Missionaries can be pretty dynamic people, always doing, always creating new ideas, always shaking things up. And that’s the way it should be! We love that about the personality type that God often sends out as His missionaries. (He also sends out other kinds of people, though, for sure!). Of course it’s good to pray for our missionaries to stay fired up and dynamic so things happen where they are. But today we want to ask you to pray for the Holy Spirit, God Himself, to move in them and around them and through them. Why?
Only the Holy Spirit can penetrate secretly into the minds and the relationships of the people our missionaries are serving and reaching. He does it through the Word, His sword. He also does it directly in various ways. Only the Holy Spirit can cause the greatest, most exciting changes to take place in a person’s life and in a society or culture or city. The Holy Spirit is God “in person” in the middle of every situation your missionaries face. He must act and convict of sin and teach and give the right kind of comfort, and we should pray for Him to do this all around the life and ministry of our missionary!
Prayer: Holy Spirit, we ask you to move powerfully in your faithful workers in the midst of all aspects of their lives and ministries. Spirit, You are able to use Your sword, the very Word of God, and Your perfect and loving power to convict, to teach, and to completely transform a person, a place, a church, or an outreach ministry… so we ask You, Holy Spirit, to do these very things! And please, Lord, bless our missionaries with a very real sense of Your presence.
