Sharing Christ on the streets of El Salvador.
Sunrise - Sunset Monthly Prayer Day
Recently in Canada we were told by a 30-year senior staff director
of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association that for the last
half-century whenever Dr. Graham would arrive at a Crusade target
city, he immediately called for a meeting with the local crusade
committee. When gathered, the great evangelist's very first question
to them was not: "How many churches are involved with us?" or,
"How is the money coming in for expenses?" or, "Do we have enough
volunteers?" or, "Is every detail well organized?"
Instead, Mr. Graham invariably and humbly asked the Crusade committee
chairmen then and still first asks them today: "Are the people
PRAYING? Are they PRAYING?...".God has spoken to our hearts as board members. Perhaps we cannot
all GO, or even all GIVE, but every one of us and our wives and
even our children can and must PRAY for:
GLOBEWORKS, International outreaches and the salvation of multitudes;
Discipleship of thousands of children, youth and adults from so
many cultures and creeds and colors;
The planting of new baby churches in cooperation with our foreign
host ministry teams;
Our medical missions of mercy in Christ;
Our native pastor Bible training seminars teaching hundreds, even
thousands of national indigenous workers each year;
Our provision of GLOBEWORKS' purchased equipment gifted to partner churches and ministries
overseas who are of high integrity and accountability.
During an outreach in Kenya.
We CAN, we MUST all "PRAY" each month as we receive mission news
from the Director, Reverend Cutlip, concerning the true, viable,
continuous, stable, proven "FRUIT" of our GLOBEWORKS' ministries at home and abroad.
Dr. Oswald Sanders, former Director of Overseas Missionary Fellowship,
founded by J. Hudson Taylor, has written:
"Thou art coming to your King
Large petitions with thee bring.
For His grace and power are such
None can ever ask too much."
Among the Tuva people in northern Russia.
It was Leonard Ravenhill who said, "Our ministries need fewer
ORGANIZERS and more AGNONIZERS." Yet PRAYER is an amazing paradox,
a blending of simplicity and complexity, of agony mixed with ecstasy.
PRAYER can be local or global, it can roam the world at will.
It is the most preached upon and the least practiced. All agree
we should pray more, but few Christians actually pray more!
To a mature disciple and Board member of GLOBEWORKS, God's interests, His passions, His will MUST be without peer.
Immature Christian prayers always revolve around SELF. But, mature
Christian prayers are totally occupied with God and His dreams
for us, not ours for Him.