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| Prayer requests on the website are updated every Monday-Friday at 9:30 a.m., EST January 6, 2014 “Then everyone will fear and will tell about God’s work, for they will understand what He has done.” (Psalm 64:9) WORLD LEADERS - “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 Prime Minister Enrico Letta of Italy (southern Europe). FAR EASTERN PLAINS PEOPLES OF SOUTH ASIA - “This week, a group of nine college students will be coming to make their home in the Far Eastern Plains for the semester. They will form two teams, one of five young women and the other of four young men, who will travel through the end of May throughout our region, training and encouraging local believers. They are making a tremendous sacrifice to lay down their lives this semester to multiply the kingdom here. They will not be staying in fancy hotels and eating at Pizza Hut®; instead, they will be staying with impoverished local believers and eating what is offered to them. They will die to themselves to make Christ known. Please pray for these students as they begin this journey. Petition for good health--physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually--for each of them for the entire course of their time here. Lift up their two translators and a few others who will be ministering alongside them. Pray for church-planting movements to begin in the regions they will be working in as a result of their labor!” MBUNDA OF WESTERN ZAMBIA (m-BOON-duh) - Harry* is not your ordinary Mbunda guy. After believing in the Lord years ago, he felt called to be a missionary to his own people. Mbunda people live in villages with their fathers and mothers. Mbunda families raise corn on family land. No one in this part of Zambia moves to a “new neighborhood.” But Harry did. He took his wife, Martha*, and their children and moved to a remote area where the people needed to know the truth of Jesus. Harry paid for his courage. His family was the object of suspicion and scorn. “Why did these people move here?” Life was hard. Don’t even mention what was happening at home . . . the miscarriages, the infant deaths that followed each of Martha’s pregnancies like a curse. Through it all, Harry remained faithful to his Lord. Eventually he moved back home. They thanked him by stealing his own house away from him. The last few years have been a respite from the suffering. Harry is teaching a group of believers in his home each Sunday, witnessing at the clinics, and leading many Mbunda to Jesus. But for over four years, a chronic sore on the bottom of Harry’s foot has shaded his life with pain. At the hospitals, he’s been receiving the “run-around” on how to treat it. But after a recent visit to a new hospital, he received devastating news: “Cancer that is likely beyond treatment; not much can be done.” Won’t you pray for Harry? Pray for peace that will extend past his understanding. (*pseudonyms) 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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