The Assemblies of God Nigeria Evangel Daily Meal 30 July 2024: Pray for Missionaries. The strength to strive to the end depends on our prayer for each other.
Tuesday 30th July, 2024
TOPIC: PRAY FOR MISSIONARIES
📖 TODAY’S TEXT:
John 4:34-38
🔑 KEY VERSE:
"Say not ye, there are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest" (John 4:35)
🖊️ Evangel Daily Meal 30 July 2024 COMMENTARY
On January 19, 2022, Open Doors, an international NGO advocating on behalf of persecuted Christians, released their annual report. The World Watch List assesses 50 countries where Christians face the most severe types of persecution.
The newly published data reveals significant changes in the situation of Christian minorities around the world. According to the research, the persecution of Christians has reached the highest levels since the World Watch List began nearly 30 years ago. “Across 76 countries, more than 360 million Christians suffer high levels of persecution and discrimination for their faith – an increase of 20 million since 2021.” 312
million Christians live in the top 50 countries alone. One in every seven Christians live under at least high levels of persecution or discrimination for their faith.
This may look frightening, but it is also a clarion call for Christians to be encouraged and continue with the Great Commission”…Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” The persecution of Christians and Missionaries should be to us one of the signs of the ripeness of the field and not a threat capable of preventing us from fulfilling this mandate.
From our text today, we can see that Jesus wants his disciples and by implication today’s Christian to focus on the readiness of the field not the persecution that will be experienced. Knowing that the rewards promised by God are greater than the challenges.
No wonder, Paul after he had received a strong prophetic warning from a New Testament Prophet, Agabus, not to go to Jerusalem, insisted on going, he said, “…l am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ.” (Acts 21:13). In all of this, Paul requested the Church to pray for him because there were many adversary against his evangelistic open doors.
Today, the demand for prayer on behalf of missionaries and Christians all over the world is becoming necessary.
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Isaiah 54-58
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🎚 CONTROLLING THOUGHTS
The strength to strive to the end is dependent on our prayer for each other.
🙏🏿 PRAYER
Oh! God of the Harvest, please encourage the Missionaries, our brother and sisters in Christ going through one
form of persecution or the other, help them to stand for you to the end.
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