June 2011 Prayer Calendar

“Keep your eyes on the Lord, keep your heart in the Word, keep your knees on the prayer bench, and you won’t have any trouble standing on your feet.”
— Del Fehsenfeld

1 Pray for our Life Action Camp staff as they minister to Family Camp guests this summer. Ask God to equip them with the spiritual, emotional, and physical stamina they will need.

2 Our traveling team members are on their summer break, and some are serving as family assistants at Family Camp. Ask God to refresh them and give them a good summer of growth and service.

3 Nancy Leigh DeMoss requests your prayers as she works on several book projects this month, desiring to communicate God’s heart and mind clearly as she writes, with His anointing and enabling.

4 Wes Ward serves on the Revive Our Hearts staff, and also as secretary of the board for the National Religious Broadcasters. Wes and his wife, Carrie, are currently in Israel with NRB, and they appreciate your prayers for their safety and for openness to all God wants to teach them.

5 Ryan Loveing and the Revival Conference Team open a 4-day THIRST conference today at Peoples Church in Wyoming , Ontario, Canada. Pray that this time will be free of distractions, allowing the congregation to focus on what God is saying and to respond in obedience.

6 Former college football player and Michigan state trooper Tom Harmon is the speaker for this week’s Family Camp. Lift him and Joyce up in prayer as they serve the families and model Christ.

7 Byron Paulus and our road team leadership are attending the National Revival Network gathering in Chicago today and tomorrow. Ask God to orchestrate divine appointments, directing their time and conversations with others as He designs.

8 As Byron and our road team leadership review this past year of ministry in local churches, pray that the Lord would give them direction and wisdom for the upcoming travel year, which begins in September.

9 Continue to pray for the Revive Our Hearts daily radio program, which reaches a diverse and wide-spread audience of women. Ask God to help many women find the program at their point of need and prosper in their walk with God as a result.

10 Byron and Sue Paulus are hosting a weekend retreat at The Lodge for several ministry partners. Pray that the result of these days will be spiritual refreshing for our friends, and foundations for further effective ministry in the days ahead.

11 Pray with us that God would provide a new fifth-wheel trailer for housing our road team revivalist Wilson Green and his family. The cost for this is $75,000.

12 Please pray for our staff attending the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference in Phoenix, Arizona, today through Wednesday. Ask God to deepen the passion, burden, and vision for revival in these leaders’ hearts, impacting His people and resulting in changed lives.

13 Tom Harmon is also speaking at this second week of Family Camp. Pray that God will give him and Joyce many opportunities to minister deeply to the guest families and our staff.

14 Please pray for Shane and Leigh Black and their six children as they develop their financial support team to join our Road Team Services Department. Ask that their home would sell quickly, and pray for a smooth transition of their business.

15 We praise God for graciously providing more permanent housing for many of our camp staff families this year. In addition to meeting needs for their growing families, this has also freed their former houses for use as guest quarters, as Family Camps continue to expand and fill rapidly.

16 Cover our road team staff families in prayer this summer, as they have more concentrated family time as well as opportunities to visit supporters and build relationships with extended family. Pray for a refreshing summer break for them.

17 Many staff and guest writers contribute to the publications Life Action produces annually. Pray that God’s Spirit would guide their thoughts and words.

18 Cover our grounds and facilities staff this summer, asking God to protect them as they work with heavy equipment to maintain and improve the beautiful campuses He has provided for our use.

19 Tomorrow, pastors and their wives gather at The Lodge for a week of retreat, refreshing, relationship building, and quiet reflection in God’s presence. Ask God to bless these dear couples.

20 Murrill Boitnott, former pastor, Life Action alumnus, and now president of Macedonian Call Ministries, serves with his wife at Family Camp this week. Pray that God’s anointing will be on Murrill as he speaks, and that he and Deborah will deeply minister to our guests and staff.

21 Tuesdays and Thursdays of each business week find our home staff beginning their day together with chapel at our National Ministry Center. Pray that these chapels will provide unity and direction to our staff, helping to deepen their walk with Christ.

22 Pray for our short-term summer staff and interns, that this season would provide a deepening of their walk with Christ along with the practical experience they gain.

23 God began a work of genuine, Spirit-led revival this past spring at The Summit Church in Little Rock, Arkansas. Pray that God’s Spirit would continue to work deeply and that this revival would influence many individuals, businesses, and ministries.

24 Some 370 students from Ivy League colleges met this past April for a weekend of prayer and training, with a heart for impacting their campuses for Christ. Ask God to continue to influence many as a result of this Ivy League Congress on Faith and Action.

25 In a few weeks our teams and staff will join together at the camp for our annual staff Revival Week, where we bring in outside speakers to challenge and instruct us in God’s Word. Ask God to prepare the speakers’ and musicians’ hearts to deal with our specific needs.

26 Today through Wednesday, The Lodge is hosting a Romantic Reflections marriage retreat for pastors and their wives. Pray that God will meet specifically with these couples, strengthening their marriages and equipping them for future ministry.

27 Laine Johnson, a Life Action revivalist, is this week’s speaker at Family Camp. Pray for Laine and Janet as they minister to our guests, that God would give opportunity for deep ministry and lasting change for His glory.

28 New team members joining Life Action for the upcoming travel year are preparing to arrive in Michigan next month. Pray for safety as they travel, and for their parents as they commit their young adults to our care.

29 Cover Dave and Renae Warn and their sons, Keaton and Carter, with your prayers. Ask God to give Dave, founder and director of Collegiate Impact, clear direction and vision for ministering to university students and staff this coming school year, as well as providing needed funds.

30 The Senior Leadership Team (Byron Paulus, Del Fehsenfeld, Nancy DeMoss, Steve Canfield, and B. G. Allen) are meeting together to seek God’s heart and direction. Pray for wisdom and discernment as they provide leadership for Life Action Ministries.

Live

Pastor Emmanuel Kollie finished harvesting his ten acres of rice under the watchful eye of the soldier who trained a gun on him. Three months of harvest, with nothing to show for it. The Liberian civil war brought beatings, lootings, and now crop seizure to the pastor’s household. Times were desperate.

Seeing no way to feed his family of eleven over the coming year, Pastor Kollie decided to close the Bible school he directed and leave the area. He called the students together to tell them he was closing the school . . . but then couldn’t do it. He believed God wanted them to stay and trust Him for provision, so he and his family and the students prayed, asking God to supply their great need.

And then God sent snails. Big ones. Everywhere. Wherever the family stepped, there were snails.

Not only did they eat snail, fixed in a variety of ways, but they soon had snails to trade at market for other provisions like rice and clothing. When the next year’s rice harvest was safely stored, the droves of snails stopped coming. God’s provision was sufficient, His timing perfect. Pastor Kollie’s Bible school remained open.*

*General permission granted for excerpt adapted from Amazed by His Glory, published by Baptist Mid-Missions, 2010.

Give

When times are desperate, when our resources have dwindled to nearly nothing and the future looks bleak, we may be very close to seeing God provide for us in specific and unimagined ways.

Truly our God is the creative God of the “eleventh hour.” Never hurried but never late, He uses such things as Moses’ outstretched rod, manna in the wilderness, a net cast on the other side of the boat, and a boy’s lunch to supply His peoples’ need.

Never fear to give when you are sure it is God who is asking. He who asks also enables. Walk by faith, give in faith, and watch for the stamp of the supernatural that highlights His divine provision for your needs.

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