Prayer is the language....
This past week, I was reading Charles Spurgeon's book, "Lectures to my Students", and have been ever so burdened about the need for prayer in my own life. In the front of my Bible, I have a certain quote that has become ever so real to me this week. The quote is from an unknown person, but it says, "Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need".
What an amazing quote. This week, I have a real sense of need. My heart hurts because of some of the things happening here. Last night on the streets was one of the hardest nights ever. I can't go into the details of why and all that, but I just ask that you pray for the ministry here this week and as soon as you read this! Please, pray! There is a real need here this week. The gay games are here, which adds more junk to a city that is already so secularized. Last night, we had a team go out that is here from Ontario, and they were so shaken up by what happened and the spiritual battles that were happening.
Jesus has simply told us to "Go" - and so we go - trusting that He is the One that will never leave us nor forsake us. God has said many times in his Word "Do not be afraid" or "Take courage". Why? Because people are afraid! Obviously! But greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world!
Paul simply wrote (without simplicity to the statement) "we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying about in the body of the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body." (2 Corinthians 4:8-10).
Keep the faith! Finish the course! Fix your eyes upon Jesus! These are things that I'm reminding myself and the team this week. "in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing" (2 Timothy 4:8).
And what an amazing thing an eternity with Jesus will be.
Please pray for us - and for the team here.
Loved by Jesus, Saved by Jesus, Forgiven by Jesus.
Dwight
posted by dwight at 4:59 PM
3 Comments:
Je prie pour toi Dwight!
11:43 PM
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11:27 AM
I've been praying this for you and your team:
Romans 8:31-39
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died- more than that, who was raised- who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
36 As it is written, "For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."
37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,
39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
11:31 AM
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