Daily Prayer 11/8/07

1 John 4:1 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Father here John turns our focus to the important of love of truth and a pure Gospel. What an important verse You have given us here. From the time of satan tempting Eve in the garden of Eden to today, satan's desire is to attack truth and lead us astray. (In case you do not remember how satan attacked God's truth see Genesis 3:4-5) Satan is not a wicked beast concerned with the unchurched...they are no threat to him. It's truth that he must battle against. He desires to distort and lead the church astray....Father do not let us be so closed minded that we will not examine what we believe against what Your Word says, yet do not let us be so open minded we will accept every new teaching that comes along. Give us a healthy skepticism so we will search the Scriptures and trust the Bible for the answer. The verse even says the world is filled with many false teachers. Let us test Christian teaching to measure it's purity and value.

We thank You so much for the birth of Baby Aubrie today. Crystal and Adam must be so happy! We are so thankful for a healthy baby! We have learned not to take this for granted. Now draw Crystal and Adam to Yourself. I pray this miracle of life will give them a fire in their hearts to want to get to know Christ more.

We also pray for our friends 5 year old daughter Aubrey. Her dialysis equipment broke and must be fixed. Her toxicity levels have gone up and the platelets are still way low. She seems to be improving very slowly. She had to be sedated today to get the feeding tube back in. She has been throwing up and lost her feeding tube. Still a lot to pray for. We thank You Father for the improvement.

We pray for Adam and Mindy Lord that You would hold their broken hearts in Your hands. Hold them close to Your heart and give them peace knowing their little girl is with You and now so much better off than us. Encourage them in the way You continue to use her in our lives. Help them to cope with the struggles of having their little boy Thaddeus develop with another bad heart. We pray for a good outcome. First You got our attention with Emma and brought us to Your Son Jesus Christ. Now may Thaddeus be Your worker on this earth to now physically call people to Your Son to follow Him in faith and hope. We pray he will grow up to be Your servant. Make them a holy family who serves Christ Jesus in faith and truth.

Lord we pray for Pastor Samuel in India who is our brother whom we will spend all eternity with by faith in Christ. We pray for his wife Deepa and their two sons. We pray for Jesudas and Prahbudas who are working so hard for You there. Bless Prahbudas who serves so faithfully at Emma's school there. He rides his bike so far each day to get there and expects no pay. I thank You for Samuel and Deepa's love for him and willingness to care for him. Bless them all Lord. Bless the children who live in terrible conditions and come to Emma's school for food and education. I pray especially for the Muslim children that they may know You the true and living God and the True Prophet who is God who became flesh to die for our sins and who truly rose from the dead and truly ascended into heaven, the Christ who we will see come again on the clouds with the angels in glory to judge the earth. I hope we can show them in some way how much we love them and are praying for them. Maybe we can get a jar to save our change to offer to them. Change is like crumbs to us. Will we not even share our crumbs with them?

For Stanley in Buduburam. Things are hard for him as You know Lord. I pray someone there will offer him some help and care for him. I hope they can return to Liberia soon.

Our co-worker Darlene who's mother is sick and now she is also sick. She has bronchitis....pretty bad too....heal her and teach her to relax and give her freedom from her stress. You Lord Jesus should be her "center". We love her and care about her.

For all our families, children, friends and co-workers.....be with us and You know each of our needs. Forgive us as we admit our sins and help us to not keep sinning the same sins over and over but conform us to the image of Your Son.

In Christ's Name we pray...Amen.