30 Days Of Prayer And Fasting – Ghost Month – Day 29

Lunar Calendar: July 29

The Grace And Strength To Move Forward

Thank you for praying with us during 30 Days of Fasting and Prayer during Ghost Month. For Day 29 click below for the Hokkien audio and written Chinese, and an English summary is also provided.

Philippians 3:13-14:  ¹³ Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, ¹⁴ I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Once there was a fire that consumed the laboratory where Thomas Edison made all of his inventions. His years of hard work were destroyed by the fire. People around him also believed that the fire killed him and destroyed everything he owned. He was 67 years old at the time. As soon as his son saw him, he breathed a sigh of relief. Not only was he not harmed, his response was amazing. Edison said, “Thank God that the fire burned away all my years of mistakes, so that I can now have a new beginning.” Three months later, Edison invented the phonograph.

We know that in our lives and ministries, we often face many challenges and even encounter major blows and failures. But in Romans 8:37 God’s Word assures us: In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. Therefore, we can once again pick ourselves up and move forward to full the purpose that God in Christ has called us to.  May we accept the encouragement from the Apostle Paul to forget what is behind and look forward to what is before us so that we can work hard to spread the Gospel to the Hokkien people in our nation as well as other regions.

Prayer:

Dear Heavenly Father, you did not promise us that everything would go well in our lives or in our ministry. But what you do promise is your presence, your grace and your strength so that we can depend on your power to overcome whatever challenges are before us. Thank you for telling us that In all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.Thank you even more for reminding us to Forget what is behind and strain toward what is ahead. Because what lies ahead is the goal to which you have called us. Therefore, please grant us the grace and strength to continue moving forward until we have taken the gospel to the Hokkien people in our nation and other regions as well. In the holy name of Jesus we pray, Amen.