Paula's Prayer

For more than five years our staff has had a weekly evening Bible study. Not compulsary, yet we have always had full participation. Together, we have grown and truly experienced life as a body.

Last night during our prayer time, Paula, Jack's wife, prayed a simple prayer:

"Father, thank you for this awesome group of people."

These awesome people. We are friends. We are family. We are a community. We are acting as a true cross-cultural missionary team. "Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ." (Galatians 6:2)

While the Lord is overflowing us with financial blessings and the largest graduation service we have ever had on Monday night, the enemy is attacking us with discouragement and despair.

So, last night we studied much Scripture, humbled ourselves before one another in prayer, and fought a good fight of faith. (1 Timothy 6:12)

Paula said, "That Bible study was like a spiritual retreat!" How the Lord can make two hours seem like an entire weekend retreat is a gift to all of us.

This afternoon we are meeting in the chapel to fast and pray for one another and continue to seek God. If you think of us, please pray for unity and love to prevail.

"We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory."

2 Corinthians 4:8-11, 16&17