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 24: TRUTH, DISCERNMENT AND THE NATIONAL MIND
Day 162 (9 November 2026)
Theme: Renewing the Mind: Establishing our Thinking in God’s Truth
The renewal of a nation’s thinking begins with people willing to submit their own minds to God. Before the Church can faithfully address deception within society, we must allow the Word of God to examine our beliefs, challenge our assumptions and correct the patterns of thought that influence our conduct. Having prayed for the gates of South Africa to be guarded with integrity, we now turn our attention to the thinking that shapes decisions within those gates. Fear, prejudice, dishonesty, selfish ambition and hopelessness can become deeply rooted in individuals and communities, influencing what is accepted, defended and practised. Today, we pray for the Church in South Africa to experience continuing transformation through the renewal of the mind. May our understanding be established in Scripture, our judgment shaped by the character of Christ and our conduct bear the fruit of obedience.
Action item 1: Submitting Our Thinking to the Transforming Word of God
Romans 12:2 “And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.”
Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
Ephesians 4:23-24 “and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.”
- Father, search our hearts for fear and our thoughts for narratives that do not align with Your Word. We repent for any wickedness You find in us and for not believing and standing on Your Word. Lead us along the path of life, correcting and guiding our ways. You, O Lord, have never given us any reason to distrust You. Expose and correct, through Your healing love, any patterns of fear, racial hostility, dishonesty, despair and the acceptance of injustice. We have already received Your power, the ability to choose love over fear and the confidence to walk in a sound mind, bringing every thought into captivity in obedience to Christ. Teach us to use our mighty weapons of warfare to pull down strongholds and cast down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. Establish Your love in us that our thoughts may be governed in Your truth and righteousness. We ask this in Jesus’ name. Amen.
Action item 2 Confronting Destructive Patterns of Thought
2 Corinthians 10:4-5 “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,
2 Timothy 1:7 “or God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.”
Psalm 139:23-24 “Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxieties; 24And see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
- Father God, in the name of Jesus, we repent for only being hearers of Your Word, and for not doing and obeying Your Word. We ask You to remove the veil of deception from families, education, media, business, public service and community leadership. Equip believers to think on whatever is true, honest, just, pure, lovely and of good report, and on any virtue and anything worthy of praise, that they may exercise sound judgment and live with practical integrity to serve the common good. We pray that all we do, in word and deed, will be done in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks and bringing glory to Your name. Amen.
Action item 3: Demonstrating Renewed Thinking Through Responsible National Stewardship
Philippians 4:8 “Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy-meditate on these things.”
James 1:22 “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”
Colossians 3:17 “And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”
- Father God, we repent for only being hearers of Your Word, and for not doing and obeying Your Word. We ask You to remove the veil of deception from families, education, media, business, public service and community leadership. Equip believers to think on whatever is true, honest, just, pure, lovely and of good report, and on any virtue and anything worthy of praise, that they may exercise sound judgment and live with practical integrity to serve the common good. We pray that all we do, in word and deed, will be done in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks and bringing glory to Your name. Amen.
*All scriptures (unless otherwise indicated) are NKJV.
PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS:
- We declare that we will think on whatever is true, honest, just, pure, lovely and of good report, because as we think it, our minds are being renewed by Your Word. (Philippians 4:8)
- We declare that we are doers of the Word and not hearers only, and we will not deceive ourselves. (James 1:22)
- We declare that whatever we do in word or deed, we will do it in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him. (Colossians 3:17)
- We declare that what we believe will show in what we do, in our families, schools, media, businesses, public service and communities across South Africa. (James 1:22, Philippians 4:8)
- We declare that our thoughts, words and actions will bring glory to God and serve the common good, with integrity and sound judgment. (Colossians 3:17, Philippians 4:8)
South Africa Prayer Coverage Map
Visualizing where prayer is rising across our nation