Prayer Meeting: May 2012

Call to Prayer ~ Request for His Presence:

Psalm 66:7-8  Bless our God, you peoples, make the voice of his praise be heard, who holds our souls in life, and will not allow our feet to slip.

Worship and Thanks:  

For the reminder of the Word and for living examples of the blessing of laboring in prayer...  

Intercession ~ Requests:

For strength, deepening of faith in this sister who has trusted Christ

For new tutors for both of us, for increased language learning this summer and for contact with a new community of U students by these new tutors

For softening, tilling of soil in the hearts of U students in this town, our friends some of whom have heard much of the Gospel now and some new students here who may have never heard

For the Uyghur church in XinJiang....  many followers of Christ there are disconnected form other believers, pray for strength, encouragement for lonely believers,

Pray for humble, devoted-to-the-Word leadership for the small church there

Pray for courage, strength in the Spirit and wisdom to withstand persecution, to do all that they can.... to stand

Pray for boldness for the Gospel to continue to spread out from the small church of believers among the Uyghur people

Pray for our brother who is still in chains because of Christ, Alim, and for his wife and sons who are still serving him in prison and clinging to grace for their lives.  

Pray for Revival....  let us approach the throne of grace boldly that we might see a great move of the Holy Spirit to pour over this whole land and draw multitudes of Uyghurs- young and old, families, singles, to himself, for his praise.  Build your church Oh Lord God!

Surrender:

Our plans... where to live...  move?  when?  what work might give us access, to who?  How can we serve?  Don’t let us be led by human wisdom Lord!

Assurance~  His Faithfulness, His Promises:

Revelation 7: 9-14  He will do as he has said.... the success of this work is not due to our smarts or strength but what grace that we can throw our lives into this endeavor!  And oh my we invest our days and all of our whole selves wisely to his glory, for his praise!