Prayer

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[edit] Prayer

  • Prayer is to communicate, commonly with a sequence of words, with God for the purpose of worshipping, requesting guidance, requesting assistance, confessing sins, or to express one's thoughts and emotions, or to intercede for other people and also for peoples in far away countries. The words of the prayer may take the form of a hymn, incantation, or a spontaneous utterance in the praying person's words.

[edit] Quotations about Prayer

  • Jack Hayford, "Prayer can change anything. The impossible doesn’t exist. His is the power. Ours is the prayer. Without Him, we cannot. Without us, He will not."
  • Oswald Smith, "He who would preach powerfully must pray effectively."
  • Cameron Thompson, "Heaven must be full of answers for which no one ever bothered to ask."

Reference:

Bounds,E.M. E.M. Bounds on Prayer 1973 New Kensington Whitaker House

Darden, Richard and Evangelina 2008 West Texas Bi-vocational Conference

VanderGriend,Alvin Love to Pray

VanderGriend,Alvin (http:www.harvestprayer.com)

VanderGriend,Alvin (http:www.40daysofprayer.net)

[edit] Some answers of Prayer

[edit] Prayer initiatives

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[edit] Cry Out

  • Cry Out is a clarion call to the worldwide Body of Christ to join together in a three-year season of focused, intentional, collective prayer and fasting for people and cities in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq from Jan. 1, 2008 to Dec. 31, 2010. [Cry Out]

[edit] Year of Prayer for Bosnia-Herzegovina

  • All information for prayer you can get from this web site: [[1]]

[edit] Friends Missionary Prayer Band

  • The dependence on prayer is a central focus of the Friends Missionary Prayer Band, and permeates the mission, from top leadership to lay supporters. “To make prayer the central focus of our work was a result of the Word of God, the impossibility of the task and the extreme limitations of the unknown…How to move a whole church to think about unreached people groups? The only way to do it was to pray to God,” Kamaleson said.
  • This resulted in a powerful and innovative structure to provide both the needed prayer and finances to carry out mission work in a country presenting the most difficult of spiritual and financial challenges. All over the world emerging missions are wondering if they can engage in missionary activity because of their people’s limited incomes. Few, however, have per capita incomes lower than India. Yet the Holy Spirit, through much prayer and fasting in the mission’s early days, showed them a financing plan that yields $700,000 annually in missionary support, and a prayer structure that is forcing the powers of darkness to release their grip on peoples they have kept in darkness for centuries. That structure is the thousands of prayer bands, small groups of 10-20 committed believers from all walks of life, which meet weekly to bring the missionaries’ needs before God. They also petition Him on behalf of the millions of souls trapped among the unreached peoples which are yet in spiritual darkness. At this point there are about 3,500 prayer bands comprised of some 50,000 believers. Friends Missionary Prayer Band works with 722 missionaries in 17 states, opening 135 mission stations. This work of forming worship groups planting churches and conducting Bible Correspondence Course among 136 people groups in India, mainly among 10 people groups namely the Maltos, the Santals, the Kuknas, the Rai Sikhs, the Vasavas, the Varlies, the Gounders, the Charmars, the Hos and the Kathodies. Bible translation ministry is being done in the languages namely, Vasave, Varli, Choudrie, Malto, Haryanvi and the Dungra Bhil.

[edit] 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World

[edit] Children's Prayer Journal

  • Praise God that children love to pray. After two years of hard work, the colorful Children's Prayer Journal is available for download on Wycliffe USA's free curriculum web page for kids. The prayer journal allows children to pray for twelve different language communities featured in the book From Akebu to Zapotec. Using the acrostic "A.C.T.S" (adoration, confession, thanksgiving and supplication) kids pray through designated Scripture verses for these communities. They also pray for a missionary and record their requests and answers, keeping a keychain tag and bookmark nearby as reminders to pray. Teachers who field-tested the journal said kids were highly motivated by it and formed good prayer habits within one month of repeated use! With the free resource page being the fourth most-viewed page on the entire Wycliffe USA website in June 2008, the journal is meeting a felt need! See Wycliffe - Kids

[edit] See also

  • An example of petitionary prayer can be found in Luke 18:1-8 (Wells 2006:142). Petitionary prayer is the hope that daily life can and ought to be otherwise than it currently is in this world. Jesus commanded "at all times, we should pray and not lose heart" (Luke 18:1). Jesus, of course, is our model of prayer (Luke 6:12;Matt.14:23;Luke3:21;Luke;9:28-29;Matt.26:3-45).

Jesus prayed when:

  • facing important life decisions
  • in extremely stressful circumstances
  • in great crises and turning points of life
  • in temptation (Wells 2006:143).

The next question is:

  • why don't we engage in regular petitionary prayer? The simple answer is "that we do not believe that it will make a difference" (Wells 2006:144). "In other words, we have lost our anger, both at the level of social witness and before God in prayer," however, we as Christians can return to or for the first time engage in regular petitionary prayer, because God still retains His wrath toward evil in this world" (Wells 2006:144).

The practice of petitionary prayer is necessary for at least two reasons:

  • God's Name must be hallowed and His Will and Kingdom must come
  • We must believe that God Himself can change a situation (Wells 2006:143).

As one engages in regular petitionary prayer, one will grow in relationship with God.

Reference:

Winter, Ralph D. and Hawthorne, Steven C. eds. Perspectives 2006:142-144.

Wells, David Prayer: Rebelling Against the Status Quo 2006:142-144.

[edit] Resources

  • The book "Touch the World Through Prayer" by By Dr. Wesley L. Duewel is very helpful. Dr. Wesley L. Duewel has given himself to the cause of missions for the past 66 years. Following ministry in India for nearly 25 years, he served as president of OMS International (1969-1982). He is now President Emeritus and special assistant to the president for evangelism and intercession.
  • The book Perspectives edited by Ralph D. Winter and Steven C. Hawthorne is extremely insightful for missions in general and the article by David Wells Prayer: Rebelling Against the Status Quo is very practical for daily life. (Wells 2006:142-144).
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