Praying “onsite with insight”….November 9, 2011

Dear friends praying for Oasis Ministry and Belize:

Today I have the privelege of writing our prayer “blog” from Belize.  There is something about being able to pray “onsite with insight!”  We have a wonderful mission team assembled at Oasis Nation this week.  We come from WY, VA, and NC.    I have been blessed beyond measure to see how the Holy Spirit has brought these folks together for this 7 day “mountain top” experience in Belize.

God is doing amazing things here at Oasis Nation.  Every time I come, I scratch my head and wonder how so much ministry can be happening with this small, devoted group of Christ-followers and then I have to remind myself that it is the Holy Spirit that empowers them for God’s work.  I am challenged to higher heights each time I come, and for that I am grateful.

This morning, our missionary Bonnie, challenged us with a devotion that reminded each of us about how God uses even enemies, pain and hardship to make us more like Him.  As I look around Oasis Nation, I know that life here is challenging.  But I see God using even the hard places  to bring glory to and through His servants.  I’m so glad that I can pray today “onsight with insight!’  Won’t you take a few moments and pray with me:

For Oasis Ministry and Belize:

for OM staff and their families; please pray for health, provision, God’s wisdom, discernment and guidance

for Oasis School and all financial need to be met

for Mt. Hope Bible Church, our new church plant here at ON

for Stan as he works on plumbing problems here on base, he says it will take lots of prayer

for a young Belizean woman, M, who is facing much hardship right now; we are in prayer about how to help her

for the micro-businesses that Matthews’ Methodist sponsored here in Belize

for Eduardo as he opens a new shop in Unitedville

for yourself,  your church, your community:

Oh, teach us to know you, our God, and enable us to do your will as we ought to do.  Give us hearts to love You, to trust and delight in You.  That no temtations may draw us, nor any tribulations drive us from you; but that all your dispensations to us, and all Your dealings with us, amy be the messengers of your love to our souls, to bring us still nearer to your blessed self, and to make us still fitter for your heavenly Kingdom.”  –from “Prayers Across the Centuries” by Benjamin Jenks

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