The Ephesian 4:11-16 Seminars
The fellowship meal held at the end of our time together.
- The Seminars went a little different than I expected.
- The challenge was especially on what divides us and how to work that out biblically.
- We primarily had believers from 3 churches attend and there is openness to accept each other.
It was a step forward in networking the Persian believers from refugee backgrounds.
More Prayer Gone Wrong?? (prayer journal)
Tuesday March 5, 2019
Father in heaven I pray especially for Ha….. today, and his potential 3 hour court hearing to see if he gets asylum or not.
Please strengthen him and place words in his mouth that will testify to salvation in Jesus Christ alone. Help him in his path for refuge and move him thru all this to a real and deep knowledge of You, living as a son of the most high God, living in grace and giving grace because he understands the grace You have given him thru faith in Jesus Christ. Bless him and help him especially today during the interview. Give him all the support he needs and help him and all those in the court room to feel Your presence and turn in repentance to your ways of truth and grace. I thank you Father in heaven for hearing and answering this prayer above and beyond all I can ask or think. AMEN
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Father in heaven I can not see how Ha…… could possibly have an impactful word to bring those in the court room by Your grace to a saving knowledge of You. He confessed his lies and revealed all the dirt to try and get asylum, he also made mistakes that made him look untruthful and his words unbelievable. Although he was trying to be truthful and congruent to his conscience, it seemed to turn on him.
(On thing for sure his honesty must have impacted the judge, because a 3 hour hearing turned into a 10 hour hearing.) Only Jesus can save him, because there was certainly nothing there to build on in his own works salvation to receive asylum. I have the feeling he is a true born again believer because after he confessed and everything went wrong, he looked at us and said he now has peace. I guess the Holy Spirit was convicting him, and he was just confessing the truth to get a clean conscience. I assume Ha…… just needed peace with God, no matter what. He may have to go back to Afghanistan at the price of peace with God, but he seemed to have peace on the inside. What a different outcome than what I expected when I prayed for him yesterday.
Thank you for your prayers and support!
More from last weeks prayer journal:
I was looking forward to going home early, and then S…. asked me how to forgive someone who did something incredibly evil to someone he loves. I told him it will probably have to become a process to forgive such a person, and not a one time decision to do so. That the ability to forgive someone like that has to be supernatural. S…. asked me how I would do it, and I told him I can’t. I would need Christ’s help. It is like you are asking me to forgive my enemies. I can’t do that, I need help and over time it can happen. I also have to make a conscience effort to forgive, taking steps toward forgiveness as the Holy Spirit leads me. He said, yes if the one I love and I can forgive that person, then we have grown in character. I said, yes,…….. in Christ like character.
Looking back Lord, I was drained by such incidents, and yet I see Your hand was in all that to build Your kingdom. Your kingdom is build so much more different than anyone would build a kingdom. You build it on suffering sacrifice and death thru torture, while we build on pride. I have so much to learn.
Thank You Father in heaven that I can be Your son and a student of Your ways, and You are helping me to put off all my prideful ways. Amazing.
In Jesus Christ name I pray, AMEN.
