“I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God besides Me…”
1. God’s Holiness & Sabga, Cameroon: Pray for the Lord to so impress upon a family living there a sense of awe at His holiness that they will forsake other religious beliefs to turn to the true and living God.
2. God’s Wisdom & Sandefjord, Norway: Pray for Christians who go to the Sandefjord Baptistkirke (a church) to avail themselves of the promise of James 1:5 – God will give His wisdom to all who ask in faith.
3. Your Choice: Please pray for a request you remember from any of the other cities featured this week:
TGP regularly rotates through cities from all the continents, working our way through every country of the world. Sometimes, that is combined with a particular theme, such as categories of church workers, a focus on places with a high level of religious persecution, or cities located near large lakes/rivers. Also included every day is at least one Scripture reference, often relating directly to the goal of making Jesus known to the peoples of the world. Today marks the introduction for a new month long series.
Two days ago, I was listening to a sermon on intercessory prayer by Dr. Mark Ballard. In it, he mentioned that we should base our prayers on both the character and Word of God. This practice can often be seen in the prayers recorded in Scripture. While TGP has prayed in direct reference to many Scriptures, we have not had a specific focus on the attributes of our great God, so that will be theme for June’s posts.
Subtracting Saturday’s posts (which are used to recap the week), that leaves twenty-four qualities of our Lord to pray through as they relate to worldwide evangelism and discipleship. If there is a particular attribute you would like to be included, please email that to targetedglobalprayer@gmail.com.
Tomorrow begins this focus. As always, thank you for praying!
1. Lodz, Poland: In the nineteenth century, Lodz was a major hub for the textile industry. The Central Museum of Textiles showcases different aspects of that history. Pray for a family visiting the museum this summer to trust Jesus for salvation, that each member of the family may one day wear the white robes given to heaven’s saints.
2. Zwang Wen Shi: Pray for the release of this Christian deacon from a North Korean prison, where he has been held for a decade. Pray that he would be returned to his home in China safely.
3. Southern Brazil: Pray for the recovery of a missionary family with dengue.
4. Your Choice: Please pray for a request that you remember from the other cities featured this week:
“Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment.”
1. Rural Mongolia: Pray for the Word of God to be widely available, and for gospel outreaches from last year to continue to bring forth fruit.
2. Akureyri, Iceland: Pray for someone who enjoyed the northern lights last week to reflect on God as Creator, that he may be led to the truth of Psalm 19.
3. Your Choice: Please pray for a request you remember from the other cities featured this week:
Yesterday morning I was sitting on my kitchen floor looking through a stack of cookbooks to find daisy petals. Although I thought I knew which cookbook I had put them in to be pressed and dried six weeks prior, they were not in the expected place, so I was leafing through every book on the shelf to find them. As it turned out, they ended up being in the book I thought I’d placed them, but another discovery was made during the search, which is worth sharing this morning.
One of the cookbooks was a Christmas gift to my grandparents in 1977. It is an interesting mix of testimonies and recipes from such well-known Christian women as Dale Evans Rogers, Ethel Barrett, and Ruth Bell Graham. Tucked in between the pages was a paper cut from a church bulletin, with a line in my Grandma Ballard’s handwriting:
“This my assignment too.” Those words were penned over forty years ago, yet they reach across the decades to find resonance with every TGP team member, for this is why we each signed up to pray. There is a cause and commission so vital that it stirs the hearts of those who love Jesus to do what they can to make Him known in every place. “From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same the LORD’s name is to be praised.” (Psalm 113:3) Amen, may it ever be.
My grandma never had the opportunity to take an overseas mission trip, yet in more ways then can be elaborated here, her influence for the kingdom of God continues to reach places her feet never traveled. She was the baby girl referenced in last Sunday’s TGP post on Hoyt, Colorado, and, similar to what was spoken of Abel in Hebrews 11:4, she “being dead still speaketh.”
When I read the page above, I immediately thought of you all. Thank you for likewise taking up the mantle of prayer for Jesus to be known to the peoples of the world. I hope that reading both my grandma’s words and the printed poem and paragraph are an encouragement to each of you. Additionally, let us be challenged by the fact that our lives have the potential to encourage others long after we’re gone, as illustrated by the random finding of a paper yesterday morning.
I Corinthians 15:58 – “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.”
“For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.”
1. Nevatim, Israel: Pray for the salvation of a pilot at the Israeli airbase in Nevatim, and for those suffering anxiety from Iran’s recent missile attacks to find stability and peace in Jesus.
2. Salisbury, Australia: Pray for each of Len and Anne Beadell’s descendants to have a personal relationship with Jesus, Who is the only Road from this world to the Father.
3. Your Choice: Please pray for a request you remember from the other cities featured this week:
