Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Webuye.
1. Pray for the children who have come to live at Encouragement Children’s Home to meet the Father Who longs to welcome each one into His family.
2. Pray for God’s blessings in all areas to be on the director of ECH.
3. Pray for the monthly community outreach events that ECH holds to produce much fruit for eternity.
Revelation 4:11
This post was originally published on February 20, 2023.
Yesterday morning I was sitting on my kitchen floor looking through a stack of cookbooks to find daisy petals. Although I thought I knew which cookbook I had put them in to be pressed and dried six weeks prior, they were not in the expected place, so I was leafing through every book on the shelf to find them. As it turned out, they ended up being in the book I thought I’d placed them, but another discovery was made during the search, which is worth sharing this morning.
One of the cookbooks was a Christmas gift to my grandparents in 1977. It is an interesting mix of testimonies and recipes from such well-known Christian women as Dale Evans Rogers, Ethel Barrett, and Ruth Bell Graham. Tucked in between the pages was a paper cut from a church bulletin, with a line in my Grandma Ballard’s handwriting:
“This my assignment too.” Those words were penned over forty years ago, yet they reach across the decades to find resonance with every TGP team member, for this is why we each signed up to pray. There is a cause and commission so vital that it stirs the hearts of those who love Jesus to do what they can to make Him known in every place. “From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same the LORD’s name is to be praised.” (Psalm 113:3) Amen, may it ever be.
My grandma never had the opportunity to take an overseas mission trip, yet in more ways then can be elaborated here, her influence for the kingdom of God continues to reach places her feet never traveled. She was the baby girl referenced in last Sunday’s TGP post on Hoyt, Colorado, and, similar to what was spoken of Abel in Hebrews 11:4, she “being dead still speaketh.”
When I read the page above, I immediately thought of you all. Thank you for likewise taking up the mantle of prayer for Jesus to be known to the peoples of the world. I hope that reading both my grandma’s words and the printed poem and paragraph are an encouragement to each of you. Additionally, let us be challenged by the fact that our lives have the potential to encourage others long after we’re gone, as illustrated by the random finding of a paper yesterday morning.
I Corinthians 15:58 – “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”
2 Corinthians 4:5
“For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.”
1. Nevatim, Israel: Pray for the salvation of a pilot at the Israeli airbase in Nevatim, and for those suffering anxiety from Iran’s recent missile attacks to find stability and peace in Jesus.
2. Salisbury, Australia: Pray for each of Len and Anne Beadell’s descendants to have a personal relationship with Jesus, Who is the only Road from this world to the Father.
3. Your Choice: Please pray for a request you remember from the other cities featured this week:
Portree, Scotland
Neuquen, Argentina
Ballasalla, Isle of Man
Hoyt, USA
Thank you for praying!
Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Neuquen.
Revelation 1:17-18
This post was originally published on April 18, 2022. The current governor and senators are Omar, Marcelo, Nanci, Lucila, and Horatio.
Pictured above is the Len Beadell Public Library, whose namesake has been called “the last true Australian explorer.” A surveyor who led a small crew in building 3700+ miles of roads, including the famous Gunbarrel Road across Australia’s desert, he thus provided access to 970,000+ square miles of bush country. His interest in surveying began as a teenager when he join a scout troop whose scoutmaster was a surveyor. He continued surveying for the Australian military in WW2, and stayed with the military afterwards, using his skills to select a site for atomic bomb testing. He later built roads for a decade, using constellations to help determine latitude and longitude in order to make them as straight as a gunbarrel when at all possible. He named these roads after his wife and three children, one of whom quotes their dad as saying, “First you make the roads and then you take your family for trips on them.” * The hardships of extended bush life took their toll on his health, so Len transferred to other work in 1963, continuing to contribute valuable services to his country, and receiving numerous honors.
1. Pray for each of Len and Anne’s descendants to have a personal relationship with Jesus, Who is the only Road from this world to the Father.
2. Pray for someone who frequents the above library to find the key to happiness in walking with God.
3. All of Len’s roads are still usable today, and 4-wheelers enjoy the challenge of traversing them. Pray for one such adventurer to be saved this year.
2 Corinthians 4:5
*https://m.facebook.com/389085437948731/posts/1114541105403157/?wtsid=rdr_0znWWoEQYvFHG2tRn&paipv=0&eav=AfaVGyDbK96AUl_HwZf7xJtMLZ9JgNLg6IfPFg4RutdTtOr0nznQGIbg3WyIHb4Q3E8&_rdr#
See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Beadell
Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Ballasalla.
1. The Isle of Man is a self-governing Crown dependency of Great Britain, with Viking and Celtic ethnic roots. Pray for the salvation of someone who daily commutes from Ballasalla to nearby Castletown.
2. Pray for city sanitation workers who collect from the above containers to meet the only One Who can make their hearts brilliant with His holiness.
3. Pray for a Biblical church to be planted in Ballasalla.
Psalm 96:1
This post was originally published on April 21, 2023.
Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Portree.
1. Pray for a Christian who has a connection to this church to grow in his walk with the Lord today.
2. Shinty is a Scottish sport, and Portree has a shinty club. Pray for one of its team players to hear and believe the gospel.
3. Portree is on Scotland’s Isle of Skye, which became home for several Jewish families fleeing European pograms in the last century. Pray for a Jewish family there who is concerned about everything currently happening in Israel to personally experience the truth of John 16:33.
Psalm 119:54
This post was originally published on October 22, 2023.
1. Iran launched over 300 drones/missiles against Israel on Saturday night. Thankfully, most of those were intercepted. Five missiles hit the Nevatim Airbase, but damage was minimal. Pray for a pilot of one of the eight planes pictured above to think about the destination of his soul, and trust Jesus as the only way to the Father. Pray also for the international community to stand with Israel.
2. Nevatim is an Israeli moshav, or an agricultural village, of a little over a thousand people. Farming members work together, but have more economic autonomy than those on a kibbutz. Pray for any believers among that thousand to be used by the Lord to bring someone else to Himself this year.
3. The most serious injury from Iran’s attack was severe shrapnel injuries to a ten year old Bedouin girl. Pray for her to recover from those, and hear about / accept Jesus’ love.
2 Corinthians 4:5
1. Hoyt, Colorado, is a small unincorporated township in Colorado. Pray that on this Lord’s Day one of those people will come to know Him.
2. The Hoyt Radio Tower stands well over a third of a mile high. It is Colorado’s tallest man-made structure, and one of the tallest structures in the world. It has strobe lights to prevent collisions with aircraft. The tower services two of Denver’s FM stations and aids in emergency services. Pray for the salvation of a technician who regularly maintenances the Hoyt Radio Tower.
3. One hundred years ago, a baby girl was born in Hoyt. Today her living descendants number around one hundred people. Pray for each of them to know and faithfully love and walk with Jesus.
2 Corinthians 4:5
*This city was a request of a TGP team member. Anyone who would like a particular city to be featured in the future may email that request to targetedglobalprayer@gmail.com.
Revelation 4:11
“You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and by Your will they exist and were created.”
1. Pensacola, USA: Pray for one of the Blue Angels pilots to trust Christ as his personal Lord and Savior.
2. Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia: Pray for discipleship materials to be available for new Cambodian Christians.
3. Your Choice: Please pray for a request you remember from one of the other cities featured this week:
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
Mount Maunganul, New Zealand
Janjanbureh, Gambia
Oslo, Norway
Thank you for praying!
