Things To Pray For In November
In a recent ‘Sovereign Grace Churches Fourth Quarter 2024 Prayer Requests’ email from Mark Prater, the Executive Director of Sovereign Grace Churches, he writes the following:
‘In his commentary on the book of Judges, Dale Ralph Davis writes this about prayer, “Yahweh’s hearing is the most crucial matter for all prayer…When God listens to our voice, we must never respond with a yawn. We will trivialize prayer whenever we forget the repeated miracle it involves, the gracious condescension of the King of glory, who stoops down to listen to our verbs and nouns, our adverbs and questions, our groans and tears.”
What an amazing, humbling truth that we must never take for granted. God listens! In gracious condescension, He stoops down and listens to our prayers. May that “repeated miracle” fuel our desire to pray for our shared mission, and for one another in Sovereign Grace.’
With that in mind, here are some ways you can be praying for us in the month ahead…
Please pray for the Sovereign Grace Churches Pastors Conference, November 5-7th, 2004, in Orlando, USA 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.
Please pray for the annual Sovereign Grace Churches Council of Elders meeting, on November 4th, in Orlando, asking God to give our pastors wisdom to make decisions that strengthen our mission, foster our unity, and that best serve our churches. Please also pray for the various interest meetings at the Pastors Conference: Evangelism Interest Meeting, Small Towns Initiative Info Meeting, Pastors College & Pastoral Ministry Interest Meeting, and Church Planting Interest Meeting. That faith would be stirred and further plans for partnering together in these ways can be fostered.
Please pray for Pat Tedeschi, currently a pastor at Greentree Church in Egg Harbor Township, NJ, USA who will be moving to London in early 2025 to lead Oasis International Church into partnership with Sovereign Grace. Pray that God would provide visas, housing, etc. for Pat and Dana, and ask God to give Pat wisdom and help to lead Oasis Church to continue their gospel mission in London.
Please pray for the Philippines Pastors Institute, which started another academic year in September, looking to theologically equip 14 students. It’s the hope that through this PPI, Sovereign Grace Churches Philippines, and the Mindanao Region specifically, will continue to be faithful in gospel ministry for generations to come.
Please pray that God would continue to provide financially for Sovereign Grace Churches so that we can fund the many gospel opportunities that He is giving us around the world.
… As we pray, let us continue to be amazed that God listens! Thanks for joining us in this.