40 Days of Praying - Day 16

Future Church Plants: Ask God to direct us in the coming years to the places and the people He wants us to reach.

Acts 6:7 So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.

Acts 12:24 But the word of God continued to increase and spread.

Acts 13:49 The word of the Lord spread through the whole region.

Acts 19:17-20 When this became known to the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the Lord Jesus was held in high honor. Many of those who believed now came and openly confessed their evil deeds. A number who had practiced sorcery brought their scrolls together and burned them publicly. When they calculated the value of the scrolls, the total came to fifty thousand drachmas. In this way the word of the Lord spread widely and grew in power.

My brother-in-law likes to think about and pray for the third generation. He wants to so infect his children with passion for Jesus that their children and the children that come through them are passionate for Jesus also. When we plant a church we will build in from the beginning the expectation that there will be daughter plants from them—for generations. Imagine how wonderful to see a 3^rd generation of churches worshipping God, following Jesus and helping people become disciples. May God bring it to pass.

O Lord, we pray for the churches unborn. We pray for a movement that sweeps through this region and that the name of Jesus may be held in high honor in every part of the Permian Basin, in Texas, in our nation and throughout the world. Raise up workers. Grant us vision and wisdom. Let us have a heart to sacrifice to see it happen. For Jesus’ sake, amen.

Grace.