This week, I am attending events co-sponsored by the Presbyterian Church in America’s Mission to North America (MNA) and Mission to the World (MTW) organizations. This morning, I came across a room designated for prayer, and I found a small calendar put together by MTW to encourage concerted prayer for specific needs relating to foreign missions (see below or click this link).
God has powerfully used “Concerts of Prayer” to catalyze seasons of revival, reformation, and refreshment in His people throughout church history, and I am confident that He will continue to do so. Let us come before God’s throne of grace with these petitions throughout the month of November, expecting to be heard.
As we pray (both individually and corporately), it is fitting to express our gratitude, declare God’s greatness and goodness, confess our woeful inadequacies and sinful man-centeredness in missionary endeavors, and petition God to arise and bring about that glorious promise that “the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea” (Habakkuk 2:14).
Today, pray specifically for the 2024 PCA Global Missions Conference. Pray that God would use the conference to reignite a passion for the Great Commission among His people, and especially in the hearts of those who are presently laboring in the mission field, considering missions, or otherwise interested in missions. As you do so, it is wholly appropriate to pray that God would work through the ordinary means of worship, sacrament, prayer, and the fellowship of the saints in local churches, presbyteries, and conferences to lay hold of our hearts for the extension of His Kingdom, the advancement of His gospel, and the promotion of true worship to the ends of the earth. Remember that the name “Antioch” is associated in Scripture with nurturing, training, sending, and launching missionaries into fields near and far to sow the seed of the gospel. What a glorious heritage we have in Christ!
I will bring a stack of these cards home with me tomorrow at the conclusion of the conference. I look forward to being back with the saints at Antioch this Lord’s Day.
