Prayer Requests and Prayer Points
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1. Equip international students ( Shalom , Jack, Sarah, Enrico ) to reach nations for Christ ! 2. Bill, my husband, and his 74 people team will be all safe and well to finish their 10km marathon tomorrow ( Jan 21) 3. Successful Support development and fund raise this year ! 4. Parents are well this year so I could travel for annual conference in USA in June ! All glory to God. Praise Him for all His blessings.
Tim Sigman - ISI Director of Prayer Initiatives - Awesome answer to prayer this week. Doyin who attended World Changers shared on our Zoom prayer call that she had an answer to prayer this week. She received her work permit. She now leads to get a job by the end of January. Let's pray with her for the timely provision of a job. Jesus you are a Way Maker. We ask you to make a way for our sister. Jesus we ask this in your mighty name, Amen!
1. Prayer Movements with our groups gathering at homes, campus, restaurants, marketplace & church altars. We are crying out for Awakening & Revival in our City. Fe Campus-Church-Community. Our Prayer+Vision for this year is More in ‘24. To be a Channel of blessing 24/7 ⬅️✝️➡️ more of Jesus inside/out. 2. My wife Angie’s mom Linda in a Southeast MO battling cancer. Doctors told her this past Christmas could be her last here with us. Pray with us for an extension of life for many more years. 3. My long time friend & “Run for God” Coach group leader donated his kidney last Wed & they are both recovering. Pray all things work out. 4. Our New Bible Study group at Webster U. we are moving to a new night this new semester. Pray for R.A director Bethany Plants & husband Stephen as they lead 5. Bishal from Nepal Webster U just moved for a 3 month training in Fairfax VA then will be given a job in IT to stay here..he has kept from accepting our Lord to not dishonor his mom but under a lot of conviction to accept. Pray for connections in Fairfax VA & for his return to St.Louis in Spring to graduate. He needs help to process and get a green card now. 6. I need to get an extra vehicle-preferably a mini van or utility vehicle to haul equipment & students. 7.Pray for our Filipino students, alums & new to support for our work. That they would reach out to the Filipino restaurants & marketplace business to partner with our ministry. 8. Pray that God will use these International Students to bring the Next Great Awakening worldwide edition-all at the same time in 2024 ignited in the Heart of America St.Louis-KCMO to Ripple worldwide 9. To prep for 9000 New International Students at SLU- St.Louis Univ. 10. Pray for more workers, volunteers to come on norad with us. Pray we can put our ISI workers as students, staff, on campus starting in the international student office.
Pray for our director's sister to have the right mix of medication that would allow her to stay in the assisted living place where she has been longer. Intercede also for strength and wisdom for Carol and her family as they navigate this new season. Pray also for another one of our leaders who was recently diagnosed with cancer. Please him up for healing, for their family and children processing this, and that all he is going through would be a testimony. May nonbelieving students be pointed to God and believing students be drawn into a closer relationship with Jesus. Praise God for his provision with our staff's increased capacity to serve this year. Intercede for spiritual protection and physical well-being for all of them and their families.
I ask for prayer for the Southern California Mobilization Working Day we are hosting next Saturday (Jan 27th)? We are gathering a few staff and volunteers from around the Southern California area, and taking a day to think about how we can mobilize better. We will be guiding them through some exercises that will hopefully result in an action plan that can be followed by the teams. We need magnitudes more people if we are to reach the students here, and I'm praying this will be a step towards a much needed expansion in our ministry.
Please join me in praying for A, an Ir*anian student who is finishing her PhD this semester. Yesterday she shared many worries & anxieties that she is facing right now. Pray that Jesus would reveal Himself to her in an undeniable way in the midst of this season of stress & anxiety. Pray for favor for her to find a job near Beaumont as she finishes her PhD or to lead her to a new community with believers who will love her well.
Please pray God's favor on ISI's Solomon & Ruby Kendagor who have been ministering in Kenya and Uganda on a 44 day mission trip teaching M-28, Discipleship, Leadership, & Marriage & Family Conferences. Today in Koitumo & Saturday in Makutano, Kenya. Journey Mercies home to St., Louis, Missouri January 23-24
Personal Prayer Request - Please pray for my dad as he recovers from a heart procedure that the Lord will heal his heart completely and will strengthen his muscles to have a full recovery. Please pray also for my mom and my sister as they joyfully take care for him. Thank you Lord for all your provisions along the way through the cardiologist, the physical therapist and the nutritionist. So grateful for how you have been using this time to strengthen our relationship as a family and with you even more. Thank you for the amazing way you have been bringing my dad closer to you every day 🤍 Please keep providing time for me to connect with my family at the distance and to be with them every day, even if it is a small amount of time I pray that you will use it meaningfully to feel united with each other. Thank you Lord for who you are, for the special and unique way you love us and and for the amazing ways you always provide! - I pray in the name of your beloved son, Jesus Christ, Amén!
Pray for God’s leading and direction for our director as she is trying to decide how to start a Discovery Bible Study about Jesus. This could possibly be through a regular home group time or a separate avenue entirely. Lift up our international believing students and staff who attended the World Changers Conference from Dec 28th-Jan 2nd. May they put into action what they learned, so that they can grow the kingdom and be a light for Jesus. Ask God to provide abundantly as home gorups are beginning again. Pray for volunteers to welcome the internationals as their own and love them as themselves—always remembering the Lord as God in everything that they do (Leviticus 1:34).
Pray for the team who is meeting and asking God to show us what is next for the THRIVE women's ministry. In the past we have offered seminars for international women and for ISI women. We need God's direction about what He desires from us during this season. We need creativity and insight so that our efforts will be need-driven rather than program-driven.
Praise God for bringing great new volunteers to ISI, KC. Pray for his blessing and provision over them as they are trained and continue praying for more volunteers with passion and commitment. Praise God for how our director Carol has poured into this ministry and continues to do so faithfully. Ask God to lead someone to her who she can disciple and prepare to pass on this role in the next few years—and for provision and rest in the waiting. Praise God for Journey to Judea and all the ISI Christmas parties. Pray for hearts to continue to be stirred in the following months and years and for opportunities in follow up conversations. May volunteers and staff never cease to honor Christ the Lord as holy—and always be prepared to give a defense for the hope in us with gentleness and respect (1 Peter 3:15).
