TIME TO PRAY
“For he says, ‘In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.’ I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.” (2 Corinthians 6:2)
Happy New Year! As 2022 is behind us and we enter a new year, it’s easy to reflect on time’s past as well as what time will hold moving forward. Time is a funny thing. It’s the one thing we all have the same amount of: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. But it is in how we spend that time in which each of us has a choice to make… working, sleeping, eating, playing, studying. Read Ecclesiastes 3:1-8. Solomon shares with us that there’s a time for everything and a season for every activity under heaven.
Timing is important! When I wake up in the morning, I pray that I’m in God’s will for that day. As I pray this for my family too, God gives me peace knowing there’s no safer or better place to be. It may not always be fun or easy, but my schedule and time are in God’s perfect timing and will. My (our) timing and will don’t always match up with God’s. Resenting his timing can lead to doubt and despair. There have been days of impatience, wanting my way now, but He has graciously shown me His timing is best and to trust in Him.
There may be days when we run out of time and ask God to stretch it. Or long days that seem to never end. What about those days when we get distracted by the silly things in life and waste time? Or spend time worrying? God says in Philippians 4:6, “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God!”
Philippians says “everything by prayer;” prayer is the key! Now is the time to pray! Pray for God’s favor over our lives, our families, our nation, and our world. We thank God for His timing when He sent His only Son to redeem the world. Pray for the salvation of those who have not chosen Him as their Savior. Pray for Kevin, Andrew and Wendy, and the Palau ministry as they sacrificially spend their time proclaiming the Gospel globally.
Please take the time to join us in prayer on Tuesday, January 24th. You’ll receive a great update on LPA’s past, present, and future, as well as time to PRAY! Like Andrew says “The best is yet to come!” God says in 1 John 2:17 “The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.”
Praying in Jesus’ Name and Will,
Gail Stockamp
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
PRAYER REPORT
Please enjoy opening the update below and keeping all the regions in your prayers: