Friday

“Carefully consider the path for your feet,

and all your ways will be established.”

~Proverbs 4:26 HCSB~

Today’s focus will be on children.  Pray for children who have attended/will attend VBS this summer.  Pray for children who have attended/will attend a church camp this summer.  Pray for children who do not have these opportunities.  What can/will you do about this?

KOMpray

Kids on Mission Pray

Prayer requests

“Let the little children come to Me, and don’t stop them, because the kingdom of God belongs to such as these,” Luke 18:16b

Happy and sad Have you ever been happy and sad at the same time? Maybe you are going to move to a new house. You get your own room and there is a great playground in the neighborhood. But moving means you won’t see some of your good friends as often as you used to. A move like that can make you happy and sad at the same time.   One grandmother is both happy and sad. Her grown children live in China, so their children are her grandkids.    She said: “Our love not only for the Lord, but for them, keeps us going. We support them in every way we can . . . prayer, care packages, and taking care of things here in the States for them. We never discourage them, and try to make things as easy as possible for them.”   She loves what they are doing and knows how very important it is. She’s just sad sometimes when she doesn’t see her grandchildren as often as she would like. Please pray for grandmothers and grandfathers who are living in the US while their family members are halfway around the world. Ask God to help them think of ways to stay connected—maybe twitter, Facebook, Skype, or sending videos to each other about what they are doing during the week.   Thank the Lord for all the grandchildren who are living in far away countries and sharing the love of Jesus.

MORE PRAYER REQUESTS FROM MISSIONARY KIDS

Dad teaches at the seminary, mom work with the immigrants that end up without proper jobs such as parking cars.  You can pray that we will be able to reach these people.  Also their living areas are often junk metal put together for shelter.  They leak and often catch on fire.  So please pray for their homes/housing.  Also pray that my brothers and I will be able to reach the children in our school.  They are well off children, they don’t really see the need for a God.  My family is prone to sickness, so pray for our health.  SIDNEY, age 14 (Sub-Saharan African peoples)

Twice a week, I ride on the back of my mommy’s bicycle and we go to my preschool. I don’t always understand my teachers since they speak Dutch but I like to play puzzles, play cars with my friends and sing songs that my teachers teach us.   Sometimes mommy invites my friends and their mommies over for coffee and cookies and that is a lot of fun. We eat cookies and lemonade and I’m learning to share my toys with them. Pray I will feel comfortable speaking Dutch with my teachers. JESIAH, age 3 (European peoples)

My grandpa is not a Christian. Pray for him. Pray too that year/grade 6 will be good for me. RACHEL, age 11 (Southeast Asian peoples)

Please pray for the Mozambiquan people that they would get to know about Jesus and obey him. BETHANY, age 10 (Sub-Saharan African peoples)

Pray for me to adjust back to school and for me to stay stronger/get stronger in my relationship with God. KK, age 13 (Southeast Asian peoples)

Please help Angola because there are a lot of robbers and many people are getting robbed and there are many gunshots. Please pray for the many Angolans who don’t know Jesus. ALEXANDRIA, age 11 (Sub-Saharan African peoples)

KneEmail

Lost

SEVERAL YEARS AGO, my family was camping in the mountains of Colorado…

We have arrived there late in the afternoon, and we picked out a nice spot close to a beautiful river. While I was attending to the chores of setting up and organizing our camp, the children went off to play.

As the sun began to set, we started rounding up the children and hustling them back into our campground before it got completely dark. Our four-year-old son, Scott, was missing. The river was making so much noise that my calls were drowned out, and its roar was a constant reminder of danger.

Panic began to build. Where was he? Had he wandered out of the campground? Had he wandered up or down the river? The last time I saw him, he was playing at the edge of the water with a little boat he had made.

By now you could barely distinguish the camp as the rays of the setting sun were further blocked by the forest. A chilling reality gripped me. I only had a few minutes before darkness made my search nearly impossible.

What should I do?

First, I want to tell you some of the things I did not do.

I did not organize any classes on how to find lost children.
I did not hold any rallies to enlist volunteers to help me.
I did not wait until someone came along with was better qualified than I to search.
I did not fail to do anything for fear of doing the wrong thing.

Now, I want to tell you what I did do.

I acted immediately.
I ran around the campground.
I dashed up and down the river.
I called Scott’s name, in spite of the roaring river.
I searched the churning waters.
I stopped total strangers to describe him, and they joined in the search.

Nothing else mattered for that period of time. Finding him was my top priority.

After running all over the campground and up and down the river, I still could not find him. Not knowing what else to do, I decided to go back to camp to figure out what to do next. Scott and I arrived at the same time. He was walking nonchalantly into our campground, oblivious to everything; I was still on a dead run.

An old preacher once said, “If a man has a soul, and he has, and if that soul can be won or lost for eternity, and it can, then the most important thing in the world is to bring a man to Jesus Christ.” (Don Humphrey)

“For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” ( Luke 19:10).

Posted by Mike Benson at April 13, 2009

Have a fantastic Friday as you think about and pray for children around the world.

Anna Lee