Prayer Requests and Prayer Points

Here are prayer requests and prayer prompts to help you with your prayer. You may want to bookmark this page so when you do pray, you can reach it easily. Also, please share ISM related prayer requests by clicking “add prayer request.” All prayers are screened by the prayer team so it won’t show immediately but hopefully it will show less than a couple of hours after your submission. Also, let people know you are praying for them by clicking on the “Pray” button. Thanks all!

  • Praise God that He brought Daniel & Kari McGhee to the NYC team. Pray for Daniel as he learns the ropes of leading this team/ministry, and that God supplies the remaining % of their financial need in a miraculous and timely way.
  • Father, Giver of every good gifting and every chosen gift, thank you for the family that ISI has been, and may we continue to be. Thank you for those rich in experience and wisdom, and for their patience and perseverance; may their number increase.. Thank you for our HQ staff, how they inspire and empower the rest of us. Show your grace and love to them and their families. Thank you for those of any age who are rich in youthful perspective and energy; and give us more of them. Reveal yourself, your reign and your will. Give us the faith, grace, and power to bring you into all our relationships, and especially the most challenging ones. We love you forever, truly.
  • Pray for Soha- Iranian friend. Her Mom is badly ill in hospital and may die. Pray for a miracle in Jesus' name so they might believe
  • Lord, I need your wisdom in how you choose to shape the students and returnees I meet with into disciple-makers. I pray you will make clear to each of them how you are working in and through them for the encouragement of others.
  • Lord, we ask your wisdom and provision to create an ISI internship for students of Denver Seminary. Thank you for a possible opening there.
  • Lord, we need young staff who would be drawn to undergrad internationals in Colorado—in Greeley, but also in Fort Collins, Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Alamosa, Gunnison, Grand Junction, and Durango. Give us women anointed to disciple women and men anointed to disciple men.
  • Lord, we ask you to open a position for G where she can thrive in her walk with you. She desires a faculty position, but might be open to ISI staff. Bring into her life other who will strengthen her for the journey ahead. Thank you for making yourself known to her.
  • Savior, thank you for bringing our Muslim friend B to our Bible study. Keep bringing your word to his mind. Draw him through our friendships and and through the presence of your Spirit in each of them.
  • Lord, give my Chinese friend C a hunger and thirst for you and your word. Make it compelling for his unbelieving wife. Turn them into bearers of your truth and grace for others.
  • A little over a year ago a doctorate student from Nigeria requested us to pray that she would complete her degree. Praise the Lord this summer she finished her work and presentations and earned her doctorates degree. She is thankful, and I am too, for your prayers. Lee
  • Please pray for a doctorate student named John who will need surgery at the end of the month to repair a shoulder joint issue. He is a MK and TCK who grew up in Africa and once he gets his doctorates degree wants to return to Africa. Lee
  • Please pray for the churches that have been connected to our ISI ministry. They have been facing many trials like leaders with health issues, vacancies in the churches leadership teams and demographic shifts. Similar to some of the challenges ISI is dealing with. Lee
  • Praise! 8 people including 4 international scholars/ friends have signed up for disciple making movement training (DMM). One of these friends is a returnee visiting from China “S”. Her son was hit by a car Weds. the very day training began. Healing of broken leg, surgery next week, and no after effects of concussion. God to use this to draw son to Jesus. What the enemy desires for evil, God will use for good.
  • I covet your prayers for my sister‘s family and my aunt who both lost their homes in the Eaton fire in Altadena. My family is grieving with them in this devastation. Please pray that God would be their source of strength and encouragement as they face a long road ahead.
  • Pray for Afghan students and that they will understand and drawn by the marvelous grace of Jesus.