"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight."
Proverbs 3:5-6
This week’s church planting movement principle is: Keep It Simple to Multiply. In Matthew 13:23 we read: “But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” As we go out to make disciples that make other disciples, remember simple things reproduce; simple things multiply. Sowing into good soil means investing in the people who are ready and able to understand the message of the gospel. You will reproduce what you model, so simplify your message and your methods. Whatever you do should be easily reproducible by those to whom you are sent. Ask the Holy Spirit to fill your mouth with the right words brought in the right way at the right time to the right person. Pray disciple makers humbly and simply sow the Word in ways that are easily reproducible.
Ask God this week to give everyone involved in church planting movements a sense of their connectedness to the family of Christ as children of God. Practice listening to Holy Spirit daily for where He is sending you to prepare His way.
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Unreached People Groups:
Sunday - Dar Hamid
Monday - Baggara, Messiria
110 Cities for this Week are: KHARTOUM, Sudan and DAR ES SALAM, Tanzania
PRAYER FOR JEWS, ISRAEL, & ONE NEW MAN:
Justice and Strength for Defenders
Favor of God as a Witness to the Nations
Lord of Armies, release Your favor over the Jews and the nation of Israel so that the nations recognize and come to seek You.
Zechariah 8:20-23 ““The Lord of armies says this: ‘It will yet turn out that peoples will come, that is, the inhabitants of many cities. The inhabitants of one city will go to another, saying, “Let’s go at once to plead for the favor of the Lord, and to seek the Lord of armies; I also will go.” So many peoples and mighty nations will come to seek the Lord of armies in Jerusalem, and to plead for the favor of the Lord.’ The Lord of armies says this: ‘In those days ten people from all the nations will grasp the garment of a Jew, saying, “Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.”’”
PRAYER FOR WORLD IN CRISIS:
New Mercies Each Morning
Faithful Father, for every Jesus follower, help us remember that Your mercies are new every morning. Thank You for Your great faithfulness through whatever crises we experience!
Lamentations 3:22-25 “Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for his mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness! I say, “The Lord is my portion; therefore, I will put my hope in him” The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the person who seeks him.”
