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Sometimes we can struggle to remember God’s instruction for us to be involved in his mission to the world through prayer. Maybe our prayers for missionary friends have become stale or maybe we’ve simply forgotten that praying for the world should be our priority. However we feel we’re doing with praying for the world this devotional booklet will warm our hearts and inspire our prayers with great truths from God’s Word.

These 30 devotions are authored by experienced Bible teachers and mission workers J. Oswald Sanders, James O. Fraser, and Will Bruce and daily reflections are written by J. Hudson Taylor. Their first-hand experience of missionary work helps them to write with infectious passion and energy. Why not keep this booklet with your Bible for when you need encouragement and motivation to help you to pray for God’s kingdom to come across the globe.

Title

Praying for the World: Understanding God's Heart for the Nations
Author(s)

J Hudson Taylor, J Oswald Sanders, James Fraser and Will Bruce
ISBN

9781912373048
Format

eBook
Publisher

10Publishing
Topic

Prayer
Audience

Adults
Pages

106
Published

01/01/2018

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J Hudson Taylor

James Hudson Taylor (21 May 1832 – 3 June 1905), was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China, and founder of the China Inland Mission (CIM) (now OMF International). Taylor spent 51 years in China. The society that he began was responsible for bringing over 800 missionaries to the country who began 125 schools and directly resulted in 18,000 Christian conversions, as well as the establishment of more than 300 stations of work with more than 500 local helpers in all eighteen provinces.

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J Oswald Sanders

J Oswald Sanders (1902-1992) was a Christian leader for nearly seventy years and authored more than forty books on the Christian life including The Incomparable Christ, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Leadership, and Spiritual Maturity. He left a promising law practice in his native New Zealand to serve as an instructor and administrator at the Bible College of New Zealand. Dr. Sanders later became general director of the China Inland Mission (now the Overseas Missionary Fellowship), and was instrumental in beginning many new missions projects throughout East Asia.

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James Fraser

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Will Bruce

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Praying for the World: Understanding God's Heart for the Nations

This brief book (of 106 pages) is, in its simplicity and directness, a profound exposition on the subject of prayer. The title and subtitle (Understanding God’s heart for the nations) is somewhat ambiguous until one gets into the real intention of the book which appears to be an expansion of Dr Bruce’s earlier work, ‘World Prayer’. Most Christians of any length of experience would consider that they have a good understanding of the topic of prayer and probably have many good books on the subject. Equally, such Christians probably have a keen passion for souls, the support of missionaries and an awareness of those nations where persecution is rife. BUT this book goes much further than anything that I have previously studied. The book is a careful compilation of extracts from the writings of Hudson Taylor, Oswald Sanders, James Fraser and Will Bruce – All spiritual stalwarts of OMF. These four men reveal a faith forged in the furnaces of affliction, the school of hard knocks, the city of frustration and the university of severe hardship. They know, first hand, what they have written about. In three sections of a total of 60 short chapters (one a day) and over 150 subsections, we are given a series of very practical home-truths about prayer. A few brief extracts must suffice: ‘Self-centredness dies hard.’ ‘Without a prayer-cultivated relationship with God we are liable to be doing our own work in our own way and asking God to bless.’ ‘If prayer is meagre it is because it is supplemental and not fundamental.’ ‘Prayer is not pious day-dreaming; it is spiritual warfare.’ Finally, an extract from Dr Will Bruce: [Rather than] ‘waiting for crisis problems to develop which result in panic praying for others [we should] pray Spirit-led, thoughtful, caring prayers before the problems overwhelm them... We need to engage in major battles, not just minor skirmishes... We need to pray both defensively and offensively.’ This is a very simple book to read but its messages are both profound and very practical. Every Christian should have a copy for regular reference!

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