Please Join Us and INVITE YOUR FRIENDS
to join us in…………30 Days of Prayer for the unreached in
and around Northern Thailand.
Pray with Insight for some of the
Least Reached Peoples in Southeast Asia and for God’s Work through NTIM and its
partners – Beginning November 24 to December 23
“Ask
of Me, and I Will Surely Give You the Nations…..” Psalm 2:8
DAY 1 –
November 24 – “God’s Heart For the Nations.”
This past Thursday
was Thanksgiving in my home country of the United States and we too, living in
Northern Thailand, celebrated God’s goodness as a church family. This church
began in our home in Chiangrai a little over 17 years ago shortly after we
moved from Bangkok to Chaingrai. Our vision was to create an English language platform that could be used of God to reach hundreds and thousands of some of the least reached peoples in our world today and to use that platform to gather the fruit of evangelism into a purpose driven type church that would be a blending of the various Thai people groups and a blending of internationals all working together to glorify God and advance His Kingdom in Southeast Asia. God has blessed this work greatly and love worshiping around the throng of grace with dozens of 1st generation believers from some of the least reached people groups in our world today. Well this past Thursday about 50 to 60
people gathered together as a part of Baan Athitaan Community Church and had a
warm celebration of our Great God thanking Him for His goodness. Here is a video clip that Pii Gahn put
together of our time.
Today, as I write
this first prayer update for this Season of Prayer, we want to ask you
to join us in a Season Of Prayer for God’s Work here. We are asking that you
would join us each day and read our updates and join us in seeking the throne
of God on our behalf. In each of these updates we will share with you some
aspect of how God is using Northern Thailand Impact Ministry (NTIM) and its
partners to engage some of the least reached people groups in and around
Northern Thailand. We invite you to ask your friends and any small group you
are a part of to join us for this great time of seeking the face of God on
behalf of the millions and millions of people who have never heard the message
of Jesus. In this first prayer update, we want to begin with GOD and with God’s
heart for the nations.
"It all Begins With God and With God's Heart For The Nations." Day 1 – November 24, 2018
IT ALL BEGINS WITH
GOD …..
AND HIS HEART FOR THE NATIONS
When we look very clearly in the original Greek at
the great commission as seen in Matthew 28:19 we find that the great commission
has a specific target audience that is on God’s heart and mind that need to be
engaged, and specifically that is the “unreached people groups” of the world.
Jesus said to go and make disciples of “all the nations.” All the nations is
from the Greek “Panta Ta Ethne” and “ethne” is the Greek Word where we get our
English word “ethnic” and for all practical purpose, what our Lord Jesus was saying
was “Go and make disciples of all the unreached people groups (UPGs) of the
world.” Jesus wasn’t thinking in terms of geo-political countries, no, He was
thinking in terms of ethnic and linguistic people groups. You see, the great
commission is all about God and His heart for the unreached peoples of the
world.
My
family responded to that commission 21 years ago after I took a business trip to Thailand. I will share a little of our story as we go through these prayer updates but what we want you to know today is that we have lived the last 19 years in the heart of Southeast Asia where
millions of people have never heard the message of Jesus and have been trapped
in thought patterns and ancient traditions that have kept them from the light
of the gospel for thousands of years. This breaks God's Heart and it breaks our hearts even today. According to Joshua Project today there
are over 114 different people groups with their own disctinct language and
cultural background. Of those 114 people groups, there are 80 groups that are
classified as unreached people groups meaning that less than 2 percent of their
people group population are evangelical Christians. The whole country of
Thailand has about 69 million people and 99 out of every 100 Thai people are
lost with no personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Lost… you just can’t get
more lost than 99%. That is where you and I come in. God has commissioned us to
reach and make disciples from all of these unreached peoples.
Your heart and your prayers are needed. You
donations and your coming to work with us are needed. But for now, we are
asking you to join us in seeking the mercy and grace of God to penetrate this
darkness with the light and love of Jesus through ordinary people like you and
me.
This SEASON OF PRAYER is really a 30+ day
spiritual adventure of learning about and battling the forces of darkness – through
informed and fervent praying - on behalf of all the peoples living in and
around Northern Thailand including all the unreached people groups in Thailand,
Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Myanmar, and China. This SEASON OF PRAYER
is a significant adventure we are asking you to go on.
As we begin this 30 Day SEASON OF PRAYER
for N.T.I.M (Northern Thailand Impact Ministry) and all of the peoples in and
around Northern Thailand, we want to begin this spiritual journey by seeking
the face of the Almighty God and asking Him to give us the Nations that are in
and around Northern Thailand. The Psalmist wrote this, “Ask of Me, and I Will
Surely Give You the Nations….” Psalm 2:8.
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