The Power of Prayer

I realize that these post are not very exciting yet. The key word here is "yet." In less than two weeks, actually in 12 days, we will be landing in Lilongwe, Malawi.

Our time of training at Field Personnel Orientation (FPO) was one awesome experience. I wished we had time to sit down and go over our note with you but that would take about eight weeks. Thanks to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, we feel better prepared now, for this journey, than we did two months ago.

We face many unknowns but know that the Holy Spirit will be guiding us all the way. He has been working among the Tumbuka people long before we even knew who the Tumbuka were. He will be working among them long after we are gone. The ideal situation is that we will help them start a healthy church planting movement, give them guidance and train the local leaders that God calls out and we will leave. It is not the missionaries from the U.S that will bring Christ to the Tumbuka people but the Tumbuka people themselves.

The first and most important ingredient in a healthy church planting movement is where you come in. That is prayer. The power of God can be called down from Heaven by prayer. Elijah knew that when he challenged the prophets of Baal. They prepared the alter, placed the sacrifice on it, and earnestly prayed all day with no results. Then Elijah prepared the alter, and placed a cut up bull on the wood to be sacrificed. To further demonstrate the awesome power of God he soaked everything with water. He even dug a trench and filled it. He then stepped up to the alter and prayed to God. God sent His fire from Heaven and consumed the offering, wood, stone alter, and the dust. The fire even lapped the water from the trench. When the people of Israel witnessed this, they fell on their face and proclaimed, "Yahweh is God." (1 Kings 18:20-40)

Don't worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your request be made known to God. Philippians 4:6

Please come again. As the snail said to his friend, as they climbed on the back of the turtle, "Hang on Ralph, here we go." The excite is just beginning.