Monday, July 09, 2007

 

2007 Prayer Gathering



The 2007 Children's Cup Forty Days of Prayer Online Prayer Gathering is located at:

fortydays.childrenscup.org

Please join us - thanks for praying!

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Saturday, September 09, 2006

 

DAY #40 - CUPBEARERS

On this the 40th day of prayer for the children, we want to focus our prayer on the people that enable Children’s Cup to do what we do. Those of you who support Children’s Cup through prayer, giving or even going to the field for short-term missions projects all are very very important to us. We are convinced that it is your prayers that have sustained us when we have needed strength, and provided the resources when they were most needed.

So today, we pray for the children by asking God to continue to bless you and the rest of the Children’s Cup Cupbearers. We pray for your families - for strengthened relationships, for healing, for strength during times when families are separated due to military service. We pray for direction in your lives. We pray for God’s protection on your children, and for His hand to be on them everywhere they go. We pray that God will bless your businesses, your employers and employees. We pray that God will make you beacons of light and God’s hope to your co-workers, neighbors and loved ones. We pray for anointing in your lives as God gives you opportunity to show people His love and grace. We pray that God will increase your capacity to serve Him in your local church. We pray for increased blessing on you so that you can bless others. We pray that the power of the Holy Spirit will fill you as you continue to pray for the children and for His blessing on your resources as you continue to provide for the work Children’s Cup is doing with them.

Today we have invited a great friend of Children's Cup to lead us in prayer. Lee Domingue is a tremendous example of being a 'CupBearer - his heart and passion for doing God's will in everything is both inspiring and a blessing to everyone around him. Lee recently was in Mozambique and Swaziland with a team from Healing Place Church.



If you have a prayer need that you'd like to include here, please add it to the comments on this post and we'll be sure to pray for you today.

And feel free to come back here to let us know of the answers to your prayers as God meets them.

Thanks again for praying. Please stay connected with Children's Cup through the 'Cup website (www.childrenscup.org) and the 'Cup team members' blogs:

Dave Ohlerking (daveohlerking.blogspot.com)
Jean Ohlerking (jeanohlerking.blogspot.com)
Ben Rodgers (benrodgers.blogspot.com)
Susan Rodgers (susanrodgers.blogspot.com)
Patrick Conti (patrickconti.blogspot.com)
Daran and Teresa Rehmeyer (rehmeyers.blogspot.com)
Charles and Kristen Young (charlesandkristen.blogspot.com)
Dan Ohlerking (danohlerking.blogspot.com)

God bless you for being such a blessing to the children in the broken and hard places of the world.

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Friday, September 08, 2006

 

DAY #39 - HEALING FROM AIDS



According to a recent BBC report,

“Swaziland is one of the countries most severely affected [by AIDS]. Four in every 10 people are HIV positive. A decade ago life expectancy was 61. Now it is just 37. Soon it will be 30. By the end of next year it is thought a third of all children will be without parents.”'

Children's Cup is doing all we can to help alleviate the suffering brought to the children as a result of AIDS. But we also believe that there is another answer. We believe that God has told us to ask people to pray with us for miracles of healing for people with AIDS.

It is not too hard a thing for God to do. For the sake of the children, join us in prayer that God will begin to heal the men, women and children who we encounter - whether they are HIV-positive or have full-blown AIDS. There is nothing too hard for God. Let’s continue to ask together and believe.

Today, Dave Ohlerking, a veteran missionary of more than 36 years and well over 100 countries is leading us in prayer. Children's Cup was birthed by a directive from the Holy Spirit to Dave and his wife Jean nearly 14 years ago.

    From our perspective, Lord, this is a big one—but not to You.

    The 'Cup family is asking You to stun the world by healing AIDS. Start with the 5,000+ precious little ones You have given Children’s Cup to care for.

    You know everyone of these precious children’s names—we recall them to You now and ask for Your sovereign intervention.

    AIDS is an issue that is defining and measuring the church. How the Body of Christ responds to this global pandemic reveals how we really believe.

    None of us doubt You have the power to do this. We have personally experienced your healing power. Is it because although we believe You can do it, we don’t really believe You will?

    You said, “Ask in My name.”

    None of us doubt Your Word that says You are “touched by the feelings of our infirmities” which means You felt the pain and grief of AIDS on Calvary.

    In fact, Calvary was for this.

    On the cross You said, “It is finished!” Be it even as You said.

    Draw us closer to Your heart — past whatever it is in our hearts that limits the answer to our prayers for this miracle.

    Lord, we do believe. Help us with any unbelief that stands in the way.

    In Jesus’ name, Amen.


Thanks again for joining us in prayer. Tomorrow is our day of prayer for you. Please be sure to send us your prayer requests so we can include them in our prayer. And let's keep praying for the children - even when the 40 days are completed....

Thanks for your faithfulness to pray during the 40 days of prayer.

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Thursday, September 07, 2006

 

DAY #38 - CHURCHES IN CAREPOINTS



Please pray for us as we begin to develop plans to hold church services in CarePoints. Pray that we will have favor with the communities and that we will be wise with each step we take. Pray for divine direction in this. And pray that each service that is held will be full of God’s presence and that people’s lives will be changed as a result. Pray for ministers - pastors, worship leaders, musicians, and workers of all types to join in the effort.

Pray that the additional resources will be there as they are needed. Pray that churches in the USA and other supporting countries will catch the vision and get behind the effort to take the Gospel to the communities where our CarePoints have opened the door by earning the trust of the people.

    Lord, I believe with all that is in me that You are the originator of the strategy of "show and tell" evangelism. You did it yourself when you walked this earth as one of us - You healed the sick and hurting, showed astounding love and relentless mercy to people everywhere You went. This is what we're asking You to help us do today: The care given and relationships formed at the CarePoints that Children's Cup has established have created an opportunity to go the next step in ministering to the needs of these precious children and communities. Now that we've shown them Your love, the door is open to tell them who You are.

    Adapting the CarePoints will require resources, leadership, workers, pastors, and a whole lot of continued prayer. But we know that You already have the answers to all of these needs ready and waiting. So we ask You to speak to people about their involvement. We ask you to send laborers into this very very ripe harvest. We ask for churches to catch the vision for this, and we ask that You'd give the Children's Cup team clear direciton about where and when and how to step into the ministry opportunity You have opened up to us.

    Thank You for Your faithfulness - yet again, Lord.

    Amen.


Thanks for praying with us today. Please be sure to join us this weekend for the final two days. We will be praying once again for HEALING FROM AIDS (DAY #39) and on DAY #40, we'll be praying for your needs. As our 'CupBearers, your needs are our needs - your concerns are our concerns, your loved ones are our loved ones.

So, between now and Sunday, be sure to let us know your prayer needs by sending us an email at info@childrenscup.org and let us know how we can pray for you.

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Wednesday, September 06, 2006

 

DAY #37 - MANGWANENI MBABANE CAREPOINT



The precious lives of little children are touched at this CarePoint every time the doors open. There they encounter people who love them genuinely - unlike many of the adults they have met and been abused by. They are fed, taught about Jesus, given basic education, medical care, and a place to belong. And it is all about giving them an encounter with Jesus. Pray that as they encounter Him, they find the abundant life that He gives.

Today, a long-time friend of Children's Cup and pastor of Family Tabernacle, Matt Anzivino is leading us in prayer for the Mangwaneni Mbabane CarePoint.


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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

 

DAY #36 - NEPAL

There is an orphanage in Nepal that we have partnered with for several years now - one of the few remaining Christian orphanages in the country. The volatility of the country makes it risky to go into much detail about it, so please simply pray that God will protect the Christian workers there, and that the children will continue to be cared for and raised in a Christian environment. And pray for peace in Nepal.

NOTE: Just a few days ago, we received communication from our partners in Nepal requesting that we give special attention to prayer for them due to some seriously dangerous developments they are facing. We cannot go into further detail than this here on the web, but we also know that the Holy Spirit is able to give you guidance as you pray for these heroes of the faith on the front lines of the battle for the souls of children in Nepal. Pray for them, and pray for the children they care for.

Thanks for praying today.

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Monday, September 04, 2006

 

DAY #35 - NKOBE CAREPOINT



Nkobe is the newest of the CarePoints, and the first within the borders of Mozambique. Construction is just getting underway, but the first step was to install a well (locals refer to it as a “borehole”). Doing this has brought people to the property and we have already begun showing them the love of God simply by serving them, feeding them and giving them a cup of cold water in Jesus’ name. Pray for the leaders of this project to have wisdom in its development. Pray for resources to see the project through. Pray for those who will minister to hurting people at this facility. Pray for the new church that is being planned for inside this CarePoint. And pray that above all, God would be glorified through everything and that children and adults would find eternal life because of it.

Today we are especially blessed to have Joe Martin (pictured above), president of ITI Technical College in Baton Rouge leading us in prayer. Joe was recently able to visit the Nkobe CarePoint, and participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for the building which will serve as both a carepoint and a church with room for about 200 people to worship. At the groundbreaking ceremony, there were over 600 in attendance. Joe saw it and this is his prayer for the Nkobe CarePoint:



Thanks again for praying with us today. In the coming weeks and months as you hear reports from the field of what God is doing - remember that it is your prayers that have paved the way for the miracles to happen, and made it possible for us to give people the opportunity to encounter God's extravagant love and his outreageous grace.

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