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| Prayer requests on the website are updated every Monday-Friday at 9:30 a.m., EST A NOTE FROM THE PRAYER OFFICE: IMB will be closed on December 24, 2014-January 2, 2015, so “Today’s Prayer” will not be available on those days. Thank you. December 23, 2014 “For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16, 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, NKJV). Please pray today for Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma of Latvia (Eastern Europe, between Estonia and Lithuania). SONGHAI OF WEST AFRICA (SONG-high) - “The ‘4 generation’ principle is taken from 2 Timothy 2:2, where Paul (1st generation) shares with Timothy (2nd) who shares with faithful men (3rd) who will teach others (4th). For the first time in our ministry,” writes the Songhai Team, “we’ve seen this principle at work, and in the most unlikely of places! The road to Wanzerbe had remained one of the darkest in terms of access to the gospel, and the breakdown of the security situation had kept us from engaging like we’d hoped. However, God began to raise up missionaries from within our ministry, and the men going on this road have been the definition of steadfastness and boldness. Recently one of the newer believers on this road, Richard*, who’d been led to faith by our national partner, walked 15 kilometers to take the Good News to the village of his birth. This village of about 50 people, to everyone’s knowledge, had never had a gospel witness. But after hearing Richard share his faith, half the village chose to follow Christ and the other half, according to him, were on the road to faith! He then walked another 35 kilometers to the village of our national partner to seek counsel about how to baptize these new believers, since their village had no access to water. Fruit like this doesn’t ‘just happen’ among the Songhai. We (1st generation) shared with our national partner Isaac* (2nd) who shared with Richard (3rd) who shared with his home village (4th). Praise God!” (*names changed) TURKS OF ISTANBUL, TURKEY (is-tan-BULL) - “Zeynep*, a Turkish girl who was studying in the United States, returned to Istanbul as a follower of Christ! She met a family at a pool in the States, and that family invited her to church. She continued to go each week and to study the Bible with them. It was there, she says, that she came to follow Christ. She returned to Istanbul for university study. When she arrived here, her stateside church contacted our team, and one of our families has begun to meet with her on a regular basis. She has gone to church with them and studies the Bible with them weekly. She lives with her Muslim family and has told at least her mother about her faith. She seems hungry spiritually, and is like a child in her excitement of wanting to know more and to live a full life with Jesus! Please pray for Zeynep and for her walk with the Lord to grow deeper. Intercede for her witness with family and friends, and pray for her to have good relationships with other believers.” (*name changed) 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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