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Nearly 4,000 intercessors praying around the world

Touching God on behalf of others.

Share what’s on your heart. Six faithful intercessors will carry your request to God in prayer for 21 days, and your name stays private.

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Wondering where you stand with God?

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    Share your request

    Tell us your need in a few minutes. You stay anonymous to the people who pray for you.

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    Six intercessors pray

    Your request is assigned to six intercessors, who pray for it faithfully for 21 days.

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    Receive a Message of Insight

    Scriptures the Lord brings to mind as they pray are gathered and sent back to you.

When your prayer is answered, let us know. We share the joy with everyone who prayed.

How Breakthrough works
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The Breakthrough Intercessor

Our quarterly magazine about prayer

Teaching on intercession, stories from our prayer family, and answers to prayer from around the world. It’s free to everyone who asks.

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Since 1980

Where need and prayer meet.

Breakthrough was started by author Catherine Marshall and her husband, Leonard LeSourd, to connect people who need prayer with Christians who have the time and the heart to pray. More than four decades later, that vision is still at work every day.

How Breakthrough began

In the vision I saw these two parts (need and supply) coming together through some central, coordinating effort.

Catherine MarshallFounder, on how Breakthrough began
  • ~4,000Intercessors in our network
  • 100k+Prayer requests each year
  • ~80Countries in our prayer family
  • 21Days of prayer for every request
From our prayer family

Stories & answers to prayer

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    Praying Spontaneously

    Although you probably have a designated time set aside to go to the Lord in prayer, the Holy Spirit may direct you...

    Pat OtwellRead →
  • Answer to prayer

    Leaps and Bounds

    "My son is on the autism spectrum, but since I submitted my first prayer request he has made progress in leaps and...

    Sent by ElizeRead →
  • Answer to prayer

    Household Needs

    The Lord made a way for one prayer requester's husband to get a new truck. "He also made a way for us...

    Sent by AnonymousRead →
  • Answer to prayer

    A Burden Lifted

    Ilona was concerned for her mother and praises God for the answered prayer. Her mother has been provided with a home nurse...

    Sent by IlonaRead →
  • Answer to prayer

    Healing for a Little One

    Jeanette asked for prayers when a baby was born with her hips out of the socket.  The doctors are amazed with how...

    Sent by JeanetteRead →
  • Answer to prayer

    A New Beginning

    Julia had prayed for healing, salvation, and deliverance for her nephew from heroin addiction. Despite overdosing twice, he was able to be...

    Sent by JuliaRead →
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How to get to heaven

Do you know what it means to be a Christian?

The Bible says:

1. God created you to have a relationship with Him. So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him. (Genesis 1:27)

2. But because of sin, you have infinitely offended God. For all have sinned and fall short of God’s glorious standard. (Romans 3:23)

3. This offense of sin carries with it a present separation and, if not dealt with, the ultimate separation of death. But your iniquities have separated you from your God. (Isaiah 59:2) For the wages of sin is death. (Romans 6:23)

4. But God, in His great love for you, took the initiative to restore your relationship with him. But God demonstrated His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8)

5. Jesus, God’s Son, removed the offense of your sin and made reconciliation possible. For He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him. (2 Corinthians 5:21)

6. OUR PART is to accept God’s gracious gift of forgiveness by embracing His Son Jesus Christ, by faith. God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12)

One way to express your faith and your trust in Jesus is with a prayer like this:

Dear God, I want to be in a right relationship with You. I understand that I have offended You by my sin. God, please forgive me. Forgive me through Your Son, Jesus. I accept His sacrifice for me. I trust Him right now as my personal Savior from sin. God, thank you for taking the initiative to save me. In the name of Jesus, Amen.

If you have come to God through Jesus Christ, your spiritual journey has begun! We would like to put materials in your hand to help you understand this step and to begin to grow in your Christian faith. Call or e-mail us to get started. God bless you!