God’s heart is for every nation, tribe, people, and language to know Him and experience His glory.
Intercessors Arise International carries a burden to help believers pray for the nations, unreached peoples, churches, leaders, revival, spiritual awakening, and the purposes of God throughout the earth.
This page gathers prayer resources and pathways to help you pray with greater focus, faith, love, and perseverance for the nations.
✦ God’s Heart for the Nations
Prayer for the nations begins with the heart of God.
The Lord is calling His people to stand in prayer for cities, regions, people groups, missionaries, churches, and nations in need of spiritual awakening. As we pray, we partner with God’s purposes and ask Him to release His light, truth, mercy, salvation, healing, and glory throughout the earth.
Prayer for the nations is not only about global needs. It is about loving what God loves, carrying His burden, and joining Him in His redemptive purposes for every people and place.
✦ Ways to Pray for the Nations
You can pray for:
Revival and spiritual awakening
Unreached people groups
Churches, pastors, and spiritual leaders
Missionaries and mission workers
Government leaders
Cities, regions, and communities
Persecuted believers and the suffering church
Houses of prayer and prayer movements
Worship and intercession movements
Children, families, and future generations
Peace, justice, mercy, and healing in the nations
The spread of the Gospel and the harvest of souls
✦ Prayer for Unreached People Groups
Many people groups still have little or no access to the Gospel.
Use these resources to pray for unreached people groups, Bible translation, workers for the harvest, open doors for the Gospel, and spiritual breakthrough in places where the name of Jesus is not yet widely known.
Pray that God would raise up laborers, strengthen missionaries, open hearts, and reveal Jesus to every tribe, people, language, and nation.
✦ Prayer for Persecuted Believers
Many believers around the world face pressure, opposition, suffering, imprisonment, loss, or danger because of their faith in Jesus.
Pray for persecuted believers to be strengthened with courage, endurance, comfort, protection, wisdom, and hope. Pray for their families, pastors, house churches, and communities. Pray also for those who oppose them, that they would encounter the love, mercy, and truth of Jesus Christ.
These prayers can help you stand with the suffering church and remember those who are carrying the cost of following Jesus.
✦ Prayer for Revival in the Nations
God is moving in the nations, and He invites His people to pray for revival and spiritual awakening.
Pray for churches to be awakened, leaders to be strengthened, believers to return to their first love, and the Holy Spirit to move with power in cities, regions, and nations.
Ask the Lord to release repentance, worship, unity, holiness, compassion, and bold Gospel witness in this generation.
✦ Prayer for Cities and Regions
God cares about cities, communities, regions, and nations.
Pray for your city, your nation, and the regions of the world God places on your heart. Ask Him to bring His presence, righteousness, protection, healing, and salvation into every sphere of society.
Pray for families, schools, churches, leaders, neighborhoods, workplaces, and places of influence.
✦ Mediterranean Prayer Focus
Intercessors Arise has carried a long-term prayer burden for the Mediterranean region.
For many years, prayer has been lifted for the nations surrounding the Mediterranean — for revival, spiritual awakening, churches, leaders, unreached peoples, houses of prayer, worship, intercession, and the purposes of God in the region.
The Mediterranean Prayer Focus is a special prayer emphasis connected to long-term intercession, regional prayer, and the vision for houses of prayer throughout the Mediterranean.
✦ Nations House of Prayer
Nations House of Prayer Equipping Center provides practical resources for houses of prayer, worship and intercession, prayer rooms, regional prayer initiatives, and prayer for cities and nations.
This is a place to find training, tools, and encouragement for believers, churches, prayer leaders, and houses of prayer who want to grow in worship-based prayer and intercession for the nations.
✦ School of Prayer Resources
The Intercessors Arise International School of Prayer includes training and resources to help believers grow in prayer, intercession, worship, spiritual readiness, and God’s heart for the nations.
These resources can help you grow in:
Intercession for the nations
Watchman prayer
Revival prayer
Worship and prayer
House of prayer vision
Spiritual readiness
Prayer for unreached people groups
Prayer for cities and regions
✦ Begin Praying Today
Ask God to place a nation, city, people group, region, missionary, or global burden on your heart. Begin with simple, faithful prayer.
Pray for God’s presence to come, His Word to spread, His people to be strengthened, and His purposes to be fulfilled in the nations.
You can begin by praying:
Lord, give me Your heart for the nations.
Show me where You want me to pray.
Strengthen Your church around the world.
Send workers into the harvest.
Awaken the nations to Your glory.
Let Your kingdom come and Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
✦ Continue Exploring
Continue exploring prayer resources, guided prayer journeys, revival prayer, worship and intercession training, and School of Prayer pathways designed to help you grow in God’s heart for the nations.