During these few weeks before departure, let's lift up the team: Sheri, Enrique and Cecil as they put together the final details. May our God of mercy and grace pour His love and assurance of their calling into their hearts.
Africa Prayer Calendar: Week 2
Excerpts are taken
from Neal Pirolo’s book “Serving As Senders Today.”
Look at
Colossians 1:3 and 9: “praying always for you…;for this cause we also, since
the day we heard of it, do not cease to pray for you.”
Here, then, is a prayer that you can
use as a model as you pray for your cross-cultural worker, filling in the
details of his specific personality and ministry needs:
“That you might be filled with the
knowledge of His will.”
Colossians
1:9
Once a
worker arrives on the field, he is bombarded with an overwhelming array of
ministry opportunities. Even if a predetermined job description has been
established, there is always one more assignment to fit into the schedule. When
joining a team that is shorthanded by illness, or workers on home assignment,
or lack of laborers for an expanding ministry, your cross-cultural worker may
be faced with appeals to take on “just a little bit more.”
Out of that
mass of good deeds, your worker must discern those that were “beforehand determined
that he should walk in” (Ephesians 2:10).
Once he has
heard God’s will, a corollary prayer is for him to judiciously share with his
supervisor that, in order to maintain his sanity, he must say “no” to certain
opportunities.
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