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Author: Liz Adleta
Date: 14.06.2010
Category: Unreached People Groups
A friend just emailed me, "I ran across a video yesterday where someone asked John Piper, “Why do we need more people praying? Does more mean God is more likely to answer?” His response was that when more people pray, more people praise God."
In reading about church planting movements among the least-reached peoples, we learn that abundance of prayer is foundational to these movements. This is prayer by the workers and for the workers and the unreached people groups.
Jesus told us that unless we abide in Him, we can do nothing...seems to indicate the importance, the primacy of prayer in our efforts.
The AD2000 and Beyond Movement in the 1990’s emphasized prayer and prayer journeys to unreached people groups. Much was accomplished, yet much still remains to be done.
What do you believe is yet lacking when we think of prayer? What is needed in terms of prayer to see the last remaining groups reached with the gospel and experiencing the transformation that should come as a result?
Keywords: Unreached people groups, prayer
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United States
Certainly you have hit the nail on the head. We believe that prayer is critical, foundational, crucial, the primary strategy. Your questions as to how are the ones to which we need the answers. Dear Father, give us those answers.
19.10.2010
South Africa
Our belief that prayer is foundational and critical, has to move into action to assure that prayer is mobilised. But I’m not always sure where to go to do that. Few of the things in which I am involved are at the level of a global prayer item.
How do we then create the smaller prayer teams who may be keenly interested and focused on these grass roots needs, be it research, one UPG, CP, etc?
Essentially, how do we link the global masses who want to pray, to the field level needs?
14.07.2010
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