Prayer Burdens & Weekly Pursuit – Week 1 of October

Prayer Burdens:

Bangladesh

Pray for the new government that regardless of the changing environment and situation, everything may work for His interest and for the gospel.

Laos

Pray for the literature work and that the Rhema books can be made available soon.

Nepal

Pray for the preparations of the national conference in November; may all the saints be blended in the Lord’s present speaking.

Pakistan

Pray for the National Conference on 11/9-11/10 that 350 saints can join the conference and be reconstituted by His Word.

Tajikistan

May the Lord strengthen the college saints and release their time to join the home meetings ad group meetings with the saints in the new semester.

Timor-Leste

Pray for the church in Dili to gain more young people (the campus students and the employees of the saints’ stores)

Weekly Pursuit:

Verses:

Rom. 11:36 “Because out from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.”

Excerpts:

For God to be the Father means that God is the Creator, the unique Initiator. The Son was sent from the Father. “The Son can do nothing from Himself except what He sees the Father doing, for whatever that One does, these things the Son also does in like manner”. This must be our experience. We must receive grace from God to realize that we cannot initiate anything. In the beginning it was not us, but God. God is the Father, and everything originates from Him.

The day that God shows you that He is the Father will be a blessed day. On that day you will realize that you cannot do anything and that you are helpless. You will not have to try to hold yourself back from doing this thing or that thing. Instead you will ask, “Has God initiated this?” This is the experience of Abraham. Abraham did not initiate anything. It was God who initiated. It was God who brought him from the other side of the Euphrates River.

If you know that God is the Father, you will not be so confident and will not say that you can do whatever you want. You will only say, “If the Lord is willing, I will do this and that. Whatever the Lord says, I will do.” The first lesson we have to learn is to realize that we can do nothing and that everything depends on God. He is the Father, and He is the Initiator of everything. (The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ch. 1)