#31 – ASAP Podcast March 2021

podcast – Chase the River

Affinity Update — March 2021, Let us Begin With Intercession

As we walk together toward our 2021-23 goals, it is right that we begin with our plans to mobilize a vast army of intercessors. Not only do we have frequent, repeated examples of intercessory prayer flowing from the ministry of Paul, we also have his frequent requests. Paul did not hesitate to solicit prayer from those to whom he wrote. ‘Pray also for me…’ is a consistent refrain in his letters. We are confident in our posture, and in the goals we have committed ourselves to primarily because we believe they honor God, are in line with his will for his people scattered among the nations, and because he hears our intercession and petition on their behalf.

God moves us to pray and is moved by our prayers… this is no ‘chicken or the egg’ economy, this is the synergy of life lived on mission. We believe our direction and goals are directed by the hand of God. Further, the goals we have committed to demand that we hear from the same Lord for their fulfillment. What a beautiful economy it is! Prayer is the demand of dependence upon an attentive, active and generous God. I am thankful to give my life (with you) toward goals that depend upon God to move.

ASAP 2021-23 — As an Affinity we will work together to mobilize 500,000 daily intercessors focused on the task in South Asia.

An audacious goal indeed. As much as any goal, this commitment represents the posture of our ‘old school’ Strategy Coordinator paradigm. Flowing from our own disciplines, we must think beyond ourselves. We must plan and sustain a campaign of intercession for the fields of South Asia. Such a campaign is simultaneously harvest field and harvest force stewardship. Campaigning prayer for South Asia serves both the targets of mission (harvest field) and the agents of mission (harvest force) as both benefit from mobilized intercession.

We must break our goal down. Our teams represent 350 cross-cultural workers (not to mention many hundreds of local partners). If each adult were to share one of our tools (below) with 100 people per month (think one church service) we would expose 35 thousand potential intercessors to South Asia needs monthly.

If each team member exposes 100 potential intercessors a month (one church) =’s 35,000 per month.

Below are simple tools we are asking you to campaign.

• Could you attach them to your regular newsletter?
• Who could you approach to platform the tools on their social media?
• Is there a church contact who might announce and platform the tool for a specific congregation to consider?

To join the campaign one such attempt per month is the ask.

Together we can build an army of intercession!

Nathan – Rom.15:23

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