I have been encouraging our mission team to be very prayerful during the planning of our mission trip about the role they will have on the team and in the lives of people we come in contact with. It is really exciting to see them so ready to go and ready to experience something new in their lives as a Believer.
During our time early in our preparation we have been working thru a short-term missions workbook. We read through Phil 2:6-11.... then turned it into a prayer for our team. I encouraged them to pray this Scripture over their lives in preparation for our mission trip.
Praying...
Lord Jesus, Thank you for working in my life. As I pray for our mission trip to Romania, I ask you to work in the hearts of our team mates and myself.
I pray for:
- encouragement in Christ, to be drawn to His Word, to choose to study the Word, for encouragement comes from Your Word.
- let love fill my heart and be the motivation for all I do
- to be united throught the Holy Spirit with my team mates
- to have a tender heart that is willing to hear first, listen and have compassion and mercy for others on my team and who I meet on the mision field
- fill our team with the joy that comes from being like-minded, having the same love of Christ
- our team to be one, operate as one in the Spirit and in purpose.
- to do nothing out of vain conceit, but in humility to consider others better than ourselves
- to look not to our own interests, but also to the interest of others
I praise You, Father, that it is You who works in me to will and act according to His good purpose.
Take captive my every thought, that I might do everything without grumbling and arguing, so that I may be blameless and pure, a child of God who is faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom You shine like the stars in the world.
Lord, May the peace of God, which surpasses every thought, guard my heart and mind in Jesus Christ!
Amen!
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