One of IPC’s key partners, Seed Company, has provided a new interactive prayer resource for you!
Learn 5 prayer habits to help you pray effectively for Bible translation. This 5-day devotional will enrich your spiritual walk and impact eternity through your prayers.
In what ways has the Bible changed your life? When life hits us hard, we find direction and solace in Scripture.
But what if the Bible was not in your language? That’s the reality for over 1 billion people today.
Join this 5-day plan where you can partner your Scripture reading with simple and effective ways to pray for people without the Bible.
It’s available in the YOU Version Bible App – or HERE
APP: Operation World
25 Mar 2021
Want to join the global prayer movement? Operation World (OW), the definitive global prayer handbook, has been used by more than a million Christians to pray for the nations.
Now as a mobile app you can receive reminders to pray for the “country of the day,” research statistics on each country and read the in-depth prayer request and praise reports given for each country of the world.
OW is widely regarded as the definitive volume of prayer information about the world and is the recipient of the ECPA Gold Medallion Award for Excellence in Evangelical Christian Literature.
Download on iOs: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/operation-world/id1181609244
Download on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.missionaldigerati.operationworld&hl=en&gl=US
This is an annual 40-Day call to prayer that provides a way to pray God's purposes for our cities with prayers of hope from scripture.
The prayers in the Seek God 64-page, full color prayer guide booklet will lift our prayers beyond our own concerns. As we seek God's face, we will ask Him to do things on a city-size scale--to bring spiritual awakening to our communities.
The booklet contains newly written topics and prayers to help unite and focus prayer through the 40 days leading to Palm Sunday. This booklet is a proven resource that unites and encourages churches in persistent prayer for breakthroughs in their communities. Quantity discounts make it possible to equip many in your church or ministry.
Some helpful features of Seek God For The City 2021
- Strengthens what you are already doing. No complicated program to organize or meetings to schedule.
- Unites prayer throughout your church. An attractive, easy-to-use tool that can help unite prayers between many churches throughout an entire community.
- Lifts prayer from private or trivial matters. Helps your people learn to pray for what matters most by directing attention toward what God is doing in the lives of people throughout your community.
- Builds the confidence of everyday believers to help them pray with clarity, authority and relevance as they learn to pray in keeping with scripture. Involves everyone in your church family, not just a “prayerful elite.”
- Opens a great way to pray toward Easter. For those of liturgical streams, it augments the Lenten season with a marvellous blend of repentance and intercessory hope. Those of other streams find that it lifts attention toward Christ’s visitation at Palm Sunday. The calendar concludes on Palm Sunday, leaving everyone prepared for Easter week without crowding the schedule with extra activity.
Order it here: https://www.worldchristian.com/product/sg21
GUIDE: 15 Days of Prayer for The Buddhist World
27 Mar 2021
The annual Buddhist World Prayer Focus is calling Christians and churches worldwide to take 15 days to learn about and pray for our world’s Buddhist friends between Jan 28th and Feb 11th, 2021.
The informative prayer guide booklets will help Christians to know how to pray for the people(s) growing up within this major and truly diverse world religion.
We recognize that Buddhism is an extraordinarily complex and often confusing worldview. At the same time, as Christians, we long that all the world’s people(s) will have an opportunity to freely see, hear and understand the grace of God incarnated in Jesus Christ.
To this end we inform ourselves, pray for and want to support opportunities to make that grace known also within the world’s Asian Communities.
The guide is available in these languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Russian, German, French, Thai, Korean and Vietnamese
Get your copy of the 15 Days Buddhist World Prayer Guide now and join this global movement!
Guides available here: https://worldprayerguides.org/15-days-of-prayer-for-the-buddhist-world/
Prayer for the Nations Course - April 19-24 2021
28 Mar 2021
The is a one-week, online course, run by All Nations focused on training for intercessory prayer for the nations, with teaching and facilitation by prayer leaders from different countries.
Do you want to grow in your prayer life and learn to partner with God in what He is doing in the nations through prayer? Would you like to be better equipped to respond to world events, and engage in intercessory prayer to see God's Kingdom established “on earth as it is in heaven”? Come be part of an online learning community for a week, as we engage in God’s heart for the world through intercessory prayer!
Course Delivery:
This course is run via Zoom where participants will learn through online lectures, breakout group discussions, and corporate worship and intercession times. Hours of engagement include a two and a half session in the mornings (9:30am - 12 noon, UK Time), followed by another hour and a half session in the afternoons (2:30pm - 4pm, UK Time) from Monday through to the Friday. On Saturday, 24th April, there is the “Prayer Ignite” seminar for the month of April that has been integrated into this week-long course.
Topics covered for the week include:
The Character and Ways of God in Intercession
Listening to God in Corporate Intercession
Engaging in Prayer for our Covid-Plagued World
Biblical Worldview in Prayer & Missions
Worship, Prayer & Missions in the Global South
Prayer Ignite: History Belongs to the Intercessors
More info and sign up at: https://www.allnations.ac.uk/courses/short-courses/prayer-nations-course
GUIDE: 30 Days of Prayer for The Muslim World
29 Mar 2021
Learn more about the Muslim world, the month of Ramadan, and how you can pray.
Join the Movement
30 Days of Prayer begins April 13th, 2021.
Join together with thousands of others to pray for Muslims around the world! Buy a prayer guide, tell your friends, and help bring 30 Days to more churches, small groups and families.
Order PDFs and Printed Books in 40+ languages / nations and kids version at:
We are pleased to bring you this special edition of IPC Connections.
We would appreciate your help please - by sharing this information as widely as possible!
As well as bringing some extremely important international prayer briefings, this edition marks the launch of ‘Hope of the Coming Harvest 2021’ which is a coming together of a number of events and initiatives with a common focus on prayer, mission and revival that are taking place between now and August. The theme for this program is based on Luke 10:2: He told them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.’
Dr Jason Hubbard’s Editorial article carrying the same title sets out the Hope of the Coming Harvest theme. In it, he brings to life the strength in the words that Jesus used both to instruct us to pray, but also the prayer for the laborers not to be just ‘sent’, but to be ‘hurled forth’ into His harvest!
Jason also highlights the GO Movement’s ‘GO Month’ which takes place through May. This is a further unique collaboration of a huge number of Christian mission organisations and evangelistic networks that seeks to mobilise 100 million in prayer to reach 1 billion for Christ over this next decade!
Do be encouraged as you reflect on and respond to Jason’s inspirational teaching and sharing of the ‘GO Month’ vision.
We are covering a number of key events that are part of the Hope of the Coming Harvest below. Each one is remarkable in its own right!! Please participate as you are able, help us get the message out… but above all, do be in prayer with us for this unprecedented season of outreach, for an outpouring of God’s spirit on all people. (Acts 2:17-21)
You are invited to join us for World Prayer Together on Saturday 1st May - a 2-hour online prayer and worship gathering launching GO Month.
The event is being led by a group of highly respected prayer ministry leaders from around the world and is being broadcast from IHOP KC and GODTV globally at 7pm in each region.
Full details follow below and at
www.worldprayertogether.com
We are pleased to report that the Global Family 24/7 - 365 Online Prayer Room is going from strength to strength with continuous prayer led by 168 hourly hosts each week. Do join us anytime!
With each edition of Connections, we are introducing you to members of the IPC Council. This month we welcome and talk with a long-standing friend and colleague, Rev Ann Low from Malaysia who is an Exec Team member who also serves with the South East Asia Prayer Council.
Giving thanks for Luis Palau - This last month, we saw the passing of another great evangelist and man of faith - Luis Palau. He passed away on Thursday March 11th from complications of lung cancer. He was 86. In 55 years of ministry, it’s estimated that Palau reached one billion people in 75 countries with the message of the Gospel - through crusades and then “CityFest” outreaches. Many of the IPC team have had associations with him and his remarkable ministry. John Robb shared: ‘Luis Palau and I were in Indonesia to speak for a conference about 30 years ago, and I remember his warm-hearted, engaging personality as well as the compelling, passionate speaker he was in declaring the Gospel of Christ. Earth is now poorer, but Heaven is richer because of this dear man of God.’
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..
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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Disclaimer…
The views and opinions expressed in IPC Connections and the articles on our website are those of individuals and our partner organisations. They do not necessarily represent the policies or views of IPC or its individual leaders.
We aim to respect the diversity within the prayer movement and yet embrace our unified calling to mobilise prayer for the nations. (2 Chron 7:14)
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“And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore, pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.” Matthew 9:35–38 (ESV)
Jesus sees the crowds and has compassion on them. His heart is moved with love and empathy, longing for them like a good shepherd has for his lost sheep. He gives this glorious promise of HOPE, the harvest is plentiful!
In the midst of this global pandemic, fear, and uncertainty, we sense that many are ready to hear and receive the glorious good news of Jesus Christ, the gospel of the Kingdom proclaimed and demonstrated with power.
The Gospel is -
“the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous King, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so that there is now no condemnation for those who believe, but only everlasting joy” – John Piper
We sense it is Gospel-empowered ‘Harvest Time’ in the nations of the earth.
However, as Jesus said, the laborers are few. He asks his disciples as he is asking us today, ‘therefore Pray earnestly…” When Jesus taught us to pray to our Father in heaven, He used the Greek word proseuchomai—the common word for prayer in the New Testament. But here in Matthew 9:38 and also in Lk 10:2, Jesus used the Greek word deomai, a much stronger word meaning to ‘plead desperately.’
Jesus didn’t simply tell His disciples to pray for laborers to be sent out to the harvest fields. Jesus used a much stronger word—ekballo, meaning to ‘drive out, or hurl forth!’ This same Greek word ekballo is used in Mt 9:34, 10:1 and 10:8 for casting out demons! In both Matthew 9:38 and Lk 10:2, Jesus commands us to deomai (plead desperately) to the Lord of the Harvest to ekballo laborers (thrust them forcefully) into His harvest! Every believer a witness. Everyone can reach someone and together we can reach the world!
May we ask the Father, the Lord of the Harvest to give his Son, the nations as his inheritance. They belong to him. He is worthy! He is all deserving of all the worship, all the obedience and all the affections of the nations of the earth! May this season, this hinge of history go down as the ‘great quarantine revival,’ a global decade of harvest!
We have a saying in our house of prayer, “Little Keys Open Big Doors.” As we pray desperately, witness bodly, and make disciples consistently, God can use each of us like little keys in his hand to open big doors of awakening and revival in the nations! We pray as Paul did,
“At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ” (Col. 4:3).
Read more about the Hope of the Coming Harvest 2021 Partnership | Download the #HopeofHarvest2021 Flyer
Go Movement
As we did last year, we are partnering with the Go Movement, to see 100 million united in prayer and 1 billion come to Christ over this next decade! GO Movement | GO 2020
As John Robb writes, ‘No one organization or movement can accomplish such a staggering feat, but if we flow together like tributaries in one unstoppable river, this can be achieved! Getting God’s heart of love for the lost through prayer will lead to our sharing Jesus with them in the power and sensitivity of the Holy Spirit just as the early church experienced.’
Imagine with me…
- 100 million Christians inspired and empowered by the Holy Spirit to pray and share the Gospel with as many as possible in their own communities and to the ends of the earth.
- One billion people being reached with the Gospel and millions upon millions getting saved all over the world over the course of this next decade!
- Unreached people groups hearing the Gospel for the first time and planting new churches among them. We have put together a series of helpful guides to praying for unreached peoples around the world. Here is the ‘40 Days Prayer Guide’ for March 24th through to May 2nd.
We praise God for the promise, ‘effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much’ (James 5:16).
May we cry out in 2021 to the Lord of the Harvest in fervent, desperate, Bible-based prayer for this coming ‘Decade of Harvest.’
May the Lamb who was slain receive the due reward for his sufferings!
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing” – Revelation 5:12
For the Glory of the Lamb,
Dr Jason Hubbard - Director
International Prayer Connect
Full details of the Hope of the Coming Harvest 2021 events including GO Month follow below!
#hopeofharvest2021