Louisiana Apostolic Prayer Network

“Building a House of Prayer for Louisiana”

The Louisiana Apostolic Prayer Network exists to provide alignment and networking for God’s “triumphant reserve” in Louisiana for the cause of revival and reformation in our state and nation. We are reminded in Psalm 127:1 that “unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it...” We trust Him to build a house of prayer for Louisiana, to raise up an army of leaders and intercessors to advance His Kingdom throughout every area of society--business, government, family, church, education, media, and arts and entertainment. We have included here an overview of our state to help facilitate effective intercession including the redemptive purpose of Louisiana, prayer direction for 2011, and a brief state history. If you are called to this assignment, may your spirit be quickened to pray and to join the ranks of other prayer warriors God is raising up across the state to “stand in the gap” for Louisiana!  

Louisiana's Redemptive Purpose

Prayer Directives for Louisiana--2011

1.  Lord, make the church of Louisiana into “first responders.”  We acquired this in the natural; now help us acquire it in the spirit by responding to the Lord without hesitancy or compromise and with unquestioned and unfeigned obedience.

2.  Pray for the church of Louisiana to operate not with multiple swords but with ONE SWORD--the sword of the Lord!  Declare this Sword will deal with our own hearts, execute judgment on the enemy and finally, will become a sickle to bring in a massive harvest.  (Heb. 4:12; Ps. 149:6)

3.  Pray for the David’s to arise in Louisiana--those with courageous anointings to take down the giants and stand uncompromisingly to see the Saul system eradicated.

4.  Pray for apostolic leaders to arise who are ultimate reformers and who have an anointing to “turn the world upside down.” (Acts 17:6) Pray they will be true apostles who are willing and destined to die--who in a couple of words are “dead men and women” who “die daily” for the sake of the Lord and His bride--the Church. They will be willing to take the position of the last, the least and the lowly.

5.  Ask the Lord to impart a measure of His broken heart, His compassion, and His humility to His church in Louisiana.

6.  The prophetic word in July 2010 was that warfare would start building over the political scene of this state as it rises up to take a stand in this nation. Pray for God’s protection over this process. Pray for continued cleansing and purification in our government--for the exposure and breaking of unholy alliances and for holy alliances to come forth.

7.  Pray for Louisiana to continue to be “adjusted” and to “snap into alignment” for how it aligns is how everything on both sides and everything up the Mississippi will snap into alignment.

8.  Thank Him for His supernatural intervention and power to cleanse Louisiana of divination and occult operation that has held her captive and defiled the move of His Spirit.

9.  Invite the Father to send the wind from heaven, a triumphant wind that will scatter the enemy and bring in the wave of the Holy Spirit and His glory. Keep calling forth the three generations that will prophesy and cause the wind of the Spirit to come.

10.  Decree that layer after layer of darkness will be removed until Louisiana is taken over by the Holy Spirit!

11.  Cry out for the glory realm to come and to be fanned across the state (particularly in the North) so it will contend with the darkness in South Louisiana.

12.  Pray for leaders and intercessors along the I-10 Corridor to hear the call for prophetic worship gatherings.  Here is the prophetic word (Dr. Chuck Pierce): “…beginning in September (2010) through May (2011) you need to start finding your places to worship all through here (I-10 Corridor). You need to have worship gatherings where you just have nights of worship. And you go and you worship, and you move, and you move prophetically, and when hell tries to stop you from worshiping, you just worship.”

13.  Pray for the sound to continue to develop and to be birthed and released out of Baton Rouge and other areas of our state—a sound that will create a massive move of God and a song of deliverance that will empower the glory to drive out the darkness. Pray for worship gatherings to be birthed in South Louisiana below the I-10 Corridor.

14.  Decree the removal and uprooting of any structure or corrupt system that is holding back the Blood of Jesus from having freedom to work in Louisiana.

15.  Decree that Louisiana will be girded with His glory!

Louisiana History

Indigenous peoples lived and thrived in what is now Louisiana for a few thousand years prior to European exploration. The French explorer LaSalle descended the Mississippi River in 1682 and claimed the land for the French Monarch, Louis XIV. It was not until 1699 that D'Iberville was to establish a permanent French presence in the lower Mississippi Valley. Louis Juchereau de St. Denis founded the first permanent settlement in Louisiana in 1714 with construction of Fort St. Jean Baptiste near present day Natchitoches. D'Iberville's brother, Bienville, solidified the French claim to Louisiana in 1718 with the founding of New Orleans. France controlled the Louisiana colony until 1762 when the colony was ceded to Spain under the Treaty of Fountainebleau. Spain ruled the colony until 1800 when the lands west of the Mississippi River were returned to the French in the Treaty of San Ildefonso. In 1803 the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15,000,000. The Louisiana Purchase has been deemed the greatest land acquisition in history, “changing the balance of world power“.

Through much of its early history Louisiana was a trading and financial center, and the fertility of its land made it one of the richest agricultural regions in America. In 1812 Louisiana was finally admitted to the United States as the 18th state. Relationship with the Union, however, was to be tested by the issues of slavery and states rights. After the Louisiana Purchase, New Orleans became the most active slave market in the entire country. In January 1861 Louisiana formerly seceded from the Union. During the ensuing Civil War, numerous engagements were held in Louisiana, most notably at Port Hudson, where the longest siege campaign of the war took place. After the War, the state endured 12 years of reconstruction, the longest occupation of any of the southern states.

The plantation economy was shattered by the Civil War although the state continued to be a powerful agricultural region. The discovery of sulphur in 1869 and oil in 1901, coupled with the rise of forestry sent the state on a new wave of economic growth. The 20th century saw Louisiana emerge as one of the nation's leading producers of oil, sulphur, sugar and cotton. Eventually, Louisiana became a major American producer of oil and natural gas and a center of petroleum refining and petrochemicals manufacturing, which it remains to this day, ranking second in the nation in oil production.