The MTBA Intercessory Prayer Ministry meets on the second Monday of every month at 7:00 PM. To find out where the next meeting is, view the MTBA Calendar or view schedule below. Recognizing the power of prayer as described in James 5:16: “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.” The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. The Intercessory Prayer meetings are held at various churches across the Association.
MTBA PRAYER GATHERINGS – 2024:
| DATE (third Monday night at 6:00 pm monthly) | HOST CHURCH (PRAYER GATHERING AT THIS CHURCH |
| Monday, January 15, 2024 (CANCELLED SNOW) | Saluda BC |
| Monday, January 29 (re-scheduled from January 15) | Saluda BC |
| Monday, February 19 (Presidents’ Day holiday) | Saluda BC |
| Monday, March 18 | to be determined (centrally located church) |
| Monday, April 15 | Saluda BC |
| Thursday, May 2 | NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER (This is planned by MTBA Intercessory Prayer Action Team) |
| Monday, May 20 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, June 17 | TBD |
| Monday, July 15 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, August 19 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, September 16 | TBD |
| Monday, October 21 | TBD |
| Monday, November 18 | Saluda BC |
| Monday, December 16 | Saluda BC |
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MTBA PRAYER GATHERINGS – 2023:
Monday, January 9 at 7 pm at Zoar BC
Monday, February 13 at 7 pm at Glebe Landing BC
Monday, March 13 at 7 pm at Urbanna BC
Monday, April 10 at 7 pm at Mathew BC
Monday, May 15 at 7 pm at Corrottoman BC
Monday, June 12 at 7 pm at Farnham BC
Monday, July 10 at 7 pm at St. Stephens BC
Monday, August 14 at 7 pm at New Hope Fellowship
Monday, September 11 at 7 pm at New Hope Fellowship
Monday, October 9 at 7 pm at New Friendship
Monday, November 13 at 7 pm at Spring Hill BC
December: NO Prayer gathering. Prayer Team will have a meeting to plan for 2024.
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MTBA PRAYER GATHERINGS – 2022:
Monday, January 10 at 7 pm at Newington BC
Monday, February 14 at 7 pm at Urbanna BC
Monday, March 14 at 7 pm at Harmony Grove BC
Monday, April 11 at 7 pm at Bruington BC
Monday, May 9 at 7 pm at Beale Memorial BC
Monday, June 13 at 7 pm at Beulah BC
Monday, July 11 at 7 pm at Westville BC
Monday, August 8 at 7 pm at Olivet BC
Monday, September 12 at 7 pm at Beech Grove BC
Monday, October 10 at 7 pm at White Stone BC
Monday, November 14 at 7 pm at Macedonic BC
Monday, December 12 at 7 pm at Gwynn’s Island BC
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MTBA PRAYER GATHERINGS – 2021:
Date
Monday, January 11 at 7 pm at home, conference call (Intercessory Prayer Team)
Monday, February 8 at 7 pm at home, conference call (Intercessory Prayer Team)
Monday, March 8 at 7 pm at home, conference call (Intercessory Prayer Team)
Monday, April 12 at 7 pm at Olivet BC (everyone invited)
THURSDAY, MAY 6 AT 11 AM – 12 NOON at Poroporone BC, NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER (all invited)
Monday, May 10 at 7 pm at Glebe Lading BC (everyone invited)
Monday, June 14 at 7 pm at Newington BC (all are invited)
Monday, July 12 at 7 pm at Harmony Grove BC (all invited)
Monday, August 9 at 7 pm at Poroporone BC (all invited)
Monday, September 13 at 7 pm at Mathews BC (all invited)
Monday, October 11 at 7 pm at Spring Hill BC (all invited)
Monday, November 8 at 7 pm at Hermitage BC (all invited)
Monday, December 13 at 7 pm at Saluda BC (all invited)
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NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER – MAY 6, 2021:
Pictured below: Prayer Warriors gathered at Poroporone BC, Shacklefords, on National Day of Prayer, May 6, 2021. Theme was Lord Pour Out Your Love, Life, and Liberty. The National Day of Prayer exists to mobilize unified public prayer for America. Dallas Ammons, Chair or MTBA Intercessory Prayer Action Group, led this powerful prayer time.
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MTBA PRAYER GATHERINGS – 2020:
| DATE (second Monday night monthly) | HOST CHURCH (PRAYER GATHERING AT THIS CHURCH) | SISTER CHURCHES PRAYING FOR |
| Monday, January 13 at 7 pm | Poroporone | Olivet, Beulah |
| Monday, February 10 at 7 pm | Glebe Landing | Saluda |
| Monday, March 9 at 7 pm | Newington | New Freedom Congregation, New Hope Fellowship |
| Monday, April 13 at 7 pm | at your home (due to corona virus) | Bruington |
| Monday, May 11 at 7 pm | at your home | Macedonia, First BC of Harmony Village |
| Monday, June 8 at 7 pm | Olivet | White Stone |
| Monday, July 13 at 7 pm | Hermitage | Westville, Spring Hill |
| Monday, August 10 at 7 pm | Lower King & Queen | Mattaponi |
| Monday, September 14 at 7 pm | Glebe Landing | Mathews, Zoar |
| Monday, October 12 at 7 pm | Zoar | Gwynn’s Island |
| Monday, November 9 at 7 pm | Urbanna | New Hope Memorial, Harmony Grove |
| Planning meeting for 2021, cancelled due to covid-19 |
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Oswald Chambers on Intercessory Prayer
“You cannot truly intercede through prayer if you do not believe in the reality of redemption. Instead, you will simply be turning intercession into useless sympathy for others, which will serve only to increase the contentment they have for remaining out of touch with God. True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. Intercession means to “fill up…[with] what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ” (Colossians 1:24), and this is precisely why there are so few intercessors. People describe intercession by saying, “It is putting yourself in someone else’s place.” That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God’s place; it is having His mind and His perspective.
As an intercessor, be careful not to seek too much information from God regarding the situation you are praying about, because you may be overwhelmed. If you know too much, more than God has ordained for you to know, you can’t pray; the circumstances of the people become so overpowering that you are no longer able to get to the underlying truth.
Our work is to be in such close contact with God that we may have His mind about everything, but we shirk that responsibility by substituting doing for interceding. And yet intercession is the only thing that has no drawbacks, because it keeps our relationship completely open with God.
What we must avoid in intercession is praying for someone to be simply “patched up.” We must pray that person completely through into contact with the very life of God. Think of the number of people God has brought across our path, only to see us drop them! When we pray on the basis of redemption, God creates something He can create in no other way than through intercessory prayer.”
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