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| Prayer requests on the website are updated every Monday-Friday at 9:30 a.m., EST August 21, 2014 “You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.” (1Peter 2:9, HCSB) 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 Premier Craig Cannonier of Bermuda (islands in western North Atlantic). PERSIAN PEOPLES OF THE WESTERN DIASPORA - “Please be in prayer for our team, as some of our children will be returning to school this month. Through our children’s school friends, we have the opportunity to develop natural relationships with their parents, and those relationships are often ripe for Gospel sharing. Pray that many such relationships will form this year. Please also lift up our children’s teachers and friends, and ask the Lord to protect the children’s minds and hearts as they interact with their teachers and the other children. As our children learn a new language in public school, ask the Lord to gift them with the ability to hear and understand.” YAWO OF NORTHERN MOZAMBIQUE (YAH-oo) - Polygamy is found in many African cultures. It is the taking on of two or more wives. For the Yawo, it seemingly is a type of “life insurance.” The more wives a man has, the more family members he has to tend his increasing number of maize fields. The more maize he grows, the more wealth he is able to acquire. As he ages, there are more family members to tend to his needs. There seems to be no sense of wrongness, even though the wives generally are not happy with this type of arrangement. Polygamy is deeply engrained in the Yawo culture, and it is very difficult for new believers to come out of this way of life. They find it difficult to see polygamy as sin. They do not equate it with adultery. The Yawo Team asks: “Would you please pray with us for the new-believer community, especially, to know how to address this issue of polygamy in their homes? Pray that they will come to understand and obey God’s plan for faithfulness and purity in their marriages.” 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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