The General Overseer of Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, delivered a stirring message on the indispensable role of prayer and intercession in sustaining ministry and transforming nations.
“We are living in great times in the history of the Church to be alive. Generations will come and read about us,” he said, urging ministers to think generationally and Christlike in their pursuit of God’s mission.
Archbishop Duncan-Williams was speaking at the 2025 All Ministers Conference held at the Pentecost Convention Centre (PCC), Gomoa Fetteh, on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.
Quoting Hebrews 7:25, the archbishop said that Christ, who “ever lives to make intercession at the right hand of the Father,” has set the pattern for the Church.
“The highest calling in the body of Christ is an intercessor,” he stressed, adding, “Without a prayer line, your unction is questionable.”
Drawing from Luke 11:1, he reminded participants that the disciples never asked Jesus to teach them how to perform miracles or gather crowds but to teach them to pray, for prayer was the source of His power.
“Anything that takes you away from prayer is an enemy; anything that takes you away from studying the Word is an enemy to your faith,” he warned, referencing Acts 6:3-4.
“The heavens only opened because Jesus was praying and nothing else,” he declared from Luke 3:21. “The ‘open heavens’ on ministry must be activated by prayer. It is illegal for God to do anything on earth without prayer.”
He cautioned that without sustained intercession, ministries cannot stand, saying, “Without daily intercession, your ministry won’t last because you cannot take legal authority over darkness.”
Archbishop Duncan-Williams admonished ministers not to glory only in quoting scripture without cultivating a consistent prayer life. He cited Luke 6:12-16 where Jesus prayed all night, asking poignantly, “Even praying all night did not stop the devil from entering His fold through Judas Iscariot. Imagine if He had not prayed?” Prayer, he noted, “prepares the ground for spiritual and physical domination. You can’t play with prayer, even a little prayer goes a long way.”
Underscoring the power of prayer to feed faith, he urged ministers: “Lean on the Holy Spirit otherwise you are in trouble. He quickens you to prayer at the most critical point. Don’t pray on the premise of fear but worship and everything will stabilize. When crisis encounters you, what holds you will come out. Feed your faith with prayer.”
He further challenged ministers with the question, “What do you do when you are alone?” referencing Luke 19:18 to stress that prayer releases the spirit of knowledge. Sharing a personal testimony of interceding against turbulence during a ministry trip, he reminded that “no time is an odd time, otherwise you may miss a window and kill somebody.”
Archbishop Duncan-Williams passionately charged church leaders: “May we disabuse logic and the arguments of men, and submit ourselves to the Holy Spirit. Don’t sleep when you have to be in prayer.”
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