DAY 10 –
December 8 – Reaching Children Through Teaching ESL
Thank you for joining
us for this great time of seeking the face of God on behalf of millions who have
never heard the message of our Lord Jesus. Today is Day 10 Spiritual Adventure &
Season of Prayer of getting to know and then actively praying for Northern
Thailand Impact Ministry (NTIM) and all of the various unreached people groups
in and around Northern Thailand. We apologize for skipping a couple of days
but we are back on schedule. Thank you for your patience.
With
that in mind, we want to ask you to join us in praying for the children in our
community that we reach out and teach English too every Saturday morning at our
church. We want to especially ask that
you pray for the follow fruit of our Christmas ESL program this morning. We
teach English to about 45 children from Grades 1-6 every Saturday morning at
Baan Athitaan Church and today we celebrated Christmas with all of these
children in our special Christmas ESL program. Most of these children are from
our community in Thailand and some have never heard about Jesus. This will a
very special time of planting the seeds of the gospel in their hearts as we
tell them the true meaning of Christmas. Please pray that God will melt their
hearts and draw them to Himself. The
pictures we have included here were from our Children’s ESL Christmas program today.
When
we look at the life and teachings of Jesus, we find that Jesus honored and
considered children to be very important. We often see Him teaching His
disciples to be more like children in the purity of their faith sincerity in
their questions about life. Do you remember the time when Jesus disciples tried
to stop the children from coming to Jesus? Jesus said, "Let the little
children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs
to such as these." Matthew 19:14. Let’s be fair to the disciples. They
really did have good intentions of not wanting these children to “bother” and
“get in the way” of what Jesus was doing. The problem the disciples had is the
same problem we adult have many times. We don’t see these children through
God’s perspective but through our own perspective.
Prayer Example:
“Lord, we thank You that You love children very much and do not see them as a
bother but as an integral part of Your plan to reach the world. We thank You
for all of the outreach activities that are supported through NTIM and their partners and we pray
that You would open the hearts of these little ones who do not know You as they
listen, many of them for the first time in their lives, to the real meaning of
Christmas tomorrow. May You draw their tender hearts a little closer to You as
the seeds of the gospel are planted in this fertile soil of their hearts. We
pray this in Jesus name and for His glory. Amen.”
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