Praying His Word

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BESEECHING THE LORD OF THE HARVEST
PRAYING THAT THE WORD
WOULD SPREAD RAPIDLY and BE GLORIFIED

GLOBAL PRAYER DIGEST

One of the greatest privileges we have as disciples of Jesus Christ is to pray for the salvation of the lost, beseeching the Lord for workers and praying then

"that God may open up...a door for the word, so that" these workers "may speak forth the mystery of Christ" (see note Colossians 4:2) which is the GOSPEL.

Do you have difficulty praying? Specifically do you find it difficult to pray for people you've never seen much less people whose names you can't even pronounce? You are not alone. But if you truly desire to "fight the good fight of faith" (1Tim 6:12) and just need some sound Biblical "exhortation" to challenge and exhort you to enter into this glorious spiritual struggle of interceding for the souls of men and women and children from "every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues" (Rev 7:9), then I would recommend that you read "Prayer: The Work of Missions" from a mission conference address given by Dr. John Piper. Other than the Scriptures themselves this is one of the best synopses on "why pray" for the "lost" that I have ever seen. You won't be disappointed.

You can click on the link to Global Prayer Digest to see a new missions focused prayer updated daily and taking less that a minute to pray through, certainly not long in light of eternity. The Global Prayer Digest is a inter-denominational guide published by the U.S. Center for World Missions which focuses monthly on a different major people group with the goal being too guide focused intercession for over 9000 "Hidden People Groups" (where "people group" defines a body of people having a common sociological affinity and "hidden" reflects the fact that there is no established evangelizing church among them).

GOSPEL FOR ASIA

Although not specifically related to prayer for missions, I would like to introduce you to Gospel For Asia -GFA, a ministry I have been personally involved with for 20 years. God has blessed this ministry "exceeding abundantly" to the point that they now have over 11,000 fully trained indigenous native missionaries in the 10/40 Window, the most unreached and spiritually desolate region of the World.

You might be saying to yourself "I've never even heard of GFA. How could such an obscure ministry fund so many missionaries"? That's a good question and the answer may surprise you. It takes only hundreds of dollars per year to fully fund a native missionary.

God has also provided GFA with their own printing press in India and they are printing several hundred thousand New Testaments every month at the incredibly low prices. If the Lord leads, please check out their Website for more details. Other than my association with Precept Ministries International, Gospel For Asia has been one of the most exciting ministries I have ever been privileged to be associated with for their workers are truly reaping in the fields that Jesus said were white for harvest.

HYMNS and SONGS
RELATED TO PRAYER

Brethren We Have Met to Worship by George Atkins (Midi with words)
Did You Think to Pray (Midi with words)
Have You Prayed it Through? by William Poole (Midi and words -- talk about convicting!)
Hear, Hear, God My Cry based on Psalm 61 (nice piano melody in midi or mp3 format)
Jehovah To My Prayer Give Ear based on Psalm 55
LORD of the Sabbath, Hear Us Pray by Phillip Doddridge (Midi with words)
O God We Pray For All Mankind by Howard Conover (Midi with words)
O Savior, LORD, to Thee We Pray (Midi with words)
Pray, Pray (Midi with words)
Rise My Soul to Watch and Pray by Johann Freystein (Midi with words)
Soldiers of Christ, Arise by Charles Wesley (Midi with words) (familiar tune)
Sweet Hour of Prayer by William Walford (Midi) (alternate organ sound and serene picture)
The LORD's Prayer (Midi with words)
Twill All Be Right At Last by Fanny Crosby (Midi and words)