About Prayer Journeys

In the parable of the sower, Jesus teaches us about seeds being scattered on four types of soil. You will notice in Matthew 13:8 that it was the seeds which fell on fertile soil that produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted! This is the basis for us getting the soil ready in whatever location we plant a church. We use short term mission teams to come once a month, starting one year before the new church is planted, to work the soil through prayer. We send out a packet of information about this prayer journey to the leader of your group approximately 4 to 6 weeks before your team comes to the mission field, so you are prepared and know what to expect. These prayer journeys will allow anyone in your church to experience a short term mission trip! How many people do you know that don’t know how to pray? Some come join us on a prayer walk.

Prayer walking is simply praying in the very places where we expect God to answer our prayers! A major objective of prayer walking is praying on sight with insight! Prayer walking is on-site prayer. Better perception means boosted intercession. It helps us draw nearer in order to pray clearer! Prayer walking helps prayers learn how to pray for others, deferring urgent matters in their own lives from the top of their prayer agendas. Prayer walking focuses intercessory prayer on the community, homes and people we encounter while walking.

Prayer walkers do their work with their eyes open, allowing the sights of people, objects, events and the entire community to flood their prayers with significance. Ordinary powers of observation yield abundant insights about the best focus of prayer. Physical sight boosts spiritual vision to sense God’s future for a city. We walk to see. We see in order to pray more powerfully.

PRAYER
Being on site……

• helps us pray more specifically because we can see the need.
• helps us pray more effectively because we can discern the spiritual warfare.
• helps us pray more passionately because we can receive personal feedback.
• helps us pray more regularly because our commitment is at a higher level.
• helps us pray more courageously because we can understand what God is doing.

PEOPLE
Being on site……

• provides opportunities for practical encouragement to Christians.
• provides opportunities for divine appointments.
• provides opportunities for investing myself in people.

Potential
Being on site……

• allows us to see what God is doing and join Him in His work short-term.
• allows us to see what God desires of us long-term.
• allow us to see what God desires for me long-term (go or send).

So click on the Bismarck/Mandan Launch Team Calendar (PDF to the left) and pick a month and a date and let us know when you would like to travel to get the soil ready for this new church!