Things To Pray For In November
In a recent prayer email to our Pastors, Mark Prater wrote the following…
“Building relationally has always been a value in Sovereign Grace, and by the grace of God, it's our hope that it always will be. One of the ways that we strengthen the relationships we have among our churches is to pray for one another. It is right that we, as a family of churches, pray for one another, but it is also right that we remember who we pray to. Charles Spurgeon in his book, “The Power of Prayer in a Believer’s Life” writes: “The frail, feeble, undeserving creature is permitted to stand in the august presence of the God of the whole earth, and the Lord regards the poor creature as if there were nothing else for Him to observe, bending His ear, and His heart to listen to that creatures cry. It is essential that we know that we are speaking to God, and that God is hearing us.”
It’s amazing isn’t it!? The Lord of the whole earth bends His ear and His heart to listen to our prayers, and so here’s how we can be praying for one another in the month ahead…
Please pray for Bob Kauflin, Fabrizio Rodulfo, and David Zimmer as they join with brothers and sisters in Guadalajara, MX, this week, to host our first ever Spanish Songwriter Retreat, with representatives from Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, and the US. Please pray that their time will lead to an abundance of songs to serve Spanish speaking churches.
Please pray for myself (Dave Taylor) and Sovereign Grace Church, Sydney as we continue to host 17 pastors and wives from the Philippines for the second half of our SG Pastors Immersion Training. This training will help us to continue putting some key foundations into Sovereign Grace Churches Philippines and bring these pastors together as a foundational leadership cohort. We’re very excited about this step as our two big groups of churches in the Philippines start to come together in partnership in this way, all under the one banner of SGC Philippines.
Please pray for our brothers and sisters in Pakistan who have been affected by the recent rioting. There were about 20-25 churches that were looted and burned as well as many homes of Christian families. One of those looted and destroyed churches is pastored by a man who is with the group that we have the privilege of partnering with, in Pakistan. So please pray, that God would meet them in this time of great affliction and sorrow.
Please pray for the Sovereign Grace Churches Pastors Conference, November 14-16, 2023, in Orlando, FL asking God to work in a way that our relationships among our churches are strengthened, pastors and wives are equipped for what God has called them to do, and that our family of churches is united in our shared gospel mission all for the glory of God alone. There will be pastors and wives coming together from 24 different nations, so what a special and strategic time this will be together.
Pray for our two church plants in Mexico, one in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, and one in Huajuapan Oaxaca asking God to provide for their needs, strengthen their church planting teams, and draw unbelievers to both churches.
Pray that God would bring peace and end the wars in Ukraine and in Israel. Pray that God would turn the tragedies of war into gospel opportunities in both nations. Please continue to pray for the Ark Church, our sister church in Dnipro, Ukraine, asking God to protect them, and to use them to meet practical needs, and to offer gospel hope to people impacted by the conflict in Ukraine.
Pray that God would continue to provide financially for Sovereign Grace Churches so that we can fund the gospel opportunities He is giving us throughout the world.
… Thank you so much for praying with us in these things. He’s ready to bend His ear towards us even now.