It would be exactly one year since President of Loveworld Inc. aka Christ Embassy, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome and Pastor Benny Hinn started a global program that will turn out just what the world needs at times such as its experiencing.  It was a day that changed everything, as the world had taken on a new turn of devastating events with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic.

As fear of the news of the pandemic poured in through the media, the Epochal “Global Day Of Prayer was poised to cause a revolution as billions will be connected to the biggest online prayer conference: an online meeting that brings together pastors and brethren from different parts of the world to make power available.

The revered man of God, Pastor Chris, has continued to emphasize the need for Christians all around the world to bond together in prayers for the Church and the nations of the world in these last days. The ‘Global Day of Prayer’ provides the perfect opportunity for the saints to fulfill their intercessory ministry.

As the ‘Global Day of Prayer’ enters its 5^th edition and the first in the year 2021, many around the world who participated in past editions have experienced remarkable testimonies from the groundbreaking program. Through their prayers, salvation and healing is ministered to billions of souls around the world. These prayer sessions sets to break the hold of fear over the minds of people and insist on the establishment of the will of God in the earth.

The March ‘Global Day of Prayer’ is set to commence from 6 pm GMT +1/1 pm EST Friday 26 March to Saturday 27 March 2021.

It’ll be streamed live on all Loveworld Networks and Web/Mobile platforms, as well as on major satellite, terrestrial, local TV and Radio Stations around the world. 

Let’s take a look at the ‘Global Day of Prayer’ since its inception:

‘GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER’

The “First Global Day of Prayer” with Pastor Chris and Pastor Benny Hinn took place on March 27, 2020, to a staggering live participation of over 3 billion people from around the world. It was a special call to prayer according to the inspiration of God’s Spirit. It was a faith response to restore hope amidst the growing fear and confusion expressed by different governments of the world in the wake of the Coronavirus epidemic. Through effective prayers, there was an assurance that the nations will be liberated from the siege of the pandemic. Christians around the world, irrespective of denominations, took a stand in unity against the forces of darkness causing panic and perplexity in the world, as they observed this Global Day of Prayer. Pastor Chris gave statistics of the devastating effect of the Coronavirus across the globe, further stressing the need for the church to pray fervently as the Church is the only restraining force of evil in the world.

Various prayer points were raised for the governments of the world, for the church, and against the demonic COVID-19 epidemic. God’s people prayed fervently, unleashing their faith. Then the Man of God, Pastor Chris declared the Coronavirus dead, stirring up great rejoicing across the globe.

The month of June 2020, witnessed the ‘Second Global Day of Prayer’, which happened to also be the ‘Month of Prayer’. The program ran from June 26 for a full 24 hours until June 27.

The global participants were treated to a documentary on the drastic turn of events that marked the first quarter of the Year 2020, and changed the world. The coronavirus fiasco brought the world to its knees with devastating socio-economic consequences, but at this time there was a turn of events with the unfolding of truth through God’s word delivered by the Man of God, Pastor Chris.

The “Third Global Day of Prayer” was highly anticipated. The life transforming event took place on Friday September 25 to Saturday September 26, 2020.

Pastor Chris told the global community at September’s Global Communion Service to continue praying for the rest of the month leading up to the Global Day of Prayer.

4th edition of the “Global Day of Prayer” with the man of God, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome for the year 2020 put things in order for the New Year. As the body of Christ draws closer and closer to the time of the Rapture of the Church, necessity is laid on the church to ensure that the knowledge of the Glory of God covers the whole earth as the waters cover the sea and this is achieved through prayers.

Pastor Chris declared that “God did not ask us to pray for nothing, He asked us to pray because He wants to answer”.

From all records, the “Global Day of Prayer”, affords the church to usher in the reign of righteousness, justice, peace, and safety in the nations, bringing healing to the nations and speeding up the propagation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world.

Oral Roberts University’s basketball team has advanced to the Sweet Sixteen with stunning wins over No. 2 seed Ohio State and No.7 Florida. ORU is only the second 15 seed in NCAA tournament history to get so far.

ORU Coach Paul Mills put things in perspective and brought in the gospel message at the same time.

But as Mills tries to focus his team on eternal truths, USA Today columnist Hemal Jhaveri wants to “cancel” ORU for its biblical beliefs on LGBT issues and is calling for the NCAA to boot ORU from tournament play altogether. Jhaveri calls the school’s values and beliefs a “relic of the past,” and incompatible with the NCAA’s own rules.

Jhaveri goes on to call ORU a “hotbed of institutional transphobia, homophobia with regressive, sexist policies,” and quotes from the school’s Code of Conduct where it expressly forbids homosexual behavior, as well as other conduct the Bible calls sin.

The Code of Conduct reads:

“Students are expected to maintain the highest standards of integrity, honesty, modesty, and morality. Honesty and honor constitute measures of individual worth. Certain behaviors are expressly prohibited in Scripture and therefore should be avoided by members of the University community. They include theft, lying, dishonesty, gossip, slander, backbiting, profanity, vulgarity (including crude language), sexual promiscuity (including adultery, any homosexual behavior, premarital sex), drunkenness, immodesty of dress, and occult practices. The Scriptures further teach that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit; it should be treated at all times with utmost respect and care to avoid personal harm. Students may not frequent or work at places of entertainment or other places the nature or reputation of which might bring discredit to the student or University. Students who disobey these University rules are subject to automatic suspension.”

Jhaveri writes no matter how many wins ORU racks up on the court, it still “can’t obscure the dangerous and hateful ideology of its core institution.”

ORU’s next game is scheduled for Saturday when they play against No.3 seed Arkansas. If this year’s Cinderella team wins this next one, it will advance to a spot in the Elite Eight. Despite attacks from radical critics who think they shouldn’t even be allowed to play, many believe ORU was a winner long before making their first basket.