A message from Andrew R. Wheeler to all members of "Seek God for the City" group on Pray.Network!
Thank you for joining the Seek God for the City group. I hope you will participate in this year's prayer campaign - whether alone, with your family or church, or right here on Pray.Network. I plan to post daily prayers in the 2016 discussion in this group (and trust in God's forgiveness for days I might miss!). Please feel free to join in however God leads. May he bless you and hear your prayers in this important season!
--Andrew
Visit Seek God for the City at:
http://www.pray.network/groups/group/show?id=4597820%3AGroup%3A58477&xg_source=msg_mes_group
Thank you for joining the Seek God for the City group. I hope you will participate in this year's prayer campaign - whether alone, with your family or church, or right here on Pray.Network. I plan to post daily prayers in the 2016 discussion in this group (and trust in God's forgiveness for days I might miss!). Please feel free to join in however God leads. May he bless you and hear your prayers in this important season!
--Andrew
Visit Seek God for the City at:
http://www.pray.network/groups/group/show?id=4597820%3AGroup%3A58477&xg_source=msg_mes_group
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Week 1 - February 10
As the Seek God for the City campaign launches for 2016, I wanted to provide a couple of ideas for using the prayer guide. This week's focus will be on praying for the countries of the world, the section at the end of each day in the guide.
There are many ways to pray for these countries and I'll suggest just a couple here. The key is to pray meaningfully without getting bogged down in long lists of very specific requests (unless you have time for that, of course!) - otherwise, you may get discouraged and end up neglecting this important part of the prayer campaign.
Pray generally for the countries listed each day. One way to pray is to lift up to God topics that would be applicable to each of the countries in each day's list, laying these countries out before God. Some examples of topics to pray through would include:
Spread of the gospel, especially to the unreached people groups in the country
Strengthening of the church - putting aside the old (nominalism and syncretism) and fully putting on the new in Christ
Growth of the church into an agent of transformation in society - a body that makes a difference holistically in the lives of those outside the church, drawing non-believers to God.
Wise leadership with servant hearts.
Pray for one or two countries specifically.
Another way to pray would be to focus on just one or two countries from that day's list and pray more specifically for issues facing those countries. A couple of ideas:
If you're using the app, link to Operation World's website and use the prayer requests there for a specific country. If you're using the printed guide, you can still access OW's country-based prayers at their website, www.operationworld.org(http://www.operationworld.org).
If your church supports missionaries in one of the countries, pray specifically for those missionaries and God's work through them.
If one of the countries is in the news, pray for specific news items facing that country.
However you decide to pray, please think of praying for the world as an integral part of this campaign - not just a "prayer tag" at the end. If you've not prayed much for the world in the past, this is a great opportunity to let God grow your heart in this area.
May he bless you as you pray!
--Andrew
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Week 1 - February 10
As the Seek God for the City campaign launches for 2016, I wanted to provide a couple of ideas for using the prayer guide. This week's focus will be on praying for the countries of the world, the section at the end of each day in the guide.
There are many ways to pray for these countries and I'll suggest just a couple here. The key is to pray meaningfully without getting bogged down in long lists of very specific requests (unless you have time for that, of course!) - otherwise, you may get discouraged and end up neglecting this important part of the prayer campaign.
Pray generally for the countries listed each day. One way to pray is to lift up to God topics that would be applicable to each of the countries in each day's list, laying these countries out before God. Some examples of topics to pray through would include:
Spread of the gospel, especially to the unreached people groups in the country
Strengthening of the church - putting aside the old (nominalism and syncretism) and fully putting on the new in Christ
Growth of the church into an agent of transformation in society - a body that makes a difference holistically in the lives of those outside the church, drawing non-believers to God.
Wise leadership with servant hearts.
Pray for one or two countries specifically.
Another way to pray would be to focus on just one or two countries from that day's list and pray more specifically for issues facing those countries. A couple of ideas:
If you're using the app, link to Operation World's website and use the prayer requests there for a specific country. If you're using the printed guide, you can still access OW's country-based prayers at their website, www.operationworld.org(http://www.operationworld.org).
If your church supports missionaries in one of the countries, pray specifically for those missionaries and God's work through them.
If one of the countries is in the news, pray for specific news items facing that country.
However you decide to pray, please think of praying for the world as an integral part of this campaign - not just a "prayer tag" at the end. If you've not prayed much for the world in the past, this is a great opportunity to let God grow your heart in this area.
May he bless you as you pray!
--Andrew
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To view the new comment, visit:
http://www.pray.network/group/seek-god-for-the-city?commentId=4597820%3AComment%3A118140&xg_source=msg_com_group
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