Items to pray about: New Bible Study Group in San Isidro, Bible Study Groups, English Classes and Tutoring. We are trying to help work on a Nikkei evangelism event that will be occurring in South America in October and November of this year. Please pray for all of the details from: financial, logistics, developing the cooperation of many people in many countries, etc, etc.. Pray for Matt as he studies Spanish and adjust to life overseas.
This week I believe I had some key meetings with some Nikkei leaders that a month ago I had no idea that they would be in Lima. Please pray that some of the ministry possibilities that are being discussed will take shape and come to fruition.
Meeting new people and forming new groups. We need wisdom and discernment when we share and how we share. We need to be very careful to speak within a cultural contextual norm so that we can be understood.
We need to pray and be dependent on God. Please pray for many people in our world that are lost and dying without a personal relationship with God.
PRAISE: A young man that is a baseball coach started coming to our home after the baseball clinic for English and Bible study. A few weeks ago he accepted Christ. Every time he has come he has brought the same friend with him. Please pray for his friend (T), he has yet to make a decision.
God’s Blessings and Peace, The Mitchell’s
I hope the following verses encourage us to pray and give us patience to keep on keeping on…Pray that we would all grow up into the place of walking in love.
Ephesians 5: 1 & 2 ; 6: 10 -19
Walk in Love
5 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
The Whole Armor of God
10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. 14 Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. 16 In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one;17 and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,18 praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints, 19 and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel,20 for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly, as I ought to speak.
The attack on the church and all things Christian seems to be relentless, but we have a special responsibility as believers to speak.
A key question in verse 10 is, where does the strength come from?
The Lord
Let us all speak in love at the appropriate moments…
Thanks for taking the time to read this. Thanks for your prayers because we truly believe prayer is the key to opening the hearts and minds of all people.
