Sovereign Grace Prayer Initiative

The following transcript was originally shared on the Mark Prater Podcast and was published on June 9, 2025 . To learn watch, listen or read the full podcast, click the button linked below.

VIDEO TRANSCRIPT

Joel Shorey: You just can't have enough prayer. You can't have enough attendance. You can't have enough humility before the Lord. And so, if we can just have set times in our schedules and in our calendar where we as leaders and as partners in the gospel are just going before the Lord.

The list of prayer bullets Mark sends out, they're big prayer bullets. These are significant things to be asking the Lord for his help on. Let's not just see them and then move quickly beyond them. Let's pause, let's stop. Let's go before the throne of grace. Ask for grace and mercy to help in time of need, and let's do it together. Let's help each other.

And one of the effects, Mark, I hope and pray - because this is the effect that hanging out with men like Tim Kerr, Philip Estrada, and Joshua Earls has that on me - is it has increased my prayerfulness the rest of the time as well. I find that to be the result of intentional prayer time is more prayerfulness the rest of my life as well.

And so I would love very much if the Lord used these times to deepen our fellowship with him, increase our communion with him, and if Sovereign Grace would become even a prayerful denomination, it would be a wonderful fruit from these times.”