It is our goal to start 50 Nehemiah Prayer teams in the Region. The first Nehemiah Prayer team that was established meets at the Syracue Healing Room location every Saturday from 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM. The purpose of the Nehemiah Prayer Teams is to spiritually raise the wall of protection around Syracuse and Central New York -- just as Nehemiah did around Jerusalem in his day. Nehemiah charged family groups with the responsibility of building their part of the wall. They built with one hand and carried a sword in the other. As the church of Jesus Christ assumes its position on the wall, regardless of denominational differences, to unite and war over our area in prayer, we will see revival come to Syracuse.

The Nehemiah Prayer Teams pray for revival, support ministries and churches on the front lines with prayer, and target spiritual stumbling blocks to revical. Nehemiah Prayer Teams will also function as watchman. In ancient Israel, watchman stood their watch on the walls looking for danger and would sound the trumpet call as a warning and in response the gatekeepers would close the gates to the city. As we rebuild and raise the walls of protection around Syracuse via the Nehemiah Prayer Teams, we must also maintain a vigil to ensure the enemy does not encroach on ground that was reclaimed from the enemy. In the physical, land that is posted does not ensure that trespassers will not encroach on it. Often trespasssers will come and squat on posted land unless authority is executed to forcibly eject them.

If sustained transformation and revival is to come to our area, We will need both Watchman on the walls of our city and Gatekeepers to close the gates of the city to the entrance of the enemy. The gates of the ancient cities of Israel were shut by night, and the night watchmen guarded the walls of the city. However, the gates of the city were opened during the last hour of the morning watch. Thus, in the morning, there were both the morning watchmen and the gatekeepers on watch. The gatekeeper's job was to open and guard the gates. As the watchman stood their watch on the walls looking for danger, they would sound the trumpet as a warning and in response the gatekeepers would close the gates to the city denying the enemy access to the city

As the prayer teams receive revelation from the Lord, they will communicate it to the Transformation Syracuse leadership team to be assessed. The information will be submitted to the Pastors of participating churches (Gatekeepers) and a battle strategy will be developed to close the gates of the city to the enemy. The plan will be communicated back to the Nehemiah prayer teams so they may pray, intercede, and war over our area effectivally. In this manner we can, by the Holy Spirit, cut off the supply of the enemy (just as the children of Israel learned to encircle an enemy and cut off their lines of supply) and tear down the high places.

Please join us as we content for the revival and transformation of our area.

If you cannot come to Syracuse, please consider starting a Nehemiah Prayer team at your location. For information, please click here