.

Proven Results
Recently our National CONECTer in Kenya, Pastor Thomas and our National CONECTer in Myanmar, Apostle John Mark provided me an updated report.  Between these two updated reports we discovered that there are churches from 21+ denominations, in 35 cities, with over 61 churches working together, 25 city prayer centers launched, and 19 church plants between them.  Neither time nor space permits me to share the supernatural signs, salivations, water baptisms, and healings that they report as well.

Corporate intimacy with our heavenly Father produces supernatural corporate fruit.  Operation Rolling Thunder (ORT) is a strategy going strong and serving those who utilize the wisdom of God's strategy found in it.  At the same time I could point to numerous examples where the strategy seemingly only worked for a short time or failed.

Lessons Learned
After 6+ years of overseeing ORT, training and consulting with ministers, mayors, state representatives, fire chiefs, business leaders, doctors, etc. I've learned some lessons about that is takes to begin to transform and continue that transformation process long term.  In fact, I will share some common characteristics and lessons learned from churches, cities, counties and states where in we see long term results that we'd all agree speak to some level of transformation (ie. decreasing crime, church growth, economy effected, abortion rates decline, adoption rates rise, etc.).

We are thrilled and rejoicing with the One Hope Team in Lane County Oregon!  They now have 45 churches praying every month with 10 strategic councils providing direction to their 24/7 prayer. 

One Hope was founded by Steve and Patti Bus.  Here's their leadership team today click here.  They launched 1Church1Day in May 2015 click here wherein God marked their Kick Off with some amazing signs and wonders just like you see in my book Operation Rolling Thunder.  They say 225 lightning strikes followed by 5 earthquakes. 

What I've found over the years is that when God's people obey His voice, they make "His-story" (history) and sometimes God chooses to put His signature (sign-nature) on that page of history.  I've learned He does this to encourage His people to continue until they see measurable results such as:

March 17, 2019 - Answers to Prayer Produced through 44 Churches who do 1Church1Day in Lane County OR!
March 22, 2017 - City Manager says "What we see are answers to prayer, not just serendipitous acts!
March 22, 2017 - 1Church1Day Testimony - Record Low Employment!

If you are a leader and you'd like to see your community transformed like this then click here to learn what we've done to equip 300 new leaders to mobilize the Church to transform their community through our Kingdom Academy.

Or, contact our office and ask about what it would take to host a 1.5 day 1Church1Day Kick Off in your city or region.  Click here.

It's amazing what God's people can accomplish when we collaborate together.  In the last 36 days we saw those using the 1Church1Day app mobilize: 

• 1000 hours of prayer
• 3 Churches/Ministries taking a day of prayer
• 108 new people
• 6 Churches/Ministries 

To cover one month in prayer requires 744 hours.  Each person who simply reported the time they prayed using the app says we mobilized the equivalent of 41.66 days of prayer.  Add in the 3 from the churches and ministries who took a day of prayer and that raises it to 44.66 days of prayer.  But then If we add in the corporate prayer calls or prayer gatherings which included ministries like Washington State Prayer Caucus, Prayer Strike Force, Church of Truth, the WA ST Business Council, Father's House, The King's Fisher we add in another 153 hours.  This brings our total days of prayer to 51 days of prayer.  

That's a lot of power and it only comes when we the Church cooperate, collaborate and communicate together.  Now this is just a SMALL FRACTION of what is available.  If you understand the principle of exponential power found in God's word then you will understand just how important your prayer watch, or adding your voice to a prayer alert is.  Click here for the Revelation of the Power of One More!

Prayer Power + Honoring Jurisdictions = Results 
That's a lot of "prayer power."  We saw 9 new testimonies or answers to prayer recorded during this same time period as well.  We pray for results and the strategic councils we are forming (Church, Government, Business, Family, Life and Evangelism so far) help direct our prayers with insight gleaned from leaders within that sphere with actual jurisdiction.

Isaiah 2:2-3 says:

On April 13, 2019 Warring Dove International hosted me at a church in Fort Worth Texas. As I have witnessed throughout the years many times God marked the message I was giving with lightning and thunderstorms and even some tornadoes.  My assignment that day was to present the 1Church1Day strategy which was previously called Operation Rolling Thunder.  

It's a strategy that helps the Church in a network, local area or a region establish continual prayer, praise and worship which seats the courtroom of heaven. It is a modern application of the pattern that King David used in Mount Zion to establish 24/7 prayer so that the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, Counsel and Might would be invited into the presence of his councils.  

In Lamentations 5:14 and 18 we find that when Zion is desolate, the elders no longer gathered in the gates.  Besides re-establishing 24/7 the strategy includes a practical method for actually seating the elders back in the gates so to speak.  We use the 7 mountains or 7 spheres along with the five fold ministry as a starting place to do that.  In a sense, its a way to establish God's government on earth as it is in heaven.  

In Exodus 18 and 20 we find a type and a shadow of this. Here, Moses established order in the camp by choosing "men who fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, and to place them as rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifty, and rulers of tens."  Then he went up to Mount Sinai where God gave him the 10 Commandments.  Here, God's presence encountered Moses, the earth and the atmosphere.  We find lightning and thundering associated with God's presence and His voice.  We find these kinds of testimonies all
through scripture and I've found it still happens today.  

In my book, Operation Rolling Thunder - Revised Edition click here you'll find the history of the strategy now known as 1Church1Day.  Using King David's pattern which he established in the tabernacle on Mount Zion we establish 24/7 prayer, praise and worship.  Why?  It's because prayer, praise and worship are the atmosphere of heaven and it makes God welcome here on earth.  Psalm 18:6-14 was the scripture God used to help name this strategy Operation Rolling Thunder in 2004.  The sweet Psalmist of Israel, King David penned this Psalm saying,

Testimonies from the April 2019 "Answers to Prayer" newsletter from One Hope in Lane County Oregon. They adopted 1Church1Day (One Church One Day) over three years ago.  It began with a supernatural event click here like what is described in my book Operation Rolling Thunder - Revised Edition. As of today there are 44 churches and 10 councils of leaders cooperating together each month.  

We are much more powerful together than apart.

Government Sphere - Eugene City Manager Jon Ruiz attended a monthly One Hope Gathering to address the pastors. He listed the answers to prayer he sees from his perspective, and beseeched us to keep praying. Since the start of One Church - One Day, trust and collaboration have grown between Lane County and the City of Eugene. Ruiz shared that they are working together better than they have in decades.

Healthcare Sphere - First Responders praise God for the growing momentum.

Church Sphere - Testimonies include: 

• Atheist accepts Christ
• A family overcomes the spirit of anger through confession
• Older congregation prays for more kids and now there are 43! 

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A Powerful Testimony! 
A Major in the Air Force who is also part of KLI’s covenant family called us a few days ago and we prayed. They are also a seer and as of late had seem to be experiencing an unusual increase in challenges personally and professionally. They shared some of the things people had done to dishonor them, silence them, undermine authority as well as senior officers neglecting to follow through performing tasks that was their duty to perform, which if not completed would impact their ability to be promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. One of the things she needed to be promoted to Lieutenant Colonel was command of a unit.

After sharing a variety of scriptures to combat the thoughts as well as providing some scriptures to war with in the spirit we prayed. One of the scriptures we prayed was Psalms 75:6-7 which in the KJv says:

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

24 Hours Later
Less than 24 hours later we received a phone call from our KLI family member whom we've affectionately sometimes called her "Major Blessing."  They had just come out or a meeting with their Group Commander who told them how their squadron’s commander had just been promoted. They would be transferred to the Pentagon and they asked our Major to become the new Squadron Commander. She is being promoted and command of this unit was exactly what she needed to be positioned for the next Lieutenant Colonel promotion board. Thank you Jesus!

Lessons Learned

Dennis is the Prayer Pastor for Transform Yakima Together (TYT).  They've been working with me on the first customized 1Church1Day Community Prayer Transformation System for their network. 

Prayer leaders beginning with a coordinator for National Day of Prayer (Linda I.) in 2006 began to work with me using what was then called Operation Rolling Thunder.  Their powerful testimonies regarding prayers impact on crime are recorded in my book Operation Rolling Thunder revised edition.  They've continued collaborating together all these years and TYT, I believe, was birthed through this prayer in 2015.  

Now they are helping us pioneer this new system that I believe will help to connect and serve many churches and networks to build our Father's house of prayer while gathering elders back in the gates of their respective cities, counties and states. 

I was thrilled when I received his email this morning titled "Our Prayers are Being Answered" along with the picture of the article. 

​In 1988 God gave me a vision which I prophesied about in Springfield Christian Center in Springfield Oregon.  Dr. Larry Lea’s father in the faith, Bob Wilhite was the special speaker that day when I prophesied what I saw regarding how the body of Christ would mobilize and connect as the army of the Lord to pray.  The image that best represents that vision now resides on the home page of our app.  It was during this meeting that the prophetic gift was first recognized in my life.

This was before we had even heard of an internet or the world wide web. Little did I realize at the time that this word was also a personal assignment.

Thirty years later the vision is becoming a reality.  This is why I think it's important to share a little history. 
 
The revelation and message Christ gave me to steward was first embodied in CONECT (Christian Outreach Network Establishing Church-wide Teamwork).  It was designed to work by hand and through fax machines. As I proved God's word and this system in churches like Word of His Grace and communities like Springfield Oregon our technology matured. By the time CONECT matured into Operation Rolling Thunder (ORT) in 2005 email, website, Word and a variety of online forms were used.  The system was the same but the technology evolved. As it evolves, it allows us to equip leaders to become even more effective in mobilizing their people to pray.

Now I know most of you are bored already because I'm talking about administration. But hear me!  This is a critical component of leadership and required to connect larger churches and more people together to increase the power the Church has to project through prayer to enforce the will of King Jesus. 

I just got off the phone with Apostle Nani who heads up the India Prayer League.  We were with him and the pastors of 24 churches who were working with him. They shared with me the watch schedules for their congregation on the day they take to pray using the 1Church1day strategy. 

The strategy was done mostly on paper.

Then there is Living Hope in Renton Washington. This church takes the 13th of each month as their day to pray.  They started on paper but quickly added the system to their website and integrated it with their church app.  

Simultaneously, we happen to be working with the Transform Yakima Together League who is rolling out their own customized 1Church1Day Community Prayer Transformation System.  They've customized our system for their network of 25 churches.  

All technology does is to help automate a process. In this case we use communication technology to help connect the body of Christ to build our Father's house of prayer for all nations, one person, one hour, one church, one day at a time.