How to pray for your OM worker

Are you praying for your overseas missionary everyday?
Here's a great plan to get you started.

DAY 1: Your Worker's Relationship to God.

Do not assume your worker/s are super-spiritual.

Pray for:

• Feeding on God's Word/Prayer Life
• Filling with the Holy Spirit
• Maturity and growth in grace
• Victory over Satan and the flesh

Pray through these verses phrase by phrase, applying them to your missionary: Col 1:9-12, Eph 1:15-20, Eph 3:14-19, Phil 1: 9-11.

DAY 2: Your Worker's Physical and Emotional Life

Many live in difficult climates where various diseases are prevalent. Pray for good health, deliverance from discouragement, loneliness and depression and travelling mercies.

DAY 3: Your Worker's Family

• Husband/wife relationships
• Children - their salvation and growth in the Lord, health, education
• Close relatives at home. Missionaries are too often lost to the mission field because of family concerns
• Single workers - facing temptations and dangers alone
• Family life - that it will be an exemplary model for national Christians and the unsaved

DAY 4: Your Worker's Ability to Communicate

• Language competence requires a life-time of hard work. A superficial knowledge of the language is not sufficient for communicating deep spiritual truths, so a high degree of competence in the local language must be achieved
• Your worker must adapt culturally and identify closely with the people he is seeking to reach in order to show God's love

DAY 5: Your Worker's Ministry

• Support for witnessing, visiting, teaching, preaching, administration.
• Use the prayer letters to pray for boldness, to open doors and hearts and to be empowered by the Holy Spirit for fruitful service (John 15:16)

DAY 6: Your Worker’s Team Mates

Christian workers are usually part of a team and also work closely with national believers, especially pastors. Satan often causes havoc in this area. Pray that solid relationships in the Lord will be maintained for single and married workers

DAY 7: Your Worker's Country of Service

Pray for the country or area: political situation, government and leaders, matter of visas, freedom to extend the preaching of the Gospel throughout the whole country, and for a climate of responsiveness to the Gospel.