World Team

A Guide to Prayer

Do you struggle with how to pray for missionaries and unfamiliar people groups in far away places. We’d all agree that prayer is essential to missions and that every Christian is called to Great Commission praying. Then why do we struggle to press on in prayer?

Maybe we don’t know what to pray about or how. Here are some ideas, not a formula, for more effective Kingdom-building praying. Use these guidelines to fuel your prayers for missionaries you already know or people groups you learn about.

Open Doors

It is God who opens new doors for the Gospel. Pray for favor from governments and authorities for missionaries needing visas and for churches seeking places to meet together. Pray that the Gospel would prosper, even in the face of persecution.

Understanding

Pray that God would enable missionaries to learn new languages and customs so they can reach people at a heart level. Ask for teachable, humble hearts that are yielded to the Lord.

Changed Hearts

Pray for hearts to be softened and ready to receive the message of the Gospel. Pray that national believers would be rooted and established in love, and that they would grow in the knowledge of God’s word and boldly share it with others.

Healthy Churches

Pray for the establishment of God’s kingdom as churches grow and multiply in the least reached places. Pray for unity among believers so that churches would work together to impact their communities and the world.

Safety and Family

Pray for good health and safety for missionaries, many of whom work in remote places far from medical care. Intercede for missionary children and the added stresses that face families living cross-culturally.

Perseverance

Pray for missionaries to persevere with joy in the work the to which the Lord has called them. Pray against discouragement and the attacks of the enemy who seeks to destroy.

Wisdom

Pray for wisdom to discern God’s will as teams set plans and priorities for ministry. Pray for their faith to grow as they trust God for all things.

Willing Servants

Pray for more co-laborers willing to go and make disciples. The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few!

August Prayer Calendar

September Prayer Calendar

Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful. And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.
- Paul, to the Colossians