Weekly fellowship
International
- Pray for the fresh and detailed consecrations of all the saints going out.
- Pray for fire to be cast on French-speaking Europe, including cities in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.
- Pray for the logistics of all the Bibles going out to the various cities, that they would arrive on time and to the right destination.
- Pray for many divine appointments to take place for the Lord to gain local French speakers along with their families.
- Pray for final approval for the distributions to be granted in a timely manner.
- Pray for the Lord’s blessing on the homes that will be open for the gospel for 50 consecutive days in key cities for the raising up of lampstands.
(To apply to join one of the available gospel trips, click on this link: https://amanatrust.org.uk/page/2024paris)
- Pray for the 103 churches in Myanmar to be guarded by the Lord and to bear more fruit.
- Pray for the literature work to be led and strengthened by the Lord.
- Pray for the situation in Israel and the Middle East, that everything that happens will be under the ruling of the God of the heavens for the furtherance of His economy and the gaining and perfecting of His chosen ones from all backgrounds and nationalities.
- Pray that God will raise up the saints to faithfully and boldly proclaim the gospel at this time, and that many people will be unveiled to see Christ, so that they will flee to Him as their refuge and salvation.
National
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Pray for the God of peace to rule on the university campuses to make the situation and atmosphere conducive to the preaching of the gospel and to cause the students’ hearts to be open to God and to His truth.
Local
- Pray that following the Sixth Grade Conference at Oak Glen this weekend, the sixth graders will be walking in newness of life and experiencing the joy of salvation.
- Pray that all of our sixth graders will be baptized on May 12, and that this will be the result of the Lord’s personal appearing and speaking to each one of them.
- Pray for the Lord’s blessing on this special time of the church’s coming together, with the practical arrangements and speaking being carried out by the working saints for the benefit of the whole church.
- Pray that the saints from all districts will attend to participate in the sweet blending of the church and to receive the fresh re-speaking of the core burdens of the recent International Chinese-Speaking Conference.
- Pray for the Lord to be with the speaking brothers as they prepare and as they release the word, that they will enter into the burden and the truth of the messages in their preparation, and stay connected to the Lord as they minister the word to the saints.
- Pray that following the young people’s gospel meeting last weekend, the spirit of the gospel will continue to grow among the young people.
- Pray that the Lord will preserve the hunger and seeking heart of the gospel friends.
- Pray that our young people will enter into a life of shepherding, praying and fellowshipping regularly with their companions to form vital groups to care for their friends and to gain them as corporate fruit.
- Pray that the parents of the gospel friends will be positive toward the church and that they themselves also will be drawn, so that the Lord may gain entire households.
- Pray that the gospel meeting will be a reminder to the saints that we should live a gospel-preaching life and a life of prayer, and that this will be an opportunity for the saints to go deeper with the Lord in learning the lessons of prayer as we come to the Lord concerning our gospel friends.
- Pray for the saints’ inviting of their gospel friends, and that many of the invited ones will come.
- Pray for all the planning and preparation, and for the empowering grace to supply the serving saints.
- Pray that all the speaking ones will be filled and saturated with Christ as their new wine, so that they will be happy and their speaking will bring happiness to the gospel friends, causing them to joyfully call on the name of the Lord and be saved.
- Pray for salvations, baptisms, and much remaining fruit in the weeks and months ahead, as the normal organic issue of the saints’ faithful shepherding.
(To register for the gospel dinner, please use this link: https://tinyurl.com/registermay172024)
- Pray that the Lord will bless the Korean-speaking gospel meeting on June 1 and that He will bless the saints to be filled with a strong gospel spirit.
- Pray that first of all, the saints would have much and thorough prayer, and then that they would bear the burden of contacting their gospel friends, praying for them, and inviting them to the gospel meeting.
- Pray that many gospel friends will respond positively and come to the gospel meeting.
The above are some of the current prayer burdens that the saints may bring to the Lord in their personal or corporate prayer; however, the saints should be exercised to follow the leading of the Spirit in their prayer.