October 2013 Blog Posts (30)

Christian Library International takes donations of used Christian books, Bibles (large print and Spanish are especially needed) and places them with prison chaplains for their lending libraries or as gifts to prisoners. It is a wonderful opportunity to show love and tell prisoners about Jesus.

The Christian Library International stamp is placed in each book that goes out so the prisoners may request to do a Bible study. It is a very worthwhile ministry that people here at…

Pray for your Grandchildren to find God's Favor like Noah was a righteous and blameless man, among the people of his time, and he walked with God. God saw that the earth was filled with corruption, violence and depravity however, Noah did all that the Lord commanded him to do.¹

Since creation, it had not rained…

“Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability.

For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.”…

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 234 | Wed 30 Oct 2013



by Elizabeth Kendal 



* Supporting International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church

* IDOP 2013: Sunday 3 November

* See http://criticalprayerrequests.blogspot.com



WELCOME to the intercessors who have joined the list this month.





OCTOBER 2013 UPDATE - During Oct we prayed concerning . . .…

“Tomorrow there’ll be another tidal wave, so keep your snorkel above the water level.”

- President George Bush, quoting his mother’s advice about staying calm

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Grandma Buchan was a very wise woman, and she had a fascinating theory on church growth. Well, actually, her theory had to do with restaurants, but many of the same principles apply to churches.

      “Jimmy, I never go to a restaurant if the parking lot isn’t full,” she told me firmly one day.

      I had never thought about restaurants that way. In fact, it seemed to me that there should be other…

“Whosoever walks toward God one cubit, God  runs toward him twain.”

- Anonymous

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In the Northwest, we are having great autumn weather with the awesome colors, seeing beautiful reds, oranges, yellow and golden leaves. The other day while driving down the street, seeing the beautiful trees I was reminded of the seasons we experience each year and compared them to our lives.   

I was thinking that when we are in our childhood years, we are like the…

Encouraging people to pray for their friends, co-workers, family and neighbors is essential. It can be a blessing to you personally, and to other people in ways you may never know.

Stories are a great way to lend encouragement to people. Maybe you have stories of how God has worked in and through you. How have you seen God answer prayers in your life? What has God shown you through prayer? Have you been able to pray with anyone lately?

Maybe you take prayer…

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 233 | Wed 23 Oct 2013



* Supporting International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church

* IDOP 2013: Sunday 3 November

* See http://criticalprayerrequests.blogspot.com



PARTICIPATING IN 'BIG PICTURE' ISSUES



- a reflection, by Elizabeth Kendal



Isaiah 2-4 is a self-contained 'tract'. In fact most commentators believe Isaiah probably…

We've all had it happen, haven't we?  We're trying to pray, perhaps alone or in a group, and soon our mind is wandering. We're thinking about the next meeting, our kids at home, a funny story, our struggle with our spouse or coworker, a song we heard on the radio and a thousand other things.

Of course, we feel guilty again for not focusing on the Lord and the things that break His heart as the saying goes. We determine…

                                                                           from the desk of . . .

                                                                          Rande Wayne…

As I was thinking about Halloween coming up at the end of this month, I started thinking of jack-o-lanterns, costumes, masks, etc. Children always have a good time deciding who they are going to be and what they will wear as they go trick or treating and of course eating their treats.

 It reminded me of how some times we as grandparents tend to hide, conceal or disguise how we really feel about ourselves or who God designed us to be. Paul writes in Ephesians 2:10, “For we are God’s…

We live in a day and age where many people exercise for health, appearance, and happiness.  Many who do so wear heart rate devices to monitor the speed of their heart rate as they run or work out.  If the rate is too high or low, they change pace to bring it into a safe or more…

Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin | RLPB 232 | Wed 16 Oct 2013



* Supporting International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church

* IDOP 2013: Sunday 3 November

* See http://criticalprayerrequests.blogspot.com



KAZAKHSTAN; plus CENTRAL ASIA'S COMPLEX REALITY

by Elizabeth Kendal



Bakhytzhan Kashkumbayev (aged 67 in October), a convert from Islam and pastor of Grace Church…

   from the desk of  ...

Rande Wayne Smith

13 Ocotber 2013…

A sleepless Saturday night was complicated by what one minister-friend calls, “Intestinal uncertainty.”  For me at least, it is a rather frequent Saturday night experience when I am preaching on Sunday morning. Even though I’ve spent Sunday mornings doing just that for more than fifty years, the butterflies keep coming and some nights they turn into buzzards. One can either resent this scenario or accept it as a way to keep from becoming self-sufficient on Sunday morning.  This kind of…

Leading a Prayer Summit may be one of the greatest investments you can make in developing a prayer culture in your church! Join Daniel Henderson (of Strategic Renewal Ministries) and Dennis Fuqua (of International Renewal Ministries) as they discuss the topic of Prayer Summits and how they can transform the way your church prays. …

As we are in the autumn season, I was reminded of my childhood, growing up on a wheat farm in Oklahoma. In the summer after the wheat harvest, my father would prepare the soil for the next year’s harvest and in the autumn, he would sow the wheat seed. Throughout the winter months, we would wait for the rains to water the seed and wait for it to come up and watch it grow. In…

On Sunday October 6^th, Christians in over 175 nations, including those in the “underground churches” of China and seven Muslim countries, prayed for God’s peace and blessings upon Jerusalem and all of her people as part of the Day of Prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem (DPPJ). It is truly difficult to grasp the width and the breadth of this global, grassroots prayer…