We received the following email from Joshua Project. We are committed to prayer! How can you pray more fervently for the unreached in 2023? Please comment!
On January 2, 2022, I made a resolution to pray for an unreached people group every day of the year. Now technically I was already a failure because I had missed the very first day, but I was determined, so I needed a plan. I went to Joshua Project’s website and put the app on my phone. I figured I needed something doable each day and this gave me an easy way to do it. I also knew I needed accountability, so I formed a group on Facebook, called it Praying for an Unreached People Group of the Day and invited all my friends to join. Each day I prayed for the group of the day and added a post to the group with a short prayer. Attainable and Accountable worked!!!
During 2022
- I only missed about 5 days but prayed for them the next day.
- About 190 people joined and 120 are considered ‘active’.
- Members include family, supporters, fellow workers in many countries, African friends, former students, etc.
- There are about 30 who like or comment regularly and did all year.
- Each day I get about 12 people who ‘like’ or comment on the post to say they are praying.
- My knowledge of and heart for the unreached grew.
- My desire to see Jesus’ Name proclaimed to all people has grown.
- God heard and is answering!!!! (I can’t wait to meet in heaven ones I prayed for in 2022)
Now I am on the edge of another year. Do I make more resolutions?? Yes!!! Maybe one about losing weight or exercising – but first I am remaking one that is already a routine and I know I can succeed at. Would you join me? Find a few people and resolve to pray together. Text your prayers to each other. Start your own social media group. Pray for a group each day at dinner with the family. Or join my Facebook page. (Click to https://www.facebook.com/groups/293078889452466 and ask to join.) Be creative, but make sure it is Attainable and Accountable.
Frontier People Groups are unreached with less than 1 in 1,000 who know Jesus. To help you pray for the Frontier People Groups: 2 prayer guides have been created:
- An attractive prayer guide for young people (found here: https://joshuaproject.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=714bd7ded21dbf1f5d297609f&id=e4fd4edbbb&e=8c1c991ff0), entitled “Who are Frontier People Groups?”
- A prayer guide for the largest 31 Frontier People Groups (FPGs) (Found here: https://joshuaproject.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=714bd7ded21dbf1f5d297609f&id=0d11836bd8&e=8c1c991ff0).
How will you make 2023 a year of intercession for the unreached?
Praising You Lord in all things praises
Psalm 1 and Deut 6.4-6 tell us to both start and fill our day with God
Praises and thank you Lord for those who taught me how and You Lord for Your constant presence and answers.
I fill my morning with Praises and intercessions 1 thes 5.16-21 I began a list a decades ago with praises to God see Psalms
And beautiful starter sentence I got from Horizons. In days started with much prayer God constantly goes ahead arranging all others unravel
Lord I pray that believers will always be ready to give good for evil and love for hate; ready to suffer and die
That National believers will be embolden; for acceptance boldness, deliverance, faithfulness,uniy, sound doctrine, wholesome families, purity, humility, integrity, love, hope and grace to and for each in accordance with Your Divine wisdom
Our Lords model prayer began with praises
I was horribly weak here an convicted how to grow because our God inhabits our praises
1 Thess 5.16-21
Regarding rejoice always and pray without ceasing…
All things are neutral we affirm value
I now never end my prayers and do pray through the night and began addressing our Lord in firs the person
Rom 8.26-28 tell us God gave His OWN Spirit to intercede on our behalf in groanings to deep to understand and praises He makes our deepest thoughts known
The Greek word typically translated into worship can equally be translated into prostrating ourselves before God.
Fasting too is to be part
In Deut 6.4-6 Our Holy God also calls out idolatry. That is anything that takes praises from God, anything: personal comforts, honours, powers
John 15.7 reveals God answers all prayers that are according to His revealed will and from a pure heart
Psalm 66:16-20
Psalm 15 tells us who is saved
Praising You Lord praising You because You always go before us ordering our way
Luke 9.23-26 states THAT WILL INVOLVE HUMILIATION AND SUFFERING