Looking for specific ways to pray for missions? This seven-day prayer list provides practical prayer points to help you make a difference on your knees.

SUNDAY
Pray that God would open the eyes and ears of the spiritually blind and deaf that our missionaries are trying to reach with the gospel.

Pray that God would raise up faithful, available, and teachable disciples who our missionaries could train and who will one day be able to train others.

Pray that God would fill our missionaries with the fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) as they minister to others.

Pray that God would make our missionaries humble servants of the church in Africa and that our missionaries would be free from pride.

Pray that God would give our missionaries wisdom as they seek more effective strategies for reaching the lost and ministering to the church.

MONDAY
Pray that the church in Africa would experience revival.

Pray that God would use our missionaries to help Africans turn away from witchcraft and tribal religions.

Pray that our missionaries and the African church would be effective witnesses to Muslims.

Pray that God would use our missionaries to give the African church a missionary burden for the many unreached people groups in Africa.

Pray that God would raise up more trained pastors for the African church to lighten the burden on our missionaries and current African pastors.

TUESDAY
Pray that God would give our missionaries good health.

Pray that God would keep our missionaries safe as they travel on the roads and in the air.
Pray that God would protect our missionaries from thieves and bandits.

Pray that God would bring peace to the many African nations that are in the midst of war and civil unrest; pray also that God would provide food for the hungry.

Pray that God would protect missionaries and Muslim converts from Muslims seeking to harm Christians.

WEDNESDAY
Pray that God would bless our missionaries with strong fellowship with other believers—both African and American.

Pray that God would enable our missionaries to learn well the language and culture of their host country.

Pray that our missionaries would speak encouraging and helpful words to their fellow missionaries and work hard at solving interpersonal conflicts.

Pray that our missionaries would be the body of Christ to one another with every part doing its proper work; pray that they might love their neighbors as themselves.

Pray that our missionaries might know the height and depth and length and breadth of the love of Christ for them.

THURSDAY
Pray that God would keep our missionaries safe from Satanic attack.

Pray that God would keep our missionaries from discouragement and from doubting the power of God.

Pray that our missionaries would put on the full armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-18) every day so that they can stand against Satan.

Pray that God would protect our single missionaries from loneliness and temptation.

Pray that our missionaries would pursue righteousness and flee from all evil.


FRIDAY
Pray that the marriages of our missionaries would be strong and an example to the Africans they are serving.

Pray that the children of our missionaries would come to know Christ at an early age and would be faithful disciples of Jesus.

Pray that the missionary children would know that they are deeply loved by their parents; pray that the children in boarding school would not miss their parents too much.

Pray that God would help our missionaries set the proper priorities in spending enough time together as a family.

Pray that God would provide the finances for each missionary family to remain on the field.

SATURDAY
Pray that our missionaries might truly come into the presence of God and worship Him on the Lord’s Day tomorrow.

Pray that our missionaries who are preaching and teaching tomorrow might lead some into the kingdom of God and others into maturity in Christ.

Pray that our missionaries might succeed at their greatest mission: to love the Lord their God with all their heart, mind, soul, and strength.

Pray that our missionaries would hunger and thirst for the Word of God and that God would satisfy their hunger as they read that Word.

Pray that the busyness of our missionaries would drive them to their knees in prayer instead of driving them to busier activity.

Pray that many would be burdened to faithfully intercede for our missionaries.