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Prayers for Missionaries
Protection From What? by Jim Reapsome
Prayers for Missionaries
Protection From What? by Jim Reapsome
- Protection from Satan's attacks on their faith and calling, tempting them to quit and go home.
- God protect their marriages and families. Protect them from doing so much work that they neglect their families.
- Protect them from getting so busy doing things for God that they forget to sit and listen to Him.
- They could forget to find unhurried time for Bible meditation and prayer.
- Protect them from losing their spirit of worship, love and devotion to you, Lord.
- Protect them from divisiveness, criticism and crankiness with each other.
- Protect their unity in Christ, their love for each other, their commitment to each other.
- Protect their willingness to serve one another, and to esteem their sisters and brothers better than themselves.
- Protect them from conflicts with local believers and national church leaders.
- Protect them from squabbling over budgets and properties.
- Protect them from misinterpreting each other's motives.
- Protection from even hinting that the way we do it in America is best.
- Protection from using their control of money to get their own way.
- Unity in Christ among missionaries and believers is so important because unbelievers watch them. So they can see and grasp the good news that God loves them so much that He sent Jesus to this world.
- Protection from defection for their souls, not their bodies.
- God protect their marriages and families. Protect them from doing so much work that they neglect their families.
- Jesus did ask God to protect his disciples, but not the kind of protection we usually think of. He warned them of what might happen. He simply asked His Father to protect the disciples "so that they be one as we are one."
- They needed protection from fighting, jealousy and clamoring for position.
- If the evil one cannot destroy their faith, he will disrupt their work by sowing dissension in their ranks.
- If he can get our missionaries or us to believe gossip and suspect each other's motives, Satan does not have to resort to terrorism.
- If he can maneuver them into head-on collisions with the national believers, he doesn't need car crashes to wipe them out.
- Lord, teach us to pray for our missionaries more effectively, daily.
- They needed protection from fighting, jealousy and clamoring for position.
