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A Call to Prayer and Fasting between March 20 and April 3, 2020

God is on the move in extraordinary ways among Persians around the world with multitudes coming to faith, but there are still millions unreached with the gospel.

There are approximately 110 million Persian speakers worldwide, including Persians, Tajiks, Hazaras, Tats, and Aimaqs. Each year an estimated 300 million people throughout Central Asia and surrounding countries celebrate NOWRUZ, Persian New Year; for 10 days, they celebrate 3000-year-old traditions that far predate Islam.

Followers of Jesus around the world can take this opportunity to share about Jesus who is “doing a new thing . . making a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert (Isa 43:18-19) all things new.”

In a recent meeting, many movement leaders sensed this is a key moment in the history of this nation and its peoples, so the 24:14 Community calls our whole family to 10 days of united prayer and fasting at this 'kairos' time.

Download the Prayer Guide Here:
http://ipcprayer.org/images/Persian%20New%20Year%20Prayer%20Guide%202020.pdf

Each day there are 3 prayer prompts, we suggest that you take time to pray when you would normally be having a meal, or set your alarm 3 times during the day.

Liz Adleta
www.2414now.net

Elizabeth Adleta from the Fellowship of Prayer Strategists reviews the encouraging progress that has been made since the Tokyo 2010 Unreached Peoples Intercession Task Force paper:

Ten years has passed since the paper was released in Tokyo, outlining the state of prayer for unreached people groups around the world, and proposing strategies to accelerate progress in reaching, discipling and seeing transformation among these. The task force not only worked but prayed. Ten years later, it is clear that God heard and responded!

In 2010, according to Joshua Project, well over 6,000 people groups had too few indigenous followers of Christ with sufficient means to evangelize their own people groups without outside assistance.  Less than 200 Christ-ward movements were known. Recently, researchers cataloged over 1,000 movements to Christ, where each spanned at least 4 generations, and the movements collectively represented over 785 people groups and 70 million believers! Research also indicates over 3,000 movement engagements in which a team (or teams) employs strategies seeking to multiply movements of believers! Robby Butler of MultMove has said, “Prayer is the first domino to fall” and in these past ten years more focused, fervent, and sustained prayer has grown within these movements and within the Church at large.

What has God done these past 10 years? What gaps still need to be addressed?

More partnerships have emerged in the prayer and missions movements, and these are converging. Prayers are being answered and partnering efforts are bearing fruit. Only recently have we seen networks, organizations, and denominations willing to collaborate outside their own boundaries. Prayer and mission leaders actively seek ways to better integrate their efforts. However, much ground remains to see these fully connected and coordinated.

Prayer strategists and prayer strategies have emerged. More than a ‘prayer coordinator’ or ‘facilitator’, prayer strategists serve on leadership teams in networks, organizations and denominations. They focus on maximizing and synchronizing prayer efforts at every level to best effect. Prayer is strategy, envisioning God-sized reality straight from His heart, and co-laboring to pray it into being under His direction. Incorporating both apostolic and prophetic vision allows leadership to keep their ears open to heaven as they evaluate options in light of God’s direction.

Advances in technology and communications offer innumerable ways to expand prayer and collaboration, even globally. Conferencing tools such as Zoom, social media platforms like WhatsApp, smartphone applications, live streaming services through internet, satellite and radio, and many other technologies have hardly been tapped into. Prayer communities are discovering that John 17-unity really can emerge as relationships deepen while praying, worshiping, and connecting over the internet. It is now possible to build relationships through these new technologies, serving to expand prayer efforts exponentially.

Annual prayer initiatives now include every major megasphere. 30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World during Ramadan was only the beginning. After 25 years, we now see previously-unimaginable breakthroughs in the Muslim megasphere. The Hindu and Buddhist megaspheres have similar annual prayer initiatives. Prayer changes megaspheres!

Prayer is yearning for the now-but-not-yet Kingdom to fully come. God’s purposes for His Body are to grow up into the full measure of the stature of Jesus, who is coming back for a Bride equally-yoked with Him. God is calling the historical Church to match the passion, obedience, and zeal of fellowships emerging in movements; are we willing to pay a high cost to follow Jesus? As we see prayer and mission movements converging, God uncovers greater understanding, deepens our practice of intimacy, strengthens our fellowship with Him and one another, and increases our fruitfulness and joy. Maranatha! Come soon, Lord Jesus!

Download and read the full report HERE

Liz Adleta

Global Prayer Strategist

Fellowship of Prayer Strategists

www.prayerstrategists.net

Praise God for the acceleration and growing momentum of the many initiatives that are seeking to make God’s word available to all unreached people’s groups.

Praise God for the increased collaboration between those involved in catalysing prayer for the unreached. 

Pray for continued blessing on the work of the Fellowship of Prayer Strategists and their partner organisations.

We want to invite you to be a part of a new 'virtual' opportunity called '10 days'

The vision can be found here www.10days.net/what-is-10-days-full

It comes over the Jewish festivals 29 Sept - 9th Oct Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur during a time known as the 'Days of Awe'.

The focus is to see ourselves and eventually our whole cities actually pause, humble ourselves, and repent before God and seek His face for the lost. It is a time of together turning, asking forgiveness and yearning to see the fulfilment of Jesus' promises and His second coming.

This year the 10 days team have decided to run a pilot project for a VIRTUAL online non-stop prayer meeting 24 hours a day for 10 days around the globe. This is why I am inviting you to see if this is something that you would like to help facilitate. It would involve taking an hour slot every day for 10 days. This hour could be shared with people in your church or a group that you are linked with.

There will be a guide produced so that we all keep on the same page and with the same focus, which includes praying for those with the least access to the gospel. Several major global networks including the Ethne prayer workgroup, the 24:14 Coalition Prayer Task Force, Intl. Prayer Council and Morningstar Network are collaborating in this effort.

Could you let me know if this is something that you could organise in your network(s)?  https://form.myjotform.com/Nations123/10-days-int-global-upper-room would be where you can indicate the time slot that you would be responsible for each day.

Isebel Spangenberg is helping with coordination on this (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) If you have further questions, I'm happy to answer if I can.

10days.net has many of these resources, and also videos and podcasts.  We have two teaching video series on 10 Days plus this vision video (below) which I recommend you watch first:

10 Days Vision Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=TsgM8EK-ju8

Bridgeport Story--Bridgeport is leading the way as a city that is really stopping...this podcast is worth listening to: https://soundcloud.com/10daysofprayer/10-the-bridgeport-story-luis?in=10daysofprayer/sets/10-days-summit-2018

Last year, the '10 Days' was observed in various forms in 40 locations around the world. We believe God is calling the Body of Christ to a season of preparation of the Bride in this hour, and this season of coming aside seems to be part of His ordained plan. We welcome you to join hands with God and our sisters and brothers as we look together with expectancy for the Great Harvest and Our Bridegroom's soon return...

Liz Adleta - Global Prayer Strategist

Web: www.ethne.net/  www.prayerstrategists.net& https://www.2414now.net/