You Must Help Us By Prayer…

It is a dilemma I have not been able to solve: How do I build a community of people committed to praying for us and with us in this work of making disciples and planting churches throughout Europe?

I have thought of email, maybe setting up a Facebook page? Maybe I can just post my prayer needs through email, my website, Facebook, and Twitter and pray people pray? Does this create a community murmuration of prayer?

Murmuration is defined as a low continuous indistinct sound or the sudden occurrence of an audible event.

In nature a murmuration is when hundreds, if not thousands, of birds fly together. You have seen it before, but perhaps you did not know what it was called.

This is what a murmuration looks like:

I think Spirit-led prayer is like this murmuration. Today, we would say it is when prayer goes viral. That is what I am longing for: a murmuration of the body of Christ praying for the advancement of the Gospel. Like the starlings in the video, there is leadership but no leader, the Spirit leads and we dance with Him.

Paul told the Corinthians, “You also must help us by prayer, so that many will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us through the prayers of many.” (2 Corinthians 1:11, ESV)

I wrote about this in an earlier post, “Can I Crowdsource Prayer?” I still do not have an answer. Maybe we just figure it out along the way.

Here are some things I need prayer for:

• Pray for the works that are developing throughout the Russian-speaking nations, Sweden, and among the Romani people (see “Giving Thanks for You”)
• Pray for these upcoming events in February,
  • Feb 10, I will be preaching at Tualatin Foursquare Church
  • Feb 15-16, Missions Intensive 2013, Pacific Coasts & Valley District, click here.
  • Feb 17, Preaching at Worship Walk Foursquare Church, Burbank, CA.
  • Feb 22-23, “To the Nations” Regional Conference. For more info, click here.
  • Feb 24, Preaching at New Hope Foursquare Church in Salem, OR.
• Pray for our upcoming missionary retreat, April 21-23 (read more about it and how you can help, “Help Us Serve Our Missionaries”)

I would love to hear from you. Do you have suggestions on how I can use email, this website, Facebook, and Twitter to build a community of people committed to praying for the advancement of the Gospel in Europe? Let me know your ideas.