This is a God Call to a life-giving and life-changing adventure of faith that will reap eternal reward!

God’s labourers are mighty in prayer. Through prayer they plow the ground, prepare and water the soil for sowing seed, and bring in the harvest. The past, present and future of God’s harvest of souls fully depends on workers who pray.  Our heavenly Father has chosen to collaborate with us to manage His harvest through prayer!

Let’s agree right up front on what we mean when we talk about prayer. Usually we think of prayer as talking to God, presenting our requests to Him, asking Him to bless what we’re doing and perhaps praising Him. We look at prayer from a different perspective.

We believe prayer is the key to our faith and spiritual walk and the faith adventures that ensue. Nothing can take its place. If you have needs, they take prayer. If you want direction for your life, it takes prayer. If you want your loved ones, friends and neighbors to come to know God, it takes prayer. If you want to see circumstances change, it takes prayer. Whatever you need in life, it takes prayer.

What is prayerand how do you get answers to prayer?

Prayer is asking God what He wants, listening to what He says, and obeying what He tells you to do. Prayer is speaking God’s will and His words over circumstances and people in your life until the enemy’s assignments against them are broken. God’s words whispered, spoken or shouted in prayer win victories, build defenses, smash strongholds and break through enemy lines. Getting prayers answered is BREAKTHROUGH!

Bringing in the harvest

Prayer releases God’s mighty power to change the course of people’s lives and call more laborers into the fields. He intends that we work together with Him and with each other for His greater purpose. According to His design, the way laborers come together through His Word and through prayer ultimately affects the harvest. In John 4:35 Jesus tells us to open our eyes, “…and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.” And, consider the prayer Jesus asked us to pray:

“Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field” (Matthew 9:38 NIV).

I pray you will sense the urgency of this Scripture and recognize prayer as a high and mighty calling with the revolutionary power to change the course of lives, cities and nations.

A two-fold blessing awaits you on this journey. Together with others you can help fulfill God’s heart for the harvest, and as you do, you will be changed in the process. You will enjoy the satisfaction of knowing that you’re fulfilling God’s will and making a significant contribution to God’s Kingdom. Just mark Jesus’ words:

“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: it will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it” (Isaiah 55:9-11, NIV).

Get ready!  Answering the call to prayer will be more than you can imagine!

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A Leader’s Guide for Breakthrough! A Faith Adventure In Prayer

The purpose of this Leaders Guide:

1. To guide you how to maximize and teach the book, Breakthrough! A Faith Adventure in Prayer with practical applications and interaction for a ten week study.
2. To familiarize you with the website www.breakthroughprayer.com and extra resources.
3. To train you to know how to define, hone and unfold God’s call to individual hearts and groups for the sake of impacting their domains of influence.
4. To equip you to mobilize, train and equip for action in prayer and evangelism resulting in one or more ongoing weekly prayer groups for Spirit-led breakthroughs in your city/community.
5. To support various methods of study including personal, weekly, a weekend retreat/conference, or sermon series.

Accompanying Resources for A Leader’s Guide for Breakthrough! A Faith Adventure In Prayer:

Week #1 Getting Started

Week #4 Crowd Noise, Word Of God Speak

Week #5 Current FACTS Devotional & Verses

Week #10  You Are Holy God* and  Revival*

Extra HOW TO Resources

Do you desperately want to see your prayers answered?

When we desperately want God’s answer, we focus all our energy on receiving it. It is this drive, says E.M. Bounds, this “…singleness of desire, this definite yearning that counts in prayer and drives it directly to the center of supply. This is the basis of prayer that expects an answer. It is that strong, inward desire that has entered the spiritual appetite and demands to be satisfied.”

Prayer is a call to transform circumstances, people’s lives, their cities and their nations for their good and God’s glory.

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled” (Matthew 5:6, NIV).

“That’s when men and women began praying and worshiping in the name of God” (Genesis 4:26, MSG).

Your desire and desperate felt need is part of God’s “equation” or invitation for you to develop your prayer life.

“Without desire, there is no burden of the soul, no vision, and no glow of faith. There is no strong pressure, no holding on to God with a despairing grasp…. God draws very close to the praying soul. To know God, and live for God – these form the objective of all true praying… So, to those who pray like this, the Bible becomes a new discovery, and Christ a new Savior by the light and revelation gained through your prayers” (E. M. Bounds, The Necessity of Prayer, ch. 4).

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God’s Idea for Breakthrough in Your Sphere of Influence

The Need for Prayer

YOU Can Be An Agent of Change

At Breakthrough Prayer Ministry we’ve been on a journey of listening obedience with God. The vision, mission and mandate of Breakthrough Prayer Ministry and training materials are the result of our faith adventure to discover how a city-wide evangelistic prayer movement can be implemented and how the Bride can purified to be prepared and ready for Christ’s return.

If prayer is neglected, human effort is the only thing that will receive credit. I’d rather be involved where God’s Spirit is  is moving! How about you?

“Then the Lord said, ’You feel sorry about the plant, though you did nothing to put it there. It came quickly and died quickly. But Nineveh has more than 120,000 people living in spiritual darkness, not to mention all the animals. Shouldn’t I feel sorry for such a great city?’” (Jonah 4:10, 11:9, NLT).

Through this ministry we have seen and experienced God’s training personally. We have watched God equip thousands to exchange their cares for His “cares” (His plans and purposes) using the simple strategies of this ministry. Many testify how these concepts have brought transformation into and through their lives and how through this model they have learned to pray and live evangelistically in the power and fullness of the Holy Spirit.

What does God want to do next in your city? Change hinges on prayer. He wants to use you as a change agent. He’ll start with your own need and move you forward to make an eternal difference where you live, work and play. Regardless of your age, status, ministry calling, or place in life, that’s where God invites you to collaborate with Him in a prayer adventure of faith. If you respond to His call and become ignited and united with others in prayer for a breakthrough in people’s lives, you will be partnering with God, bearing fruit for God’s Kingdom advance of the Gospel.

Why should you do it? Because it’s His idea, and that’s the key to BREAKTHROUGH!

A Care … Concern … Crisis … Burden … Opportunity …
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God’s Call … God’s Heart … God’s Word … God’s Team …   God’s Harvest …
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God’s Idea for Breakthrough in Your Sphere of Influence

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Weekly FACTS Scripture Verses

FOCUS
2 Tim 1:9
9 Who has saved us and called us to a holy life-not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace. This grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the beginning of time. NIV

ADORATION
1 John 4:16
16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. NIV

CONFESSION
Eph 2:1-3
1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. NIV

THANKSGIVING
Matt 1:21
21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.
NIV

SUPPLICATION
1 Cor 1:18
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  NIV

Weekly FACTS Scripture Verses

FOCUS
Ephesians 2:4-7
4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. NIV

ADORATION
Romans 5:1-2
5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. NIV

CONFESSION
1 Thessalonians 4:7-8
7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. 8 Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit. NIV

THANKSGIVING
Colasians 1:11-14
11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12 giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. NIV

SUPPLICATION
2 Thessalonians 2:13
13 But we ought always to thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God chose you to be saved through the sanctifying work of the Spirit and through belief in the truth. NIV

Delightful Rest

FOCUS
Ephesians 1:3-6
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will- 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. NIV

ADORATION
Hebrews 3:1
3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess. NIV

CONFESSION
Ephesians 3:7-10
7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace 8 that he lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. 9 And he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in Christ, 10 to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment-to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.NIV

THANKSGIVING
1 Peter 2:9-10
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. NIV

SUPPLICATION
Deuteronomy 7:7-9
7 The LORD did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples. 8 But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands. NIV

Weekly FACTS Scripture Verses

FOCUS
Zeph 3:17
17 The LORD your God is with you,he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.” NIV

ADORATION
Titus 3:4-7
4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, 7 so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. NIV

CONFESSION
Titus 3:3
3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. NIV

THANKSGIVING
Zeph 3:15
15 The LORD has taken away your punishment, he has turned back your enemy. The LORD, the King of Israel, is with you;never again will you fear any harm. NIV

SUPPLICATION
Zeph 3:5
5 The LORD within her is righteous;he does no wrong. Morning by morning he dispenses his justice, and every new day he does not fail, yet the unrighteous know no shame. NIV

Weekly FACTS Scripture Verses

God of All Creation

FOCUS
Job 38:33-38
33 Do you know the laws of the heavens?
Can you set up God’sc dominion over the earth?
34 “Can you raise your voice to the clouds
and cover yourself with a flood of water?
35 Do you send the lightning bolts on their way?
Do they report to you, ‘Here we are’?
36 Who gives the ibis wisdom about the flooding of the Nile,
or gives the rooster understanding of when to crow?d
37 Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
38 when the dust becomes hard
and the clods of earth stick together? TNIV

ADORATION
Malachi 1:11
11 My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place incense and pure offerings will be brought to me, because my name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD  Almighty.TNIV

CONFESSION
Malachi 2:2
2 If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the LORD  Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me. TNIV

THANKSGIVING
Revelation 11:15
15 The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said:
“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ,
and he will reign for ever and ever.”NIV

SUPPLICATION
Revelation 15:4
4 Who will not fear you, O Lord,
and bring glory to your name?
For you alone are holy.
All nations will come
and worship before you,
for your righteous acts have been revealed.”NIV

Weekly FACTS Scripture Verses

God of All Creation

FOCUS
Job 38:4-7
4 “Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
5 Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
6 On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—
7 while the morning stars sang together
and all the angelsy shouted for joy? TNIV
ADORATION
Ps 22:27-28
27 All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the LORD ,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him,
28 for dominion belongs to the LORD
and he rules over the nations. NIV

CONFESSION
Job 42:1-6
42 Then Job replied to the LORD :
2 “I know that you can do all things;
no purpose of yours can be thwarted.
3 You asked, ‘Who is this that obscures my plans without knowledge?’
Surely I spoke of things I did not understand,
things too wonderful for me to know.
4 “You said, ‘Listen now, and I will speak;
I will question you,
and you shall answer me.’
5 My ears had heard of you
but now my eyes have seen you.
6 Therefore I despise myself
and repent in dust and ashes.”TNIV

THANKSGIVING
Job 33:4
4 The Spirit of God has made me;
the breath of the Almighty gives me life.TNIV

SUPPLICATION
Zeph 3:9-13
9 “Then will I purify the lips of the peoples,
that all of them may call on the name of the LORD
and serve him shoulder to shoulder.
10 From beyond the rivers of Cushb
my worshipers, my scattered people,
will bring me offerings.
11 On that day you will not be put to shame
for all the wrongs you have done to me,
because I will remove from this city
those who rejoice in their pride.
Never again will you be haughty
on my holy hill.
12 But I will leave within you
the meek and humble,
who trust in the name of the LORD .
13 The remnant of Israel will do no wrong;
they will speak no lies,
nor will deceit be found in their mouths.
They will eat and lie down
and no one will make them afraid.” NIV