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.
Manage Bookings
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 01: National Consecration
Day 02 (2 June 2026)
Repenting for National Sin and Covenant Breaking:
Standing in identification repentance for the sins of South Africa; historical and present; and seeking God’s mercy, cleansing, and restoration over the nation. Spend time asking the Holy Spirit to reveal areas where the nation has departed from God’s ways – including injustice, bloodshed, corruption, division, immorality, idolatry, covenant breaking, and neglect of righteousness. Repent sincerely on behalf of the land and its people.
Action Item 1: Repent for National Sin and Rebellion Against God
Nehemiah 1:6-7 “We have sinned against You. Both my father’s house and I have sinned. We have acted very corruptly against You, and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.”
Daniel 9:9-10 “To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him. We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets.”
Isaiah 59:2 “But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.”
- Lord we repent for national sin and rebellion against You: Father, we come before Your Throne of Grace in repentance on behalf of South Africa. We acknowledge that we as a nation have sinned against You and departed from Your ways. We repent for our idolatrous ways corruption, injustice, violence, racism, greed, immorality, bloodshed, lawlessness, and every form of rebellion against Your truth. Forgive us, Lord, for the ways we have dishonoured Your name and rejected righteousness. Wash this nation in Your mercy and cleanse our land from iniquity. Let there be a turning back to Your ways throughout South Africa we pray in the name of Jesus.
Action Item 2: Repent for Bloodshed, Violence, and Injustice in the Land
Numbers 35:33 “So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.”
Isaiah 1:15-17 “When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you; Even though you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil, Learn to do good; Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor; Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.”
Habakkuk 2:12 “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, who establishes a city by iniquity!”
- Lord we repent for all iniquity, transgressions, wickedness and sin in the land: Lord, we repent for the bloodshed and violence that has stained our land. We cry out for mercy concerning murder, abuse, injustice, crime, oppression, gender-based violence, exploitation, and every form of innocent blood that has been shed in South Africa. Father, forgive us where human life has been dishonoured and where justice has been corrupted. Heal the wounds within our nation and uproot the spirit of violence and destruction from our communities. Let righteousness, justice, and the value of life be restored throughout the land.
Action Item 3: Restore Covenant Alignment Between the Nation and God
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the Lord your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them.”
Hosea 6:1 “Come, and let us return to the Lord; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up.”
Acts 3:19 “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.”
- Father restore South Africa to covenant alignment with You: Father, we ask You to restore South Africa into right alignment with You. Turn the hearts of the people back to the fear of the Lord and to obedience to Your Word. Let there be true repentance that leads to transformation across every sphere of society. We renounce every agreement with darkness, idolatry, corruption, and unrighteousness, and we choose covenant alignment with Your truth and Your ways. Let times of refreshing come upon this nation, and let Your presence once again dwell powerfully within our land.
PROPHETIC DECLARATIONS
- “South Africa returns to the Lord in repentance and humility.”
- “The blood of Jesus speaks mercy over this nation.”
- “Every covenant with corruption, violence, and unrighteousness is broken.”
- “Healing and restoration flow throughout the land.”
- “The fear of the Lord is being restored in South Africa.”
- “This nation is realigned with the purposes and ways of God.”
South Africa Prayer Coverage Map
Visualizing where prayer is rising across our nation