What is it to pray for Amnesty?

We are in a season of amnesty. “Amnesty” means pardon for offenses against a government. It doesn’t mean acquittal because of innocence. It means, across-the-board forgiveness, pardon, erasure of all judgment and penalty against the offending party. This is good news for us personally, and it is good news for the world.

“I want you to pray for amnesty.  I prayed for amnesty from the judgment that was against them.

Background:

By Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda

{The prayer of amnesty was a concept that the Lord gave to Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda in 2011.  The case in question regarding Amanda Knox who was in court for murder.  No one knows if she actually committed the crime or not.  The prayer of amnesty is not a guarantee but this offers a different way to pray.  Please use this example with the understanding that God’s will is sovereign}.

Excerpt from the article, “We Are At a Tipping Point – Make a Shift!  Mahesh and Bonnie Chavda” posted on the Elijah List on November 23, 2011.    Original Post on the Elijah List – Click here

“A while ago, the Lord brought a young woman’s face before my, Bonnie’s, eyes. It was as if He were looking through my eyes at her. Although I had not been following her story closely, I recognized the woman as Amanda Knox, who at the time was appealing her case before Italy’s High Court. As I looked, I heard the Lord say, “I want you to pray for amnesty and then watch for a sign concerning the season the earth is in because of the work of the Cross.” For the next several days, that’s exactly what I did. I did not know the details of her case. I did not know whether she was innocent or not, but I prayed for amnesty from the judgment that was against her.

A few days later, Amanda Knox’s indictment in the murder of her roommate was overturned, and within hours she was on a plane bound for home after 4-½ years in an Italian prison.

Interestingly, shortly after Amanda’s release, during the Feast of Tabernacles, we got a second sign – in Israel. Gilad Shalit, a young soldier, who was abducted and held by terrorists for five years, suddenly came home to his family after Israel ransomed him at the cost of 1,027 prisoners in exchange for his life. It was as if we watched Isaiah 43 play out before our very eyes:

Don’t be afraid, I’ve redeemed you. I’ve called your name. You’re mine. When you’re in over your head, I’ll be there with you. When you’re in rough waters, you will not go down. When you’re between a rock and a hard place, it won’t be a dead end – because I am God, your personal God, the Holy of Israel, your Savior. I paid a huge price for you: all of Egypt, with rich Cush and Seba thrown in! That’s how much you mean to me! That’s how much I love you! I’d sell off the whole world to get you back, trade the creation just for you (Isaiah 43:1-3 TM).

God is calling us to make a shift – a shift in our thinking; a shift in our intercession; a shift in our prophetic declarations; a shift in our expectation. We are in a season of amnesty. “Amnesty” means pardon for offenses against a government. It doesn’t mean acquittal because of innocence. It means, across-the-board forgiveness, pardon, erasure of all judgment and penalty against the offending party. This is good news for us personally, and it is good news for the world.

Often, we hold ourselves, and then we hold others around us, in a prison of guilt for legitimate offenses against each other, and ultimately the government of God. “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). But it is God’s glory to wipe out our offense by the power of His shed Blood. And it is our glory to extend this amnesty to the world around us. We need to make a shift, and let the reality of the Cross and the work Christ did there shape our prayers.

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