Team Expansion’s Prayerforce blog:

Attribute of God

I AM He who leads you for my Great Name’s sake

Team Expansion general request

Pray that His Spirit will prompt more people to pursue full time service through Quest program.

Any worker in any country or with any organization

Ask God to surround that worker with a hedge of spiritual protection.

Crush the barrier

Pray for political and social change so that liberty may be found among the people of Ancona, Italy; Bangkok, Thailand; Dublin, Ireland; and Krakow, Poland.

Team Expansion missionary

Pray for Tim Bright and his wife Twyla as they transition from many years of service in Africa to their lives as regional mobilizers in the U.S. Ask God for healing for sick relatives for whom they are caring.

Huayao Tai of China
Huayao Tai of China The Huayao Tai are historically part of the great and ancient Tai race. One writer claimed that the Tai predate even the Chinese. Huayao Tai women are instantly recognizable by their huge circular hats. They also carry with them a small bamboo basket, containing needle and thread, cosmetics, or food. The Huayao Tai practice a mixture of Theravada Buddhism and animism. “Animism in its Tai form ranges from the worship of natural forces to include the practice of shamanism, sorcery and black magic.”Ministry Obstacles To change one’s world view drastically is not easy. Buddhism mixed with animism is a very different worldview than the worldview of the informed Christian. Outreach Ideas Perhaps Han Chinese Christians will be led by the Lord’s Spirit to carry the good news of Jesus to the Huayao Tai people. Pray for this to occur. Pray for the followers of Christ A small number of Huayao Tai believers live in Mengyang County. In recent years evangelists have been active among them, establishing several house churches. Pray for these believers. Few Huayao Tai outside of Mengyang have heard of Christ. Pray for the entire people group Pray that the Huayao Tai may soon hear accurately of Jesus. Pray that each individual capable of making a decision may hear in his or her mother tongue. Pray for several exposures to the good news of Christ, using different formats and media. Scripture Focus “Tell of His glory among the nations, His wonderful deeds among all the peoples. For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised.” 1 Chronicles 16:24-25		Country: China 10/40 Window: Yes People Name: Huayao Tai Population: 84,000 World Population: 84,000 Language: Lu Primary Religion: Buddhism Progress Status: Least-Reached Christ Followers: Few, less than 2% Bible: New Testament Jesus Film: Yes Audio Recordings: Yes

Charles Spurgeon’s Morning Devo on Studylight.org

“I will meditate in thy precepts.”
– Psalm 119:15
There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on his Word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of God, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. Truth is something like the cluster of the vine: if we would have wine from it, we must bruise it; we must press and squeeze it many times. The bruiser’s feet must come down joyfully upon the bunches, or else the juice will not flow; and they must well tread the grapes, or else much of the precious liquid will be wasted. So we must, by meditation, tread the clusters of truth, if we would get the wine of consolation therefrom. Our bodies are not supported by merely taking food into the mouth, but the process which really supplies the muscle, and the nerve, and the sinew, and the bone, is the process of digestion. It is by digestion that the outward food becomes assimilated with the inner life. Our souls are not nourished merely by listening awhile to this, and then to that, and then to the other part of divine truth. Hearing, reading, marking, and learning, all require inwardly digesting to complete their usefulness, and the inward digesting of the truth lies for the most part in meditating upon it. Why is it that some Christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life? Because they neglect their closets, and do not thoughtfully meditate on God’s Word. They love the wheat, but they do not grind it; they would have the corn, but they will not go forth into the fields to gather it; the fruit hangs upon the tree, but they will not pluck it; the water flows at their feet, but they will not stoop to drink it. From such folly deliver us, O Lord, and be this our resolve this morning, “I will meditate in thy precepts. ”

 

Today’s reading: Hebrews 7-8