The Crown Flag Prayer Strategy

There were five ministers from various backgrounds meeting with some others at a special Bible study every Monday and Friday evening. They just opened the Scriptures and searched out the truth, and God revealed and opened up astonishing revelation to them.

A powerful move of God graciously took place during those times resulting in awesome encounters in the Shekinah presence. At the end of what sometimes would be a 2-3 hour study, they would begin to wait on God. 

“Often we would be standing in honour and awe of His majestic Person for periods that seemed to be timeless. It was as though we had been summoned to appear at the counsel of witnesses as spoken of in Hebrews 12. We had come to Mount Zion, the City of the Living God, the General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn. 

It was in this holy place that we saw the seats as if set out around the chamber of the Kings court. Each seat was set apart for those who were called, and it was required that we appear before this great King to receive instructions and give our progress reports each one. It seemed our names were placed in front of our seats, and it seemed that each time we met, if one on us were absent, that there was a demand as to why we had not appeared. 

This is where we were to receive our commission and charges. This is where they return from the battle-field to report their accomplishments, and hear the King's strategy for the next advance. 

It did not matter in the least whether anyone else in the whole world knew who we were or what our commission. We only knew that this is where the mysteries of the work of the Kingdom are truly carried out, for this Kingdom cometh not with observation, but worketh mightily in the realms of the Spirit. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, for our warfare is with those powers and principalities that cannot be fought with intellect or muscle, but only in the power of the Holy Spirit and in the Name of the God of Jacob. 

Our names were not important 'out there', for we serve this King of kings, and we work without explanation and do what we do because He bids us thus. Our answer is to Him alone, and it is of no consequence what others may think of our hopes and joys. 

The King enters the great chamber, and we rise to stand and give Him honour and glory, wisdom and might, majesty and praise.

We stand, our heads bowed, the court now hushed to silence, our breath taken away at the sheer honour of being permitted, nay, I say, invited to this most reverent place. We dare not move, in fact we wish not to move, but are held rooted in godly fear and a dreadful desire to just drink and drink of this glorious moment. And time stands still. And we have no words to speak, and even if we did, no words could ever express the incomprehensible sight our eyes behold.

No wonder David cried, “My soul LONGETH, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord.” (Ps. 84 v 2)” 

It was in this hallowed place that God first gave the vision of the church rising up across the world with the Crown flag standard. This is where the flag was revealed and birthed. This flag was all about honour, and wherever His servants stand with this banner they stand to give Jesus honour and praise. They declare the excellency of our mighty warrior King.

The vision of the flag and its purpose was first imparted and drawn out at the table where they sat to study. One Friday night as they were waiting on God, the vision was given to one of the ministers at the table. And it was from this very place that they would so often walk out to carry that royal standard to some place where God's Spirit would direct them, and then stand in the authority of the King and give honour to Christ. Just standing with the flag was sufficient to draw the smile of approval from heaven, and bring fear to the camp of the enemy.

Wherever they stood with the flag it brought immediate attention and curiosity. People seemed drawn to the flag unexplainably. Vehicles would slow down and stop with the drivers or passengers asking what the flag was. Christians would run over to tell them that they knew what this flag was about, commenting on how awesome it was!  

“We could not explain the effect the flag was having apart from the fact that God was the imparter of the vision for it and He himself was honouring our raising of this ensign for His glory. We thought very much about that verse in Isaiah 62 v10, where the prophet says, “Go through, go through the gates: prepare ye the way of the people: …..lift up a standard (flag) for the people.” 

In fact, just a few weeks later a senior pastor in Coventry was shown the Crown Flag. He looked at it and said, “I have already seen that.” This did not make any sense, as the only people who knew about it were this small group of ministers! On being asked how he could possibly know anything about it he told us that just three weeks earlier he had been in a minister's conference waiting on God. During that anointed session God had given him a vision of the church rising across the world with a great banner! He said that the Crown Flag was the flag that he had seen!” 

With the flag came a number of scriptures which became the Crown Flag Declaration. Wherever the flag is raised these scriptures are spoken out. 

It was also in this place where they met that God imparted the plan to secure their town with the authority of His kingdom. 

“We were to place certain scriptures (the Crown Flag Declaration, sealed in a waterproof packet) around the base of a 6 feet long wooden stake and hammer these stakes into the ground at the side of each road that enters and exits the perimeter of the town.” 

So early one Sunday morning around the time of the sun arising, the five of them took 9 stakes, some blue cord, and a huge sledgehammer, and buried those stakes into the ground, leaving three feet of the wood exposed. They then tied a three-fold blue nylon cord to the top of the stake and stretched it back away from the town anchoring it to the ground with a smaller wooden stake. This to them symbolised the stretching of a canopy over the town as in Isaiah 54 v 2, and 'lengthening our cords and strengthening our stakes'. The three strand blue cord symbolised a three-fold cord which 'cannot be easily broken'.

After doing each one they declared aloud the Crown Flag Declaration at each place which they now call a 'Prayer Gate'.

The Crown Flag Declaration 

A sound of battle is in the land!

The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe the gospel.

All this assembly shall know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands.

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this king of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.

 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the king of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of Glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of Glory.

This is the generation of them that seek Him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Open the gates that the righteous nation, which keeps the truth, may enter in.

LET YOUR KINGDOM COME, LET YOUR WILL BE DONE, IN MY LIFE, IN MY FAMILY, IN THIS TOWN, IN THIS NATION, in all the earth, as it is done in heaven. 

They encircled the entire town and declared that the Kingdom of God was at hand. 

“Every day for the next eighteen months each one of us would go to pray at least once a day at our designated gates

Sometimes we would as individuals or together, prayer-walk the whole circumference of the map which we had marked out with boundaries and key prayer points (see attached). 

This map we all carried and used extensively. A visiting minister from America who was overjoyed and amazed at seeing the flag, asked us why this town?? We said we did not know really, but just that this is where God had placed us at that time.

We would target key places for special prayer, and mark places where teenagers gathered for extra prayer. We placed the same Scriptures in the school grounds of seven teaching establishments, and even took the word and buried it in the cemetery where many kids would hang out in the dark of night amongst the dead, drinking and smoking because they had nothing better to do! 

It was like sowing the seed, the word of truth for the present generation, and generations yet to come. Nothing we did was done 'lightly', but everything was born and nurtured in prayer.”  

Over the period of eighteen months of praying round the town, they saw crime reduced by 50% (government statistics), drug dealers captured, no serious accidents, nightclubs and drinking houses loose half of their clientele, and the Gospel impact the entire area with outstanding results. 

They walked in the authority of the kingdom, and began to realize something of who they were in Christ, and why one day this world will see and acknowledge the true sons of God, and the influence they exerted whilst they walked this earth.  

“I often looked at the map and tried to make some shape of our boundary line. The best I could imagine was that of a rather awkward fish.

It was two years later that I saw something quite remarkable. We were about to visit India for the first time in our lives. I happened to have a minister's conference just a few days before in the UK, and whilst preparing I thought it good to mention about the prayer map.

I had on my desk a print of the map of India, and just happened to turn the prayer-map of this town sideways!

As you can see, the remarkable likeness can not be mistaken, and even where the Prayer Gates are positioned on our map, they coincide with towns or cities in India. 

We knew we were praying in a much broader sense than to just the little town we occupied, and knew that we were standing in authority for something much more strategic.

We recently raised the Crown Flag in India. Remarkable things are going to happen in that nation of over 1 billion souls.” 

This is just part of the ongoing story of the Crown Flag. We keep hearing reports from around the world of what is happening.