Passion for your name [David]

This is my second year here in Taiwan for STM. These are just a few things that have been on my heart.

God is good. He always is and always will be. I arrived here in Taiwan exhausted from all my never-ending summer activities- worship practices, retreats, traveling, visiting family. It's tough to be continuously doing devotions. I was praying for a young girl during our first night of ministry at Chao Ya Church and God's conviction fell upon me. I had not been preparing by praying, devoting to God's word, or fasting for missions as I ought to. But by God's grace may I learn to pray and do these.

"If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in safe country, how will you manage in the thickets by the Jordan?" Jeremiah 12:5

If I can't pray, fast, and be in the word then how can I prepare for when God sends me out to do bigger things. If I am not in the word of God at home, how can I expect God to work within me and speak through my prayer to that young girl. God is gracious and is still able to use someone like me for his glory.

Our vision for this year's mission is Prayer. We don't want to leave Taiwan and let things go back to the way they used to before we came. We want God to stir up a passion in the hearts of the people. Because we will leave. But God is always here. May God equip them with a passion so Taiwan may continually seek after the Lord.

We sing; "Stir it up in our hearts Lord, Stir it up in our hearts Lord, Stir it up in our hearts- A passion for your name."

So this year. For every hour of ministry we do, we set apart at least hour of prayer and worship to the Lord. In that hour, we plead and cry out for God to glorify himself in us and in the people of Taiwan. And God has been faithful. Amen, Hallelujah.

Needed Prayer:
1. That God would teach us to pray.
2. For strength and courage to reach out to these people on a deeper spiritual level.
3. For unity.

Praise be to God.
David.