Prayer Update August 21, 2012

Thank you for taking time to pray with us. When I am by myself I love to pray the scriptures and today I could hardly stop. I would encourage you to pray Psalm 145 and make it a personal prayer.
 Prayer requests
 
  Johnny is going to South Africa to start the process of getting visas for his wife (Tumie) and daughter (Theo) to come to the U.S. for Christmas and maybe longer, depending on where John gets a job.
  The STS clubs are gearing up for their 3rd school term of the year. This is when many of the schools tend to cancel meetings and the high school students are more and more stressed because of the major tests during this period.
  Shedrick, who is provided for in part by Enfys, is having problems with his eyes and it seems there is some concern that he will go blind despite us providing support for him to get eye surgery.
  Pray that the communication between USA and Zambia/ Tanzania would be strengthened.
  Join in prayer that God would move the right people to participate in a December trip and all the details would be worked out according to God’s will.
  Wisdom as Duane and Kathy Crumb seek God’s wisdom and direction for future seminars with HIV Hope.

 
 Heavenly Father, we come in the name of Jesus, our LORD and Savior. We exalt You, our God and our King; we will praise Your name for ever and ever. Every day we will praise You and extol Your name. Great are You LORD and most worthy of praise; Your greatness no one can fathom. We will commend Your works to the next generation. We will tell of Your mighty acts. We will speak of Your glorious splendor and of Your majesty, and will meditate on Your wonderful works for they tell of the power of Your awesome works. We will proclaim Your great deeds. We will celebrate Your abundant goodness and joyfully sing of Your righteousness.
 Lord, You are gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. Thank You that You are good to all and You have compassion on all You have made. We will praise You O LORD; we will extol You.
 As David prayed in Psalm 143, we would ask that Your good Spirit would lead John and his family on level ground. That their hope would be in You and that You would direct their path.
 We ask that You would give a peace to all the STS members. We pray that they would not forsake meeting together and they would draw strength from You and each other in this third term, with all its testing  upon them.
 We lift to You Shedrick, Your own little one, It is our desire that he would have his sight. We know that all things are in Your hands and that Your love for him is far greater than ours and that You will do what is best for him but we ask for a healing because You have said that many have not, because they ask not. We don’t want to fail to intercede for him in the strong name of Jesus.
 We are so glad that You have all things planned but we ask that You would touch the hearts of those who should go to Africa this December. Give clear direction and work out the details. We pray that just the right team will make this trip and watch what You can do with a group of ordinary people in the hands of an extraordinary God.
 You have done so much in the lives of Duane and Kathy Crumb even the last month. You are the potter and they are the clay. Use them as vessels where and when it pleases You.
 We pray that our encouragement will come from being united with Christ, our comfort from His love and our fellowship with the Spirit. Help us to make Your joy complete by being like minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Help us to do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than ourselves. Help us not only to look to our own interests but also to the interests of others. Help our attitude to be the same as Christ Jesus. In this attitude bless our ministry communication between USA, Zambia and Tanzania.
 May Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven and may we allow Your will to be done in our lives also.   Amen
 

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