Things To Pray For In December
John Piper writes,
“Prayer has the wonderful capacity to highlight our emptiness and God’s fullness at the same time. It is wonderfully suited to express our inadequacy and God’s all-sufficiency.”
How true that is! By ourselves, we are profoundly inadequate, which is exactly why we need to fall on our knees and cry out to our all-sufficient God for His divine help. Oh how we need Him!
So here’s how you can be praying for us in the month ahead…
Please pray for Bob Kauflin and the SG Music Team who will be hitting the road again to run a number of ‘Prepare Him Room’ concerts this month. Evenings of Scripture, prayer, and the singing of songs from our Christmas albums - Prepare Him Room and Heaven Has Come. As they head to Living Hope Church in Harrisburg (3-4 December), Cornerstone Church Knoxville (5 December), Lakeview Christian Church in New Orleans (11 December), and Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville (13 December), please pray that the message that is proclaimed would save lives. Surely hope has come!
Please pray for the many Christmas outreaches of Family of Grace Church, our partner church in Wang Yang, Nakhon Phanom, Thailand. Please pray that the gospel would go forward with power and open many blind eyes to glorious person and work of Jesus Christ in this unreached community.
Please pray for Josh Montague (Chaska), and Ryan Chase (Sioux Falls) as they visit the Phillipines with TLI. Steve Whitacre as he heads to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to teach at the Pastors College, and Centre Church, Gilbert, AZ and Cornerstone Church Knoxville, as they send a small missions team to Rancho 3M.
Please pray for Ed O’Mara, SGC Area Leader for Europe, as he heads to the UK to visit London, Bristol and Swansea, both to strengthen existing partnerships and friendships, as well as help to cultivate new ones. Please pray that the Lord would give him great wisdom as he seeks to serve well on this trip.
Please pray for Jeffrey Jo, Lead Pastor of CCSGM in Cavite, Philippines, and Regional Leader of SGC Philippines, as he heads to Mindanao to teach at our Philippines Pastors Institute on hermeneutics and homiletics, as well as care for the pastors and wives in their marriages in that region. May Jeff and his wife Jeannie, be a wonderful blessing to all of our pastors and wives in Mindanao, and may much fruit come as a result of this trip.
Please pray that God would give us all opportunities, wherever we might live around the world, to invite unbelievers and the unchurched to Sovereign Grace churches as we hold our Christmas related events and service this month, and that as we do eyes may be opened to the glories of Christ. Pray also for opportunities to share the gospel with unbelieving friends, family members, neighbours, and coworkers over the holiday season… Who knows all that He may do through that.
…. Truly, may His all-sufficient grace abound to us all!!