Team Expansion Prayerforce blog:

Attribute of God

I AM God the Warrior, your sharp two-edged Sword.

Team Expansion general request

Ask God to identify and prepare qualified Discovery workers for future teams in conjunction with PACE churches.

Any worker in any country or with any organization

Pray that worker is delivered from wicked and evil people who wish to do them harm.

Crush the barrier

Pray for the people of Ancona, Italy; Bangkok, Thailand; Dublin, Ireland; and Krakow, Poland who have long held to their traditional religion, but are now looking for an alternative. Pray that opportunities for outreach would not be missed so that Christ is the One and only Savior they choose.

Team Expansion missionary

Pray with MD and his wife that the indigenous church in Colombia might be strong. Ask God to strengthen national workers as they face challenges and start a new church, El Lucero.

Bhoi, Hindu of India
Bhoi, Hindu of India The Bhoi community is mainly a landowning one, but a few are landless. A Brahman priest officiates at marriages. At the wedding, the bride and groom walk around the fire seven times. They work in temples and are therefore accorded a high status in society. Every house has an altar to Manasamata. Beside this, there are images of Khandoba and a few other gods and goddesses. Every family has a number of deities.Ministry Obstacles Nominal Christians who don’t truly follow Christ’s teachings may be an impediment to the Bhoi. Pray they will be able to see that there is a difference between disciples of Christ and those who are Christian only in name. Outreach Ideas Workers are needed. Jesus said to pray for workers, for the harvest is ripe. Pray for the followers of Christ There may be no followers of Jesus among the Hindu Bhoi community at present, but pray for the ones that will soon be found. Pray they will be zealous to learn of Christ and follow Him. Pray they will keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Pray for the entire people group Pray that the Bhoi community will be able to care adequately for their families. Pray they will make schooling a priority for their children, so the children will be equipped to live in modern times. Scripture Focus “That all the peoples of the earth may know that the Lord is God; there is no one else.” 1 Kings 8:60		Country: India 10/40 Window: Yes People Name: Bhoi, Hindu Population: 5,553,000 World Population: 5,732,000 Language: Hindi Primary Religion: Hinduism Progress Status: Least-Reached Christ Followers: Few, less than 2% Bible: Complete Jesus Film: Yes Audio Recordings: Yes

 

Charles Spurgeon’s Morning Devotional:

“Godly sorrow worketh repentance.”
– 2 Corinthians 7:10
Genuine, spiritual mourning for sin is the work of the Spirit of God. Repentance is too choice a flower to grow in nature’s garden. Pearls grow naturally in oysters, but penitence never shows itself in sinners except divine grace works it in them. If thou hast one particle of real hatred for sin, God must have given it thee, for human nature’s thorns never produced a single fig. “That which is born of the flesh is flesh. ”

True repentance has a distinct reference to the Saviour. When we repent of sin, we must have one eye upon sin and another upon the cross, or it will be better still if we fix both our eyes upon Christ and see our transgressions only, in the light of his love.

True sorrow for sin is eminently practical. No man may say he hates sin, if he lives in it. Repentance makes us see the evil of sin, not merely as a theory, but experimentally-as a burnt child dreads fire. We shall be as much afraid of it, as a man who has lately been stopped and robbed is afraid of the thief upon the highway; and we shall shun it-shun it in everything-not in great things only, but in little things, as men shun little vipers as well as great snakes. True mourning for sin will make us very jealous over our tongue, lest it should say a wrong word; we shall be very watchful over our daily actions, lest in anything we offend, and each night we shall close the day with painful confessions of shortcoming, and each morning awaken with anxious prayers, that this day God would hold us up that we may not sin against him.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent. Every other sorrow yields to time, but this dear sorrow grows with our growth, and it is so sweet a bitter, that we thank God we are permitted to enjoy and to suffer it until we enter our eternal rest.

 

Daily Reading: Hebrews 9-10