Pray With Faith - 90 Days of Prayer & Fasting

 

Hello, good morning everybody!

Dear Village Church Planters, I Greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is your servant Pastor Douti Claude VCP Director.

This is Multiply our Word of encouragement for church planters. Since sometimes now we have been talking about the 90 days of fasting, prayers and church planting.

Many messages are given to you in this period. For this end, this morning I want to you talk about ‘‘faith’s prayer.’’ (Praying with faith). Allow me to read first of all, the passage of Hebrews 11:1-6 that says: "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the Word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible.

By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died he still speaks. By faith Enock was taken up so that he should not see death and he was not found, because God had taken him.

Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. And without faith it is impossible to please him. For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him."

Behold dear brothers this Word, let me start from the last verse. "For whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists."  Let him know that the prayer he making to God, God will answer him. I’m encouraging you with this verse to pray with faith. Have faith in you. Assurance. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for. What do we hope for ?

We hope to have many planted churches, many saved souls in Africa during these three dedicated months to God as we go before him.

Dear brothers, faith is important! The Apostle James says, that it’s useless to pray if we have doubt.

I have faith in you also church planters, we have gone through many things, we have testimonies that give strength to our faith.

I know that after this three months of prayers, we will have good results for the glory of God. You must have faith, pray with faith. Pray with commitment.

Believe that your prayers will have great effect and the name of God will be glorified.

This is Multiply, our encouragement’s podcast of everyday. Be blessed.

 

Review the Basics of Church Planting - 90 Days of Prayer & Fasting

 

Hello everybody, my name is Dean Davis and this is “Multiply,” the podcast that provides a word of encouragement for Village Church Planters.

On several occasions when I have gone to worship at church with my daughter, she will remark on the sermon, “What a great message. It was so full of the Gospel. Just the Gospel.” Both she and I love to hear a pure Gospel message telling of the saving power of Jesus Christ. It is the basic story for all Christians.

In the same way, I love to participate in basic training for church planters. I love to review the essential steps that help form an embryonic church which will grow and multiply. I am so thankful that during the month of August, church planters from all over Africa will gather in their respective VCP training centers with their trainers to review the basics of church planting.

What are the basics of church planting? They are skills described in Terms 1 and 2 of the New VCP program.

* Identify, research and map villages without churches

* Pray for the villages including prayer walking in the villages

* Look for and find persons of peace

* Share the Good News of Jesus with persons of peace and with their family and friends

* Make disciples by teaching new believers to obey the Seven Basic Commands of Christ.

These are the essential activities for church planters. When we walk by faith and practice these 5 activities of basic church planting, God meets us. He empowers us. He helps us make good connections. When we do these activities trusting in God and his great love for lost people, he fills us with love and with power.

These are the basic skills that all village church planters must learn, practice and perfect. But for many of us, these activities are very challenging. So we find other, easier activities to be involved in.

Our 90 days of prayer, fasting, and church planting are meant to change all that. First we pray. We pray to be filled with love. We pray for power to go. We pray for God to show us persons of peace and draw them to Himself. We pray for God to draw lost people to himself. As we continue in prayer, we sharpen our basic church planting skills. Then we go.

During the month of August, you, along with VCP church planters across Africa will prepare yourself for action. By prayer you will build up your faith and access the power of God to be his witnesses. By training you will strengthen your abilities in the basics of church planting. Then you will go out with church members you have identified as daughter church planters. As you go with them to villages without churches, God will meet you. He will be with you and He will make you fruitful. Remember Jesus’ promise. He said, “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last." (John 15:16).

 

This has been “Multiply,” and I’m Dean Davis asking, “Who will you share this encouraging word with today?

Mobilize Church Planters to Plant Daughter Churches - 90 Days of Prayer & Fasting

 

Hello, this is Multiply a podcast to encourage Village Church Planters and leaders. 

I am Brad Snowden and on this podcast, I want to look at one heartbeat of this 90 days of prayer & fasting. The name of this podcast is Multiply; founded by VCP to be able to reach our 2050 goal of a church in every village in Africa. 

This can only happen by multiplication. So in our prayer time part of this is to mobilize Church planters for Jesus. He gave each one of us that opportunity to get up and go. When we follow his leading it's all about mobilization and as church planter plants a church according to the four fields model he or she disciples with the passion of seeing disciples grow and then the power of multiplication comes in the passionate message of mobilizing ones to go plant daughter churches. 

If we will walk in the passionate heart that caused us to plant our church. Then others will understand and follow. In the passion of fulfill God's word through their own lives and daughter churches will be started. We pray this is the heart that will ignite many to fulfill God's plan to reach every village on this great continent. 

The scripture says With God all things are possible and he wants to use each Church planter to pass along this great gift. God has given us to see his kingdom multiply into every village. What a wonderful feeling to know that. You have been given a great privilege and responsibility to multiply his kingdom. God wants us to go and teach others to start daughter churches and experience this great blessing. This has been a word of encouragement for village church planters. 

Who will you share this with today ?

Prayer Walk - 90 Days of Prayer & Fasting - 90 Days of Prayer & Fasting

 

This is Multiply, a podcast to encourage churches, village church planters, pastors, and Christian leaders, and I am your host today, Daneille Snowden.

 

Deuteronomy 11:24 says, “Every place where on the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours…”

 

Some Anglican churches still today do prayer walks around their churches they call “beating the bonds” an act which claims the ground for God in prayer.

 

This is what we are doing, claiming this promise as God’s own child to go and pray over an area, and a people group. As He in turn, is stirring His Spirit into lives to receive the Word of the Gospel you as a church planter shall bring to them.

 

Praying first and foremost, gives us a clear heart and mind to listen closely to God’s leading and sensing His power to perform His great plan in that village and its people. It shall be for God’s high purpose to bring His Hope and Salvation to all who do not know Jesus as their Lord and Savior.

 

During this 90 Days of Prayer and Fasting we are applying this as we gather together focused on prayer for this one objective! To bring the Gospel to every village in Africa.

 

This has been Multiply; will you share this with others? You can find us on our website www.vcpencouragement.org. as well as on Facebook and YouTube.

God bless!

Pray In Large Groups, Small Groups, and Alone - 90 Days of Prayer & Fasting

 

Hello dear brothers and sisters, church planters.

I Greet you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is Multiply the podcast of encouragement. I’m Pastor Douti Claude, as you can recognize my big Voice, I am VCP Director.

I want to encourage you in this moment, while some people, with prayers are still teaching on how to find persons of peace, the seven basic command of Christ, also the four seed sewer tools.

I want to encourage you to be diligent in your prayers, group prayers. We need to pray in large group. Large group prayers include churches and training centers.

We have also Small group prayers which include prayers in houses, work places, prayers between you, your wife and your children and also personal prayers.

Prayer is very important.

The Bible says that ‘‘the effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much’’ and I want to let you understand this truth in Acts 2 :42. The Bible says here that : ‘‘they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship in breaking of bread and in prayers’’.

Behold verse 47 says : praising God and having favor with all people and the Lord added to the church Daily those who were being saved. Dear brothers and sisters this is here the proof of what prayer can do.

God added Daily members to the church. We are talking about prayers fasting and church planting especially daughters churches in our region.

And so groups prayers, both in large and small group are very important.

To finish my podcast, you will see that in Acts 12:12 when Apostle Peter was arrested and put in prison. The Bible says that prayers was made to him by the church. Prayers was made by the church for Peter for him to be released and also after the Angel intervened and Peter miraculously got out of the prison. He went directly to the house of Mary, once in that house he saw a small group of people praying for him. So the Angel of God didn’t intervened just like that. It was prayers made in houses, in churches that brought the Angel down.

I’m encouraging you to pray fervently for church planting, for what all workers are doing for their good Heath for the success of this 90 days of prayers fasting and church planting.

May God Bless You!

This is Multiply,

Shalom

Add Fasting To Your Praying - 90 Days of Prayer & Fasting

 

Hello everybody, my name is Dean Davis and this is “Multiply,” the podcast that

provides a word of encouragement for Village Church Planters.

You have been hearing a lot about the 90 Days of Prayer, Fasting, and Church

Planting that our Director, Pastor Claude, has declared for August through

October of this year. Prayer, fasting, and church planting are three God-

honoring activities that we will practice together. They are not magic. They do

not obligate God to act. But they are powerful.

First of all, by praying, fasting, and going out to plant churches in villages

without churches, we declare our utter dependence upon Almighty God. We

recognize that this is His work, not ours. He is our Leader; we are his helpers.

We are co-laborers with Christ and we are dependent upon him. We are weak,

but He is strong. So we pray. We remember the promises of God. We confess

our own weaknesses. We remember how he empowered the apostles of the

new Testament. We trust Him to empower us in the same way.

But our 90 Days of prayer, fasting, and church planting are not simply days of

praying for God’s power. They are patterned after the days, described in Acts 1

and 2, that Jesus’ disciples spent in the Upper Room before the Day of

Pentecost. First they prayed, then they were filled with the Holy Spirit, then

went out and proclaimed the wonders of God to people who had not yet

accepted the Good News. Finally, the Lord added to their number daily those

who were being saved.

So why do we add fasting to our prayers? Fasting is not magical. It does not

obligate God to work. But is it helpful? And if so, how?

Fasting is helpful. It is humbling to abstain from food for one or more days to

seek God. But we know that God meets us when we leave our pride behind and

humbly seek him. He is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Jesus expected his disciples to fast, but the primary instruction he gave about

fasting was to avoid fasting that was designed to win praise from men. We do

not fast to gain the approval of others. We fast to devote ourselves to God, to

hear his voice, and to accept his guidance in our lives.

During the 90 Days of Prayer, Fasting, and Church Planting, no one will obligate

you to fast. Fasting is a voluntary activity. But if you are new to fasting, and

you are in good health, I encourage you to give fasting a try. Seek the Lord

with your whole heart. Express your love to God with your whole self. As you

express with words your dependence upon God, show it, for a time, by seeking

God while abstaining from food. During your fast and especially after your fast,

God will meet you. He will guide you, he will empower you. And God’s

empowerment is always a wonderful thing!

This has been “Multiply,” and I’m Dean Davis asking, “Who will you share this

encouraging word with today?

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Use The Prayer Guide - 90 Days of Prayer & Fasting

 

This is Multiply, a podcast that encourages village church planters, pastors, and Christian leaders. I am your host today, Daneille Snowden.

There have been over 10,000 Village Church Planters in thirty-two countries mobilized since 2020.

We believe that God has prepared men and women of peace in all of these villages, to receive the Good News.

Our Village Church Planters are facing many different challenges as they answer the call to bring the Gospel to these remote places.

There is a need for all of us who are like-minded in this vision of church planting, to be joined together in prayer, coupled with a powerful agreement (as we pray). Thus, the Prayer Guide that has been written in detail for the 90 days of prayer titled: 90 Days of Prayer, Fasting and Church Planting Initiative,  this is a format to help us all as we pray.

As we fast and pray, we focus on each day and the prayer that is presented, notice that it has a scripture with the prayer.

I want to encourage you to pray and know that others are praying these daily prayers as well as quoting the promise scriptures at the top of the prayer guide.

Take each prayer, meditate on it, look up the verse that is with the prayer. Wait on the Lord, then simply pray this over your mission, your church planters, leaders, churches, pastors and yourself. We encourage you to do this twice a day, alone and then with your training centers when you meet, as well as your churches. Make sure to pray, meditate, and wait on the Lord to listen to Him. This should be a time when God will give you some promises, vision, and direction.

Be diligent, and stay focused for the scripture says; “Because the Sovereign LORD helps me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame” (Isaiah 50:7).” Have a complete confidence in God and declare that indeed you will not shrink back from God’s mission He has for you!

Thank you for listening today! Did you know we have a website; vcpencouragement.org? We are also on many podcast channels, and you can find us on Facebook: and YouTube called: ‘Encouragement for Village Church Planters/Multiply.’

 

This has been Multiply, thank you and God bless!