We are pleased to bring you IPC Connections for February 2021.

Dr Jason Hubbard’s Editorial sets our theme for the year and is entitled ‘Igniting HOPE: Praying God’s Word in 2021’.  It’s a challenging and encouraging article that shows us how to shape our prayers on the solid foundation of God’s Word.  Jason illustrates the dynamic promises and commands in scripture that are the key to powerful intercession.  Let’s be intent on listening and hearing God’s voice this year so that doors will open to “let him in!”  Download the free resource booklet ‘Pray the Word’ which Jason has written especially for us.

On 1^st January, we launched the Global Family 24/7 - 365 Online Prayer Room in association with several of our partner organisations.  The vision is to host worship-saturated prayer around the throne, around the clock and around the globe for the whole of 2021. We have had some amazing times of prayer and worship already, led in many languages from each continent.  Do join us at any time throughout the year as we, as a Global Family, worship the Lord in the beauty of Holiness (Psalm 96: 7-9).

Over the coming months, we will be introducing members of the IPC Council to you in these emails.  We begin with a long-standing friend and colleague, Tom Victor who is also on our Exec Team and serves as a Senior Advisor. 

Prayer Covenant - Despite the challenges of the global pandemic, a huge amount was achieved during 2020.   A Prayer Covenant for Children / GO DECADE initiative partnered in an LQE Outreach in Africa during the last quarter of 2020 that saw 264,771 children and youth mobilised to share the Gospel with 5.8 million people.  There were 301,907 commitments to Christ!  More follows about this amazing outreach project in the article below.   Do watch the inspiring video.

Take-Aways from 2020 - Graham Power from Global Voice of Prayer along with Dr Jason Hubbard and a number of colleagues shared their thoughts on what had been achieved during 2020 in this short video that we would like to bring to you.

Pandemic - As we are going to press, we are hearing of an eighth verified vaccine for Covid-19, with evidence of good efficacy.  This really is encouraging news as the pandemic has now affected 101.6 million people worldwide with 2,195,871 sadly dying.  We bring you up to date information on the situation along with prayer points and links to various resources.  Let’s be in prayer that the vaccines can be distributed equitably to all nations without disputes, nationalism or politicisation of the process.

Situations Vacant – As our partner projects continue to develop and grow, we are finding an ever increasing demand for voluntary help with translation, technology / IT, social media, research and copy-writing skills.  We would welcome enquiries from anyone looking to serve in these areas.  Please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Save the dates – A number of leaders from different ministries around the world have been gathering online to share what God has laid on their hearts to be doing in 2021.  There is a desire for us to be collaborating like never before, in a spirit of John 17 unity, as we seek to reach the nations with the message of the Gospel.  Please do check the dates in the calendar section below as you plan your events for this coming season; we would invite you to email your event details to us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

US Elections - We are so honored and thankful for all the prayer and intercession from the nations on behalf of America and our recent US Elections. We are trusting that God has heard our prayers and believing for an awakening across the body of Christ in response to those prayers!  Even as deep darkness increases, and great shaking is coming, we know that the Lord will arise upon his people and the Gospel of the kingdom will be preached with power!   

• In obedience to 1 Timothy 2:1-5, let’s pray for the Biden administration, for godly counsel, wisdom and the fear of the Lord to rest upon them.

• Let’s continue to pray for justice to be released in America, for any corruption to be exposed and dismantled in God’s timing and for God’s Glory!

• Let’s pray for a 3rd great awakening and a mighty harvest of souls. As the church in America, may we sanctify ourselves for a powerful move of the Spirit of God! As Jesus prayed, “Father sanctify them in the truth, your word is truth!” John 17:17

Thank you for continuing to partner with us in mobilising and informing united prayer across nations, denominations, movements, and generations for the fulfilment of the Great Commission.

May we express grateful thanks to Andy Page and the IPC Editorial Team who put this email together each month.

Every blessing,

Jason Hubbard - Director
International Prayer Connect

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For many of us this last year has been a year of the ‘unexpected,’ caught off guard by the surprising circumstances of 2020. I believe what the world needs now more than ever is HOPE. Our hope is not in the New Year, 2021, but in the one who makes all things new! 

Hope is the joyful expectation of God’s goodness coming our way in every area of our lives. Hope is always future orientated. It is a vision of God’s good future before us, meaning where you are going is better than where you are and where you are coming from.  Our ultimate hope is discovered in seeing and savoring, prizing and praising, recognizing and relishing the glory of God in the face of Christ. 

Christ is our HOPE! He is the summation of all the promises of God, the source of all the riches of God, now and forevermore.  In Christ we have been given an inheritance of HOPE.

This glorious future is revealed to us through the written and reliable word of God!  God promises, commands, and reveals himself to us through his written Word! When our prayers are shaped by the Word, we are building on solid ground. We are responding to who God is and what he is doing! We are claiming his promises, and obeying his commands… there is no better way to pray! The Scriptures declare to us that God is much better than we think he is, and is doing much more than we  think he is doing and as we pray he will do even more for His glory and our good. As Paul prays in Ephesians 3:20-21,

“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen”

Together we can Ignite Hope as we pray God’s word in 2021!

Fostering a culture of Hope is critical to effective and sustainable intercession!  As Paul declares to us in 1 Cor 13:13, “Now these three remain, faith, hope and love but the greatest of these is love.”  The greatest of these three is love, however I believe hope comes first. Hebrews tells us that faith is the substance of things hoped for. And of course we know that faith needs to work itself out in love (Gal. 5:6). 

So we could look at this way:  our hope is in hearing the music of the future, our faith is dancing to that music NOW!  And our love is brining others into the dance with you!  The song being sung is the beauty, majesty, and supremacy of Jesus Christ.   Let’s create a culture of Hope-empowered prayer in 2021!

As we pray the Bible, we are pleading the good promises of God!  Promises predict the answers by foretelling what to expect!  They are the molds into which we pour our prayers.  Promises like these, “call unto me and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things which you do not know” (Jer. 33:3). Promises like, “whatever things you ask for in prayer, believing, you will receive” (Matt. 21:22). Promises like, “if you ask me anything in my name I will do it” (John 14:14).

When we pray God’s word we pray from the answer … with the answer in mind! When we plead God’s promises we are praying from the answer to the answer!  In intercession we are asking him what he asks us to ask him!  As we ask according to his will and for his renown, his activity increases releasing his power, his love, and his truth!  Five times in John 14-16, Jesus asks us to ask him or his Father, ‘in his name’  and then promises to do it!  In this way not only does answered prayer satisfy us, it also delights the heart of God by fulfilling his own Word and accomplishing his own purposes! 

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it” (Isa 55:10-11).  

We pray fervently to the ‘Lord of the Harvest to hurl forth laborers into the harvest fields’ … why? Because Jesus promised, ‘the harvest is ripe.’ We ‘go and make disciples of all nations’… why? Because he promised us that all authority in heaven and earth has been given to him and that he will always be with us even to the end of the age! We pray that every people group on the earth will hear the gospel, why?  Because Jesus promised that the gospel of the kingdom WILL BE preached in every nation and then the end will come (Matt. 24:14).  We pray Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven… why?  Because he promised that the Knowledge of the Glory of the Lord would cover the earth as the waters cover the sea (Hab. 2:14).

There’s no better fuel for our prayers than the Bible. By praying Scripture, we are ensuring that our prayers are anchored to God’s truth and aligned with God’s will.   If we don’t form the habit of praying the Scriptures, our prayers will almost certainly degenerate into vain repetitions around our immediate concerns, rather than God’s larger purposes. As Dennis Fuqua says, “Praying and meditating on Scripture is how his word produces his life and power in our lives. It is how the Spirit of God writes the Word of God on the hearts of the people of God.” The basic method is simple, “Open the Bible, start reading it, pause at every verse and turn it into a prayer” (John Piper).

According to Jesus, sitting at his feet and listening to his word is the most necessary thing in our lives! (Luke 10:41). Think about these promises of God’s word about God’s word!

• God’s Word releases God’s Fire within us!  (Luke 24:32, Jer. 23:29)
• God’s Word sanctifies us and produces the life of Christ within us! (John 17:17, 2 Cor. 3:18, Rom. 12:2-3)
• God’s Word feeds us and nourishes us! (Matt. 4:4)
• God’s Word awakens and revives us (Psalm 119:107, 154).
• God’s Word washes us clean (Eph. 5:25b-27).
• God’s Word sets us free! (John 8:31-32)
• God’s Word gives us power to overcome sin and walk in purity (Psalm 119:9-10).
• God’s Word provides direction and guidance (Psalm 119:105).
• God’s Word is our weapon of warfare that tears down strongholds as we wield it in prayer (Eph. 6:18-9).
• God’s Word teaches, corrects and equips us to be effective in ministry (2 Tim. 3:16-17).
• God’s Word blesses us making us happy and joyful (Psalm 1, Psalm 119:1-2).
• God’s Word gives us Hope (Rom. 15:4).

“For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have HOPE”

So let’s pray and plead God’s promises and make the Bible our prayer book this year! Here is a link to a prayer guide full of bible promises that we can use! 

We have a saying in our house of prayer, “little keys open big doors.” As we pray God’s word in 2021, we can be like little keys in the hand of the Lord to open up big doors called Awakening and Revival!  And this can only happen out of the place of abiding intimacy and fascination with Jesus. Jesus said, “If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you” (John 15:7).

And as we listen and hear his voice this year, let’s open the door and “let him in!”

“If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him and he with me” (Rev. 3:20).

In the midst of increased shaking and uncertainty, let’s ‘Together Ignite Hope in 2021’ as we pray God’s Word!

Dr. Jason Hubbard

Download Jason’s free ‘Pray the Word’ Guide, - packed with teaching, outlines and practical advice on going deeper into praying the scriptures and unlocking the HOPE that we all share in Jesus.

This is an invitation to join in an extraordinary 24-7 / 365 Prayer Room that is running online for the whole of 2021!  It is a partnership project between IPC and a number of international ministries and organisations.

Prayer and Worship leaders from every continent are facilitating each hour in 10+ languages.

Whether you are able to drop in for 5 minutes here and there or for hours or days at a time, you would be most welcome to join us as we worship and glorify the Lamb of God – and offer our prayers for the Church and its mission and the needs of the world. 

More info and sign up at:

www.globalfamily24-7prayer.org/

To Christ be the Glory,

Jonathan Friz, 10Days   |   Dr. Jason Hubbard & John Robb, IPC   |   Dr. Jonathan Armstrong, AQ
Elizabeth Adleta, FPS   |   Soloman Lujan, the Seed Company   |   Jenny Oliphant, Ethne Prayer Team

This is the first of a series of articles that will introduce you to some of the Council members at IPC.

Tom Victor is one of our key global leaders at International Prayer Connect, and is respected across multi-national missions and prayer ministries around the world.  He has been with IPC for 20 years during which time he has spoken at numerous events and conferences. He currently serves on the Executive team and is a Senior Advisor.

Tom has 8 years of pastoral experience in the Chicago and New York areas together with 15 years with the Christian Broadcasting Network.

While with CBN he served as Vice President of the Ministries Division where he led a staff of 500 employees and over 10,000 volunteers in 90 ministry centers worldwide.

Tom is also serving as Facilitator for the Go 2020 Kids Global Team and now leads the ministry Great Commission Coalition, committed to serving Christ's body to fulfil the Great Commission.

Tom was originally from Bellingham, Washington State, but is now settled in Texas.

We are copying Tom’s most recent report below which succinctly tells the story of some of his main activities, connections and involvements during 2020.  It also conveys his calling and passion to ensure that the Gospel message is accessible to all peoples groups - and all ages - across the world.