REACHING THE UNREACHED LOCALLY AND GLOBALLY
Jesus is calling you to partner with Him in prayer & evangelism – so you pray, partner and serve specifically as He leads you.
Jesus is calling His people to pray and arise as a harvest worker – in a window of time before His return. The harvest is ready and the time is short. Jesus’ strategy is described throughout Luke 10.
“After these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two by two before His face into every city and place where He Himself was about to go. 2 Then He said to them, “The harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few; therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest. 3 Go your way; behold, I send you out…” (Luke 10:1-3. Read on to verse 42)
Jesus is calling you to partner in prayer with 2 or 3 others:
2 or 3 friends, 2 or 3 local churches, 2 or 3 other regions, 2 or 3 nations.
When partners stand in agreement with God – heaven touches earth.
“Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” (Matthew 18:18-20)
1. Partner in prayer with your friends and neighbours for the unreached people in your family and local community. You could be a Local House of Prayer. You can share Jesus with your neighbours. Three Circles
2. Partner in prayer and evangelism as local churches – to reach the people in your area. There is deep power and authority when local churches partner to see Jesus’ kingdom come in their shared territory. Together seek God’s specific strategy in how local churches can collaborate to pray and reach people in your region.
See more on What You Can Do Regionally.
- Pastors and other leaders from this municipality/city can meet to pray and discern key prayer points and strategies.
- They can recommend a regional prayer calendar – so people pray through the same prayer points. e.g. Pray for Melbourne 31 Day Local City Prayer Plan.
- They can invite churches to co-host regional days of prayer and outreach.
- Together 31 churches/ groups, each praying for one 24 hour day each month, can cover a region in 24/7 prayer. Register your church or groups at PrayforAustralia.
- We are discussing local city prayer strategy with local groups. If you would like to talk about this contact sue@partnersinprayer.org.au
3. Partner in Prayer & Evangelism Across Australia
POWERPOINT: A NATIONAL UPDATE ON PRAYER FOR EVANGELISM
Who are the reachable people in Australia?
See McCrindle: Faith & Belief in Australia
Partner in prayer and financial support with Australian evangelists and evangelism:
https://www.fireandrain.international/
www.theharvest.org.au
www.AustraliaforJesus.org.au
4. Partner as nations in our regions and in our world.
When nations stand together in prayer & mission we truly exercise the authority of Jesus – as His House of Prayer for All Nations. When we pray specifically, we can see specific answers to our prayers. And, when we concentrate our prayers and giving toward the unreached peoples and nations we fulfill Jesus’ command and see remarkable results. Time is short.
There are unreached frontiers waiting for you! Partner in prayer & evangelism for the unreached people groups in our world.
May God enable us each to fulfill our part so
“this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” (Matthew 24:14)
Who are the unreached people groups “at the end of the earth”?
Much of our mission effort still flows to regions that now have high percentages of Christians. Talk to your church about praying for and supporting workers to an unreached people group.
Pray for workers to reach these people groups who are at the very heart of the unfinished Great Commission task. These people are spiritually lost and helpless, like sheep having no Shepherd. They are unengaged, which means that no church, no mission agency— no one has yet taken responsibility to tell them of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Among them Christ remains unknown, unacknowledged, and un-adored.
Pray for the groups needing scripture translation, church planting, or evangelism – the people who are being neglected, the languages that are not funded, and the geographic areas which have no workers.
Who are the people connecting with unreached people groups?
Stand with the people and organizations who are attempting to play a significant role in these areas – often at the price of their lives – and pray for them specifically by name.
See: FinishingtheTask.com and Joshua Project and International Prayer Connect.
See Pray App & other Resources Joshua Project
Pray for the persecuted Christians across the earth. https://www.opendoors.org.au/persecuted-christians/world-watch-list/
God’s Chosen People
Our covenant keeping God chose Israel as His special people and we are in the fullness of time when the gospel goes back from the Gentiles to Israel – when their eyes are open to receive their Messiah. Pray with us for Israel to receive Yeshua Hamashiach as Lord! Partner with Messianic congregations. (Romans 11:25-36)
In the Spirit of the Moravians
The Moravians impacted the world with their radical discipleship. It began in repentance and became a 24/7 prayer & worship & mission movement. From 1727 they prayed for over 100 years and sent out 3,000 Protestant missionaries – many of whom gave their lives. They said, “May the Lamb Receive the Reward of His Suffering.”
See Inspirational Videos below.
Prayer & Worship Impacts the Effectiveness of Evangelism
In May 2017 International Prayer Connect (IPC) gathered 120 front line missionaries and prayer network leaders from each continent and many nations in Herrnhut Gdermany, where the Holy Spirit fell on the Moravians. Dr Stuart Robinson and Julie & Raymond Seow from PIPES was there with me as the other Australians.
Next Steps in Linking the Movements of Prayer and Missions by Paul Eshleman,
Hear Paul Eshleman’s presentation. See the summary sheet and powerpoint.
Dick Eastman, from the door to door global evangelism movement, Every Home for Christ (EHC) illustrated with 70 years of data (1946-2017) the incremental impact when their evangelism was accompanied by worship saturated prayer!
In 2003 they opened the Jericho Center in Colorado for prayer and worship.
1. Before this they averaged reaching 16,808,318 home per year (for 57 years).
After this they averaged 71,852,581!
2. Decisions and responses to the Gospel prior to 2003 averaged 467,767 annually (for 57 years) and after 2003 averaged 11,807,675.
3. The number of Christ Groups planted averaged 1,250 annually until 2003 when the average became 19,789!
Dick calls us to a new Moravian movement of prayer for this end-time harvest!
Meet Dick Eastman (EHC) Paul Eshleman and Jason Hubbard (ICC) on this video of our trip to Herrnhut where the Moravians began 120 years of Prayer & Mission.
See more of the Moravian story:
Count Zinzendorf & Moravian Tribute by Marcus Bell-Winston
The Reward of His Suffering by Matt Papa. This video illustrates the unreached people groups waiting for radical disciples in this generation.