MaryBeth Hall – Page 2 – Targeted Global Prayer

Prayer List for the Lost

Earlier this year, TGP started a new prayer outreach for specific lost individuals with whom our team members have interacted. We currently have around 55 first names on the list. Each month there’s an opportunity to send in updates or additional names. A new one page PDF document is then emailed to all participants, so that it can be printed / posted in a location that facilitates frequent viewing and prayer.

The list is emailed the 20th of each month. If you would like to participate, please email

targetedglobalprayer@gmail.com

Thank you!

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Ho Chi Minh City.

Pray for the Lord to look down with compassion on this city of nine million people, once again interjecting Himself into their lives and drawing them to salvation.
Pray for increased distribution of the Scripture among city residents.
Pray for a Christian working at a restaurant to meet another believer today, and for both of them to be encouraged by the Lord’s goodness.

Hebrews 13:3, 2 Timothy 2:9

This post was originally published on July 18, 2022.

Saturday Morning Recap

James 5:16b

“The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.”

1. Israel: Pray for God’s protection and wisdom for Israel’s leaders and people.

2. Special services in Boston: Pray for God’s protection over the tent meeting next week, and for many people to be saved.

3. Your Choice: Please pray for a request that you remember from the other locations featured this week:

Sousse, Tunisia

Sinnamary, French Guiana

Nature Walking

Thank you for praying!

Sousse, Tunisia

Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Sousse.

1. Pray for the six pedestrians in the middle of the picture to hear the gospel this summer, and believe.

2. Tunisia is at the top of Africa, directly southwest of Italy across the Mediterranean Sea. It is estimated that only 5,000 of the country’s 12,200,000 citizens profess Christianity of any variety ( https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/tunisia ). Pray for the Lord to do a mighty work to change this sad fact.

3. To the right of the picture above is a large red billboard advertising a radio station. Pray for a DJ of the station to trust Christ as his Savior, for his family to follow in faith, and for them to be a light for Jesus in their community.

James 5:16b

Special Meetings in Boston

Next Monday through Thursday a special gospel preaching tent meeting is planned for Harvard Square in Boston. One of our TGP team members and her teenage grandson are there to help (her sister and brother-in-law have a ministry in Boston and are doing the tent meeting).

She has asked for prayer for God’s protection over the event. The tent they are borrowing says “We Love Israel,” and Massachusetts has had a high level of anti-Semitic activity. Additionally, Boston has had protesting in conjunction with the LA riots.

Three meetings are planned for each day: 10:30, 1:30, and 6:30 (Eastern time). If you have the opportunity, consider setting your phone alarm for those three times, that as many of us as possible may uplift our brothers and sisters before the Father’s throne.

1. Pray for God to protect the tent meeting throughout the week in every way.

2. Pray for many lost people to come and hear the gospel, and believe.

3. Pray for there to be many Christians helping facilitate the meetings, and for the Lord to give them strength day by day.

James 5:16b

Nature Walking

*Photo from Google Earth:*
*view from Signal Mountain, TN*

The first hobby in the TGP Summer 2025 Tuesday / Thursday series is nature walking. It was sent in by one of our team members from Tennessee.

Nature walking is similar to hiking, although it is considered less strenuous. Enjoying the beauty of God’s creation is a huge benefit of a nature walk, with exercise and educational benefits present as well. Most cities have parks or trails that provide opportunities for residents to go on a nature walk without having to travel far.

1. Genesis 3:8 seems to indicate that the Lord God went on late afternoon nature walks with His created children Adam and Eve. Imagine what it must have been like to take a walk with the Creator Himself! It was a sad day indeed when the guilt / shame of their sin caused Adam and Eve to hide from this time of fellowship with the Lord. Pray that Christians throughout the world who routinely take nature walks will always enjoy fellowship with their Father, and keep short accounts with Him in regards to sin.

2. People who do not know God seek peace in a variety of ways, including being out in nature. Pray for an unsaved individual in your state who will be taking a nature walk today to be struck anew with the sense of the Lord’s eternal power and godhead that nature provides (Rom. 1), and respond in faith to any gospel invitation previously received.

3. Thank God that although this world is greatly damaged by the Fall, there is still so much beauty in our Father’s world that draws our hearts to Him.

Psalm 95:1-7

Thank You

Each morning part of the opening exercises for our school classroom includes reading a couple poems. Last week one of the selections from the current book we are reading reminded me of TGP’s faithful prayer partners. I do not know who wrote the poem, but wanted to share it with you all, in the hopes that it will be an encouragement. Thank you for each prayer you pray on behalf of both Christians and the lost around the world! May Jesus be known / loved more and more because of this ministry.

Taken from Poems for Memorization (Crockett: Rod and Staff Publishers, Inc., 1988).

James 5:16b

Sinnamary, French Guiana

Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Sinnamary.

The above building is named for Eudoxie Baboul, a supercentenarian who lived to be 114 years, 274 days old. Pray for her 17 great grandchildren to come to know the Ancient of Days Who offers eternal life.
Pray for a gospel outreach to effectively reach the Indonesian community of Sinnamary.
Pray for young men in Sinnamary to be saved/discipled, and have the opportunity to attend a good seminary in preparation for the pastorate.

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

This post was previously published on December 21, 2021, and November 14, 2023.

Hokitika, New Zealand

1. Hokitika’s population is 3,000. Pray that the people closest to eternity would hear and believe the gospel today.

2. Pray for the students of Westland High School to understand the true meaning/purpose of life.

3. Pray for everyone entering the buildings with orange roofs today to think about and respond to any witness they have previously been given.

Matthew 9:35-38

This post was originally published March 25, 2021, in the first week of TGP’s ministry.

Series Intro: Hobbies

TGP is excited to begin a new series featuring a wide variety of hobbies. The Lord willing, during the summer of 2025, Tuesday and Thursday posts will highlight a particular hobby and three related prayer requests.

TGP often features prayer requests that correspond to current world crises, and that is important without a doubt. It is also important to pray for people not currently in a major life crisis, and this hobby series is one way to do that. God gives us richly all things to enjoy, and a healthy fringe benefit of being made in His image is that people enjoy creating things in one way or another.

Every TGP member is invited to respond to this email/text with what your favorite hobby (ies) are, so that those interests can be included in the series.

Thank you for participating and praying!

1 Peter 5:7