Please Pray!!!

Tonight Brazil plays against the team that is number one on the World Watch List. FIFA tells us they will have 2,000 fans at the game. God, miraculously, has brought them to my city! I will be at the stadium before the game tonight. PLEASE Pray that God would do miracle upon miracle upon miracle so that at least one from that country will be saved and a church can be planted by them.

Unevangelized

According to OM's 2010 World Cup Prayer Guide Siya Thandaza, the top unevangelized countries participating in the 2010 World Cup are

1) North Korea

2) Algeria

3) Japan

4) Nigeria

5) Ivory Coast

3 of the top 5 are African countries! That's half of the teams from Africa!

North Korea continues to be on my mind. I am praying for God to work miracles on TUE 15 June when God brings them to my city! I am praying for new life though it could cost them their life!

I am going to see the US play Algeria on 23 June.

I have been asked to visit Japan from 3-13 August. The trip is baseball related, but still a God thing.

A good friend was born in Nigeria to parents on the mission field. The Christian - Muslim tension in that country has been a prayer focus for some time.

I love the color orange! I always cheer for the Netherlands and the Ivory Coast.

Please join me in praying through this list! That God would get the Gospel to the fans and players from these countries during the World Cup.

This is eye opening for me as

Oat a meal

It's Sunday morning and Joshuwa interrupts my devotional to ask for more oatmeal. We have the instant kind so it's no big deal. Except he wants chocolate and we only have "cardboard flavored" (OK - the box says creamy natural). 

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to add a scoop of Nutella to make my son's day! 

After breakfast is served I hear a chant from the other room.

"My Dad Is The BOMB!!! My Dad Is The BOMB!!! My Dad Is The Bomb!!!"

Here's my point. The devotional I was reading (#16 in Whiter Than Snow by Tripp) suggests we should be praying for prosperity. Tripp says, "When God prospers people who are living for Him, they use that blessing to serve Him all the more, and He gets glory and in this He finds great delight."

It was easy to make oatmeal for Josh. And his special request did not frustrate me - in fact, I enjoyed giving him something special. When he received it he praised me with a really cool song. 

I think I am going to ask God for something special this week so that He gets glory and great delight!