Emails from friends...

....are wonderful! They are so much easier and quicker that postal....pictures of recent events are right at your fingertips.

The following email excerpt came from a dear power-prayer friend in Albany, Georgia. It was a long email from a missionary friend who evidently had just gotten back to their mission field after a long overdue vacation to their home state. I only copied one part of the prayer request but I figured that many of us know missionaries and we could pray the same things over them all.

I believe in prayer for all the obvious reasons but back in the 80's God had put some friends of ours on my heart (heavily laden) to pray for. After several weeks of this burden over them. I called Larry's mother about their work. She informed me that they were under tons of spiritual warfare in Uganda and had been held captive a few times, once w/gun shots fired. (one shot went into the wall right above Sharon's head) So since the 80's I have believed more in prayer especially when you are burdened for someone. Anyhow, please see the following and pray for those missionaries you may know or don't know.

But wait! What about your own neighborhood, are you not a missionary there? I believe that God's words tells us this. So pray these requests over each other....and let us be amazed at what God will do in and thru our lives!!!!!

Pray for our passion and purpose to be Christ and Christ alone.
Ask that none feel their labors of love over

the years have been in vain.
Ask that we are able to walk in a spirit of surrender

and that apathy would not creep into our hearts.
Ask that the Lord God Almighty grant that each of us take heed to the ministry which we have received in Him, and that

we would fulfill it for His glory.
Pray that as a people we are able to spur one another on, challenging and encouraging each other to be

all He has created us to be.
Pray we are purified in the process and that we are

made holy as He is holy.