Intensive Prayer Mobilisation for 2024 Global Gathering

While more than 1,000 receive the Streams of Prayer, 54 others have signed up to pray daily for the event. Another six are on site interceding. 

Photo: Jennifer Pillinger

JOHANNESBURG, 30 October — In the lead-up to the 2024 Global Gathering, a powerful wave of prayer has been sweeping across the globe. The event, themed ‘Growing Together’, has seen an incredible mobilisation of prayer warriors who have been interceding for every aspect. They have been praying for practical things like travel and visa issues, and for the spiritual impact of the event. 

‘We don’t just want a five-day good time with God in South Africa — we want this to set the tone for the direction the Alliance will go in the future,’ said Jo Johnson, Wycliffe Global Alliance’s Consultant for Prayer Advocacy. 

 ‘We want this to change us, such that everyone in the Alliance organisations is impacted by what happens here.’ 

The importance of prayer backup for this event cannot be overstated, Jo says, adding that it is only through prayer that the foundation for such a transformative experience can be laid. 

“We are doing a spiritual work,’ she said. ‘This is not a business meeting. This is a gathering of all the Alliance organisations to hear what God wants to say to us.’ 

‘Clearly, the enemy (Satan) doesn’t want us to hear from God, he doesn’t want us to meet together, he doesn’t want us to encounter God’s presence, and so he will put roadblocks in the way of people coming, he will put roadblocks in the way of such an event — and prayer is the thing that brings victory.’ 

While more than 1,000 people receive the weekly Streams of Prayer emails that now focus on this event, scores of others have signed up to pray daily. 

‘We have a prayer team of six people on-site and a team of 54 people around the globe who have committed to praying’, Jo adds.

For six weeks now, they have received specific prayer requests. And they will receive daily prayer updates for the rest of the conference. 

‘We have had some amazing answers to prayers,’ Jo says. ‘This week, we were short of about 15 visas and now, we have all of them except four.’ 

Although already in Johannesburg, an entire group of participants would have been linguistically cut off from the conference as there were issues with interpretation equipment, but God answered and everything is now set.  

Among the tangible answers to prayer, two delegates who arrived in Johannesburg and were asked to return home have finally been admitted to South Africa following a series of prayers. 

Story: Isaac Forchie