International Women’s Day of Prayer
MARCH 2, 2024 | IGNITE YOUR PRAYER LIFE | From Adventist Women’s Ministries
The International Women’s Day of Prayer for 2024 resource packet Ignite Your Prayer Life is written by Linda Mei Lin Koh, Ed.D., recently retired director of General Conference Children’s Ministries. The packet includes her sermon “Ignite Your Prayer Life” with a children’s story, her seminar “Five Spiritual Benefits of Prayer,” and her activity, “Women of the Bible Prayer Walks.”
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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY OF PRAYER
Since 1990, the Department of Women’s Ministries at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists has promoted a special day when women have the opportunity to strengthen their spiritual bonds as they pray for and with each other. The International Women’s Day of Prayer is the first Sabbath of each March.
In past years this special day has been celebrated in a variety of ways: prayer breakfasts, fasting and prayer, consecration services, women preaching the sermons for church services and other special programs. A resource manual, with ideas and a planning guide for making this a life-changing day for women and men in the church, can be obtained from the conference Women’s Ministries director.
The International Woman’s Day of Prayer provides an opportunity for women to learn about each other and prayer for one another. It is a time to reunite with God and one another to strengthen spiritual bonds. Prayers for women everywhere create a spiritual network of empathy and understanding between Adventist women. Thousands of women (and men) gather to pray on this day. Although the essential purpose of the day is for prayer, the day can also provide women with an opportunity to strengthen their ties with other Christian women as they pray together.
Where possible some may want to expand the day of prayer to include a weekend prayer conference where participants can come to gain a deeper understanding of the need for prayer, and prayer’s significance, blessings, and meaning in their lives. Weekend prayer conferences can address topics of interest such as: the prayer of scripture, how to pray scriptural promises, how fasting can enhance our prayer life, God’s will and prayer, intercessory prayer, answered and unanswered prayer, closet prayers, and how to help our children develop a prayer life of their own.
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As I have traveled around the Texas Conference, it has been such a pleasure to meet so many of you.
If you are the Women’s Ministries leader for your local Texas Conference church and are not on my email list, please email me at WMEnglish@txsda.org so we can keep in touch.
As we see the signs that our savior JESUS is about to return, ladies, let’s roll up our sleeves and get this work done as how only GOD’S daughters of Ophir can.
Sandralee Perryman-Mars
Women’s Ministries | English Coordinator
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