Resources: On Our Knees for the Nations
At NextGen East 2024, our theme was On Our Knees for the Nations: praying for the world. Here’s a collection of resources to help you keep exploring how God might want to use your prayers in his global plan.
If you joined us for NextGen East 2024, we hope you enjoyed it and find these resources useful. You can find out about future NextGen events in your area here.
“We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.”
Dr. Wesley Duewel
Websites
Prayercast.com website - inspiring prayer videos praying for different nations, very moving.
Unreached of the Day - website or app from Joshua Project giving prayer info on one unreached people group each day
Operation World - website or app from WEC going through all the countries of the world in a year
Books
Missionary biographies that inspire prayer - e.g. Mountain Rain (about J.O. Fraser among the Lisa people), 'Shadow of the Almighty' (about Jim Elliot among the Waodani tribe), Utterly Amazed (about Miriam Davis in Japan)
Books on praying for the world - e.g. 'Praying for the World: Understanding God's Heart for the Nations"
Podcast
Pray the Word with David Platt - a short daily podcast from a very mission-minded pastor of a church in the US. He takes a verse or two from the Bible, he uses the Joshua Project Unreached of the Day, then he uses the Bible verses to pray for that unreached people group.
Your Phone
Prayermate - This app helps my whole prayer life, no joke! But as part of it, you can subscribe to various world mission agencies so you get their prayer requests each day, including OMF, Operation World, Friends International, Barnabas Aid, Open Doors, Release International, IFES, Joshua Project, United Beach Missions, World Prayer News, Africa Inland Mission, Baptist Mission Society, Crosslinks, European Christian Mission. Interserve, Mission Aviation Fellowship, WEC, and many many more! 😀 They also do guides for a period, like the 30 days of prayer for the Muslim world…
set a daily alarm for 10:02 am to remind you to pray the prayer of Luke 10:2 to pray for more labourers for the harvest. You could also do it at 10:02 pm. Or, if you prefer the Matthew 9:38 version, you can set your alarm at 9:38 (am/pm or both!)
Many More
Missionary prayer groups - there may be a group near you, perhaps even in your church or CU that prays for a particular part of the world.
Prayer letters - get monthly news from a gospel worker overseas (some of them also have more frequent prayer updates on Whatsapp groups)
Prayer Guides - informative stories and facts to pray daily for 30 days or so, e.g. 'Zhuang', 'A Door Swinging Open' (about North Korea), 'More Stories from Vietnam'; 'Stories from Myanmar', 'Beneath the Surface' (about Japan), etc.
prayer walk - you could go by yourself or with some others to walk and pray e.g. in Chinatown or another ethnically diverse part of town, or even going to another country to pray
Loads more fuel for prayer is available on the OMF website and many other mission agencies