"... now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them? ...”
Luke 18:1 - 8
Mike is busy arranging music for his various bands to play. Pray for him to be creative and glorifying in all that he prepares. Pray, too, that he is sensitive to abilities of his differing students.
Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp!
Praise the Lord! Our boys, Afin and Yem, are responding better to us this year. Please pray that we continue to raise them in the nurture and adminition of the Lord.
so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;
There are ongoing workshops both in translation techniques and teacher training. Pray for clarity of instruction and for committment to the work among the trainees.
"... makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love"
The LPCU Team is getting physically weary in their work and it is causing a wee bit of discord. Pray for wisdom in prep and rendering God's Word, patience all around, unity, and as they work through uninitiated national speaker checks this week.
I entreat Euodia and I entreat Syntyche to agree in the Lord.
A single translator asks for prayer about a young lady he is interested in. He writes, "Obviously that is a prayer mixed with thanksgiving—much thanksgiving!!"
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
A translator working remotely while in the States requests prayer for this: It isn’t going to work out for me to come to the workshop in person, so I will be leading my sessions via zoom. Please pray for God time management and successful preparation of those. It’s going well but I’ve still got a long way to go.
What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice.
Translators to the "T" people ask for prayer, "While there are still few believers among the people, many are quite willing to help check Scriptures, and want to have the Scriptures in their language on their phones."
So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Some translators ask, "Please pray for our time in the"T" village. The main goals are village checking of a couple more chapters of Acts, plus distribution of checked and recorded portions of Matthew and John onto villagers' phones."
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
The high school just returned from their annual bonding retreat. Pray that friendships forged during this time will continue to grow in faith and fellowship.
complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
Praise for God meeting our financial needs during the summer travels and challenges.
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Praise for Mike’s good start at school despite having to juggle the boys in one school and him at another while I was gone. The time period while I was absent was one week.
For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!
Pray for teacher training in the “D” district in southern Papua. Five men, from three different villages, showed up for the training. They will return and teach basic skills (reading, math, writing) as well as Bible knowledge.
Prepare your work outside; get everything ready for yourself in the field, and after that build your house.
Pray for our house helper, Ibu (Mrs.) Ita. She is recovering from a recent bout of malaria and her daughter is constantly ill. She’s taking her daughter to the doctor again tomorrow. Please pray the daughter, Natalia, will recover completely.
“For I will restore health to you, and your wounds I will heal, declares the LORD,"
Praise the Lord for keeping me, Mary, safe during what turned out to be a rough journey. There was nothing specific which went wrong, but it was very tiring.
He led them in safety, so that they were not afraid,….”