I used to worship soccer. That’s dumb. Worshipping soccer is as foolish as worshipping a scarecrow in a cucumber field. I’ve been getting fairly excited about the 2010 World Cup. Almost too excited! To help keep things in perspective I make it my aim to pray for both countries at half-time of each game I watch. The World Cup is an opportunity to learn about 32 different countries and work out how to best pray for them.
If you’re a Christian. Here’s some ideas for prayer during the World Cup
- At half time. Pray for both teams. Don’t pray for one team to win, pray for stuff that matters in the big picture of eternity.
- If you’re on twitter use this hashtag #Praying4WorldCup to share what you’re praying and encourage others to pray with you.
- Spend some time on Wikipedia learning about the countries
- I’m currently preparing a very brief guide with one thing to pray for each team. I’ll post it here when it’s finished. EDIT: It might take a bit long, so maybe not.
- If you have Operation World, keep it near the TV
- Check out The Joshua Project for stats on unreached people groups in the world.
- If you know missionaries or some of the needs in any of the countries, share them in the comments below.
- EDIT: New idea – check out the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students website www.ifesworld.org
GROUP A: France | Mexico | South Africa | Uruguay
GROUP B: Argentina | Greece | Nigeria | Korea Republic
GROUP C: England | Algeria | Slovenia | United States
GROUP D: Germany | Australia | Serbia | Ghana
GROUP E: Netherlands | Denmark | Japan | Cameroon
GROUP F: Italy | Paraguay | New Zealand | Slovakia
GROUP G: Brazil | Korea DPR | Côte d’Ivoire | Portugal
GROUP H: Spain | Switzerland | Honduras | Chile
Check out the Latest #Praying4WorldCup tweets:
Awesome idea!
Great ideas! Might pass them onto the person service-leading at church this Sunday to suggest from the front!
good idea nath.
let me know how it goes.
It is unbelievable that France lost. Could that have been quicker. I just believed that they had a solid opportunity to do well in this years world cup. I guess I will have to wait. Maybe its time to jump on the Argentina bandwagon. Looks like Demichelis has already scored. Go Argentina. To turn around my day that was ruined by France, I have been listening to some funny jokes.. This one made me feel a little better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3j7uSbccSc
paul the octopus is absolutely the strongest psychic :-)