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Preventive Prayer Partners (PPP)
Prevention is better than cure. This proverb is not
practiced in missionary work. Only when calamities or
problems hit the missionaries, we mobilize prayer for their
deliverance. Why don't we have some regular
PREVENTIVE PRAYER for them? Here are five basic
preventive needs of missionaries
Prevention from Defilement
The enemy's arrows are aimed at the missionaries to
weaken their testimony. Loss of personal holiness creates
hollowness both in life and work. Sex is a great snare.
Prevention from Diseases
Every other missionary becomes sick due to adverse
climatic conditions, poor sanitation, lack of balanced diet,
and inadequate rest. The devil rejoices to see the worker
inactive because of some physical weakness.
Prevention from Depressions
Separation from children and family people,
problems of children, fruitlessness in the field, unkind and
inconsiderate leadership, financial stress, lack of fellowship
and spiritual food, and such things leave the missionary
depressed. Unless he enjoys a free spirit, he cannot serve
joyfully.
Prevention from Divisions
There's hardly a mission field where there's no
relationship problem between the workers. When unity and
team spirit are lost, there's no blessing in the work. Prayer
must be constantly made that the missionaries glorify God
with “one mind and one mouth.”
Prevention from Dangers
Missionaries die of accidents, snake or insect bites,
food-poisoning, epidemics, etc. The promises of Mark 16:18
and such passages must be daily claimed for them. During
their outstation programmes, the workers' houses are
sometimes looted. Besides all these, there are threats from
the enemies of the Gospel.
We invite you to become a Preventive Prayer Partner
(PPP) in our missionary work. Call us or write to us if you are
burdened. We will allot you a missionary for whom you must
pray regularly covering the five needs mentioned above.
You will hear from the missionary quarterly about his or her
welfare. There's no other obligation for you than to pray. Let
each missionary have the privilege of several persons
praying daily for his or her spiritual, mental, physical and
social needs. Here's an opportunity for you to go to the
mission fields on knees!
If you are burdened to pray for missionaries,contact
us,
BYM PPP
8/10, I Street, State Bank Colony,
Thiruvottiyur,
Chennai 600 019
Call: + 91 9445278410 / +91 44 2599 2015
Email us: [email protected]
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