Wednesday

When people sin,

you should forgive and comfort them,

so they won’t give up in despair.

2 Corinthians 2:7 (CEV)

Pray for Jason Dean as he sees a specialist at 8 A.M. this morning at Our Lady of the Lake in Baton Rouge.

Kyle Brabham is progressing according to schedule. Pray for healing, without infection, of the area where Kyle had surgery. Pray for Kyle as he deals with the side effects of the surgery and the limitations imposed on him until healing takes place.

Melinda Russell shares a prayer request from a co-worker:

The note below came in today from Bob Craig. Please pray for Diane Wagstaff in Craiova Romania. Thank you for praying!

Melinda

Dear Prayer Partners,

Our colleague, Diane Wagstaff took a fall yesterday while carrying a load of groceries. She fell on her right arm and bruised it badly. Today, she had an ex-ray which revealed a hairline fracture of her shoulder blade. She is now consulting an Orthopedic Doctor to see what should be done. Would you please go to the Father for her and for her husband Bob? She was able to get some sleep last evening, but is very sore.

Wednesday’s Window on the World

WEDNESDAY WINDOW ON THE WORLD – August 20, 2008

CHUABO OF MOZAMBIQUE (chew-WAH-boh). Thank you so much for your prayers in June for a week of teaching for pastors, church leaders and deacons. Give thanks to the Lord that more than 150 men participated in the event. This was the first time that the Chuabo of Mozambique had training for deacons, pastors and leaders all together. The Spirit of God was present during the teaching, and the men went home excited about what they had learned and ready to implement the teaching in their churches.

REACHING XTREME PEOPLES OF SOUTH AMERICA. The Xtreme Team writes: “Thank you for lifting up the ‘Xtremers’ on our team as they serve the Lord for weeks and months at a time in remote communities where there are no grocery stores, no hotels, no electricity, no running water and no health care. Pray that the Holy Spirit will shine brightly in their lives to light up the spiritual darkness around them. Ask that they will be able to depend on the Lord for all of their needs and that He will be glorified through all of their actions. Pray fervently that the lost people among the Asheninka, the Tigre Quichua, the Quechua and the Yaminahua will hunger and thirst to know God’s Word, and that the Xtremers will be able to present the gospel clearly and boldly.”

MUMBAI, INDIA (moom-BYE). Imagine walking on the streets of Mumbai, on the very edge of the city, where the metro meets the Arabian Sea. Imagine colorful wooden fishing boats, striped in red, blue, yellow and orange, lining the shoreline. They belong to Koli “fisherpeople,” the city’s original inhabitants who have been squeezed between developers’ high-rise apartments, the boardwalk where the wealthy take leisurely strolls to escape the confinement of the city, and the sea’s edge. Imagine their freshly washed blankets and faded bed sheets of all colors drying in the sun, stuck to the rocks. A thin sun-blackened Koli man carefully turns them like fluttering pancakes in the wind. Billows of nets lay in piles under frail wooden shelters, awaiting repair. Koli women cluster together, engaged in serious conversation, their baskets of fish waiting by the road. Imagine you are here: watching, smelling the sea air, praying for the thin Koli man and the chattering women, venturing into their community, learning their language and what it means to be culturally Koli. Pray, brothers and sisters, that you or someone you know might be called by God to cease imagining and go to this unreached people group to share with them the future He has planned for them! http://www.go2southasia.org

DEVOG – Daily Devotional Blog

Today’s devotional by Ronald

 

TODAY’S VERSE
“Bear one another’s burdens,

and thereby fulfill the law of Christ.”
Galatians 6:2 (NASB)

TODAY’S MESSAGE

If I was asked to describe Christianity using only one word, I would choose the word, “love”. John tells us that God is love. It is His love that makes mercy and grace possible. Is it no wonder then, if we are really going to fulfill what Christ wants us to do, we must bear each other’s burdens? Bearing a burden means to take that burden on as if it was your own. We are called to help the wounded, love the hurting and to do whatever it takes to help those that are overburdened. If we don’t, who will? Who else is called to do this? It is this love of Christ, lived out by us in community, that is the mark of true Christianity. And if community is going to work, then each of us must prefer others to ourselves. We must put the needs of others above ourself. Jesus set the example. His whole life exemplified sacrificial love. So must ours. Today, ask God to help you sense when someone needs help. Ask Him to help you bear their burden.

TODAY’S PRAYER

Father, I am so grateful that You have borne every one of my burdens. Give me a heart like yours and the filling of Your Spirit so I might love in the way You have loved me.

AMEN

Have a great day!

Anna Lee