Faith Journey Update - December 6

PRAISE and PROGRESS

1. The LORD has called us individually and provided us a team of five in the past three weeks.
2. He provided me a promotion air ticket. As a result, my budget decreased to $---.
3. The LORD has provided me the full amount of support I need for the trip. In face, He has provided for me exceedingly and unexpectedly, through you all.
4. Through the process of support raising, the LORD has taught me to trust HIM and His provision more.
5. He has prepared my heart for missions by giving me opportunities to share the gospel with friends right now. It has been such an encouragement to see one of them responding to His love and growing joyfully.
6. We have made contact with the local workers.
7. The LORD has been carrying me through the hectic end-of-semester time. Officially school does not end until next week. But He has helped me to finish up my class assignments and my teaching/grading responsibilities. It is clearly His power and strength that sustains me. (It is awesome to be carried by HIM, enjoying the Isaiah 40:31 experience :-)

PRAYER REQUESTS

1. Please pray for continued examination, purification, and preparation of our (team members') hearts.
2. Please pray for spiritual protection. Please pray that we will know the LORD who is the object of our faith more each day. As a result, our faith will grow daily and we will continue to walk by faith, not by sight.
3. Please pray for physical protection of health and strength.
4. Please pray that we will love the people the LORD puts in our path and we will have wisdom to know how to share the good news with them.
5. Please pray for the preparation of the hearts of those who will cross path with us and for the stirring of their spiritual hunger.
6. Please pray for the unity of the team.
7. Please pray for our time to spend with family after the trip, especially for the salvation of E's and my own parents.
8. Please pray that the LORD will help me with the practical things of the trip preparation and will govern my mind and heart with His Peace that surpasses all understanding.

I thank the LORD for you and all your support! Thank you for joining us on HIS team. The LORD is my fortress and you all are the proof of HIS faithfulness. Thank you!