Psalm 63:1-3 says “O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirst for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you” NIV. These words capture the longings of my heart. My prayer is that he will be the priority of our (including you) lives and that every other thing will be secondary.
I have been reading a book on “Boundaries” by Dr.Henry Cloud & Dr.John Townsend and have drawn great lessons on how to be saying No to those things that look urgent but are not quite the priority of my life. I have always taught people that God must always come first, Family second & Ministry third but I find myself not abiding in the same things I teach as most of my time is spend in ministry—sounds hypocritical but then it is an area of growth—I covet your prayer in this.
We have been having busy time here: Eunice has been active in meeting the prayer groups that meets in our office every week and also helping the office with HR issues. Last Sunday she was speaking in Anglican Church of Kenya here in Garissa. Last Sunday I spoke at Glory restoration sanctuary. Two of us speaking in different venues presented a good problem of who was to go with the kids—I had to go with both Tim & Ann coz it was possible for me to preach and manage them at the same time. This Sunday, I will be speaking at the Redeemed gospel Church—Pray for God to use me as his Voice.
Our Jesus film (JF) staffs have continued to work faithfully in this unfriendly environment. This week, Zakayo (JF staff) is together with Students from the University of Nairobi who are studying Medicine, Pharmacy &Dental surgery. They will be treating people during the day and showing the film during the night. Because of high illiteracy levels, Jesus film and the lives of believers might be the only “bible” this people would be able to “read” the whole of their lives. Pray for safety of the team and for God to reveal himself to the people who would be watching the film.
Kenya government is currently recruiting trained teachers and we are likely to loose some of the Teachers. We don’t pay our teachers as much as the government does and it takes those with a calling to remain with us. We have experienced high turnover of teachers as they move to the “greener pastures”. We can hardly pay a half of what others are giving.
Pray that God will bring people with a burden to serve and not people interested in money. Pray that we will get enough resources in order to give competitive remuneration to our staffs (we are about 50).
We intend to have 40 days of prayer & fasting this coming September. We ask you to consider full or partial fast. We even welcome those who will skip breakfast for those 40 days. We will not rest until we see the kingdom of God established in the hearts of Somalis, munyoywaya, Malakote, Wata, Orma, Wardei. The Knowledge of the glory of the Lord must cover this land as waters cover the sea. We hope to give you the prayer points for every single of those fort days soon. Please, shoot back if you want to be a part of this.
Lots of Blessings
Your commitment to the work of the Lord will pay off even in this life and remember Revelation 22:3 "And there shall be no more curse; but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him."
KEN,EUNICE,TIM and ANNA.
