HOW IS YOUR PRAYER LIFE?

Jesus set the perfect example of obedience in prayer. Although His day was filled from morning to night with many pressures and responsibilities - addressing crowds, healing the sick, granting private interviews, traveling, and training His disciples -- He made prayer a top priority. If Jesus was so dependent upon His fellowship in prayer alone with His Father, how much more you and I should spend time alone with God.

The lives of the disciples and other Christians who have been mightily used of God through the centuries to reach their world for Christ all testify to the necessity of prayer. They are examples of obedience to our Lord's command to pray.

Someone has wisely said, "Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks our wisdom, but trembles when he sees the weakest saint on his knees." 

Prayer is God's appointed way of doing God's work.

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us––whatever we ask––we know that we have what we asked of him. 1 John 5:14,15

Source: http://tenbasicsteps.org/english/prayer/step4l1.htm

LET THE GAMES BEGIN

Men and women athletes to represent Namibia at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in London paid a courtesy visit to President Pohamba. It is the first time that nine athletes from Namibia qualified to participate in Section A of the Olympic Games that will begin on 27 July. They left for London today and will return after 12 August.

Please pray for these athletes, for a safe journey and that they will be good ambassadors of Namibia. Here are some of the names in the team: Gaby Ahrens (clay pigeon shooting); Helalia John and Beata Naigambo (marathon); Shem Shilimela (wrestling); Mujandjae Kasuto and Jonas Matheus (boxing); Tjipekapura Herunga (track);  Marc Bassingthwaighte and Dan Craven (cycling).

For several in the team it is their first games. Pray that this will be an enriching experience for them, that they will be worthy competitors and be able to share what they learn when they return home.

Pray according to:

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me––the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace. Acts 20:24 

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7

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SAVE THE FAMILY

Family is at the very heart of God. God created family. It was his idea. His purpose for family is that through it life might be multiplied and God-given destiny for every individual may be established. The enemy is contending against families all over the world. Broken relationships, abuse, a loss of identity and value, a sense of abandonment and an orphan spirit, communication break downs, rebellion, immorality and accusation are just some of the things that war against the families of the earth.

Here in Namibia families are also under attack. Many children are born orphans, outside the God's idea of family, where a father and mother will care for them and introduce them to and model and guide them in a life-long relationship with God, through Jesus Christ and the the working of the Holy Spirit. And further more the enemy works day and night to break up marriages in our communities. 

God wants us to engage with families, to serve and strengthen them, to see his purposes of life and destiny restored in them and through them to an emerging generation.

This week-end 19 - 21 July 2012 Power House Family Church hosts a Save The Family Conference. Please direct all enquiries to 081128 8641 or 061 253202 and www.powerhouse.com.na

Pray for our families and for this conference. Pray that men will be established in their masculinity and that women will be established in their femininity and that marriages and families will be saved.

The jailer asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” They replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved—you and your household.” Then they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all the others in his house. At that hour of the night the jailer took them and washed their wounds; then immediately he and all his family were baptized. The jailer brought them into his house and set a meal before them; he was filled with joy because he had come to believe in God—he and his whole family. Act 16:29-34

Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. But if serving the LORD seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. Jos 24:14-15

QUINTON STEEL-BOTES

Well-known Namibian sport personality and coach Quinton Steel-Botes is in Cape Town for cancer treatment.

He has received chemo and is in his second week of isolation. He has continuously been struggling with nausea and high fever. The greatest challenge however is to win the spiritual battle in his mind - to choose to remain positive.

His wife Benita daily writes reports of his progress on Facebook and how he and the family lives through each challenge, holding on to God.

She asked: If you don't have God, what do you hold on to? In the isolation unite, you are naked before God. Whether you're a street cleaner or the President, poor, or a millionaire- all are the same. Money can heal you. Only the grace of God. And if you do not believe - oh goodness, I can't even think of the battle going on in your head.

Let us unite in prayer for Quinton and his family, but also for other cancer patients. We also join you as you pray for your loved ones. Let us not loose faith. Let us continue to trust God for healing. Let us praise Him for good health and extend a helping hand to those in need. Let us show our love by sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost world.

Let us not forget our calling. There is something worse than death, and there is something better than human flourishing.There is a death for God's children that should not be feared (Heb.2:14-15), and a second death for the ungodly that should be (Rev. 20:11-15) feared. It is a matter of life and death. We are to call broken people back to their Creator.

Source: "What Is the Mission of the Church?" Kevin DeYoung & Greg Gilbert