7 Ways to Pray for Missions

1 Unleashing God's Power
2 Pray on Two Levels
3 Seven Ways to Pray

Page 2 — Pray on Two Levels

Here are two suggestions to help you pray more effectively:

Maintain a broad general interest in the world
Take the initiative to understand the varying needs throughout the world. Keep up with current events in various countries, and pray for the needs of different countries—some people pray for a different continent every day of the week.

Pray regularly for one missionary or a missionary family
After you’ve cultivated your interest world-wide, narrow in and specialize your concern in one particular outreach. Ask God to put one specific missionary on your heart and commit yourself to that missionary in a deep, meaningful way. As God leads you, make a definite commitment to Him to pray daily for your partner in ministry.

Learn all you can about your missionary: the family, the agency, the country where he or she is serving, the type of work to be done, and the people he or she is working with.

Other ways to serve your missionary are to write, send small gifts occasionally, or have them for dinner while on furlough. Be creative! Think about what would lift you up if YOU were in the field.

Rejoice with your missionary in his or her answers to prayer. Worship God with thanksgiving for meeting your missionary’s needs.

It is not easy to pray for someone every day for an extended period of time—no matter how strong your commitment. So, also pray that God would help you to be effective in His ministry of missions!

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