Prayer As Missions | Triangle Prayer Room

We want to talk about 3 different aspects of prayer and worship and how it pertains to missions:

1. What does it mean to be an intercessory missionary or a prayer missionary?

2. Biblical examples of how prayer and worship pertains to world missions.

2. How prayer contributes to the great commission.

1. What is an intercessory missionary?

One who does the work of the kingdom from the place of prayer and worship, while embracing a missionary lifestyle and focus. Here at Triangle Prayer Room we have given our lives as intercessory missionaries to the place of prayer, fasting, and worship. We live our lives before the throne of God in the place of intercession unto seeing God move in hearts, cities, and nations. We see many examples in the Bible that show us how world missions is connected to prayer and worship.

Aren’t all believers called to prayer?

Yes! We all have access to the Father to go before Him in prayer. But as we see in the Old Testament some were set apart specifically for service unto the Lord to minister to Him day and night. David setup Levites whose primary jobs were to minister before the Lord and that their portion was the Lord (Numbers 18:20).

We as intercessory missionaries see ourselves as modern day Levites who feel called to minister before Him as our life calling. Since we are under the new covenant anyone can now come close and we provide an environment for others to join us in learning how to minister to the Lord.

2. Biblical Examples

Prayer:

One example many of us may know is Luke 10:2, we are called to pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into the harvest. God does nothing outside of the place of prayer, He lives to make intercession and to partner with us in it.

A great example where many were saved during a prayer meeting was the New York City noon day prayer meeting of 1857.

"Suddenly 6, 20, or 30 coming to pray became hundreds. The Fulton Street Prayer Meetings adopted a daily schedule, using multiple rooms to accommodate the crowds. Soon other churches opened for similar daytime gatherings. By spring an estimated 10,000 people were assembling in at least 20 churches and YMCAs across New York.

As word of the success in New York spread, the Fulton Street concept was adopted in other cities, especially after it began to receive extensive newspaper coverage. Major cities with Fulton Street style prayer meetings included Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Louisville, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Nashville, Mobile, New Orleans, and Charleston.

The common understanding by church leaders in the period just prior to the revival was that church attendance and interest in religion had been in decline since the thirties. In response to the new revival, however, religious interest and church attendance saw dramatic increases. Kathryn Teresa Long calculates that from 1856 to 1859, 474,000 new members joined the major protestant denominations, including 250,365 Methodists, 122,984 Regular Baptists, 52,971 Presbyterians, 20,071 Episcopalians, and 27,840 Congregationalists. Long’s figures do not include new converts who joined independent churches and other denominations, nor do they include previously nominal members who found or strengthened their faith during this period. Other writers have suggested that between 500,000 and 1,000,000 people came to faith during the revival."

Worship:

Another example from the place of worship and how missions is connected to worship we see in Psalm 22:27, “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the world, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.”

3. How prayer contributes to the great commission.

As Triangle Prayer Room, we understand that the great commission is a vital command given by Jesus. Matthew 28 Jesus tells us, “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father son and the Holy spirit.”

We as a Prayer Room want to serve all aspects of this commission given. Here are a few ways that we contribute:

First, we want to “go”, to send out laborers by covering them and praying for them.

We want to provide a place where those being sent out can be trained in the place of prayer and intercession loving God by having a prayer life and gaining a heart for those they are being sent to.

We also see in Bible verse that God calls us to pray for laborers to be sent forth into the harvest. Prayer is an integral part of those laborers being sent forth.

Second, we want to “make disciples” by serving the local and international church in the place of discipleship.

As the gospel goes forth, we want to provide a place where new believers can come and receive discipleship, specifically in the place of prayer and intercession through biblical teaching and worship.

Lastly, we want to pray for the lost to get saved. We want to stand before God with people groups, names, family, members, etc.

We do this by offering a time of corporate intercession in the last half hour of our worship with the word and prophetic sets. We also have a time of praying for the lost every time we do the family prayer and worship circle. In that circle we call out names together and sing songs over the lost.

Testimonies from Triangle Prayer Room.