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Operation World: Reaching Out Through Prayer

All of you might be familiar with Operation World and how this media has been a great tool for all of us in our prayer life. At the end of the year, I would like to encourage each of us to spend time with your family to pray for a nation. Let’s reach out the world through prayer!

You can be part of the team that leading people to pray for nations, to reach out the world through prayer, and to make known God’s glory in nations. More about Operation World, you can:

Follow @OWTips

Find more tips here on OW Facebook page, and more Ideas For Leaders here

Join the Prayer Movement here

Are you still looking for a Christmas gift? Visit Operation World Store for more amazing gift ideas

Here’s a short link to 10 people who has been using the Operation World Book to lead and encourage people to pray for nations:

The Top 10 @OWTips Leaders of 2011

It has been an amazing year of ministry @OWTips. As the GMI team looked back over all of the interaction about prayer and Operation World resources, we were amazed at what God has done. So to celebrate, we thought we would highlight 10 of you who showed loyal and creative leadership in praying for the nations. Please take a moment to read about how praying (and tweeting) for the nations has impacted these 10 faithful prayer partners. As you read these testimonies, pray about how God might be asking you to lead others in prayer for the nations!

Which nation will you pray for at the end of this year?

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World Vision: Unwrap The True Spirit of Christmas

I posted a short story about World Vision and its vision here few months ago. Thinking of giving what to who is really drives me crazy and still cannot figure out who need what. Too many things that we can find at stores, many people have been rushing to the stores to get things that they “think” that their family “might need.”

Yet, many people, especially children, in all over the world are in need of water, food, shelter, blankets, and even more their parents to find something to make money so they can survive. These parents need financial support to start a small business, instead of depending on some other unsure resources, these parents need physical and spiritual supports. But, both parents and children do not know where they can find the help that they need, they do not know where to get whatever they need to survive, and they inly know that they are hopeless, no one care. BUT GOD knows. He cares about these people. He can provide ANYTHING that they need. He is the only one who knows every single thing that we need and provide it for us, also He is the only one who can provide for these people too.

The question is how do they know what God is the provider? how can they hear about this Good News that they have hope in Christ? where they can find help? what is our part in this?

The answer is you can only find in the Bible, the true Word of God:

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin,tit would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” (Matt 18:5-6)

These verses said by Jesus himself. Children are important and precious before God (also see in Mark 10:14-16).

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Wycliffe’s Worldwide Day of Prayer

Remembering what God has done and trusting Him to bring it all to completion

Men and women in the Bible made it a practice to remember God’s mighty acts. In Genesis 28, Jacob set a stone upright as a monument to his heavenly vision of the Lord. In Joshua 4, the Israelites constructed a memorial so that future generations might recall God’s miraculous leading. And Jesus, during the Last Supper, took bread, broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Do this in remembrance of Me.”

For Wycliffe, an annual day of worldwide prayer serves as a corporate reminder of God’s hand in the past, present, and future of Bible translation. Today—November 11, 2011—Wycliffe staff working in almost 100 countries will pause to pray for Bibleless peoples and translation work in progress around the world. It’s also an occasion to praise God for blessing this time in history with what is now the greatest acceleration of Bible translation that the world has ever known.

Every completed Bible translation is, in its own way, a memorial, a reminder of God’s faithfulness. In 1932, William Cameron Townsend completed the translated Cakchiquel New Testament to reach one of many minority people groups in Guatemala. Now, the last four Wycliffe-supported translations of the New Testament in Guatemala are scheduled for publication this year.

We celebrate this progress, and yet the mission to urgently reach the remaining Bibleless peoples in all the major regions of the world continues. Thank you for your prayerful role in this task. Our hope is that these 40 Days of Prayer served as a reminder of the more than 2,000 language groups still waiting, and also as a powerful prayer tool for advancing God’s Word to these, the last languages.

  • Join us in prayer on this special day! Go to www.wycliffe.org/DOP2011.aspx to access selected prayer requests. Intercede with us today, for the work of Bible translation.
  • Ask God to prepare the hearts of attendees for this day of unity in praise, prayer, and thanksgiving.
  • Pray that God will move mightily in response to our prayers!
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The Work that Remains

More than 2,000 Bibleless language groups are still waiting.

No generation prior to this one has been better acquainted with the idea of global community. Thanks to today’s technology, we can communicate across oceans in an instant via email, satellite phone connections, and social networking systems like Facebook and Twitter. Continuous news coverage keeps us ever-aware of global events, and information flows at a staggering pace. The borders of our world are quickly shrinking and, as stewards of this season in history, we must respond to these realities.

We must also respond to the reality of God’s character and plan. We know from Scripture that God’s plan for eternity is a wonderful mosaic of people—“a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language, standing in front of the throne and before the Lamb” (Revelation 7:9, NLT). Wycliffe’s founder, Cameron Townsend, believed that every person on earth deserves to have access to God’s Word. We honor this core belief and God’s plan for His Kingdom when we follow Jesus’ example of moving across cultural boundaries. The work is not done. Yes, our world is more connected today than ever before, but millions of people are still waiting to hear the truth of God’s Word in their own language for the first time. Remember them today, and the vision and mission of Bible translation.

  • Pray that the Lord will create a hunger and thirst for Himself in those who have not yet heard. Pray that He will create a desire for His Word among those who have trusted in Him but lack the Scriptures in appropriate forms in their language.
  • Pray for workers to be called and sent to each group. Pray that God will call skilled and passionate mother-tongue translators and advocates from within groups needing the Scriptures.
  • Pray for unity among churches, mission partners and individual believers working to share the gospel and the Scriptures with the group. Pray for fruit produced by the Holy Spirit.

Truly, the need is great. Take a moment to watch this video as a reminder of the need to reach the last languages with God’s Word.

Resource: Wycliffe Pray Today Blog

 

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What Can A Person Do?

Making a difference for Bible translation

With a mission and vision as big as Bible translation for every people group on earth that needs it, what can one person do to make a difference?

A few months ago, Wycliffe USA’s Prayer Ministries Department received a visit from a very special guest, a man named Richard Smalley. On a trip to Orlando, Florida, Richard stopped by to see the headquarters of Wycliffe Bible Translators USA and visit a team of people that he had never met, but was closely connected to. Richard said, “One time I called Prayer Ministries, and they said, ‘Everyone here knows you.’”

In 1990, Richard came across a magazine with a Wycliffe ad on the back, promoting the Bibleless Peoples Prayer Project. It invited Christians to contact Wycliffe to receive the name of a Bibleless people group to pray for, and to stand as an intercessor until a Bible translation program began for that people group. Richard asked Wycliffe for a couple of names and began praying that year. Later, God led him to sign up for more. “God burdened my heart to pray for them,” Richard said. “They were in the jungles, and there was no other way to reach them.”

On average, prayer partners with the Bibleless Peoples Prayer Project pray for one to three language groups. Today, Richard Smalley—still a dedicated intercessor after more than 20 years—prays for about 700 people groups. A custodian from Harrison, New York, Richard spends two hours a day before work going through his list of Bibleless peoples asking God to “bring the translations forth.” He said, “Even before I start praying I begin with a special prayer…praising God and thanking God, asking Him to hear the prayers. It’s amazing what He can do.”