Rubens Cunha from Goiania, Brazil

God has blessed Goiania city. Today, about 40% of its 1½ million inhabitants have become born-again Christians. Some local churches consist of thousands of members and miracles are commonplace in everyday life.

In the last few months Goiania has been challenged to pray for Europe. It started when Brian Mills visited the city last July sharing with several churches about the spiritual needs of the European nations. Then God spoke to a member of the National Network of Intercession (the head office of which is in Goiania) about involving the church of Goiania in a project of prayer and fasting for 40 days.

This project was undertaken by the National Network of Intercession in partnership with Go to the Nations and YWAM. It resulted in a booklet being published giving information about the various European countries. 2000 booklets were issued. These ran out in a week.

Nevertheless, God's people answered the call. Several churches and prayer groups prayed with only one booklet between members and at least 3000 people prayed and fasted for Europe from August 11th to September 19th. God moved powerfully.

Everyday, faithfully at 5am, a Pentecostal church would pray prophetically, then, at midday a Charismatic church would pray on, later, at 7pm, a church of an Historical denomination would continue the prayers.

In October, as part of this project, 47 intercessors from Goiania went to the ‘Go To The Nations' conference in Manchester. There they met other intercessors from different parts of Brazil thereby establishing an army of 180 soldiers who then spread all across Europe in order to pray for those countries that God had placed on their hearts.

These intercessors are now back in Brazil, carrying in their hearts all that God wants to do in Europe. They are inputting into their communities what they saw, heard and received from the Holy Spirit, sharing God's vision for Europe with others and, in the process, increasing the number of spiritual warriors for this warfare.