Prayer made focus in Europe for 2012

As 2012 begins, the European Peoples Affinity Group (EPAG) is committed to bathe this year in prayer as never before. EPAG Strategy Leader, Mark Edworthy, is leading in this initiative. As a former church planter in Poland he testifies that prayer was the literal lifeline of his work. He also recognizes the difficulty in keeping it central in ministry.

“In an extended prayer time a few months ago, the Lord convicted me of the need for “desperate praying” for our affinity,” Mark said. “I know that some are already in this mode but fear that many are simply “praying prayers” and going about business as usual.”

To assuage this desire for consistency, Mark has planned several special emphases throughout this year. The first is a three-day period of prayer and fasting, January 13-15. He is asking all EPAG personnel to participate as well as stateside and prayer partners.

Please consider interceding with EPAG in the following ways:

• Ask for spiritual protection against attacks of the enemy, as well as spiritual fatigue and discouragement that come from living in secular, atheistic environments.
• Pray that missionaries will have courage to boldly proclaim the Gospel among Europeans. Ask the Father to give him or her the right words to say to each individual they encounter.
• Petition that the words they share will penetrate the hearts of the lost and bring new life that will in turn bear more fruit.
• Pray specifically for people groups and cities by using the Unreached Unengaged People Groups (UUPG) and EURO prayer guides.

There will be another time for prayer and fasting in October as an International Day of Prayer on October 21.

International Board President Tom Elliff is also beseeching missionaries and their stateside partners to take seriously the work of praying and has recorded a message to encourage the prayer emphasis this year. Click here to view.

Reaching Europeans is a God-sized task – we desperately need His help and this help comes, when we pray. In the book Purpose in Prayer, E.M. Bounds says, “Prayer is the greatest of all forces…there can be no substitute… its results lie outside the range of human possibilities – they are limited only by the omnipotence of God. Few Christians have anything but a vague idea of the power of prayer; fewer still have any experience with that power.”

Please join EPAG in praying this year for God to do something outside their range of possibility in Europe.

If you would like to know more specifics about EPAG’s prayer focus for 2012, contact Celeste Brubaker.

Posted by Karen Pearce on Jan 5, 2012

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