Prayer Burdens & Weekly Pursuit – Week 3 of November
Prayer Burdens:
Bangladesh
Pray that more campuses will be opened to the gospel and that more students will be gained for the Lord.
Bhutan
Pray that he seeking ones would enter into the printed ministry and see the Lord’s recovery.
Laos
Pray for the national college conference in November.
Nepal
Pray that the saints would take up the burden of shepherding to shepherd others, so that more saints would participate in the Lord’s table meeting.
Tajikistan
Pray for the release of the six saints, that they may have stable home meetings with the saints.
Vietnam
Pray that the serving saint would be granted the spirit of wisdom and revelation, a sober mind, and good health, so that the translation of the Old Testament may be completed soon.
Weekly Pursuit:
Verses:
Rom. 9:16 “So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.”
Excerpts:
Do not strive to bear responsibility. Instead, worship God for His selection. If you do this, He will bear you in the bearing of responsibility. The more we try in ourselves to be responsible, the more we will suffer inwardly. But if we worship the Lord for His mercy and experience Him bearing us in bearing the responsibility, our inward taste will be as sweet as honey. One reason I am happy day by day is that I have learned to trust in the Lord’s mercy and to worship Him for it. Years ago I used to ask the Lord to do so many things for me. But now I pray by thanking Him for His mercy. He said that He will have mercy on whomever He will have mercy and compassion on whomever He will have compassion. If we enjoy the Lord’s mercy and worship Him for His selection, we will be in the heavenlies.
Our going on with the Lord is a matter not of our willing or running but of God’s mercy. Our willing is of no avail, and our running is in vain. God’s mercy, however, works in a wonderful way. We are changeable, constantly fluctuating. It seems that, as far as we are concerned, our spiritual condition is like weather that is unstable. Hence, we need to see that the selection of grace does not depend on us but depends on God’s selection of us before the world began. What we are experiencing today is related to God’s selection in eternity past. If we see this, we will turn our eyes away from ourselves and from our circumstances and gaze steadfastly upon Him. (Life-study of Romans, pp. msg. 58)