I (Brayden)was part of a house of prayer out of Winnipeg and there was much conversation about how these intercessors (people who pray) could become intercessory missionaries and pray full time for their city, churches and country. I was told that the local Christians didn’t see them as missionaries because they were not serving in foreign countries thus would not consider supporting them financially. As a strategist, I had the idea, “What if businesses could support them financially and the intercessory missionaries prayed for the businesses. I thought this was a win-win idea. I had a little understanding of how the business world was misunderstood by the general Christian populous. I thought what a brilliant idea to bring support to the Christians in the marketplace. God spoke to me that revival is coming to the marketplace. Wherever we find revival in history, we find it preceded by prayer. Thus the importance of this great partnership.
As we developed SHIFT, I found a second reason for God to birth SHIFT. The heart or value on prayer is highly lacking in our generation. With all the distractions and forgotten understanding of the possibilities of prayer, I found two generations generally apathetic towards prayer. The new generation of under 30s has a desire awakened by the Spirit to pray, however they have yet to rediscover its power and purpose. SHIFT exists to reinvigorate the body of Christ to prayer and its value. Since our culture has dictated our value comes from currency, we had to start there. Set a currency value to the invaluable and create an accountability structure that can only function neutrally through currency. Other modes tend to be shame-based. We have found through our development, how de-valued prayer is to the body of Christ, fortunately this is changing. Businesses are setting the stage and standing up for the value of prayer and for the coming generation to grow in it.
The reasons you might consider supporting SHIFT Global Operations are these: By partnering with SHIFT, you are supporting missionaries in other countries such as Thailand and North Africa. We have intercessors that are missionaries in these countries as well as intercessory missionaries who serve in Canada and The United States. By partnering with SHIFT, you help foster a praying generation as they learn through the programs in SHIFT College. Students’ tuition is paid by scholarships, which are made through partnerships with businesses. By partnering with SHIFT, you are helping to transform culture in the area of marriage. Marriage is a major foundation stone for our economy and nation. We have created strategic counter-measures to strengthen the marriage foundation through www.yourlegendarymarriage.com. By partnering with SHIFT, you support the initiative of raising up 24-7 cities of prayer across Canada, a resource site to encourage Christians to pray and attend prayer meetings. By partnering with SHIFT, you support a missions network aimed at modeling the Gospel of the Kingdom to Japan.
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