I was recently messaged by a friend, who remarked that I had been sounding tired in my most recent posts.
And well, I guess tired’s a good way to put it.
Comfort will kill you out here. You’ll settle into routines and embrace certain things you were never meant to prioritize, and all a sudden you’ll realize that you’ve been distracted from the grandiose visions of God’s glory that brought you here in the first place. We’ve become comfy and complacent, and we’ve settled. We’ve settled for rejoicing in a warm shower, rather than in a new arm or the eradication of a tumor. We’ve settled for afternoon naps rather than intercessory prayer for the radical salvation of everyone we’ve ever met, as if the Kingdom didn’t depend on us, or at least God working through us.
And I realized recently, that I don’t want that any more.
I came here to know God more, firmly believing that He was going to use us to change the world. And I firmly believe that God wants to, and that He’s capable of doing so through us, and that He’s put this on my heart because He’s tired of waiting.
So if you could pray with me, I want to start living and breathing by prayer for big things. I want to leave this place full well knowing that we did everything we could to push back the powers of darkness and the strongholds that Satan still has in this country. I want to take risks and seek radical advancement of the Kingdom, to bring God glory and to set free the people I came hoping to see set free. And we can do that with a little help from everybody, because prayer is powerful and effective and we have authority as believers, with Jesus securely planted inside us, to call things into being by our words and by our faith.
If you could pray for these things every day, maybe just maybe God’s ready to meet us in some of them. And if not, I’ll leave this country satisfied that the ‘bag’ ‘rag’ ‘sag’s I’ve been able to teach my students have adequately prepared them in this season for a life of opportunity and an encounter with the Lord, whenever He’ll be most glorified in bringing it to them.
Pray for the man in the market without a leg, that by the time we leave he’ll have two. Pray he comes to know the Lord, and that the entire market is filled with the power of the Holy Spirit
Pray that the teachers in school become filled with the Holy Spirit on the most menial occasions.
Pray for instantaneous fluency in K’mai, that the Gospel we tell people can be understood and followed by people that don’t understand a word I say.
Pray for opportunity and divine encounters.
Pray for the students to see the Gospel in three letter words they don’t understand.
Pray for the kids we teach, that God prepares them for life in missions, the church, pastoring, Kingdom businesses, leadership, Biblical teaching, and the salvation of their families and neighborhoods.
Pray for the streets, that everywhere we step, people can see the Kingdom we plant.
Pray for the laundry lady to start having dreams and visions of God.
Pray for words, visions, and images of life to speak over people, and that God honors the life we speak in to people and the potential we call out of them.
Pray for the church here, that any Spirits of drowsiness and unbelief are cast off.
Pray for a tangible change in atmosphere.
Pray for the karaoke bars where the women are caught in sex work.
Pray that the bars inexplicably shut down or experience financial difficulty or are destroyed, pray that the women are freed and that God gives us opportunity and words to show them His love. Pray for electrical shortages at night, or for their clientele to somehow not show up any more.
Pray that no one takes advantage of these girls again, and pray for the men that do.
Pray for the ministry here, that the girls now learning to sew can radically change the lives of women caught in similar situations. Pray for opportunity and boldness.
Pray for cycles of poverty to end, pray against them in Jesus’ name.
Pray for crazy Spiritual outpouring in Cambodia.
Pray against government corruption.
Pray for ideas to effectively reach people with a message they’ll understand.
Pray for the Buddhist families of our students, that they come to know Christ.
Pray for a Spirit of boldness, humility, and unity among believers here.
Pray for Juwa, one of our students, that the behavioral issues he manifests be rooted up from the source, by the overcoming of whatever spiritual forces he battles.
Pray for Chayenne, the niece of the University President, Trudy, that God becomes her rock and that she finds emotional stability.
Pray that God uses education to provide opportunity and access to His Kingdom.
Pray that the international students grow up to heavily influence their home countries.
Pray for the church, that it becomes a light for the bars right across the street.
Pray for the ex-pats in this community, that everyone here for the younger Cambodian women find grace and ultimate satisfaction in the finished work of Jesus.
Pray for the tourists at the resorts and the guesthouses, that they find dissatisfaction in wordly pleasures, and that we have opportunity to fill them up.
Pray for opportunity to heal the sick and raise the dead, that people might believe.
Keep praying these things. And if you find anything else God puts on your hearts to pray for us, any wild, crazy big prayers, let me know, and we’ll start praying for them too and looking for opportunity. God is more faithful and more powerful than we can ever imagine, and praise Jesus for the work He already has ready to accomplish!
Love,
Danny
