Sai Baba Devotees in Need of Salvation
There are many Sai Baba devotees in the mountain areas around Kalimpong (India). They honor him as a god and worship him. In the past years, he has performed many “miracles” and is also very popular in the west. He does not have many followers in Bangalore where he has his Ashram, most probably because of his debauched lifestyle. He has amassed quite some wealth. A big question now is, “What happens to it all?” But that is only one question that arises with his death… Confusion now reigns in their midst, and they don’t know where to go with their questions.
Call to Prayer for the World Prayer Assembly (WPA), May 14-18, 2012
Your prayer support will be all-important to the planning of this event which is intended to be a “new paradigm” for an international congress—carried out Acts 13-style—incorporating listening to God, united prayer, and strategic implementation of world-impacting action that proceeds out of that encounter with the Lord and one another.
Prayer Concerns:
1. Please pray for the eight planning task forces: Program, Logistics, Mobilization (including the Media Strategy Group), Finance, Registration/Website, Youth, Children, and Prayer Support. We need to be led of the Lord, given His creative, anointed ideas, and to all do our work diligently, joyfully, and unitedly.
2. This will not be just another prayer conference. The word “world” adds a great deal of complexity and challenge to the planning process since we hope to have 5000-7000 ministry leaders from all 220 nations. Please pray for excellent organization on the part of the Indonesians and Koreans who are co-hosting the event, for the International Coordination Team, and for the right people from every nation to hear about the WPA and be able to come to Jakarta for it.
3. The WPA Concert of Prayer in Indonesia this year on May 17, 2011. This will also serve as preparation for the WPA that is one year to follow. Please pray for further guidance, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and unity.
4. Some organizers that are key to the WPA process are: the Indonesian and Korean national committees who will co-host the event and the WPA International Coordination Team (14) that provides overall oversight. Please pray for His guidance, protection, and provision for each of us. The spiritual battle, as you can imagine, is intense.
Here are the two Scripture passages that have particularly inspired us in arranging the WPA:
• The Church Becoming United—that all followers of Christ may be one so that the world may believe. (John 17:20-26)
• Our World Being Transformed—that “the earth may be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea”. (Hab.2:14)
Thanks so much for your gracious help through prayer that will mean so much, not just to those of us doing the planning and organizing, but also to our world that will be affected by the World Prayer Assembly.
Please also help us get word of the WPA out to “ministry leaders of influence” who will represent the “seven mountains” of society (Arts/Media, Business/Marketplace, Church, Development of the Poor, Education, Family, and Government) who should be part of the WPA. Again, for more information, please have them see www.worldprayerassembly.com where they can also register their interest in participating.
World Weekend of Prayer—June 4-5, 2011
“The World Weekend of Prayer for children at risk is held every year over the first weekend of June. This global initiative brings together more than 2 million people across 89 countries. Whether you attend a nationwide event, plan something with your church, got to a prayer breakfast, or simply spend a quiet 5 minutes praying in your own home, we would love you to stand with us in interceding for the children of the world.” Viva, the organizing force behind this special international prayer initiative, has prepared many helpful resources to enable you and your church to pray effectively for the children of our world. You can find them at www.viva.org/world-weekend-of-prayer.aspx
Viva’s CEO Patrick McDonald describes the initiative this way: “This World Weekend of Prayer is a monumental moment, but not a moment to persuade God to get with it—He is there already. This is a time for him to convince us to get with it and take children more seriously.” Viva’s hope for this year’s WWP is to “see many more eyes opened to the needs of God’s children.”
Praying for Unreached Peoples
Within the last month, I was privileged to hear exciting testimonies from two key regions just covered in prayer by the Ethne Harvest-Linked Prayer Strategy initiative—both were exultant over new breakthroughs which occurred just following the prayer focus for their region! After years without any progress, many new believers came, new work has emerged, and new fellowships were established!...
We just prayed in December for the unreached of Egypt—and beginning in January we have been seeing almost unbelievable events unfolding there! Not only there, but more than 16 Arab World nations are in upheaval—meaning the kairos moment is now for the gospel!... Often we do not have the privilege to see what work has happened behind the scenes, spiritually speaking, but this article gives just a glimpse of some of what God has His people doing around the world.
Prayer changes things—but sometimes we fail to realize what a huge difference prayer makes! The truth is, prayer brings us into God’s presence and changes us as we pray. Prayer reveals God’s heart and enables us to work alongside Him as He is at work in the world to reveal Himself. Prayer invites God’s participation and releases His power to accomplish His purposes. Prayer obeys Jesus’ command to ask the Lord of the Harvest to thrust forth laborers. Prayer removes spiritual hindrances to the work and empowers workers. Prayer releases resources and removes blinding from the eyes of those who do not yet know Jesus. Prayer IS the battle and prayer maintains His victory!
Joshua Project, Global Prayer Digest, Etnopedia, PrayerGuard, and www.unreachedprayer.org continue providing detailed information to keep your prayer focus sharp.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F10apDwF4B0 reminds us that “The Kairos Moment is Now!” and provides links to connect for specific training, preparation and action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f27IfBpAow “The Unreached—Did You Know?” can help you mobilize others to the urgent task at hand among the Forgotten Fourth World. Want this in your language? Request the translation grid from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and provide a translation in your own heart language to use among your network. Already we have two versions in Chinese, and versions in Bahasa, Tagalog, Spanish, German, Afrikaans, Czech, Swedish, Maltese, and more…
