Daily Prayer Request
Listen To Find Life - High Point Fellowship of Splendora, Texas, asks you pray for the volunteer teams serving among the P people of Mali. They will return to continue building relationships, staying among the P, and sharing stories from the Word. “God demonstrated His power so much during our last visit, so pray that He will continue to work in the hearts and minds of the P during our absence. God’s Word says, ‘Come with your ears wide open. Listen and you will find life’ (Isaiah 55:3). Please pray for the P to come to the story times, to their relationships with us, and to the new things God wants to show them with ears that are wide open. Ask God to draw their spirits to listen and find life! Pray also for the believers to grow in faith, courage and strength as they follow Him. Petition for them to be open to sharing their story and the stories from God’s Word with other P villages. Ask God to guide the work of developing oral stories from God’s Word in the P language so they can have access to God daily for growth, strength and courage. Praise Him for all He has done and is going to do! Thank God for making Himself known to this small people group that lives in the uttermost parts of the world!”
Prayer Stories
Divine Appointments
On March 2, 2008 Roland Asabrim, one of our young pastoral students, had a divine appointment to be with Jesus. We did not expect it. It was divine. God worked out a message in me about the importance of being what God wants you to be, where He wants you to be, when He wants you to be. I used Roland and his "divine appointment" as an illustration. I preached it the Sunday after Roland's death, and God moved in the hearts of many people. Two weeks later, after our team meeting near Accra, Jeff and Barbara Singerman (IMB missionaries who live in Benin) kept their appointment with us, and we took them shopping for cloth and souvenirs at the Tamale Culture Center. There, Barbara meet a young Muslim man who was curious about Jesus. She made an appointment for me to talk to him after Easter (the next Sunday). My appointments continued to increase. One of our students had shared my message with his pastor in a village 30 miles away, so my next appointment was to preach it there, at Yong Baptist Church. Meanwhile, back at the culture center, I had an appointment. I went to find the young Muslim, but he was traveling. I was met by his younger brother who said, "Tell me what you would tell my brother." I did. I shared "Creation to Christ" with him. "Creation to Christ" tells, in story form, many of the events from Creation to the Resurrection, in 15 minutes. I made an appointment to see him again, and the next day I took him his first Bible. I encouraged him to read the Gospel of John, and promised to visit him again. On Wednesday when I was shopping in Tamale town, the young man appeared unexpectedly. He asked, "Are you coming?" I told him, "Friday I will come." When I met with him a few days later, he had read John's Gospel, and several other books in the Bible. On Tuesday night he had found a believer in the area where he lived, and from that appointment, he found Jesus. Watch for your divine appointments.
Pat Ozment - Multiple People Groups
The Intercessor Connection
This monthly prayer newsletter ran from Sept. 2005 to June 2009 and featured stories and images about what God is doing in West Africa. Though the newsletter has been discontinued, you can browse our archive of past issues online.
PRAYERplus Partnerships
If your church would like to take responsibility for praying for one of the hundreds of people groups who are not yet engaged, then PRAYERplus is for you.
