Join YWAMers around the globe in praying and hearing from God. He is inviting you!

We are in a season when the world is being shaken. A global pandemic, a renewed cry for racial justice, the yoke of poverty, awareness of the state of the environment and the threat of natural disasters. What is our response to all this?

Listen to the letter

We may become fearful and self-protecting. Perhaps we are confused. We may be looking for ways to add our voice to those petitioning government for change.

Yet first and foremost, will we seek God? Will we bring to Him our fear and confusion, our longing for things to be different, our desire to act wisely and lovingly toward a broken world. Could we make some space in our lives to sit with Him, to encounter and be encountered by Him?

But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:29 (ESV)

Please join YWAM’s prayer day this month, called The Invitation, as we seek God in anticipation of changes that will come out of this unique time in the world’s history, and as we bring to God our pain and confusion. You can pray with us on our prayer day, April 9, or feel free to pray at a time that works best for you.

If you have only a few moments to pray, please take some time to seek God yourself and pray that YWAMers will seek God in new ways as a result of the new realities of our world. Thank you for being part of The Invitation. We would love to receive stories from you regarding how you prayed. If you get involved in evangelistic digital media, please send us links. You can email us at  prayer@ywam.org.

Prepare to Pray (by Tonya Stanfield):

A friend has a mildly autistic son. He will try, but he can’t quite put himself into another’s shoes. He’s very good at telling you how you should feel, and not so good at accepting that you have a differing perspective or feelings. The psychological term for this is mindblindness. We’re all mind-blind until we’re about four, but it’s a forever battle for those on the autistic spectrum. This young boy has accepted the fact that another’s brain is filled with differing content, reactions, emotions, but for him to live into that reality is another thing.

We’re not so different from this boy when we approach God in prayer. Theologically, we know God is “other” from us; we know He’s got his own personality, ideas and feelings, but living into that reality of God takes practice. Like you, perhaps, too often I pray to my idea of God, my image of God, or even experience God as an extension of myself… having my same thoughts, opinions, emotions. And, then I wonder why I walk out of a prayer time untouched, unchanged, with no more clarity or peace–or worse, with little desire to return.

Take a moment to reflect by asking yourself: when you pray, are you talking to yourself or to your idea of God? Is your God a living person with thoughts and feelings of God’s own, or just an extension of your own thinking and feeling?

As you prepare to pray, ask God to help you overcome your mind-blind prayer and engage with God’s holy, unpredictable love.

How To Pray – Seeking God During Coronavirus

If you are praying in a group, set aside some unstructured time for seeking God, and ask each person to pick one of the ways noted below to seek God. Then when you come back together give opportunity for people to share if they want. If you are praying alone, ask God to guide you into one of the following ways of seeking Him.

1. Seeking God means to LISTEN

When we are listening well, by implication we are talking less. To seek God is to be willing to listen to the cries and complaints of others. It means I adopt a posture of leaning into God’s perspective, pressing into what His word has to say about the issues we face. And when it comes to the question of justice for the oppressed, there is no shortage of things God has to say.

To seek God is also to listen to those ways in which he may want to prune us – our individual lives, our ministries, or even more broadly. In what ways might God want to direct (or redirect) our energy into particular areas of growth, and what might that mean for our other activities?

First, as you pray, take time in silence to listen.

2. Seeking God means to LONG FOR

In order to seek God, we are to be in touch with the longing within us. To what extent am I aware of a deep desire for God’s redemption to be worked out in our world and our communities, and in my own heart? To seek God means to allow ourselves to deeply feel this longing, not to be afraid of it but to lean in. This is a longing that will lead us to God.

As you pray, take time to attend to your own longing for God. What shared longings are you aware of, among your family, teammates, community members and nation?

3. Seeking God means to LAMENT

At times, our longing is so deep we cannot find words to express it. The losses mount around us: people sickened, lives lost, jobs or careers never to return. Inequalities and injustices in societies only seem to increase. There is so much to cry out in prayer and intercession. As we seek God, we bring our groaning, our supplication, and our sorrowing. We add our words and our wordless groans to those of the world around us and yes, even to that of creation (as we read about in Romans chapter 8). We seek God through lament.

How long, O Lord? Where are you, Lord? We cry to you for help, O Lord!

Take time to pray with lament, leaning even more deeply into God’s loving-kindness. Pray for yourself, and for our world.

4. Seeking God means to WATCH

To what extent will we pay attention? Are we willing to look for what God might be about in the current situation, to ‘keep our eyes peeled’ and our spirits alert? To seek God is to remain wakeful and watchful. What do you see happening in the world around you? What have you noticed? What has surprised you? How might God bring His vision to us in a fresh way for this unique time in history?

Take time to ask God to help you to see things the way he does. Ask him to help you notice the ways he is at work in the world. What do you see?

5. Seeking God means to WAIT in ANTICIPATION

Finally, seeking God requires us to wait on God, who is the chief mover and shaker. In our waiting, we submit to His timing which causes us to relinquish our own need for control. We do not wait out of a lack of desire to act, but out of trust in His agency and His absolute commitment to redemptive change.

As we attune to that place within us that longs for God and His ways, we enter into a place of seeking. We find ourselves joining with the psalmist, who said: “O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.”

May God encounter us in our places of heartfelt seeking, and in such a way that we are prepared, becoming ready for whatever lies ahead of us.

Take Action:

• In this season that contains so much desolation, what does seeking God look like for you individually? What about for your family, your team, or your community? Maybe you want to wail and weep, maybe you find yourself keeping silent vigil. Perhaps as you walk the streets of your neighbourhood, you find yourself seeking the ways God might be at work in the homes and businesses around you. It could be that your seeking finds expression in art, or song, or writing. Follow through as the Lord leads.
• While there is indeed a time for action, may we not rush into activity for the sake of making ourselves feel better. Rather, may we truly spend time in the unseen and often uncomfortable place of seeking God himself – for His perspective, His timing, His agenda and His infilling. In these ways, we will be readied by his Spirit for the season ahead.
• Lament was also part of the prayer lives of the Psalmists: David, Asaph, Ethan, Henan and others. In fact, Eugene Peterson, beloved pastor-teacher who passed away last year, wrote that perhaps up to 70% of the Psalms has some degree of lament included. To lament is to pray in ways that relate honestly to the pain and suffering around us: sometimes within, sometimes external to us in our world. It is to bring into the presence of God in worship our deepest cries, believing that we are heard. There are Psalms of lament for communities. Check out Psalm 12, 80 and 123. There are Psalms of lament for individuals. Check out 3, 53 and 142. Regularly add lament into your corporate or individual time with God.
• But we do not lament as without hope. Lament is a bridge that brings us to the reality of God’s character quality of Hesed, the Old Testament Hebrew word for loving-kindness. Some have said that loving-kindness, or loyal covenantal love, is the defining characteristic of God. When we lament, as Jeremiah did in the book of Lamentations, we are brought to a place of abandonment to the steadfast love (loving-kindness) of God, whose mercies are new every morning, great is His faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:21-23). The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him. (Lamentations 3:25 ESV)
  Read the five chapters in the book of Lamentations noting verses that stir the Spirit within you.
• Do a study on Matthew 6:33 focused on these components: first, kingdom of God, His righteousness and these things. Use this in a teaching or writing.

• How is God directing you to get ready for ministry? What action do you need to take? Make plans to move forward according to His timing.
• Reach out to others. Chances are that they will be in a different state of moving forward than you are. They may face new issues for ministry such as childcare, finances and others. Engage in conversations about this. How can you support one another?
• Share on facebook.com; search for #praywithywam and tweet about your prayer time/post a picture. You can also post a photo on Instagram and use the same hashtag, #praywithywam.
• Send an email to prayer@ywam.org letting us know how you prayed and what God revealed to you.

How We Prayed:

June 2020 – Using Technology for Online Evangelism

• YWAM Richmond USA and YWAM Media Village Nigeria prayed and shared the post on Facebook.

Future Topics:

• August 13: Series: Spiritual Principles from YWAM’s Early Days
  Fear of God (Ramona Musch) – 4 of 4 in the series
• September 10: YWAM’s 60^th Anniversary
• October 8: Care For Creation

Don’t Miss The Invitation:

• Sign up for prayer updates. Go to ywam.org, find the “Stay Connected” box on the home page, put in your email address and click “Sign Up.”
• Download prayer updates in a specific language. Go to https://ywam.org/theinvitation/. (Currently available in Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Indonesian, French, Thai, Hindi or request other languages.)
• Join the conversation about how God is leading in these prayer times. Comment on the Facebook page on the second Thursday at facebook.com/youthwithamission or on Twitter @ywam, hashtag #praywithywam. You can also post a photo on Instagram and use the same hashtag, #praywithywam.
• You can now listen to The Invitation as a podcast. To sign up or listen to past episodes, go to: ywampodcast.net/prayer.
• If you sense God giving you a word or a direction for YWAM’s prayer, please contact us: prayer@ywam.org.

Join YWAMers around the globe in praying and hearing from God. He is inviting you!

The Covid-19 crisis has dramatically changed the digital landscape, as billions of people head online to cope with life and to work under the lockdown. Billions seek meaning, purpose, and identity each day. Please join with the YWAM family this month as we pray for online evangelism. Please pray that the message of God’s love will come through, even to those isolated from any other form of Christian witness.

Listen to the Letter

The growth of the internet and digital technologies have made it possible to reach a vast number of unreached peoples. Whether over the Internet, using YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter or through wi-fi, Bluetooth, apps, and SD card distribution, the work of spreading the Good News to those who have never heard is becoming easier and cheaper. Nearly five billion people use the internet with over 3.8 billion people active social media users.

The numbers are enormous and full of possibilities for evangelism. But how do Christ followers use these technologies for maximum reach and effectiveness? Carol Conkey of YWAM’s Create International notes that digital media works best when produced in the local language and packaged in a “way that a particular people group can hear with understanding, and then pass on with accuracy.”

Create International has been producing evangelistic websites for many years. One time, a conservative Iranian Muslim housewife alone in her home searching for halal recipes came to an evangelistic website. She discovered new revelations and truth from the Prophet Isa al Masih (Jesus). She secretly contacted the website hungry to find out more. The people working on the website sent her a Bible and more insights online. Later someone contacted her to arrange for a coffee-shop meeting.

Many YWAMers have been enhancing their ministry with digital media even before the coronavirus pandemic, and they are doing so even more now. One YWAM team in Cambodia has received national media coverage as a result of their social media posts, and some have come to faith as a result.

Other YWAM ministries have pioneered evangelistic initiatives using a strategy called Media to Movements (https://kingdom.training/). As seekers interact with various levels of engagement the eventual goal is to have direct contact with believers. In one case study in North Africa:

• 70,000 Facebook responses
• 686 Facebook inquiries
• 556 agreed to meet face to face
• 350 met face to face
• 118 became believers
• 48 were baptized
• 7 groups and small churches were started

If you have only a few moments to pray, please pray for continued online evangelism so that all peoples will hear and understand the gospel message in their heart language. Thank you for being part of The Invitation. We would love to receive stories from you regarding how you prayed. If you get involved in evangelistic digital media, please send us links. You can email us at  prayer@ywam.org.

Prepare to Pray:

Consider some of the people you are connected to through social media. Are there many among them who don’t know Jesus? Bring their faces to mind, think about their lives – their needs, longings and relationships. How do you feel toward them? Compassionate? Yearning? Wishful? What is the nature of God’s longing for them? Sit for a moment in silence, paying attention to the feelings you have become aware of. Hold these feelings before God as a sort of wordless prayer.

“We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God” (Romans 8:26-27).

You are conscious of your desire for your friends to know Jesus, on the one hand, and God’s love for them, on the other. See if you can expand these “wordless groans” to include those in other nations who may never have the opportunity to hear the message of Jesus, except via their access to what Christ-followers post online.

Before you pray, take a moment to read the story of YWAMer Uriah Lyford about how God has used social media to impact the nation of Cambodia.

“In Poipet, Cambodia we have been passionate about using social media to share the gospel for quite some time. I personally began using my Facebook intentionally to reach young Cambodians a couple of years ago and have had several of my posts and videos go viral with millions of views.

“The impact of these videos and posts has been vast and varied. One young man who had seen me on Facebook reached out on Messenger and through relationship became a Christian. Another time after making a video about our base being robbed and how we forgave the thief more than $10,000 in donations came in to replace the things stolen. Posts about our YWAM volunteer work (including crisis food distribution we’ve done during this pandemic) have received national media coverage and we’ve been featured multiple times in the news.

“We rejoice as another person came to the Lord yesterday, this one through our staff responding to messages that come through our YWAM Facebook page. It’s important for people to know that responding to messages is also key, even if it might seem a little strange to chat with a stranger.  We need to consider this our new form of street evangelism.

“I want to encourage you that using social media is one of the greatest and easiest ways to share the gospel in this modern age. Pray and ask the Lord for creative ideas of pictures, videos, or other means you could use. Try to think beyond posting a scripture verse or simply saying “God loves you.” How can you present a visual message or story that will connect with people’s current situation? Consider using various platforms. God can use anything: Instagram, TikTok—anything! Please be praying for us here as we continue to do the same.” (See more abut Uriah’s ministry on his blog: http://uriahlyford.weebly.com/?fbclid=IwAR0mB36xzeAlO19MYoAAsWx2L-grDz9NeYXGtQaVmKWbpd4U9hW4MAC9W2Q.)

How To Pray – Online Evangelism

• Pray for all of us to have a passion to reach the lost and to use “all possible means” to see many come into the Kingdom. Pray for each of us to find our place using digital media for evangelism.
• Pray for more indigenous and locally produced evangelistic media using locally popular sites and venues.
• Pray for unreached people to respond to the online messages of the Good News. Pray for more workers to be able to follow up and meet those who indicate they want to know more about following Jesus.
• Pray for open doors to be able to meet seekers face to face or to make personal contact to pray and dialogue with those who show genuine interest.
• Pray for Uriah and his team’s social media outreach to Cambodians. Pray for effectiveness of all YWAM evangelistic digital platforms.
• Ask the Lord for direction regarding digital outreach activities for your location.

Take Action:

• Create International has been a pioneer in Internet evangelism. Explore what they are doing and seek God for direction regarding your digital activities:
  • Since 1997, Create International has promoted internet evangelism through some of the first web evangelism seminars, evangelistic websites, and sites for free film downloads. See
  • https://www.globalmediaoutreach.com/
  • Over 700 evangelistic (as well as mobilization/prayer films) are available on the Create International app: http://createapp.mobi/
  • Evangelistic websites attract the Hindu looking for the sacred light and coming to our Ashram of Light website where he can download his style of music in bhajans, Hindi poetry, and finds out about following Jesus (known as Sadguru Yesus). Or the Buddhist fearful of evil spirits and longing for true peace finds answers through indigenous music videos and animation in their Thai styles on our Facebook sites and evangelistic Lotus of Life website. Workers proficient in Thai are following up inquires on these sites. If you would like to know more about our websites and the URL, contact us at: creategcrc@gmail.com
  • YouTube Downloads: Over the years, millions have received a culturally relevant gospel witness. Over 40,000 visits per month and tens of thousands of downloads. Over six hundred gospel films and 1300 Audio Bibles are free to download on http://www.indigitube.tv/
    • Our films share a tailor-made gospel presentation in over 300 languages with over 40,000 views per month.
    • http://www.indigitube.tv/
• Share the films, animations, music videos from http://www.indigitube.tv/ on your Facebook or local social media sites in the language of the people in your area.
• Provide ways for seekers to ask questions or discover more about the message presented through online and offline communication (email, messenger, what’s App, signal, etc.).
• Develop relevant and inspirational Facebook posts, Google Ads, or short videos to reach out to seekers.
• Research the languages spoken in your area and find out multi-language resources to reach out to people with their heart language (both oral and written resources).
• Learn more about Media to Movements through free training at https://kingdom.training/
• Download films to your mobile phone to easily share with people you meet through the free Create International app: http://createapp.mobi/
• Find out more about disciple making movements and reaching out to unreached peoples through resources and on-line training at ywamfm.org.
• Check out Create International’s blogs and resources and upcoming online training: createinternational.com.
• Please contact Create International for more information on resources mentioned here. Email Carol creategcrc@gmail.com
• For further reference:
  • https://kingdom.training/media-to-disciple-making-movement-teams-respond-to-covid-19/
  • https://generousmind.blogspot.com/2020/05/innovating-in-wake-of-pandemic.html
  • https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/april/coronavirus-searches-online-converts-pray-cru-bgea-wmo.html
• Share on facebook.com/youthwithamission, post a picture and add a comment about how you prayed.
• Go to twitter.com; search for #praywithywam and tweet about your prayer time/post a picture. You can also post a photo on Instagram and use the same hashtag, #praywithywam.
• Send an email to prayer@ywam.org letting us know how you prayed and what God revealed to you. Please include links to digital media sites that you use.

Thanks to online tools, the body of Christ has the ability to plant churches in every unreached people group with less expenditure of resources than ever. This is one of the greatest moments in the history of the church for the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

Mark Gauthier, Cru Vice-President

How We Prayed:

May 2020 Coronavirus – Part Two: Global Outreach at a Time of Coronavirus

• YWAM Quilotoa, Ecuador heard clearly from God in Luke 9:13 that it is their responsibility to feed people on the streets. They now provide breakfast every day and there has been no lack and many miracles of provision.

Future Topics:

• July 9: Seeking God
• August 13: Series: Spiritual Principles from YWAM’s Early Days
  Fear of God (Ramona Musch) – 4 of 4 in the series
• September 10: YWAM’s 60^th Anniversary

Don’t Miss The Invitation:

• Sign up for prayer updates. Go to ywam.org, find the “Stay Connected” box on the home page, put in your email address and click “Sign Up.”
• Download prayer updates in a specific language. Go to https://ywam.org/theinvitation/. (Currently available in Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Indonesian, French, Thai, Hindi or request other languages.)
• Join the conversation about how God is leading in these prayer times. Comment on the Facebook page on the second Thursday at facebook.com/youthwithamission or on Twitter @ywam, hashtag #praywithywam. You can also post a photo on Instagram and use the same hashtag, #praywithywam.
• You can now listen to The Invitation as a podcast. To sign up or listen to past episodes, go to: ywampodcast.net/prayer.
• If you sense God giving you a word or a direction for YWAM’s prayer, please contact us: prayer@ywam.org.

Thank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we join with many around the world as we pray again for the Coronavirus.

Global outreach is still happening during the coronavirus crisis. It’s happening in families, in neighborhoods and online. Some of YWAM’s leaders have urged everyone in the mission to participate in Global Outreach day (www.go2020.world) by sharing their faith with at least five people during the month of May. According to these leaders, God may be using these unprecedented global changes to bring in a greater harvest than we would have seen under normal circumstances. Please pray for global witness during this pandemic by participating in YWAM’s prayer day, called The Invitation, on May 14 or at a time that is more convenient for you.

Listen to the Letter

Many YWAM students have been commissioned to go home following the outreach phases of their training programs or for their outreach phase. They have been sent home with a sense of purpose. As Andy Byrd, one of the leaders of YWAM’s campus in Kona, Hawaii, spoke to a group of students in Hawaii before they headed home, he called this “a season of transformation different than anyone thought.” Andy said he believes numerous testimonies will come in of neighbors, moms and dads, siblings and others close to us accepting Jesus for the first time.

YWAMers are also now connected  and communicating more within their sphere of influence and with each other. Sean Lambert of YWAM San Diego/Baja stated there is an “unbelievable flurry of communication initiatives . . . It’s stunning. . . I think God’s heart is that all YWAMers communicate to those in their relational sphere of influence.”

With our lives turned topsy turvy, we have different opportunities than we likely would have had without this crisis. Many people are lonely and hurting as a result of the pandemic. YWAMers have met the needs of these people in new and unexpected ways. Here are just a few examples:

• One YWAM family is preparing takeaway meals for the women coming to a refuge for those who have been trafficked or are victims of abuse.
• Some YWAMers in Brazil are distributing food baskets to street prostitutes.
• A YWAM couple in England sensed God leading them last year to work with their church to start a food bank. This ministry now has “exploded.” Many have donated food or have offered to make deliveries. One recipient texted “You are a God send. Without you I would have no food.” Another recipient asked “Sorry to bother you, but could you tell me how to find Jesus? I feel in my heart that he is calling me.” Several of the volunteers signed up to join the church’s Alpha course.
• YWAM Harpenden, England is using their 3D printer to make protective masks for front-line workers.
• YWAM Townsville, Australia is coordinating the Care Army in their city, which is an initiative to assist seniors and the most vulnerable in their community during the virus crisis.

If you only have a few moments to pray, ask God to show you who to reach out to who might be lonely or desperate and pray for them. Ask God to give you an opportunity to share Jesus with them. Thank you for being part of The Invitation. We would love to receive stories from you regarding how you prayed and what opportunities God gave you to share Jesus. You can email us at  prayer@ywam.org.

Prepare to Pray:

Read this story from a YWAMer in a Middle Eastern country on lock-down:

“Three weeks ago we were feeling sorry for ourselves that we were stuck in our houses. A group of us were praying and as we were praying, God directed our prayers toward our neighbours. We live in an extremely poor part of town and most of our neighbours have ‘blue collar’ jobs where they live on what they make in that day. As the lock-down in our nation started, most of our neighbours lost their jobs and their source of income. As we prayed, the Lord laid a burden on our hearts to somehow reach out to the very needy in our area and try to help.

“Our apartment building has a guard. His name is Joseph. He is the neighbourhood connection. We asked him if he knew about ten families that we could help (that was the money we had gathered). He said Yes! Some of the neighbourhood men had already come to him with tears in their eyes and asked for work or a handout because they had nothing. He quickly wrote down ten families that needed help. Then he said, ‘There are more.’ We prayed again and asked our community for an offering and we gathered enough to buy twenty big food boxes. Each box costs $35 and has the basics: rice, oil, powdered milk, canned meat, spaghetti, tuna, sardines, canned beans, tea, sugar.

“We put a message on each box sharing with them that God loves them, and we do too. We also asked in the message if they had prayer requests. So they wrote prayer requests and handed them back to Joseph for us to pray. We took the requests and went to prayer getting words of encouragement and Scriptures to give back to them. We had the chance to share the Gospel as well in some of the messages.

“Now we have heard that the lock-down here will last until the end of April and possibly through Ramadan which ends May 23. The needs in our neighbourhood are growing. But, even in the midst of the lock-down, God is on the move.”

Contemplate and pray:

• Similar to this group feeling sorry for themselves, what are you grieving? What burdens are you carrying? Ask God to speak to you about these thoughts.
• Consider the guard Joseph in this example. Consider him a person of peace. Ask the Lord to reveal to you a person of peace in your neighbourhood that might lead you to others.
• Ask the Lord to put people on your heart who you could reach out to from your various spheres of influence. Make a list of these people and pray for them and for God to make a way for you to share Jesus with them.
• Ask the Lord to show you creative ways to share Jesus with people you might not have had the opportunity to witness to without the coronavirus crisis.
• Think about the opportunities for long-term relationships with the people you reach out to. Like asking for prayer requests in this example, what are some things you can do to create quality relationships?
• Praise God for any good you have seen as a result of coronavirus.

How To Pray – Global Outreach and Coronavirus:

• The goal for Global Outreach 2020 is for one billion people to make decisions for Christ during the month of May. Pray for this goal to be reached.
• Pray for YWAM staff and students who have returned home due to coronavirus. Pray for God to open the hearts of their families, friends and neighbours. Pray for the YWAMers to see this situation through redemptive eyes. (“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28 NKJV).)
• Pray for effective evangelising using online technology in creative ways. Pray for wise choices of technology. Pray for those with limited technological resources to be able to connect.
• Ramadan continues through May 23. Pray for Muslims to have healthcare, food, health, and for them to find Jesus as their saviour. (Prayer guide available at: www.pray30days.org.)
• Pray for a global spiritual awakening and revival.
• Pray for boldness and conviction of each YWAMer to share Jesus with five people during the month of May.
• Pray for YWAMers to go deeper and rest in Him. Pray for each of us to use our opportunities in this pandemic to further understand and embrace our identify in Christ.
• According to worldometers.info, as of this writing 210 countries have had coronavirus cases. Pray for all 210 countries and that their leaders will receive wisdom from God. Praise God for all front-line workers. Pray that God will be glorified in each nation and that His name will go forth in power in each nation.
• Pray for those who are grieving and hurting. Pray for comfort, help and restoration.
• In the Easter address of YWAM co-founder Darlene Cunningham to YWAM she talked about pruning. Pray this would be a time for pruning so that more fruit will result. Pray for YWAMers to hear from God during this time. Pray also for wisdom for YWAM leaders in knowing what programs and ministries to keep, what to discontinue and what new ones to add.
• In co-founder Loren Cunningham’s Easter address to YWAM he talked about 2020 as a breakthrough year. Pray for YWAMers to have breakthroughs and pray also for those to whom we witness to have breakthroughs.
• Pray for wisdom for YWAM corporately and individually that we would rightly honour the policies of our governments.
• Pray for YWAMers to stand firm against the enemy during these times of change and isolation. Pray instead that YWAMers would receive blessings from the Lord during this time.

Take Action:

• Find out more about Global Outreach 2020: https://www.globaloutreachday.com/. Celebrate and communicate results on Global Outreach Day, May 30.
• If you would like to financially partner with the Middle Eastern outreach noted above, go to: is www.ywamorganic.org/donate/jor and under the projects drop down box chose “Neighbours Relief.” The information for mailing checks is on the web page. Please make sure you include a note so they know how to designate the funds.
• If you would like to donate to help YWAM CM in Thailand deliver emergency food packs to their neighbours, go to: https://www.ywamcm.com/fooddrive
• If you are able, prayer walk in your neighbourhood regularly during the month of May. Ask God to put people in your path. Who seems open? Who are you seeing repeatedly? Start a conversation that can lead to Jesus.
• Make a list of lost people that you know. Ask God to reveal one person each day. Follow up with that person through a phone call or using other technology.
• Go deeper with God. Rest in Him. Cultivate new quiet time/worship time habits.
• Identify tools you can use to increase your online communication. Reach out to others to find new tools and learn new ideas. See recent YWAM News at ywam.org to learn more about these creative ideas:
  • 24-hour prayer chains in Brazil
  • YWAM TV Connect talk show with host Maarit Eronen
  • Weekly video calls from YWAM leaders
  • Online devotionals
  • Online worship gatherings
• Reach out to others who may need help connecting.
• Follow the YWAM Coronavirus Prayer Group on Facebook.
• Share on facebook.com/youthwithamission, post a picture and add a comment about how you prayed.
• Go to twitter.com; search for #praywithywam and tweet about your prayer time/post a picture. You can also post a photo on Instagram and use the same hashtag, #praywithywam.
• Send an email to prayer@ywam.org letting us know how you prayed and what God revealed to you

How We Prayed:

April 2020 – Coronavirus Part One

• YWAM Republic of Guinea prayed using the French version of The Invitation.
• YWAM India prayed and received Psalm 119, specifically verses 68: You are good and do only good; teach me your principles. And 71: The suffering you sent was good for me, for it taught me to pay more attention to your principles.
• YWAM Perth provided notes from their time of prayer. Key concepts included: rest in God and go deeper with Him and advancement of the gospel will happen in this time. They were also given song lyrics “Did you feel the mountains tremble? Open up the doors and let the music play!” They were given John 14:15-27, Psalm 95:1-7, Psalm 96 and Jeremiah 29:11.
• YWAM Cameroon was given 2 Timothy 4:1-2 (NIV): In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage-with great patience and careful instruction. (Emphasis added.)
• We heard similar themes from others associated with YWAM.
• We received the picture above from a YWAMer working in Kolkata. They are raising funds for families like this who have no income due to the lock-down.

Future Topics:

• June 11: Series: Spiritual Principles from YWAM’s Early Days
  Fear of God (Ramona Musch) – 4 of 4 in the series 
• July 9: Ending Bible Poverty (Loren Cunningham)

Don’t Miss The Invitation:

• Sign up for prayer updates. Go to ywam.org, find the “Stay Connected” box on the home page, put in your email address and click “Sign Up.”
• Download prayer updates in a specific language. Go to ywam.org/theinvitation. (Currently available in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Indonesian, Korean or request other languages.)
• Join the conversation about how God is leading in these prayer times. Comment on the Facebook page on the second Thursday at facebook.com/youthwithamission or on Twitter @ywam, hashtag #praywithywam. You can also post a photo on Instagram and use the same hashtag, #praywithywam.
• You can now listen to The Invitation as a podcast. To sign up or listen to past episodes, go to: ywampodcast.net/prayer.
• If you sense God giving you a word or a direction for YWAM’s prayer, please contact us: prayer@ywam.org.

Thank you for joining us this month as we take up “The Invitation” and join together with thousands of YWAMers from around the world as we pray and hear from God. This month we join with many around the world as we pray for the Coronavirus.

This month, please join the YWAM family as we pray for people caught up in the coronavirus pandemic. Please pray with us on our prayer day, April 9, or feel free to pray at a time that works best for you.

Listen to the letter here

For this month’s prayer time, the majority of us will be joining from our homes since, in most locations, governments have restricted movement in order to contain the coronavirus pandemic. This means we will be praying alone, with our families, or perhaps connecting with others online. May you be encouraged and filled with hope as we pray!

If you only have a few moments to pray, please pray for YWAM’s leaders to be led by God in how to respond, and for people in the nations most affected by the virus right now. Thank you for being part of The Invitation. We would love to receive stories from you regarding how you prayed. You can email us at prayer@ywam.org. Please also share any coronavirus stories you have that might guide our prayer time in May which will be Coronavirus Part Two.

Additionally, Ramadan begins this month on April 24 and we have an opportunity to pray for 30 days for the Muslim world (see below in Take Action).

Prepare to Pray:

Let’s prepare our hearts by reading Psalm 91. Even if you are alone, it can be helpful to read out loud.

1. Read the psalm aloud three times, noticing each time the words and phrases that connect with your mind and heart.
2. Repeat aloud or write in your journal those phrases that especially catch your attention. For example, this might be, “He is my refuge and my fortress,” or “He will save you.”
3. If you are praying alongside your kids, they might want to draw a picture or find a magazine cutting that conveys one of these images: a refuge, a fortress, a shield, a safe dwelling.
4. Spend a few moments in silence, using your imagination to feel what it is like to run away from fear, perhaps through a dark wood, and into a strong tower. How do you feel when, legs screaming from exertion, you arrive at the tower, fling open the door and lock it firmly behind you? How might God want to be your strong tower, your place of refuge, in your present circumstances?
5. Consider singing along with this song (or perhaps another that comes to mind). As the song closes, offer your hope and trust to the Lord.

How To Pray – Coronavirus:

Like many of our training locations, the YWAM community in Kona, Hawaii, recently met to discuss their response to the coronavirus pandemic. At that meeting, YWAM’s cofounder Darlene Cunningham communicated some thoughts that can guide our prayers.

• Pray the promises of Psalm 91 over those who are suffering with illness, the loss of loved ones, or the fear of what could happen. Pray that God would bring rescue, healing and comfort.
• As you pray, name the nations most affected by the virus right now. Pray for the sick in China, Iran, Italy, Spain and other countries.
• Psalm 91 contains this promise from God: “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call on me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation” (v.14-16). Pray that in the face of current circumstances those in government would call on the name of Jesus; and that in this time of trouble, those in positions of responsibility would turn to Him. May they and those they serve experience the deliverance of God.
• Pray for healthcare workers and healthcare systems that are under great strain. May the Lord grant strength and wisdom that will both contain the threat of the pandemic and lead to creative partnerships that will protect and sustain populations.
• Please pray for companies to produce enough masks and other protective equipment, test kits, ventilators, and other necessary supplies wherever they are needed.
• Pray for scientists working to create a vaccine.
• In Darlene’s talk to the YWAM community in Kona, she said the global pandemic imposes on us uncomfortable and distressing circumstances that are beyond our control. And yet, at the same time, God is inviting us to trust Him. Pray that around the world rather than feeling swept along by the tide of uncertainty we would turn with hearts of faith to participate in the activity of God at this time. May God’s people offer leadership, wisdom and courage to their communities.
• Darlene and Kona leader Andy Byrd explained to the community the decision to commission trainees and staff to return to their families and home locations with the intention of seeking the blessing of the people there. That is, rather than mission trips to international locations they would now be on mission in the places they had first come from. Many YWAM teams around the world find themselves facing the same challenge and opportunity. Join us in praying that we would see a fresh wave of missional living being expressed all around the world, as those with hearts to see God’s kingdom come would live from that place of purposeful desire in their home locations.
• Pray especially for those who would ordinarily still be taking part in YWAM’s Discipleship Training Schools that began in January. May they receive the support they need from their DTS staff and leaders (pray that God grows us in our capacity and wisdom to extend discipling help from a distance) and may they daily experience the empowering of the Holy Spirit to live with integrity alongside their families and local communities.
• At this same meeting, Darlene mentioned the word “sabbatical” and the invitation from God to go deeper into Him during this time. Many of us may feel busier than ever, with emails and Zoom meetings galore as we navigate postponed conferences and training times. Still, this time offers us an invitation to create rhythms of resting in God that would usually be interrupted by travel or face-to-face meetings. Pray that, along with the global YWAM family, you would resist the temptation to fill your days with alternative activity, and instead respond to the opportunity to cultivate an awareness of the presence of God with you. Consider how this might be for you a time of reflection, realignment, and readiness for what God has next.
• These unexpected events are unfolding during the traditional period of Lent. Lent is the time leading up to Easter when we find ways to get in touch with our very real need for salvation. In this letter to the Roman church, Paul described the “groaning of creation” as though with labor pains (Romans 8, 22). As you consider the global crisis created by Covid-19, in what ways do you find yourself more aware of this groaning of the world for redemption? Pray that all of creation would be “set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God” (v.21). (You might find that this song aids your prayers.)

• Finally, in her message to the YWAM Kona community Darlene declared, “We know that God is always greater and we will prove Him great in new ways.”Pray that we would be those who are attentive to God’s loving and redemptive activity in the world. Pray that as we seek to participate with His Spirit at this unique time in history, we would indeed prove Him great in new ways!

Take Action

• Join the Facebook group “YWAM Coronavirus Prayer Group” and continue praying for YWAM’s response to Covid-19.
• Even though we trust in Jesus, we also need to be wise. Read about YWAM’s response to the coronavirus: https://ywam.org/blog/2020/03/18/ywam-responds-to-covid-19/.
• Pray about ways to serve others within the prescribed safety precautions.
• Make a plan for Easter. It will be different this year. Who can you reach within the current restraints?
• Share Psalm 91 and what you experienced as you prepared to pray this month with someone who is struggling with the coronavirus.
• Commit to pray for the frontline workers in all industries: healthcare, research, food and farming, transportation, childcare and others until this pandemic is over.
• Let God direct you to one or two people each day and reach out to them during this time to tell them how much they mean to you, and the love of the father to them.
• Develop a plan that daily keeps you focused on God and the basic needs of your family and loved ones, instead of being distracted by the chaos.
• Let God speak to you daily. How is he directing your steps now and in the future? What is He teaching you? Share this with others from your location, ministry partners, family members and others. What similarities are others hearing?
• Pray for Muslims during Ramadan. In 1993, YWAM leaders received the word of the Lord to pray for Muslims. The “30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World” prayer event has been growing ever since, with prayer guides now available in over 30 languages. Learn about Muslim cultures and identities all over the world, and be inspired to pray for their real needs and concerns, and for a revelation of Jesus. Join hundreds of thousands of believers to pray for Muslims during Ramadan beginning April 24. Children’s editions are also available. Get more information and find where to order prayer guides in your country and language from pray30days.org.
• Continue to prepare yourself and your location now to participate in globaloutreachday.org. Prepare each person, regardless of their role in YWAM, to share Jesus with five people during the month of May.

• Share on facebook.com/youthwithamission, post a picture and add a comment about how you prayed.
• Go to twitter.com; search for #praywithywam and tweet about your prayer time/post a picture. You can also post a photo on Instagram and use the same hashtag, #praywithywam.
• Send an email to prayer@ywam.org letting us know how you prayed and what God revealed to you.

How We Prayed

March 2020 – Lordship of Christ

• Our post for The Invitation was liked/loved 194 times and shared 33 times.

Future Topics:

• May 14: Coronavirus – Part Two
• June 11: Series: Spiritual Principles from YWAM’s Early Days
  Fear of God (Ramona Musch)  – 4 of 4 in the series
• July 9: Ending Bible Poverty (Loren Cunningham)

Don’t Miss The Invitation:

• Sign up for prayer updates. Go to ywam.org, find the “Stay Connected” box on the home page, put in your email address and click “Sign Up.”
• Download prayer updates in a specific language. Go to ywam.org/theinvitation. (Currently available in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Indonesian, Korean or request other languages.)
• Join the conversation about how God is leading in these prayer times. Comment on the Facebook page on the second Thursday at facebook.com/youthwithamission or on Twitter @ywam, hashtag #praywithywam. You can also post a photo on Instagram and use the same hashtag, #praywithywam.
• You can now listen to The Invitation as a podcast. To sign up or listen to past episodes, go to: ywampodcast.net/prayer.
• If you sense God giving you a word or a direction for YWAM’s prayer, please contact us: prayer@ywam.org.

 

Join YWAMers around the globe in praying and hearing from God. He is inviting you!

In Philippians we read that at the end of time every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord (2:10-11). But how are we doing with making Jesus Lord right now? Do we trust Him? Do we hesitate in obeying Him? This teaching of making Jesus Lord was one of the foundational principles emphasized in YWAM’s early days. In this month’s YWAM prayer focus, called The Invitation, YWAM’s cofounder Darlene Cunningham shares a dramatic personal story of how she saw this principle at work in her own life, and she gives YWAMers guidance about how to pray for a renewed commitment to making Jesus Lord each day.

Listen to the Letter

Please take a moment to watch the short video with Darlene as she is interviewed by Miranda Heathcote, who works with YWAM in Spain.

For a summary of the video, see the very bottom of this post.

Please join us this month during The Invitation prayer day on Thursday, March 12, as we pray and discern. If you only have a few moments to pray please pray for yourself and the YWAM family to grow in our ability to trust God enough that we will obey Jesus without reservation. Thank you for being part of The Invitation. We would love to receive stories from you regarding how you prayed. You can email us at prayer@ywam.org.

Additionally, please note the prayer request regarding the call for all YWAMers to share Jesus with five people during the month of May.

Prepare to Pray:

Read aloud together from Romans 12:1-2:

So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you” (from The Message translation).

As you watch the video, pay attention to the way Darlene describes the lordship of Jesus. She says His lordship “means that there is no aspect of my life that He is not Lord of. When we have the lordship of Jesus it shows up in everything we do.”

After watching the video, everyone in your group will need paper or a journal, and a pen. Guide your group through the following steps:

1. Have them draw a large circle on the page.
   
2. Mark out 6 segments (much like pieces of pie).
   
3. Label these segments: relationships, finances, decision-making, body care, time management, vocation.
   
4. Imagine that the value at the center of the circle is zero and at the circumference of the circle is 10.
   

You are invited to consider each area of your life (you may add others if you feel prompted). To what extent are you satisfied with the Lordship of Jesus in this area of your life? Zero represents complete dissatisfaction, that is, you realize that Christ is not at all Lord of this part of your life, and perhaps you have never even considered that He might be. On the other hand, ten represents complete satisfaction, that is, you know that you live in complete submission to the Lordship of Jesus in this area of your life.

Make this a reflective process and time of dialogue with the Lord: listen to Him, be open to the affirmations and convictions of the Holy Spirit as you make a mark along the lines representing each aspect of your ordinary, everyday life.

How To Pray – Lordship of Christ:

• Pray for awareness of distractions. After Darlene shared the story about her young daughter needing medical attention, Miranda commented that in the story it wasn’t just obeying God but being aware of God’s direction moment by moment.
  • What are the things in your life, and the life of your team or community, that prevent you from paying attention to the movements of the Holy Spirit?
  • How do you encounter distractions in your day-to-day life?
  • In what ways are your affections or attachments directed towards other things?
  • As you become aware of these “other loves” express this awareness to God. How might God be directing you to arrange your life in such a way that you consistently pay attention to His leading?
  • What would this look like in the context of your team or community?
• Pray for a distinctness from the surrounding culture. In the Romans passage we read: “Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.“
  • Are there ways in which you or your community has taken on particular values from your cultural context that run counter to living with Christ as lord?
  • Take time to name any ways in which this might be true of you.
  • Along with this confession, repent of these areas of cultural adjustment and ask the Lord to once again align you with the life and teaching of Jesus.
• Pray for a responsive heart. Darlene said delayed obedience is not Lordship. Consider any area of your life, or your life as a community, where you sense an invitation from God to take a step of obedience.
  • What is stirred in you as you pay attention to that invitation? It could be excitement, anticipation, fear, reluctance or some other emotion.
  • Rather than brushing those feelings aside, how would it be for you to be with the Lord in the reality of those feelings?
  • Allow time for you to become aware of His presence. Perhaps He has something to say, or perhaps He simply wants to be with you in a way that reassures you in this step of obedience.
• Pray for increasing levels of trust in God. Darlene says “Jesus can’t be Lord if you don’t trust Him, and you are convinced completely that He is always kind, and just, and has all wisdom and all the things we know about His character. If we line ourselves up with that, then lordship is really quite easy.”
  • Take time to bring to mind those areas where you are finding it hard to trust God.
  • Pray that in your life and the life of your community, there will be a deeper revelation of God’s kindness, justice and wisdom.
• Special note: Please pray for everyone in the YWAM family to share their faith with at least five people during the month of May. YWAM leaders are calling for YWAMers to participate in the Global Outreach Day (globaloutreachday.com) by witnessing in this way. Said Lynn Green, one of YWAM’s leaders, “Please start praying that the Lord will open the door for every YWAMer, regardless of their role, to speak personally about Jesus with five people during the month of May.”

Take Action

• Make it a spiritual goal to increase in the area of lordship of Christ in one or more areas of your life. Conduct the circle exercise from above in six months and then in one year to assess your progress.
• How do you describe lordship of Christ to someone you are mentoring? Search Scripture and listen to God and develop your personalized way of explaining it. Share with an accountability partner and then with the person you are mentoring.
• Prepare your location now to participate in globaloutreachday.org. Prepare each person, regardless of their role in YWAM, to share Jesus with five people during the month of May.
• In 1993, YWAM leaders received the word of the Lord to pray for Muslims. The “30 Days of Prayer for the Muslim World” prayer event has been growing ever since, with prayer guides now available in over 30 languages. Learn about Muslim cultures and identities all over the world, and be inspired to pray for their real needs and concerns, and for a revelation of Jesus. Join hundreds of thousands of believers to pray for Muslims during Ramadan beginning April 24.  Children’s editions are also available. Get more information and find where to order prayer guides in your country and language from pray30days.org.
• Share on facebook.com/youthwithamission, post a picture and add a comment about how you prayed.
• Go to twitter.com; search for #praywithywam and tweet about your prayer time/post a picture. You can also post a photo on Instagram and use the same hashtag, #praywithywam.
• Send an email to prayer@ywam.org letting us know how you prayed and what God revealed to you.

How We Prayed

February 2020 – Holy Living

• We received a request for prayers for peace at the eastern edge of the Democratic Republic of Congo where there is fighting in South Kivu and North Kivu provinces.

January & February 2019

• An update on The Send: We prayed for The Send in January and February of last year. YWAM is one of the partnering organizations for these mission-focused stadium events. We can praise God for all He has done through these gatherings. In February 23 of last year 58,000 people filled a stadium in Orlando, USA and many committed themselves to serve Jesus in the nations and their neighborhoods. Then in Brazil on February 8 of this year more than 150,000 people filled three stadiums in Sao Paulo and Brazilia and again many committed themselves to go to the nations, to reach their universities, to read the Bible daily, and to take care of orphans. Please pray for The Send’s upcoming events in Argentina on April 25, 2020 and in Kansas City, USA in October, that God would draw people and move among them again. For more information, see thesend.org.

Future Topics:

Series: Spiritual Principles from YWAM’s Early Days

• April 9: Fear of God  – 4 of 4 in the series
• May 14: Ending Bible Poverty (Loren Cunningham)
• June 11: Venezuela

Don’t Miss The Invitation:

• Sign up for prayer updates. Go to ywam.org, find the “Stay Connected” box on the home page, put in your email address and click “Sign Up.”
• Download prayer updates in a specific language. Go to ywam.org/theinvitation. (Currently available in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Indonesian, Korean or request other languages.)
• Join the conversation about how God is leading in these prayer times. Comment on the Facebook page on the second Thursday at facebook.com/youthwithamission or on Twitter @ywam, hashtag #praywithywam. You can also post a photo on Instagram and use the same hashtag, #praywithywam.
• You can now listen to The Invitation as a podcast. To sign up or listen to past episodes, go to: ywampodcast.net/prayer.
• If you sense God giving you a word or a direction for YWAM’s prayer, please contact us: prayer@ywam.org.

Summary of Darlene Cunningham’s Video:

In this video, Miranda Heathcote, who works with YWAM in Spain and who is part of the team for The Invitation, talked with Darlene Cunningham, one of YWAM’s cofounders. Miranda began by asking Darlene how she has seen the spiritual principle of the lordship of Christ at work in YWAM since the early days.

Darlene said the principle of the lordship of Jesus has been so foundational that it’s hard to pick one story. “It’s absolutely everything. It means that there is no aspect of my life that He is not Lord of. When we have the lordship of Jesus it shows up in everything we do.”

She tells about a day when they were driving from Switzerland to the Middle East on a field trip and they had their daughter Karen, who was less than a year old, with them. Darlene noticed that Karen felt quite hot. As Darlene looked closer, she saw that Karen had symptoms of smallpox. Darlene guessed Karen was having an allergic reaction to a smallpox vaccine they were required to get for this trip.

Darlene asked God, “What are you going to do? You’re the one who told me to bring her.”

She told Loren Karen’s condition was serious and they would have to do something right away. Just then Loren saw a sign for a military base. They turned in. They had a team member with them who was a widow of a soldier killed in Vietnam, and this gave her access to the base. When the guard saw Karen’s condition he told them to go straight to the clinic. When they got there, the doctor said, “You are some lucky people. We had this happen a few weeks ago. We had to fly medicine in from the UK. We have one dose left.”

Darlene said, “It comes back to the lordship of Jesus, that He is in charge. That gave me the confidence that everything was going to be alright.”

Miranda commented that in the story it wasn’t just obeying God but being aware of God’s direction moment by moment. She asked Darlene how she would like YWAMers to pray that we would be renewed in this principle of the lordship of Jesus in our lives.

Darlene said “If He’s truly Lord, then when God is asking me to do something, there is no negotiation. The answer is ‘Yes.’ I just need to know what it is.” Delayed obedience is not lordship. It’s not about consulting a calendar first or a bank account first. “That’s not the right answer. The right answer is, ‘Lord, do you want me to go?’ You’ll have to provide the finances, but I’m not going to tell you why I can’t go.”

She said at Kona now they have a lot of students. They are out of space everywhere. But they have a conviction they should say yes to the students God is sending. They have now had to put up their sixth tent. Darlene said it’s inconvenient and it would be easier to cut off the students at a number they know they can handle.

“We can’t do that if He’s Lord of it all. He sends them. We answer ‘Yes.’ And then He’s got to help us figure out how to do it.”

She said she doesn’t know how people live in any other way. “We have such security in making Him Lord.”

She added, sometimes God brings loving conviction of places where we haven’t made Him Lord. We’ve pushed aside the gentle word of God and we don’t want to go back to God about it because He might ask us to do it. “Then He’s not Lord.”

Miranda concluded that this is a convicting word. “How often do we negotiate and consider our own wisdom to be primary?” We can live out of our own limitations rather than the Lordship of Christ.

Darlene said we get hung up on making Jesus Lord if we don’t trust Him. “He can’t be Lord if you don’t trust Him, and you are convinced completely that He is always kind, and just, and has all wisdom and all the things we know about His character. If we line ourselves up with that, then lordship is really quite easy.”