missions planning

Well with January it’s time to start planning summer missions.  Not sure what it’s going to look like this year.  All I know is that God’s got to be in charge of it from the planning right up to the execution and completion of it.  So it all starts  first with much prayer and seeking God and what He wants.

Prayer of Agur

A couple of weeks ago I was reading Proverbs 30 and there is a prayer of a guy named Agur there and he asks God for 2 things in life.  The first one is for God to keep lies and deceipt from him and the other is “give me poverty nor riches”.   He’s saying, “God give me exactly what I need to live for this day.”  He’s saying that if he has too much overabundance and riches he then will forget about God.  And if he has too little and is poor he will steal and shame God’s name.   This certainly isn’t the prayer of American Christianity these days.  But I felt I needed to pray this prayer.  But my heart wasn’t ready for that kind of faith, I’m sad to say.  God can certainly use things beyond our control to prepare and test us for such faith.   He certainly has this past month.  But that’s what faith is about.  The unknown and the “I can’t see how God is going to provide for this and that.”  Forgive me Lord for complaining, worrying and not trusting when I should be praying for others and praising You.   I have to come to the reality that my problems that I think are so huge and inconvenient are nothing.  A broken down car?   A big medical bill?  These don’t even compare to what others go through.  The real tragedies.  The real problems in this world.