Colossians 4:2
Since I’m going to be on Freshley Prayer leadership next year, I decided I should find some books to read on prayer. Actually, my book search didn’t really start with that in mind, but when I found R.A. Torrey’s How to Pray on my Bible app on my iPod, I had to download it. And it was definitely worth the download (plus, it was free, and you can find it online for free here).
The search really started when my mom recommended the book He Came to Set the Captives Free, by Rebecca Brown, to me. The recommendation came with a warning that it would be a tough read and full of tests and attacks from Satan, and she was right. There are some questionable points made in the book, but the time of its publication has to be taken into consideration. (The author makes many references to rock music as a form of devil worship, as well as martial arts and yoga as satanic practices. Obviously, we have a very different understanding of these activities now, so the reader has to be able to sift through the information presented by the author in order to tell what is true and what is simply her opinion based on the time period.) But while several sections of the book leave the reader laughing at the extreme conclusions the author has come to, Dr. Brown also gives very good advice when it comes to prayer, especially in the case of spiritual warfare (in other words, praying against Satan and his demons and their attacks).
In addition to these, I also have my Perspectives textbook, which I really want to read from start to finish. Sadly, while I was taking the class, I read very little of the book. But it was obvious from what I did read that there was a lot of good material in the textbook and the study guide, and it’s definitely worth reading this summer. And it seems like there would be a lot of information worth praying over while going through it.
I also have a book called Jesus Freaks: Martyrs, by dcTalk and Voice of the Martyrs, and in the back of it, it has a list of several countries where there is hostility toward or restriction against Christianity, and it gives specific prayer needs for those countries.
Along with this, I got a mass email from the Freshley Prayer interns today suggesting that we, as a Freshley Prayer team, start praying for next year’s freshmen, which we should have already been doing but which I’ve been having trouble remembering to do.
So clearly I have a lot to pray about this summer. So if you’d like to help me, I would appreciate it if you would pray for me as I pray for all these things. And of course, feel free to join me in praying for 1) protection from Satan’s attacks for all believers, 2) the spread of the gospel throughout the world and the opening of the hearts and minds of the unreached worldwide so that they can receive the gospel, 3) the preparation of the freshman class of 2012, not only at UGA but at colleges across the nation, to receive the Holy Spirit and to make disciples of all nations, 4) the opening of the hearts and minds of next year’s leaders in order to hear God’s voice and obey His callings for us so that His will would be done and His name would be glorified, and 5) the conviction of next year’s leaders so that we would feel a need and desire to pray for next year’s freshmen, and not just the freshmen but also for the unreached and all the missionaries worldwide, whether they be overseas or on the homefront, in churches or in the business world.
Thanks, and God bless!
Onward Christian Soldiers, by Petra
Since I’m going to be on Freshley Prayer leadership next year, I decided I should find some books to read on prayer. Actually, my book search didn’t really start with that in mind, but when I found R.A. Torrey’s How to Pray on my Bible app on my iPod, I had to download it. And it was definitely worth the download (plus, it was free, and you can find it online for free here).
The search really started when my mom recommended the book He Came to Set the Captives Free, by Rebecca Brown, to me. The recommendation came with a warning that it would be a tough read and full of tests and attacks from Satan, and she was right. There are some questionable points made in the book, but the time of its publication has to be taken into consideration. (The author makes many references to rock music as a form of devil worship, as well as martial arts and yoga as satanic practices. Obviously, we have a very different understanding of these activities now, so the reader has to be able to sift through the information presented by the author in order to tell what is true and what is simply her opinion based on the time period.) But while several sections of the book leave the reader laughing at the extreme conclusions the author has come to, Dr. Brown also gives very good advice when it comes to prayer, especially in the case of spiritual warfare (in other words, praying against Satan and his demons and their attacks).
In addition to these, I also have my Perspectives textbook, which I really want to read from start to finish. Sadly, while I was taking the class, I read very little of the book. But it was obvious from what I did read that there was a lot of good material in the textbook and the study guide, and it’s definitely worth reading this summer. And it seems like there would be a lot of information worth praying over while going through it.
I also have a book called Jesus Freaks: Martyrs, by dcTalk and Voice of the Martyrs, and in the back of it, it has a list of several countries where there is hostility toward or restriction against Christianity, and it gives specific prayer needs for those countries.
Along with this, I got a mass email from the Freshley Prayer interns today suggesting that we, as a Freshley Prayer team, start praying for next year’s freshmen, which we should have already been doing but which I’ve been having trouble remembering to do.
So clearly I have a lot to pray about this summer. So if you’d like to help me, I would appreciate it if you would pray for me as I pray for all these things. And of course, feel free to join me in praying for 1) protection from Satan’s attacks for all believers, 2) the spread of the gospel throughout the world and the opening of the hearts and minds of the unreached worldwide so that they can receive the gospel, 3) the preparation of the freshman class of 2012, not only at UGA but at colleges across the nation, to receive the Holy Spirit and to make disciples of all nations, 4) the opening of the hearts and minds of next year’s leaders in order to hear God’s voice and obey His callings for us so that His will would be done and His name would be glorified, and 5) the conviction of next year’s leaders so that we would feel a need and desire to pray for next year’s freshmen, and not just the freshmen but also for the unreached and all the missionaries worldwide, whether they be overseas or on the homefront, in churches or in the business world.
Thanks, and God bless!
Onward Christian Soldiers, by Petra
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