Couldn’t sleep, so I thought I would write a little bit. Since we are going to be starting Bible studies soon, which then will turn into a church. I want anybody who might be interested in coming and helping, to be aware of one thing about Hope Baptist Church. We are outsider focused, not insider focused. If you think that church is all about you, than you need not apply. Not to be mean , but Christ’s message was about others, and I think his church should preach the same. One huge way that Hope is going to be outsider focused is, we will send and support missionaries. I have been reading through a devotional book called “Go ye” A world Evangelism Journal, put out by Our Generation, and B.C.W.E. Over the next several posts I will be putting out some information from this journal, to try and teach the future people of Hope Baptist how to have a huge heart for world missions. The first post is on “How to pray for missionaries”
We have been told throughout our lives that we should pray for both our pastor and our missionaries. We want to pray for them but we just don’t know how. We pray for them, saying, “God bless the missionaries,” but we want to do more than some generic prayer. This material will help you to know how to Biblically pray for missionaries. Everything that you read also be applied to your pastor. This will be a blessing not only to the work of god around the world, but also to your local church.
The Apostle Paul felt the need to have people pray for him. If Paul felt he needed people to pray for him, just think how much more important it is for each of us to pray for others.
” Ye also helping together by prayer for us that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.” II Corinthians 1:11
As we can see from the above verse, Paul was not asking lightly for prayer. He felt that the prayers of God’s people definitely “helped.” He felt that they became an actual part of his ministry. Your prayers do make a difference. When you come before God seeking aid for a missionary’s specific needs you make yourself a co-laborer with him in his ministry.
” Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.” Isaiah 45:11
In this verse we see that God invites us to out him into motion. There is so much that God wants to do that He will not do because we are not spending time in diligent prater for our missionaries. He has not only invited us to pray, but has commanded us to tell Him what to do. We can not actually tell God what to do if it is not already His will, but He does often times limit Himself due to our lack of prayer and faith.
” Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.” James 4:2
Why are the needs of missionaries not being met? Why aren’t they seeing the results of their labors? I am convinced that the reason so many missionaries are struggling to produce fruits in their ministry is that we have failed to ask God.
I am going to stop there for now, but will be continuing on the same topic for a little while longer.
Wayne
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