Category: Pray

Give thanks to the Lord of the harvest for sending out workers. Pray for workers just arriving on field to have strength, energy, and drive needed for each day to adjust to life in adopted country. Ask God to help those new workers with all the cultural differences and to cause those new workers to lean on Him during transition as they find appropriate housing and language.

Praise God for new harvest workers that He continues to raise up. Pray that God would enable new workers to learn language quickly so that they may boldly and confidently share the message of Jesus. Ask God to use these workers to spark a disciple making movement among unreached peoples.

Paul’s father-like heart for the young preacher and disciple maker Timothy gives direction to pray for Missionary Kids. Although Timothy was possibly of a mature age when pulled into a cross-cultural life, his apparent relative youth and placement in leadership seemed like it could sure inform our prayers. Pray that Team Expansion MKs on the fields and those who have transitioned off will have confidence in their calling, despite their age, to be solid witnesses to a life with Christ through their words, actions, faith, purity, and love for others and to publicly rely on Scripture, answer the call to teach and preach when given, and to have the backing and sending of mature believers, and the courage to use their gifts, to display commitment, and to be honest and diligent in their self-examination (1 Tim 4:12-16).

Celebrate what God is doing in a Buddhist country in Southeast Asia. Three international teens, several nationals and others have put on Christ in baptism! Pray for these folks as they choose to be buried with Christ so that they can be raised with Him on That Day.

Pray for the Khmer people of Southeast Asia. One worker’s article on the Psalms is currently being translated for publication in a Khmer Christian magazine. Pray for the Church in this sensitive land. Pray that heart-level healing will become a hallmark of the Bride of Christ in this place.

Japan has thousands of earthquakes each year, but most are too weak to cause concern. Praise God that these recent larger quakes have not caused tsunami damage like 2011’s disasters. Pray that churches in the area of epicenter’s Kumamoto are responding to physical and spiritual needs of those affected.

“He shakes the earth from its place and makes its pillars tremble” (Job 9:6). There was a terrible earthquake in southern Japan in April, causing lots of damage with over 40 dead and over 100,000 needing to evacuate. Pray that Japanese affected by earthquakes would have open ears and hearts to the Gospel when workers share it with them. Pray that many would put their trust in Jesus.

“Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1). God, we pray against the false teachings, false promises, and the false hope of the Buddhist and animist religions. We pray that Buddhists would question what they believe and that YOU would reach into each heart. Make them wrestle with Truth in order to find what is good and true so that they may find YOUR Truth in the midst of spiritual chaos.

Praise God for 77 baptisms in C-ba. God is doing amazing things in that nation!

Pray for families that are serving in dangerous places. In the last 18 months terrorist attacks in North Africa have resulted in 3 separate incidents near workers.