“The history of missions is the history of answered prayer… it is the key to the whole missionary problem. All human means are secondary.” – Samuel M. Zwemer
Often we only see the one side of being a missionary: “to be called and to go”. And we tend to forget about the harsh realities: to …
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The Taizé community is a group of more than one hundred brothers in Christ, drawn from different nations and Christian traditions to live and work together in the service of God. There are small groups of Taizé brothers in South America, Asia and Africa but the largest community is based in the village of Taizé …
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PrayerWorks, from The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC), aims to encourage and support people in praying for their colleagues, workplaces and organisations.
Prayer Pathways
It can be difficult to sustain prayer for your workplace. Praying with others can help to maintain momentum and enthusiasm, but whether you’re the only Christian in your workplace …
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Join with thousands of Christians across the world who already praying the Lord’s Prayer every day at midday.
Using the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples, take a few moments in the middle of the day to pray, asking the Holy Spirit to guide you, and taking time to wait and listen to God.
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Learning to pray
Praying the Psalms Vol. 1: Learning to Pray, by Alexander Venter, is written to help individuals and small groups to learn how to practise daily prayer and to develop a life of prayer. The twelve-week course includes meditation exercises which will uncover the rich treasures hidden in David’s prayers, making …
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Source: Patrick Mabbagu, Time Out Mission friend based in the Philippines Time Out Mission
In Luke 18: 1-8, the Bible tells us about the Parable of the Persistent Widow. Jesus was telling his disciple this story to show that “they should always pray and never give up.” (v1)
2 “There was a judge in …
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I first experienced using the Rhythm Of Daily Prayer when I visited Ffald-y-Brenin last June. It was definitely at a time when I experienced the presence of God in an unusual way. I got out of the car into the car park and it was a constant from then onwards throughout my visit! …
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Source: 24-7 prayer
It can be a challenging and difficult process to try and work out how to pray for justice in our world? There’s so much need, so much injustice, inequality, pain and anguish in the world…
Where do I begin?
Our word for justice can feels angry … or maybe not …
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The following notes are taken from a Bible study by a North Korean pastor, on prayer (Colossians 4:12–13).
Praying is the most important thing you do. Whatever you do each day, begin everything with prayer. It is the shortest way, not the longest! By sacrificing yourself and applying yourself to praying as a warrior, God …
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“I got so hungry for more of God, I wanted to learn to really hear his voice for myself. I was tired of hearing everybody else’s stories of God’s power in other parts of the world or at other times in history – I was longing to see it now! …
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