Almost two years ago, I blogged on My Seven Locks, soliciting prayers as I headed back to our pursuit in South Sudan.
I’m forced to revisit some of the petitions in that article as I plot my way towards Yei again.
Those seven locks have grown longer and some have branched out in the last two years, making their maintenance more delicate and expensive.
So once again in no particular order, I’ve listed seven things I greatly desire as I embark on this three month’s trip to South Sudan.
- Effective Discipleship strategies: This is no doubt my greatest challenge till date. Many friends and partners have suggested several discipleship strategies that worked for them. Our case is uniquely ours and so is my path among these youths. Pray for me that the Holy Spirit wll lead us into the most productive way of discipling the vast number of young believers in the schools and the churches.
- Please pray for a calmness of spirit that can tolerate the weakness of other and withstand external and internal pressures.
- Please pray with me that a kind of unrelenting disposition to difficult issues and negative people, will flood my spirit daily.
- Please pray for me that I’d not settle for a peace that comes from understand. That my motives, words and actions will ever delight the Lord, serving as a two-edged sword for defense and for attack.
- Please pray for me to learn how best to maximize my time and direct the young lads within my network into their God ordained eternal destinies.
- Pray that my temperament will be tampered by the Lord for fruitfulness.
- Please pray that an unusual favor that’s God alone to gift will be ours as we search for that permanent site and people of faith that will serve alongside us.
Breathe on me again, Sweet Paraclete!
