365 Day Prayer Shield Over South Africa
What if the Church prayed without ceasing — not for a season, but for a whole year?
We are inviting every believer, every church, and every prayer network to join us in placing a 365-day prayer shield over our nation. One hour at a time. One heart at a time. Together.
When every slot is filled, South Africa will be covered in 24/7 unbroken intercession — crying out for healing, for breakthrough, and for God’s hand to move powerfully across our land.
How it works: Book one or more hourly prayer slots across the full year. When all slots are filled, we achieve continuous, unbroken prayer coverage over the nation. Daily prayer points will be available below the calendar to guide your time with God.
This is your invitation.
This is our moment.
Will you take your place on the wall?
How to Book Your Slots
Our goal is to turn the whole calendar Green so our nation is covered with Prayer, 24/7! If you see a Red or Yellow day or hour slot, that is a great place to start.
Tip: You can select multiple hours across all the months before clicking confirm. Once confirmed, you can download your slots to sync with your mobile calendar.
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Scriptural Anchors during these 365 Days of Prayer
2 Chronicles 7:14 “If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.” (Primary anchor scripture – national repentance and healing)
Joel 2:12-13 “Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.” So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm.” (Consecration through heartfelt repentance and returning to God)
Leviticus 20:7-8 “Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am the Lord your God. And you shall keep My statutes, and perform them: I am the Lord who sanctifies you.” (National holiness and separation unto God)
Psalm 33:12 “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people He has chosen as His own inheritance.” (National alignment under God’s Lordship)
Daniel 9:4-5 “And I prayed to the Lord my God, and made confession, and said, ‘O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.’” (Identification repentance for national sin)
Romans 12:1 “Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” (Consecration and surrender)
Psalm 24:3-4 “Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, Nor sworn deceitfully.” (Purity and spiritual preparation before God)
Personal Prophetic Declarations to Pray every day.
NB: Before embarking on these prayers, pronounce these declarations which establish:
- The Lordship of Jesus Christ over your life (authority and alignment)
- Justification and covering (blood and righteousness)
- Protection (Isaiah 54:17 principle)
- Consecration and separation (holiness and spiritual boundaries)
I declare that my life and all that concerns me is under the Lordship of Jesus Christ (Romans 14:8; Colossians 1:16–18).
I declare that the blood of Jesus speaks on my behalf, and I am the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus (Hebrews 12:24; 2 Corinthians 5:21).
I declare that no weapon formed against me or all that concerns me shall prosper because of these intercessory prayers, in Jesus’ Name (Isaiah 54:17).
I separate myself from all ungodly soul ties, monitoring spirits, and familiar spirits, in the Name of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 6:17; Colossians 2:15). Amen.
Prayer Scriptures
During your prayer slot if you have worked through the daily prayer points or at any given time if you are not sure what to pray exactly, use this PDF below and read the scriptures out loud. There is power in God’s Word and praying through scriptures.
Today's Prayer Points
WEEK 16: STEWARDSHIP, INNOVATION AND NATIONAL PROSPERITY
Day 106 (14 September 2026)
Theme: The Earth Belongs to The Lord – Establishing a Culture of Faithful Stewardship:
Praying for South Africa to recover the biblical understanding that the earth and everything within it ultimately belongs to the Lord. Praying that individuals, families, communities, institutions, businesses, and those entrusted with public responsibility will recognise that people, land, natural resources, knowledge, skills, opportunities, wealth, and economic potential are gifts and trusts from God to be faithfully stewarded. Asking God to establish a culture of responsibility, accountability, diligence, preservation, cultivation, and generational thinking, so that what has been entrusted to South Africa is not exploited or consumed merely for personal gain, but wisely developed and used for the common good and the blessing of generations to come.
*All scriptures (unless otherwise stated) are from New King James Version (NKJV)
Action item 1: Recover the revelation of God’s ownership
Psalm 24:1 “The earth is the LORD’S, and all its fullness, the world and those who dwell therein.”
Haggai 2:8 “The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,’ says the LORD of hosts.”
Deuteronomy 10:14 “Indeed heaven and the highest heavens belong to the LORD your God, also the earth with all that is in it.”
- Father, in the mighty name of Jesus, we pray that South Africa will recover the foundational truth that the earth, its resources, and its people belong to You. Let this revelation be restored in the hearts and minds of individuals, families, communities, institutions, businesses, and leaders throughout our nation. Cause us to recognise that everything You have entrusted to us carries a responsibility before You. May the knowledge of Your ownership shape how we understand, manage, govern, develop, and use what You have placed in our hands. Establish within us a deep sense of stewardship, accountability, and responsibility toward all that belongs to You. In Jesus’ name, Amen
Action item 2: Establish faithfulness and accountability in stewardship
1 Corinthians 4:2 “Moreover it is required in stewards that one be found faithful.”
Luke 16:10-12 “He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much; and he who is unjust in what is least is unjust also in much. Therefore if you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon,”
Proverbs 28:20 “A faithful man will abound with blessings, but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.”
- Father, in the mighty name of Jesus, we pray for the restoration of faithfulness, integrity, accountability, and responsibility in the stewardship of all that You have entrusted to South Africa. Raise up faithful stewards in every sphere of society who understand that what is placed in their hands carries a responsibility before You. We pray against corruption, waste, negligence, exploitation, greed, dishonesty, and every form of misuse of resources and opportunity. Establish integrity within those entrusted with public resources, finances, land, infrastructure, institutions, businesses, knowledge, skills, and opportunities. May those who carry responsibility be people who can be trusted, who act with honesty, who exercise wisdom, and who refuse to pursue personal gain at the expense of the common good. Teach us as a nation to value faithfulness above quick gain and responsibility above self-interest. Let faithful stewardship become a defining characteristic of our nation, and may those who are entrusted with much be found faithful before You. In Jesus’ name, Amen
Action item 3: Cultivate what God has entrusted for generational blessing
Genesis 2:15 “Then the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.”
- Father, in the mighty name of Jesus, we pray that South Africa will learn to faithfully cultivate, develop, preserve, and multiply all that You have entrusted to this nation. Deliver us from a culture of consumption without cultivation, possession without responsibility, and immediate gain without consideration for generations to come. Give us wisdom to develop our land, natural resources, knowledge, skills, infrastructure, institutions, creativity, and economic potential in ways that honour You and serve the common good.
Deuteronomy 8:18 “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for it is He who gives you power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is this day.”
- Remind us that every capacity to create, build, produce, and prosper ultimately comes from You. Teach us to use what You have placed in our hands not merely for personal benefit, but to establish foundations upon which future generations can build. Raise fathers and mothers, leaders, institutions, businesses, communities, and organisations that think generationally and are willing to build what they themselves may not live to see completed.
Psalm 78:4-7 “We will not hide them from their children, telling the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and His strength and His wonderful works that He has done. 5For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; 6That the generation to come might know them, the children who would be born, that they may arise and declare them to their children, 7That they may set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments.”
- May what is cultivated today become a blessing tomorrow. May what is preserved today strengthen future generations. May what is multiplied today create opportunity for those who come after us. And may South Africa faithfully steward what You have entrusted to her until that stewardship becomes a testimony of Your goodness and a blessing to generations and to the nations. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS:
- We decree and declare that South Africa will recover the biblical revelation that the earth belongs to the Lord, and that everything entrusted to this nation will increasingly be stewarded with wisdom, integrity, responsibility, and accountability.
- We decree and declare that a culture of faithful stewardship is arising across South Africa, replacing waste, exploitation, greed, corruption, and negligence with diligence, excellence, responsibility, and wise management.
- We decree and declare that the land, resources, knowledge, skills, opportunities, creativity, and economic potential of South Africa will be cultivated and developed rather than wasted or exploited.
- We decree and declare that God is raising faithful stewards in government, business, education, agriculture, science, technology, finance, communities, and every sphere of society.
- We decree and declare that South Africa will become increasingly characterised by generational thinking, where what is built, developed, protected, and stewarded today strengthens those who come after us.
- We decree and declare that the resources and opportunities entrusted to South Africa will increasingly serve the common good, strengthen communities, create productive capacity, and release sustainable prosperity.
- We decree and declare that South Africa will faithfully steward what God has entrusted to her and will increasingly become a blessing to the nations.
South Africa Prayer Coverage Map
Visualizing where prayer is rising across our nation