Your Role in Reaching the Unreached?

After spending the winter working through, then facilitating the Experiencing God Bible study by Henry Blackaby, evaluating my spiritual markers, and seeking confirmation of God's will through prayer, scripture, circumstances, and others in the church, I am embarking on a new ministry as volunteer Regional Mobilizer with Team Expansion, an international church-planting mission agency. My vision is for God to ignite a fire in the bellies of churches in the Northern Kentucky area to pray for revival in our community, our nation, and our world. I will be building a collaborative network of churches which hold to the defining, uncompromised Biblical truths of the Christian faith in order to bring about an awareness of and prayer for the lost. In particular, I will focus on the 6,700 ethnic/people groups around the world who have had limited, if any, exposure to the Gospel. My long-term goal is that through prayer, God will use the local church to initiate and sustain effective church planting movements among these people.

I'm both excited and scared to death about this opportunity! This is a God sized task that only He can accomplish. I believe in His faithfulness to equip and enable me to complete what He has called me to do for His glory.

First things first... My first objective is to build a prayer band of WatchKeepers to be in regular, concerted prayer for me and for my efforts to bring prayer for revival to the forefront of our churches. Prayer ALWAYS precedes revival! Constant prayer by the saints preceded the coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost (Acts 1:14), and so it has been ever since. God has always chosen to involve His people to accomplish His will, and prayer is always the first step.

What is a WatchKeeper? In Matthew 26:38, 41 Jesus asked His disciples to keep watch with Him as He went into Gethsemane to pray. Unfortunately, they kept falling asleep. Just imagine, if they had any inkling of what was about to unfold, they would have been on their faces crying out to God.

This same scenario is happening today. God is calling out to us from His Word to watch and pray (Mt 21:13; Phil 4:6-7; Lk 18:1), yet to a large extent, the church remains asleep. Oh, if we could only imagine what the world will be like in these last days and how God wants to use His people to share the hope of Jesus to those who have never heard... If we could just catch a glimpse of God's heart for the lost and the broken-hearted, we would humble ourselves and pray and seek His face and turn from our wicked ways, then He would heal our land (2 Chron 7:14).

Prayer is a serious discipline. There is so much God wants to accomplish through the church if His people would seek Him with all their hearts (Deut 4:29, Jer 29:13). Therefore, a WatchKeeper is someone who knows first-hand the power of prayer and who feels compelled to pray regularly. A WatchKeeper takes the time to approach God no matter how busy or hectic his/her schedule may be. A WatchKeeper seeks God FIRST. A WatchKeeper is someone who really prays for you when they say they will. A WatchKeeper stands confidently before the Throne and isn't afraid to ask and believe God for the impossible. A WatchKeeper earnestly seeks God's will in every matter, even when God's will is costly or contrary to human reason.

Will you be a WatchKeeper? I want to build a band of 100 or more WatchKeepers to pray for me and for this ministry to reach the unreached by engaging the local church to pray. If you want to stand with me by committing time in prayer until all have heard the Gospel, please email me at ableier@insightbb.com to let me know. I'll be sending WatchKeepers a monthly newsletter with updates on my activities and with specific prayer requests and praises. All I ask is that you commit to pray for me regularly... REALLY pray for me. I'm going to need it!

Email me at ableier@insightbb.com to confirm your commitment to pray. I would also like to pray for you. Feel free to send me your prayer requests any time, and I will lift them up to the Lord.

And this Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.
-Mat 24:14

Welcome to the front lines!