30 Days of Prayer for Global Awakening Verses for contemplation: John 3:16-21 The lostness of this world in turmoil is staggering. Nearly 160,000 people die daily without the hope of Christ. The news constantly blares headlines of such wars, earthquakes and evil as declared in biblical warnings of the last days before Jesus’ return. AndContinue reading “Day 30: The World”
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Day 23: Southeast Asia
30 Days of Prayer for Global Awakening Verses for contemplation: Matthew 22:25-28 Southeast Asia is home to nearly 700 unreached people groups. In addition, six of these countries (the most violent of which is Myanmar) are on Open Doors’ World Watchlist of nations persecuting Christians. Christians and seekers of Christ face extreme pressure to conformContinue reading “Day 23: Southeast Asia”
Day 22: South Asia
30 Days of Prayer for Global Awakening Verses for contemplation: Isaiah 44 Tradition says the Apostle Bartholomew took the Gospel to Pakistan, and Thomas to India, where he was martyred in AD 72. Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier, who ministered to India’s lower classes in 1542, baptized 30,000 Paravar people. William Carey, instrumental in evangelical missionsContinue reading “Day 22: South Asia”
Day 21: East Asia
30 Days of Prayer for Global Awakening Verses for contemplation: Isaiah 55 The Silk Road opened the way in AD 645 for Nestorian Christians to arrive in China, where they sought converts until suppressed 150 years later. In the 16th century, Jesuits brought the next wave of Christian influence to China, while Portuguese Catholics arrivedContinue reading “Day 21: East Asia”
Day 20: Central Asia
30 Days of Prayer for Global Awakening Verses for contemplation: Psalm 95 Acts 2 suggests the Parthians who heard the Gospel at Pentecost would have carried it back to Southern Turkmenistan, among other areas. As Christianity spread farther in the first centuries, several cities along the Silk Road became strong centers for Christian culture andContinue reading “Day 20: Central Asia”
Day 16: Southern Africa
30 Days of Prayer for Global Awakening Verses for contemplation: Ephesians 5 In 1840, the London Missionary Society sent David Livingstone to South Africa, where he became one of the first Europeans to traverse the continent. Other missionaries also brought the Gospel to the mostly animistic peoples of this area, and today, all of theContinue reading “Day 16: Southern Africa”
Day 12: North Africa
30 Days of Prayer for Global Awakening Verses for contemplation: Psalm 42 The Bible records several prophecies regarding North Africa, and in Matthew 2:13-20, Jesus’ family fled to Egypt to avoid persecution after His birth. (See Matthew 2:15 and Hosea 11:1). Acts 2 suggests those who heard the Gospel in their own language at PentecostContinue reading “Day 12: North Africa”
Day 8: Southern Europe
30 Days of Prayer for Global Awakening Verses for contemplation: Hebrews 13:1-8 Several of the first Christian churches mentioned in the New Testament sprang to life in Italy, Macedonia and Greece on Paul’s missionary journeys. As the centuries moved on, the Roman Catholic Church established its papal seat in Holy See (of Rome). In theContinue reading “Day 8: Southern Europe”
Day 5: Unreached Peoples
30 Days of Prayer for Global Awakening Verses for contemplation: Romans 10:9-15 A “people group” is an ethnic population bound together by common language, culture, religion and/or other features which set them apart from the peoples around them. An unreached people group (UPG) has little or no way to hear the Good News about Christ.Continue reading “Day 5: Unreached Peoples”
Where Knowing Christ is Dangerous
Join tomorrow for 30 Days of Prayer for Global Awakening, March 11-April 9, 2024. For billions of people across the areas colored red in this map below, fear and uncertainty are a constant reality. Christians and even seekers asking questions about Jesus are severely persecuted, often by beatings, imprisonment or death. And yet, in ChristContinue reading “Where Knowing Christ is Dangerous”
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