BREAKTHROUGH PRAYER STRATEGY

What is Breakthrough Prayer Strategy?

Breakthrough is the prayer strategy of Naya Jeevan ministry. Our goal is to raise up prayer laborers to intercede for South Asia (including the worldwide South Asian diaspora) and for Naya Jeevan as a ministry working among South Asians.

Why the name Breakthrough?

The dictionary defines “breakthrough” as a decisive victory after a period of struggle. In Luke 18 Jesus teaches the parable of the persistent widow that illustrates this concept. Although the word “breakthrough” is not used in this passage, the idea is definitely there. The widow persisted through a period of struggle until she got her decisive victory – justice in her case – and this is our model of prayer.

Why focus on South Asia?

Nearly HALF of the world’s remaining Unreached People Groups (2,329 groups) live in this region of seven countries, comprising 23% of the world’s population. 15.5 million Indians have moved abroad, the world’s largest diaspora population. This figure would double if you count second and third generation children of migrants. Sadly, South Asians abroad remain almost as unreached as they are in their home countries. They are still waiting to hear the Good News of Jesus for the FIRST time! More encouraging is the fact that most South Asians have no objection to Jesus and welcome prayer in the name of Jesus. Many precious people trust Jesus as they experience His power and love exhibited through the lives of praying and caring Christian friends.

Breakthrough WhatsApp Group

Join the Breakthrough Prayer WhatsApp Community to pray for missions and evangelism relating to South Asian peoples. Once you join, you’re in the Announcements group. Then you can choose from any of these other “Prayer Rooms” based on your interest:

Praying by Names

Praying for Love Your Neighbor trainers

Missionaries and Ministries

Prayercast Videos

South Asia News

Unreached People Group

Personal Requests (members can post and pray for their own requests)

Be sure to tap on the name of the group at the top of your screen in order to read what it’s all about.

Use this QR code to join:

RESOURCES

To fuel your intercession and build your prayer life, we offer the Naya Jeevan Prayer Card – This printable card can fit in most Bibles as a handy guide to praying for Naya Jeevan and South Asia throughout the year. We also feature a different unreached South Asian people group as a Prayer Focus every year. Write to nayajeevan@cru.org to request your FREE hard copies.

Recommended Prayer Resources list

A bibliography and list of the most highly recommended books, articles, and websites on prayer, drawn up by Shashi Jatiani, Breakthrough Coordinator, and Cathy Douglass, Naya Jeevan Director. Click here for the soft copy list.

Saturating Our Minds with the Word of God
When our lives are rooted in God’s Word, our prayers will be more in line with His will. Read about it here.

Here are some Bible reading plans for individuals and families.

Take the Scripture Copying Challenge for your personal edification and to enhance intercession.

A Bible Copying Challenge

STRENGTHENING YOUR PRAYER SKILLS

Intercessory prayer training
We encourage all Breakthrough Prayer Laborers – and all Christians! – to go through Strengthening Your Prayer Skills (SYPS) intercessory prayer seminar. Written by Dr. Shashidhar Jatiani, a Bible teacher and intercessor with more than 25 years’ ministry experience, SYPS will enlarge and deepen your prayer experience. The six-hour video series is enhanced by bonus features such as salvation testimonies and stories of prayer experiences by believers from various backgrounds. The manual is packed with graphics and resources; action points round out every session. We start with the basics of prayer, go deeper into the topics of intercession and spiritual warfare and end with practical tips to enliven your prayer life, and the application of prayer as an outreach tool in the South Asian context. However, SYPS is not for South Asians only! All believers will be blessed by this biblical teaching.

In order to view the video correctly and to download it, just click on the title of the video, which will open the viewing page for that video. Then, below the video, you will see the “Download” option.

Vimeo link to Strengthening Your Prayer Skills video teaching: tinyurl.com/SYPSvids

Password: SYPS

The PDF of student notes is available HERE. Please consider making a donation of any amount to help us translate SYPS in other South Asian languages. https://give.cru.org/0803950

If you share this material with others, kindly share the donation link as well!

DAY WITH THE LORD

Periodically, we encourage believers to set aside anywhere from two hours to a whole day for a special personal retreat we call “Day with the Lord.” This is a time of worship, intercession, study, and devotion beyond your normal quite time. From 2018 to 2023 we produced handbooks with ideas and resources for our Prayer Laborers to make this time meaningful. Why not choose a day several times a year and make use of these handbooks to enhance your prayer life?

WHAT DO PEOPLE SAY ABOUT BREAKTHROUGH?

Here’s a sampling of comments:

[Breakthrough] gives us an opportunity to really focus and become involved in the community and see the results. I’d say go for it! Join the group and lend your prayers. –Prayer cell participant

I thank God for Breakthrough where we pray and see God answering these prayers. –Billy, prayer cell leader

I’ve been to a lot of Christian and Biblical classes, and this (Strengthening Your Prayer Skills) was the best I’ve been to. –Bob, SYPS participant

I loved how Shashi presented the concept of prayer… It made me so excited about going in and praying and just getting personal with God! –Liji, SYPS participant

Completely liberating! It’s going to be life-changing. –Debbie, SYPS participant

It was very exciting, the speaker was very clear, and I know you’re gonna love it too! –Hyesuk, SYPS participant

[I enjoyed] praying with people from so many different places in the globe and even around the USA. –Concert of Prayer participant

Prayers were passionate and sincere, Topics were good. –Concert of Prayer participant

My time was really peaceful. Praising, worshiping, and reading the Bible. –Day with the Lord participant

I thank you all for providing the hourly plans, they were very helpful and made me to experience the presence of Holy Spirit. –Day with the Lord participant

I really needed this motivation to have more precious time with God. I love praying, but most of the time I am praying for others. Since that day I am spending a different time with Him. –Day with the Lord participant