Notes for Final on Prayer.pdf

Missions Emergency/Finishing the Take 1. What is the number of people groups (Joshua Project)? a. 17,260 2. What is the number of unreached people groups (Joshua Project)? a. 7,219 3. What is the number of frontier people groups? a. 4,834 4. What is a people group?...

Missions Emergency/Finishing the Take 1. What is the number of people groups (Joshua Project)? a. 17,260 2. What is the number of unreached people groups (Joshua Project)? a. 7,219 3. What is the number of frontier people groups? a. 4,834 4. What is a people group? a. Self-identity ethnolinguistic group - ex. Customs, name, family, and history 5. What is a reached people group? a. It is enough existing believers who can finish the Great Commission 6. What is a frontier people group? a. A group that has no chance to hear about Jesus from their own people 7. What is the size of the 36 largest frontier unreached people groups in the world? a..9 billion/917,240,000 b. 36% or ⅛ of the world population 8. What is the number of Baptist churches? a. 13, 719 9. What percentage of the world has not heard the gospel? a. 41.8% 10. What is the number of languages? a. 7396 11. What is the number of languages that have the full Bible, and NT? a. 20,482 12. What is the number of languages that need translation work? a. 985 13. What are 3 faith-filled assumptions of world missions? a. Assume Great Commission b. Assume Open Doors c. Assume Multiplication Quotes “This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!” -Keith Green “I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond.” -Isobel Kuhn “What is needed in every people group is for the Gospel to begin moving throughout the group with such compelling, life giving power that the resulting churches can themselves finish spreading the Gospel to every person.” -Ralph Winter Intercession 1. What shocks God’s heart? a. No intercession. 2. What marks His Character? a. Mercy and deliverance 3. What is an intercessor? a. Someone who identifies wholly and humbly with God and wholly and humbly with man. 4. What was Moses’ main responsibility? a. To pray 5. What was Moses’ four-fold progression of prayer in intercession? a. Pled the promises of God b. Pled the sacrifice of his own life c. Pled for the presence of God d. Pled the merciful character of God 6. What is Christ’s intercessory work? a. The manger: Christ’s identification b. The cross: Christ’s agony/suffering  c. The throne: Christ’s authority Praying Effectively for the Lost 1. What is the purpose of praying? a. To win the battle in spiritual warfare 2. What is the condition of the lost? a. Blind to the Gospel: Ephesians 2:2; 2 Corinthians 4:3-4 3. What is a stronghold? a. A mindset that is against the Word and the Will of God b. Ex. Greed, Pride, Bitterness, Religion, Lust, Fear, Control, Knowledge c. What is the number one stronghold? i. Unbelief 4. What are the 7 Weapons against spiritual warfare? a. The blood of Christ - Rev. 12:11; Col. 2:13-15 b. The name of Jesus - John 14:12-14 c. The Word of God - Eph. 6:17 d. Praise - Psalm 149:6 e. Fasting - Isaiah 58:6-7 f. Love - Rev. 12:11 g. Resist the Devil - Eph. 6:11; 1 Peter 5; James 4:7 A short history of the battlefield of earth and the deciding factor. 1. The earth is the Lord’s 2. God gave the dominion of the earth to man 3. Man, through disobedience, gave the dominion over to Satan 4. The prince of the earth is now Satan 5. The God-Man who restores earth’s dominion back to God is Jesus Christ 6. The battle between Christ and Stan was won by Christ at the Cross What is the difference between heathen prayer and victorious prayer? 1. Heathen prayer is man trying to influence a reluctant God. It is prayer seen as an effort to change God’s will 2. Victorious prayer finds God’s will and claims God’s will Concluding quotation by S. D. Gordan “Prayer is this: A man on the earth with his life in full touch with the victor, and sheer out of touch with the pretender-prince, insistently claiming that Satan shall yield before Jesus’ victory, step by step, life after life.” Symphony of Prayer 1. What is our infirmity in prayer (Romans 8:26-27)? a. Ignorance of God’s will 2. Describe the progression of a symphony of prayer a. Burden b. Faith c. Praise 3. What is the provision received in prayer? a. A promise 4. Practical considerations for corporate prayer (how not to pray in the flesh) a. Be focused b. Be brief c. Let request be voiced in prayer d. Guard against distractions e. Speak loudly enough for the size of the group f. Participate as the Holy Spirit leads g. Pray to the Father, not to the group h. Avoid instructing or making announcements i. Avoid instructing/correcting j. Beware of hopelessness and fatalism k. Expect God to hear and answer! l. Expect an actual meeting with God m. Depend on the Holy Spirit for leadership and enablement i. Romans 8:26-27 Ten strategic prayer for Gospel advance 1. Pray for God to be made known and glorified in this and every people group through the blessing of the gospel proclaimed 2. Pray for existing believers to be bold in witness 3. Pray for persons of peace who will be open doors for the rapid spread of the gospel 4. Pray for new fellowships of believers to gather as healthy churches multiply everywhere 5. Pray for national leaders who will be gifted to oversee multiplying churches 6. Pray for Bible distribution and translation projects 7. Pray for the defeat of Satanic stronghold and victory in persecution 8. Pray for laborers to go and the Word of God to spread 9. Prayer for healing and protection from sickness and disease and accident and death 10. Pray for regional completion of the Great Commission Jesus teaching on prayer in Matthew 6 1. How to avoid heathen prayer? a. Change the way you think about God 2. How to avoid hypocritical prayer? a. Pray alone 3. They key relation with God in prayer? a. Father 4. The six requests of model prayer a. Hallowed be thy name b. Thy kingdom come c. Thy will be done d. Give us this day our daily bread e. Forgive us our debts f. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil Prayer Journal - Pattern for daily prayer in order 1. Worship and Praise 2. Waiting on God 3. Confession 4. Spiritual Warfare 5. Claiming Promises 6. Intercession and petition 7. Thanksgiving 8. Meditation and discovery 9. Listening 10. Praise and Singing Psalms 2:8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.