TGP is excited to begin a new series featuring a wide variety of hobbies. The Lord willing, during the summer of 2025, Tuesday and Thursday posts will highlight a particular hobby and three related prayer requests.
TGP often features prayer requests that correspond to current world crises, and that is important without a doubt. It is also important to pray for people not currently in a major life crisis, and this hobby series is one way to do that. God gives us richly all things to enjoy, and a healthy fringe benefit of being made in His image is that people enjoy creating things in one way or another.
Every TGP member is invited to respond to this email/text with what your favorite hobby (ies) are, so that those interests can be included in the series.
Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Bender.
Photo from Google Earth
Pray for visitors to the above sixteenth century Ottoman fortress to hear about the only fortress Who is eternal, and seek sanctuary in Him.
On July 4, 1941, 700 Jews living in Bender were brought into this castle and shot. Pray for the Jewish population living in the city today to never face such an atrocity, and to find lasting spiritual peace in their Messiah, Jesus Christ.
Bender has had several names throughout its history, which dates back to the second century B.C. Pray that as long as there is a city in this location, there will be Christians proclaiming the gospel there.
Matthew 22:37-40
This post was originally published on August 9, 2021.
1. This Buddha statue is on its own island in Hussain Sagar Lake. It is mounted atop a large water fountain. Pray that someone visiting the island will hear and believe what the Bible says about finding true peace and answers to suffering.
2. “Snow World” is an amusement park on the shore of that same lake that opened for business twenty years ago. Pray for its owner to come to Christ.
3. The city of Hyderabad is a main hub for India’s technology industry. Pray for an IT professional there to come across a Christian website that explains the gospel, and genuinely consider / accept the Truth.
John 6:35
This post was originally published on April 1, 2024.
Two days ago, excessive rains caused flash flooding in Makwa. 151 people have been confirmed dead, and 3,000 people displaced. Pray for the Lord to provide food and shelter for these people, and for them to also hear about Him – the spiritual Shelter we all desperately need.
Nigeria ranks very high on the world persecution watchlist. Islamic aggression against Christians is at an extreme level. Pray for this to change.
Pray for any believers affected by the flooding in Makwa to be especially strengthened and encouraged today by the Lord’s continual presence with them.
“Then He [Jesus] spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart,”
Blatten, Switzerland: Pray for the 300 evacuees whose village was buried by mud and glacial ice to hear about the only City that can never be destroyed, and obtain personal residences there through faith in the finished work of Christ.
NEBC: Pray for the Lord to provide for the urgent facility and financial needs the school has.
Your Choice: Please pray for a request you remember from one of the other locations featured this week:
Memorial Day church outreaches
Yandina, Solomon Islands
Montevideo, Uruguay
Sunday Songs Series Conclusion: “Sweet Hour of Prayer”
This isn’t a normal post, but I’m asking you all to read, pray, and respond as God leads in relation to what is written below. Thank you!
God wouldn’t let the baker sleep, so at 2 AM he got up and started baking bread…three professional batches’ worth of bread. At breakfast time the next morning, he loaded it all up and took it to a local orphanage. Three hundred children sat at the tables, but their plates were empty. They had gotten dressed and ready for school, come to the table, thanked God for the breakfast they did not see, and waited. And then the baker came.
Following his delivery, the milkman knocked at the door. His delivery cart had broken a wheel directly in front of the orphanage, and the milk would sour by the time the wheel could be fixed. He wondered if the orphanage would be able to use ten cans of milk. Thus it was that three hundred hungry orphans had full stomachs that morning when the cupboards were empty.
This true story of George Mueller’s orphanage in Bristol, England, is well-known and loved by many. We often highlight the faith of the man who started the orphanage, or the fatherly provision of God for the orphans. Today, I want to shine the spotlight on the baker whose name we don’t even know. We continue to tell his story 150 years later, and all we know to call him is “the baker.” He couldn’t sleep, and he listened to the Spirit’s whisper in his heart. That obedience made a huge difference, not only in the provision of a meal to hungry children, but in the subsequent encouragement to trust God’s provision as his story has been retold to generations. He didn’t know exactly what was going on or would result, but he obeyed.
Today, I’m asking everyone who reads this to be that baker. NEBC (https://nebcvt.org/ ) is a Christian college making a difference for God in the Northeast. They operate by faith, and they need some “bakers” who will listen to the Spirit’s prompting to give what they have. If you’ve never heard of NEBC, here’s a link to an informative interview that discusses both who the school is and the urgency of their current situation: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BmdmdFLJn/
Last night, our church took an offering to give toward pressing end-of-the-month needs that NEBC has. I watched an eight year old girl put a dollar bill in the offering plate, and a teenager drop in yard work cash. If children and teens can step up to the plate, all of us can, too. All of God’s children are in this thing of spreading the gospel together, so let’s each do what we can to help. Like the baker in Bristol, you may not know the full impact your gift will have this side of eternity, and your name may not be famous, but – also like the baker – God wants to use you, and you will rejoice in time to come.
Yesterday a 92 million cubic foot glacier crashed down a Swiss mountain, causing mud and ice to cover 90% of the alpine village of Blatten. Three hundred residents had been evacuated, but one man is currently missing. Pray for the search to find him to be successful.
Pray for the 300 evacuees to hear about the only City that can never be destroyed, and obtain personal residences there through faith in the finished work of Christ.
Pray specifically for Blatten’s mayor, Matthias Bellwald, to seek God’s answers for life and eternity, both in his personal and professional endeavors.
Pray for the Lord to send out workers to the harvestfield of Yandina.
Photo from Google Earth
1. Yandina is on Mbanika Island, one of the Solomon Islands. These buildings are not far from the water. Pray for a lady hanging out clothes to line dry in Yandina today to know the God who can clean any heart from sin’s stain.
2. Pray for a person coming to the Yandina Clinic for treatment to meet the Great Physician.
3. There is a cocoa plantation in Yandina. Pray for the Lord to send His light and truth to a worker there who has wondered Who God really is.
Psalm 113:3
This post was originally published on January 11, 2023.
