MTS provides prayer points from apprentices, trainers, churches, and ministry partners around Australia, and around the world. Please support us in prayer as we seek to multiply gospel workers through ministry apprentices.
Tuesday 28 January 2025
Our Lord God, We thank you for the many online resources you have put at our disposal. Help us to not squander those resources, but to use them wisely in order to bless our world with the good news of Jesus. Help us to be generous in sharing all of our MTS resources, so that those who want to be trained can enjoy the fruit of many labourers who have gone before. Amen.
Wednesday 29 January 2025
Dear God, Please aid and comfort the many Apprentices who have gone out into our world taking the good news of Jesus with them. Let their joys and struggles both bring glory to your name. Amen.
Thursday 30 January 2025
Lord, Help us to never forget what you did for us on that cross. We could never repay you for that enormously gracious gift. Thank you for all that you do, even when we don’t fully understand at times. Amen.
Friday 31 January 2025
Father, We ask you to be with all schools ministries as they recommence, that your name will be glorified despite the opposition that sometimes comes towards such ministries. Amen.
Saturday 1 February 2025
Father God, Thanks for the MTS G8 Apprentice conference that was held in person at Stanwell Tops in January. We pray that the training of all apprentices and trainers who attended the G8 Conference would prepare them well for the remainder of the year. Amen.
Sunday 2 February 2025
Dear God, Thank you for the success of the appeal to support two ministry apprentices in Durban, South Africa. Be with apprentice Siyanda Mbuyazi as they continue to work for Christ Church Glenwood and their local uni ministry, The Bible Talks KZN. Amen.
Monday 3 February 2025
Heavenly Father, We pray that new apprentices will adapt quickly to new patterns of ministry and that pathways for ongoing ministry will keep opening. Amen.
Tuesday 4 February 2025
Lord, Please be growing the number of regular supporters of MTS in 2025, so that we may continue and start new ministries with confidence. Amen.
Wednesday 5 February 2025
Father, We pray for those who finished their apprenticeship in 2024, that as they adjust to new ministries, life, and context, they would continue to draw on the goodness of God. Amen.
Thursday 6 February 2025
Dear God, Give the MTS Team perseverance and enable them to know your peace and rest through all the busyness of the year. Amen.
Friday 7 February 2025
Heavenly Father, Thank you for the Apprentices and Trainers who are spreading your gospel in Kids/Youth ministries. Please help every child understand what you’ve done for them and please guide them – we want them to know and love you with all their heart and mind. Amen.
Saturday 8 February 2025
Dear Lord, Thank you for MTS’ partnerships in ministry training with theological colleges and training institutions such as Christ College, Cornhill Sydney, Youthworks College, SMBC, Moore College, Ridley College, RTC and many others. Thanks for the complementary way in which MTS apprenticeships work with theological colleges to prepare men and women for a lifetime of gospel work. Amen.
Sunday 9 February 2025
Dear God, We pray that Scripture classes remain in schools. Be with the decision-makers and help them to understand and believe that your Word is crucial in our lives. Guidance from you is the best type of guidance. Amen.
Monday 10 February 2025
Heavenly Father, Be with new and returning MTS trainers as they guide their apprentices. Give them your wisdom, patience and love. May the joy that Paul had in training Timothy, be theirs as well. Amen.
Tuesday 11 February 2025
Dear Father, We thank you for AFES campus groups who are now meeting to pray, plan and prepare for the year ahead. Give campus staff great wisdom, courage and clarity as they continue to evangelise, train and engage university students all over Australia.
Wednesday 12 February 2025
Lord God, We pray for current theological students. We pray that they would seek to know Jesus to make Him better known, and may they grow in the understanding, handling and teaching of the gospel. Give them many helpful conversations that shed light on where you would have them serve you. Amen.
Thursday 13 February 2025
Father, We thank you for your servant Revd Canon Dr Rhys Bezzant. We pray that today’s commissioning of him as the 10th Principal of Ridley Theological College would be a time of great praise of your goodness and provisions. Please continue to use Rhys, and Ridley to grow your kingdom by the raising up of faithful and godly gospel workers. Amen.
Friday 14 February 2025
Dear God, On this day, as the world celebrates romantic love, help us to remember the sacrificial love you have shown us through Jesus. Please help us to point our friends and family to the love of God. Amen.
Saturday 15 February 2025
Heavenly Father, We pray for the Christian kids and youth in our churches, that they would be bold in inviting their friends to church, youth group and Scripture in school. Help them to stand firm in their faith and be a witness to their friends who don’t know you. Amen.
Sunday 16 February 2025
Lord God, We pray for all MTS apprentices, that their love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so they’re able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God. Amen.
Monday 17 February 2025
Heavenly Father, We pray for our friends at AFES and other university ministries. We pray that as they begin their O-week and Kickoff events that you would gather a great number. Please help new staff and students integrate well; Father use them to reach many who are yet to know you on university campuses all across Australia. Amen.
Tuesday 18 February 2025
Lord, Give all your people the strength and wisdom to be workers in your harvest in all places. Be growing your church throughout the world. Amen.
Wednesday 19 February 2025
Father, Please put healthy gospel ministry training on the forefront of many trainers’ hearts and move new churches to begin training MTS apprentices. Amen.
Thursday 20 February 2025
Dear Lord, We give thanks and praise you for ministry trainers in other countries. Lord, please bless these movements as they seek to train ministry apprentices. Amen.
Friday 21 February 2025
Dear God, Thank you for the G8 Committee who are meeting today to start planning the G826 Conference. Thank you that each person gives up time voluntarily to serve you on this committee. Please sustain them throughout this year and help them make the right decisions that will glorify you. We pray for many more trainers and apprentices to come along to the conference. Amen.
Saturday 22 February 2025
Lord, Thank you for your generosity to your people. We are continually amazed at how you provide for us. Our needs are always met and we are so thankful. Amen.
Sunday 23 February 2025
Father, We pray for mission organisations who help enable, equip and send your servants all over the world. Please help them to flourish and bear much fruit from their labour. Amen.
Monday 24 February 2025
Dear God, We pray for good open and transparent relationships between Apprentices and Trainers as the year progresses. Amen.
Tuesday 25 February 2025
Dear Father, Please be with the lecturers and teachers of your Word in theological colleges and institutions. Give them energy as the teaching year begins. Help them to connect well with their students, faithfully teaching them the Scriptures so that they grow in understanding, knowledge and love of You and Your Word. Amen.
Wednesday 26 February 2025
Dear Lord, Please help us all to study your Word with great expectations. We pray that we would test theories and not forget to seek you for all of our answers first. Help us to recognise biblical teaching and not be drawn in by false information. Amen.
Thursday 27 February 2025
We pray dear Lord for our country, that it will not forget its Christian heritage and turn away from you. We pray that our nation’s leaders would humbly recognise you as Lord. Amen.
Friday 28 February 2025
Lord, We pray for every Apprentice who is starting (or already has started) their theological studies. We pray they will honour you in their studies. We ask that they would not be afraid to ask hard questions and help them to digest the answers well. Thank you that they are devoting their time to learning about you. Amen.
