Editor’s Note: We’ve already shared that GCA President Steve Childers is currently in West Africa, leading a group of indigenous church leaders in the GCA 2010 West Africa Church Planting Institute. Some supporters have known about this for awhile and have been kind enough to commit their prayers to writing and share them with us. In the spirit of coming together as an online community in prayer, we are passing along some of these prayers with you. Please take this opportunity to join with us in prayer!
Gracious and Powerful Lord,
We commit Steve, his travels, his teaching, his partners on the journey, and his family as they remain to you.
We ask for wisdom as he teaches, sensitivity to the workings of the Holy Spirit, insight into the gifts and challenges of his translators and images that teach in powerful pictures the lessons you would have the pastors who hear learn.
Allow the lessons to be woven into the hearts of all who participate. Open Steve’s heart to the messages with which you would have him bring home. Join hearts together in the Hope of your Kingdom Come and in the work that is here now.
Protect all the families who remain and lend your travel mercies to those who join together. Fill up the participants with a mighty outpouring of the Holy Spirit that they might be refreshed, encouraged and empowered.
Provide good soil for the seeds which are sown. Send water and sun to nourish them. Raise up harvesters to reap the Word in deed and in their thoughts. Hold back the thorns that would choke your harvest. Protect the footpaths of those who would work and not damage the fields. Allow patience for your timing and what you will bring forth. Let there be rejoicing in all that you provide. We give you the Glory!
“O Taste and See that the Lord is Good!”
We lift all these things up in the name of Jesus,
Amen.