Whoever Said......

Whoever said, "if you are going to be a missionary you need to learn a very important word, ‘flexibility'" was so correct. Some of us probably need to learn that word whether we are a missionary or not. ha,ha,ha. Tony Robbins (motivational speaker) once said, "Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."   

Well, that is just what we are doing regarding Burkina Faso. Our dates have changed since the last blog because we found out there is a very important Home School Co-op meeting the last week of January in Burkina Faso. Therefore, to give more missionary women the opportunity to join us we have moved the dates to the week before. So, effective as of this writing, the Burkina Faso Retreat is January 21-24, 2015.

  

I feel pretty safe in saying that is our settled upon date. So please begin to pray if you believe God wants you to be a part of the team. We have a few spots still open for team members. Contact me at vickie@purejoyinternational.org.  

The Tanzania team members are off and running.

Team meetings took place in Oklahoma, Chicago, and Arkansas this week. Within two weeks over 315 people will be praying very specifically, very intentionally and very personally for the 50 missionary women that will attend the November Retreat.   They will be praying for their marriages, families, children, ministries, peer relationships, the people they minister to, etc. Thank you all that have started giving towards this Retreat. As of last week we had 11 and 1/2 missionary women sponsored. That leaves us with 38 1/2 ladies to go. So keep giving until we reach the goal.  

As I close today I want to encourage you with a word from A.W. Tozer. As many of you have heard me say "I'm sure he was supposed to be my husband but he died shortly after I was born and was already married." Go figure!

                                                        The Reality Of Pride

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way . . . do I hate.

Proverbs 8:13   

Let me warn you of the danger and the bigotry of human pride. You will find it everywhere in the world, and it will feast on almost anything that will make it fat!

I have come to the conclusion that many people I have met are not ever going to get right with God because they have determined that they simply will not humble themselves, ever! Pride is an awesome quality in mankind, not only in Jesus’ day, but in ours as well.

I heard a newscast in which one of India’s highest officials was trying to deny a report that Christian missionaries were being hindered in their work in India. He said, “We are not hindering the propagation of the Christian doctrine in India. In fact, we understand that there have actually been a few people of low caste who have believed the Christian teaching.”

Oh, the rising pride in his voice as he made the statement. The helpless and the hopeless in the lowest caste—he was not going to get in their way if they wanted to believe in Christ. Yes, the bigotry of human pride is everywhere!

Lord, sometimes pride has a way of sneaking up on me so slowly and naturally that I don’t recognize it. You have my permission, Lord, to root out the pride in the dark corners of my being.

                                                                                  Mornings with Tozer, by A. W. Tozer. 

Love you all,

His,

Vickie