GPT Newsletter - Uniting a Generation In Intercession
Highlights of this edition (October 15, 2007)
RESOURCE / NETWORK: GPT Conference Call
ARTICLE: The Vital Force of Missionary Intercession by Robert Hall Glover
Blessings! The GPT Conference Call is back and I hope everyone can join us on Monday, Oct 29, at 9pm EST. This call will provide an opportunity to get everyone caught up on how your campus prayer groups have been going this semester. I have heard some very encouraging reports about increased intensity and new growth in your prayer meetings and I want everyone to have the chance to share and hear about what God is doing. Please come to the call ready to share and receive from each other ! Even if you have experienced some difficulties and challenges this semester in getting your prayer groups going again, we want to hear from you so we can receive encouragement and hope from one another! The SVM2 Team is currently praying for 100 new Global Prayer Teams this year and we would love for you to share, pray and dream along with us on how this can become a reality. Come prepared to hear from one another and catch a vision for what GOD is doing across our nation in campus prayer meetings! Please take the time to read the article below by Robert Hall Glover. I trust it will be helpful in giving our conference call some direction and encouragement. If you have any questions about our upcoming conference call or anything else please shoot me an email. - david@SVM2.net
All for Jesus,
David Smithers
SVM2 National Prayer Track Director
Cell (405) 824-5113
How does it work?
First, call this number: 712-580-6300 (it’s a regular call – no extra fees – no worries!)
Then, enter the code: 1064614#.
Then, you’ll be in the conference call. When the moderator (David) asks for who joined the call, just say your name and the campus/church your calling from!
LOGISTICS
When: Monday, Oct 29th at 9pm EST
Who: You and any other global prayer team leaders
What: A devotional word from SVM2 Prayer Coordinator David Smithers and then a discussion of how to encourage the growth of more prayer for the unreached this year.
ARTICLE: The Vital Force of Missionary Intercession by Robert Hall Glover
(Read this article for your personal enrichment or use it as a basis for discussion at the next meeting of your prayer or small group meeting)
The most vital consideration in missions is not method, money, or even men, but it is God himself and His working, and it is prayer which brings the revelation of God and calls forth His working. However, praying is never a substitute for going in the case of those who are qualified and able to go. In other words, going, giving, and praying are not three different options which the individual Christian may pick from according to their personal preference. Nor will any amount of giving or praying fulfill the Great Commission to evangelize the world apart from going. The command is "Go, preach"! But those who cannot "Go" in person can still "Go" by prayer...
Yet, as it is true that praying without preaching can never carry out the missionary task, it is equally true that preaching without praying cannot either. God has joined the two together in His Word and they are inseparable. We read in the book of Acts how the early apostles decided on the appointment of deacons to care for the secular affairs of the church, that they themselves might be free for the more direct spiritual ministry, and their words were, "But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word." Here are mentioned the two great lines of Christian ministry, prayer and preaching, and they are presented in such a way as to indicate clearly that they are co-equal. How many there are who regard preaching as being by far the more important ministry, and prayer as simply an added supplement, a kind of "aid to preaching"! However, that is not what the Word of God says. The two, prayer and preaching, are put on the same level and given the same importance; indeed, if any significance is attached to the order of the inspired words, then prayer has the precedence as being mentioned first. The fact is that they are complementary one to the other, not two separate ministries but rather two essential parts of one ministry. Prayer is the priestly function of appearing before God on behalf of men to plead their needs and invoke His help. While preaching is the prophetic function of appearing before men in behalf of God, to proclaim His Word of Life and implore their acceptance of it. Either one is imperfect without the other.
Missionaries are needed to go abroad and preach to the unreached, but their efforts will not reach full fruition without the support of effective intercessors at home. Paul, the prince of missionaries, continually appealed to the churches for prayer. Hear his plea to the Thessalonian Christians, "Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of God may have free course, and be glorified." He was faithfully preaching the Word, and in the power of the Spirit, as he repeatedly claimed; yet the fullest effect of that preaching depended upon the believing prayers of others...
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