Team Expansion’s Prayerforce blog:

Attribute of God

I AM God Almighty and Infinite in strength

Team Expansion general request

Entreat the Lord for full time cooks/kitchen duty for events taking place at Emerald Hills.

Any worker in any country or with any organization

Pray against fear and discouragement in the life of that missionary.

Crush the barrier

Pray that Ancona, Italy; Bangkok, Thailand; Dublin, Ireland; and Krakow, Poland would truly be set free through the power of Christ and that the fruit of transformed lives would be radically visible.

Team Expansion missionary

Ask God to help Betty Byrd (International Services) write a book that would glorify God and encourage others to listen for and act upon God’s call in their lives.

Bairagi, Hindu of India
Bairagi, Hindu of India The history of the Bairagi commences with Ramanuja, who lived in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and taught in the southern part of India. A proper Bairagi is one whose principal deity is either Vishnu or any of his incarnations, like Rama and Krishna. A mark (tilak) on the forehead and ear are their identification marks. They worship Gouranga as their family deity and Kali, Manasa and Durga as village deities. They are indifferent to the education of girls.Ministry Obstacles To follow Christ is to risk disturbing community harmony within this Hindu community. Outreach Ideas Much sustained, focused prayer is needed to prepare the hearts of the Bairagi community to understand and receive the good news of Jesus of Nazareth. Pray for the followers of Christ There are no known followers of Jesus among the Hindu Bairagi, but pray for those that the Lord will soon call to Himself. Pray they will be zealous to learn of Christ, and that they will be sent teachers and pastors to help them. Pray they will live holy lives that honor Christ. Pray for the entire people group Pray for the Hindu Bairagi community to make schooling for both boys and girls a priority. Scripture Focus “Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent, because He has fixed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness through a Man whom He has appointed.” Acts 17:30-31		Country: India 10/40 Window: Yes People Name: Bairagi, Hindu Population: 3,040,000 World Population: 3,521,000 Language: Bengali Primary Religion: Hinduism Progress Status: Least-Reached Christ Followers: Few, less than 2% Bible: Complete Jesus Film: Yes Audio Recordings: Yes
Bairagi, Hindu of India
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Charles Spurgeon’s morning devo:

“Grow up into him in all things.”
– Ephesians 4:15
Many Christians remain stunted and dwarfed in spiritual things, so as to present the same appearance year after year. No up-springing of advanced and refined feeling is manifest in them. They exist but do not “grow up into him in all things.” But should we rest content with being in the “green blade,” when we might advance to “the ear,” and eventually ripen into the “full corn in the ear?” Should we be satisfied to believe in Christ, and to say, “I am safe,” without wishing to know in our own experience more of the fulness which is to be found in him. It should not be so; we should, as good traders in heaven’s market, covet to be enriched in the knowledge of Jesus. It is all very well to keep other men’s vineyards, but we must not neglect our own spiritual growth and ripening. Why should it always be winter time in our hearts? We must have our seed time, it is true, but O for a spring time-yea, a summer season, which shall give promise of an early harvest. If we would ripen in grace, we must live near to Jesus-in his presence-ripened by the sunshine of his smiles. We must hold sweet communion with him. We must leave the distant view of his face and come near, as John did, and pillow our head on his breast; then shall we find ourselves advancing in holiness, in love, in faith, in hope-yea, in every precious gift. As the sun rises first on mountain-tops and gilds them with his light, and presents one of the most charming sights to the eye of the traveller; so is it one of the most delightful contemplations in the world to mark the glow of the Spirit’s light on the head of some saint, who has risen up in spiritual stature, like Saul, above his fellows, till, like a mighty Alp, snow-capped, he reflects first among the chosen, the beams of the Sun of Righteousness, and bears the sheen of his effulgence high aloft for all to see, and seeing it, to glorify his Father which is in heaven.

daily reading: 1 Peter 1