Today we spend the entire day in Mexico - two meetings today, with a break at a store called Soriano (think Wal-Mart / Big Lots). Double the opportunity to share Christ with a people who so desperately need it. I told you about the Catholics who were praying for us to leave - Bro. Jarvis told me that even the priests are giving up. They are telling their own parishioners "You are too bad... you will never make it to heaven." That fatalistic worldview is making this spiritually dark city grow even darker, because people are saying to themselves, "if I can never make it to heaven, there is no reason for me to do right."
Just a thought for today - I was reading (skimming, actually), through the writings of Paul. I can only find Paul asking for people to pray for his safety 3 times. The first time, he asked for safety as he was carrying a love offering back to the church at Jerusalem. The second time, he asked them to pray for his safety, because there were still lost souls to reach. The third time, he asked them to pray for his safety, but only so the Word would have free course. We frequently pray for safety for each other, and for "traveling mercies", but the purpose of those prayers is usually for our own comfort, not for God's glory.
Pray for our safety today, but pray that prayer so that we will accomplish what God wants us to do. He is a good God, and He does good things!
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