Kon'nichiwa!
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. My heart grows for the Japanese as our team continues to prepare for our trip this summer. We spent yesterday in prayer for Japan, and I want to invite you to pray with us.
Lord, it has been a year since you allowed the earthquake and tsunami to hit Japan and impact the lives of probably every Japanese soul. I know how the one-year anniversary feels, and I lift up before you these people, and ask that you comfort them. I pray that the Japanese who lost loved ones a year ago would experience comfort, and that one day we might be able to explain to them the God of all comfort (2 Corinthians 1:3-5).
I pray that you would give them strength to clean up debris and courage to rebuild. I pray that you would protect them from further damage. Lord, would you use this as an opportunity, a platform, for the gospel to be shared. Most Japanese have no idea who you are, have never heard the name 'Jesus.' I pray that they would be exposed for the first time today, tomorrow, this summer. Prepare the hearts of these beautiful people who bear your image.
Thank you for all of the lives you spared a year ago. Thank you for the friends I will meet this summer. Thank you for our team. Thank you for your gospel, your grace, your Son.
Scripture I'm praying:
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. My heart grows for the Japanese as our team continues to prepare for our trip this summer. We spent yesterday in prayer for Japan, and I want to invite you to pray with us.
Lord, it has been a year since you allowed the earthquake and tsunami to hit Japan and impact the lives of probably every Japanese soul. I know how the one-year anniversary feels, and I lift up before you these people, and ask that you comfort them. I pray that the Japanese who lost loved ones a year ago would experience comfort, and that one day we might be able to explain to them the God of all comfort (2 Corinthians 1:3-5).
I pray that you would give them strength to clean up debris and courage to rebuild. I pray that you would protect them from further damage. Lord, would you use this as an opportunity, a platform, for the gospel to be shared. Most Japanese have no idea who you are, have never heard the name 'Jesus.' I pray that they would be exposed for the first time today, tomorrow, this summer. Prepare the hearts of these beautiful people who bear your image.
Thank you for all of the lives you spared a year ago. Thank you for the friends I will meet this summer. Thank you for our team. Thank you for your gospel, your grace, your Son.
Scripture I'm praying:
Like cold water to a thirsty soul,
so is good news from a far country.
Proverbs 25:25
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”
Romans 10:13-15
Sonotame, aru
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