Prayer Topics

I am now hours away from leaving for Uganda. And to be completely honest it does not feel that real yet. I thought for sure that I would be nervous or have some knot in my stomach, something that would make this feel real, but there is nothing yet! The only feeling is disbelief that I am going to Uganda.  In this post I just want to give everyone a few different topics of prayer that I will need for the entirety of the summer. These are just a couple topics that I would love for you guys to prayer for but please do not limit your prayers to these things.

1)  Walk In Love.  Ephesians 5:2.  “And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice.” To do this all the time anywhere is tough. I know personally to love people is tough, they make decisions that I don’t agree with and I am supposed to love them? Love is so much more than like!  This is and will be one of the toughest things that I feel I will have to do while I am there. I also am going to be pouring out so much for the children and I will still have to love the brothers and sisters I am serving with. Prayers that Ephesians 5:2 will be evident and active in my life, and that I will be loving the people I am with much like Christ loved us.

2)  Do not be anxious/Do not fear. Matthew 10:16-23. Persecution is going to happen. Jesus says here that he is sending you (disciples) out in the midst of wolves. I am going to be in a part of the world where voodoo and devil worship is something real. I will need prayers that I will know when this persecution is coming and that I will be patient in my response and not anxious scrambling for words because they will come. 19-20 “Do not be anxious how you will speak or what you are to say for what you are to say will be given to you in that hour. For it is now you speak but the Spirit of your father speaking through you”. I want to be capable of allowing the Spirit to speak through me in the midst of these persecutions. The second part of this is that I do not fear in these moments of tribulation. Please pray that I will not have fear or anxiety during times of tribulation while in Uganda.

3)  Patience. James 5:7-11. Anyone who knows me well knows how patient I am, and they also know how sarcastic I can be. Patience is not something that comes naturally to me but it is something that I know I have got to work on and it is something I know will be tested this summer. And by Gods grace alone I think I have matured in the amount of patience I have. So, I ask you guys to pray that I am patient with people, kids, friends, family, and communication. All of these different things are going to be difficult at times, but I have got to patient. “Do not grumble against one another brothers, so that you may not be judged…” Being impatient is just going to lead to judging and grumbling which will lead to an opportunity for the devil to take hold in my life which I can not have while I am there or anywhere for that matter.

4)  Be thankful. 2 Thessalonians 2:13-15.  Going into a place where worldly things are not abundant. Knowing that I am excited to see the children and the abundance of Christ in them. I am excited for the encouragement from that and the love that they show because of that. But with everything I am going to be going through, thick and thin, I know that I need to be thankful in all of it. “But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved.” We are chosen, God picked us to be saved I should be thankful for it no matter where I am I should be thankful.

Again guys please do not limit your prayers to just these couple of topics. If you feel I need prayers for other things while I am there please do so.  With the topics I have listed I will do a post toward the end of the summer about how all these things were addressed and answered throughout my summer.