VINEYARD MISSIONS PRAYERNET

Our purpose in intercessory prayer is to provide ongoing strategic prayer for all Vineyard missional efforts. Specific focus in prayer will be for our missionaries, church partnerships and their leaders, as well as the targeted people groups worldwide. Click here to submit a prayer need.

PRAISE REPORTS

 

January/February 2008

  • Costa Rica: An Occasion to Celebrate. January 31st through February 2nd marked a special time at the annual gathering of Vineyard leaders across Costa Rica. Many national Vineyard leaders from the United States and Latin America joined with the Vineyard leaders in Costa Rica to commemorate and celebrate the first “official” meeting of AVC Costa Rica. The presence of God orchestrated a defining moment for Costa Rica through worship, the word, and the fellowship of God's people. There was a collective sense that God ordained and consecrated this time to recognize, bless and release Vineyard Costa Rica into God's purpose for her as an Association of Vineyard Churches.
  • God Intercepted Winter's Destructive Plans in Central Asia.  The winter of 2008 will be remembered as one of the harshest on record. None of the countries in this region were prepared to deal with winter conditions of this magnitude. In late January an e-mail highlighted how grave the situation had become: “Our teams were literally seeing their neighbors and friends freezing to death ... people who they loved and shared Christ with!" Their prayer request was urgently simple: "Pray for a miracle...for God to be merciful...for God to bring an end to the freezing temperatures", and "...for Him to bring a solution to the people, so they can have heat." People prayed, heaters were purchased and sent to workers who in turn shared them with neighbors and friends. Before February's end the sun returned. The author of Joshua marvels of a similar climate/nature related miracle (Joshua 10: 12-14]. He exclaimed that 'there had never been a day before or since, that God listened to a human voice and acted so grandly on by half of his people!' Many are grateful to think that perhaps the the Winter of 2008 in Central Asia will be remembered as a similar time; when God listened to a human voice and acted grandly on behalf of His people! May it be so!

November 2007

  • La Viña leaders gather for the first time in Bolivia. One leader reported: “The gathering was considered a huge success. The three principal cities of Bolivia were represented. Each of us left encouraged, empowered, more closely knit together, and determined to follow God’s guidance, to strengthen and grow our four small churches into the church-planting movement we long to see. God really showed up to make this a very meaningful time. Each person had something unique to share with the others. It was a great demonstration of how present Jesus is when just a few are gathered together in His name. 

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When we praise the Lord for answers to our prayers, of course we are encouraged, but more importantly, praise diminishes the power of the enemy and secures ground for the Kingdom of God. This allows for the possibility of progress and a place for God to continue to work. (Matthew 21:13-16; Psalm 8:2)
Feedback is strategic in allowing our prayer teams to know how to pray specifically or change the way they are praying as needed.

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Vineyard Missions PrayerNet Team (VPNet Team)/Intercessory Partners


Individuals or groups who wish to participate in this intercessory prayer network must qualify and apply for Membership. Once confirmed, you will be added to the Vineyard Missions PrayerNet team. The Intercessory Partners will communicate via Email.

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Vineyard Values for Intercession

  1. God's Glory. We are seeking the elevation of God’s reputation and magnificence; and we aim to resist anything that detracts from it. Conversely, excessive focus on evil powers, principalities, stratospheric strategies of prayer, praying with hidden or personal agendas, or seeking personal gain or recognition - all these can undermine our needed focus on God’s glory and dependency on God’s power.
  2. Holy Spirit as Helper and Scripture as Plumbline. Our highest aim in prayer is for God to pray His prayers through us. This can only happen by means of the Holy Spirit guiding and empowering our prayer (Rom. 8:26-27; Eph. 6:18). We discern the source and significance of the spiritual influence that guides us by means of the normal-language interpretation of Scripture (the Old and New Testaments of the Christian Bible), which is our plumbline of Truth. Consequently, the Spirit-wielded Word becomes our offensive weapon in advancing God’s Kingdom amidst opposition from spiritual wickedness (Eph. 6:17).
  3. Genuineness and Simplicity. We want our hearts, prayers, relationships, and ministry marked by genuineness and simplicity to the core. We seek to be naturally supernatural. We should resist the air of unnatural spirituality like we find with religiously affected language. Pretentiousness, presumption, religious externalism, and judgmentalism are offensive to God and should be to us, as well. Our prayers should be simple and consistent with the truths and promises of God’s Word (Matt. 6:7-13, 5:37).
  4. Humility. To be pleasing to God, our prayers should be drenched in humility (1 Pet. 5:5; Ps. 51:17; Isa. 57:15). They should be characterized by poverty of spirit, absolute dependence on God, and emptiness of self. This means we often learn to wait on God rather than fill the air with words, which will result in asserting our agendas and self-will.
  5. Unity. There is great power in agreement before God in prayer – with Him and each other (Matt. 18:19; Acts 1:14; 4:24ff; Rom. 15:5-6). This is reflected in our loyalty to God, to the leaders God has placed over us, and to each other (Heb. 13:17; Eph. 4:3). Moreover, our prayers should reflect concern for the whole church, not just the cause of certain individuals or groups within the church. We must avoid elitism.
  6. Expectancy. We wait on God with the expectation that He will act. We anticipate God’s intervention in the affairs of people (Heb. 11:6; Ps. 37:4-7). Faith is God’s gift, not our work. Therefore, we humbly wait on God and call out to God. He will give us the faith to trust Him for the great things He wants to accomplish (Isa. 64:4, 65:24, I Cor. 12:7, 9-10; 1 John. 5:14-15).
  7. Perseverance. We must persist with God in prayer. Against any discouragement or opposition until we either receive from God what we request or are released from that burden of prayer. We must persist until God redirects us, stretches us, or grants our request (Lk.11:5-13, esp. vv. 9-10; 18:1-8; 2 Cor. 12:7-10; Acts 16:6-10; 21:3-4, 10-14).