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| Prayer requests on the website are updated every Monday-Friday at 9:30 a.m., EST November 14, 2013 “They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.” (Acts 2:42, 47b) WORLD LEADER - “Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence” (1 Timothy 2:1-2). Please pray today for President Gaston Floss of France’s French Polynesia (South Pacific Ocean). ISAAN OF THAILAND (EE-sahn) - “Proverbs 22:6 says, ‘Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.’ Many Isaan children lack a parent or other adult to invest the time and effort needed to train them in the way they ‘should go.’ Far too often, children are left in the care of people who are unable or unwilling to train them--children are who berated as willful and stubborn, and children who are shamed or frightened into compliance. Sometimes even well-meaning Christian parents don’t know how to apply this verse in raising their children. To address those needs, our Isaan Team has started preparing material that can be used to teach basic biblical parenting skills. Please pray the material will form part of an effective parent-training program. The material states what we all know: that parenting skills alone aren’t enough! We all absolutely need the Lord’s help in raising our children in the way they should go. The material provides a way that parents who want to know God and His ways can contact Christians to hear more. Please pray that this section of the material will be the most effective part, bringing many Isaan families into God’s eternal family!” NORTH AFRICANS OF SOUTHERN FRANCE - A believer recently visited Sunny*, a North African woman who has taken a jewelry-making class taught by believers at a local women’s center. It started like many visits: watching an Arabic-language soap opera and commenting on the mess lives can become. The believer said, “Without God, our lives are messed up.” Sunny readily agreed. The believer shared her testimony for the second time with Sunny, and shared the Gospel again as well. When Sunny said, “You have to follow the path God’s given you; you have yours, and I have mine,” the believer told her that there’s only one way to paradise: Jesus. “We can’t both be right,” she told Sunny. “There are two of us on this couch, but we’re not both going to paradise.” Sunny, who responded in tears, grabbed the believer’s arm, saying, “I want us to be together! I want you to be in paradise with me!” The believer shared some more, and then Sunny stopped crying and went back to sharing what she’s comfortable with: works-based salvation. “When you get to paradise,” she told the believer, “the first thing God will ask you is, ‘Did you do the prayers?’” It can feel hopeless, sometimes, when believers pour out their hearts and see a heart begin to open but then slam shut again. However, “those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!” (Psalm 126:5). Pray that Sunny will realize the truth about Jesus and worship Him here--and in paradise. (*pseudonym) For additional prayer requests, click here: Today’s Prayer (If you have difficulty with this link, please go to www.imb.org and click on the “Pray” tab, and then click on the “Today’s Prayer” link in the left-hand column.) |
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