Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Making Eternal Difference through Audio Bible Lessons

Sulad Jhun Cardeinte

Why we need to combine audio evangelism in our ministry today? Villagers who have not learned to read and write could easily follow. Audio Bible lessons make it possible to let the Word of God pour out to the people of every tribe and culture, in their own languages.

These Bible lessons offer a solution to the fact that over half the people on the planet today cannot read and therefore do not have a means for understanding the Word of God. By taking advantage of the conveniences and amazing offered in today’s high tech world, the Bible lessons in MP3 through CDs are shared using these methods. The Word of God will expand into the farthest reaches of the world through audio format for the benefit of all.

Some busy individuals and those people who have no interest to read can also benefit this through listening to Bible lessons in MP3 recordings. The result of the recent survey reveals that 50 percent of the world's population does not read and according to Dana Gioia, the chairman of the [National Endowment for the Arts) “Reading is in decline among all groups, in every region, at every educational level and within every ethnic group,” he said and calling the survey results “deeply alarming.” Audio Bible lessons might be helpful to them.

So do you want to participate in sharing God's word in effective ways? Do you want to learn Thai to share the gospel? Now sharing God's word and learning Thai are no longer stressful for us. The SULADS RESOURCE CENTER has been preparing Thai audio Bible lessons in mp3 files to help you learn Thai and participate in sharing Jesus. These 37 audio lessons are perfectly fitting for our Bible interests who have totally zero background about God to bringing them to the feet of Jesus. Also great tools to learn Thai language since they are in mp3 format. If you feel you need this material please consider sending a small donation. The suggested donation is 95 baht per CD (free shipment). Name your order now so we will know how many copies to make. E-mail me mienfield@yahoo.com to order. Just simply put "send me" then specify the number of copies and then your complete postal address. Payment will be made through paypal so it would be easier. The SRC is a faith base project. We wish to give this out for free. But it has been very challenging to pay workers. As self-supporting ministry, keeping this audio recording and editing going has been proven to be very challenging to us. Your small payment will serve as a donation so the SRC could normally function to produce more materials.

You can also download the free samples at http://suladsthailand.multiply.com/music/item/86
In every donation you give for a CD Bible lessons, you are helping the Word of God spread throughout the literate and illiterate world. It surely makes a difference. Remember, there are many many people who wait to hear God's Word because they cannot read it.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

37 Audio Bible Lessons

Things are busy from the past several weeks till this Christmas. But praise the Lord that our first set of audio Bible Lessons (37 Lessons) has just finished. There have been some financial and technical obstacles but God was not short of means. We couldn’t have a laptop for this project but God has provided us on time. An Indian friend of mine loss and wasn’t able to find job and so he decided to sell his laptop in an installment basis. And I discovered later on that his Thai Buddhist wife used to work in a calling cente. And so I decided to hire his wife for our Audio Bible Lessons projects. As I started to work as audio editor, I realized that editing and re-editing is a long process, especially that I still need to learn more the Thai language. But we are so happy for the success of the first set. Why audio Bible lessons are so important? Because many are not interested to read and others simply don’t know how to read. On top of that, Filipinos and other foreign missionaries could really express themselves in such a way that their Bible interest will really understand. As “faith comes by hearing” Romans 10:17.

This first set of 37 lessons in mp3 format is very useful to reach out our Buddhist brothers who have zero background about God into knowing Jesus Christ in a clear and understandable way. My friend Buddhist wife-totally isolated in the Buddhist environment, who recorded them, commented that she really understood and she enjoyed every lesson. She was so oppose to Christianity, not allowing his Moslem husband to listen to the audio Bible and join our cell group meeting. Now praise God that she is glad to join with her husband. She even invited her neighbor to join the Bible study meeting. This set is also great tools to learn Thai language since they are in mp3 format.

If you feel you need this material please consider sending a small donation. The suggested donation is 95 baht per CD (free shipment!). Or you can send ten blank CD’s then we will send you one copy. This is to help fulfill our goal to make a lot of copies to be distributed to the oral base community in the mountain for free. And you can participate this way.

Name your order now so we will know how many copies to make. E-mail me mienfield@yahoo.com to order. Just simply put "send me" then specify the number of copies and then your complete postal address or the address of your friend you want to receive the lessons. Payment will be made through paypal so it would be easier. The SULADS Resource Center is a faith base project. We wish to give this out for free. But it has been very challenging to pay workers. As self-supporting ministry, keeping this audio recording project has been proven to be very challenging to us. Your small payment will serve as a donation so the SRC could normally function to produce more materials.

If you feel you need them for your ministry but you don’t have means to donate, please e-mail me and tell me about your case so I could send you for free.
We are in the process of doing another new set of lessons ( Steps to Christ Thai verion in audio and Learning Thai prayers for Foreigners ) with booklet in English and the Thai script and the Thai transliteration script (Thai written in English) booklet and audio and we hope to finish them soon. So this 3 type of scripts and the mp3 format audio will make it easy for you to learn Thai prayers.
God is so good to give us the opportunity to help spread his word in this way. Jesus is surely coming.

Please visit our website at www.suladsresource.org and click missionary shop for more information.

Sulads Resource Center

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Person Versus Program

“As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself." John 12:32

Let me share what is happening nowadays to give you a wider picture, because this mistake is unconsciously done repeatedly over and over again by many leaders. You can readily observed today that many leaders are preaching the program they have been doing but not the person. The program was widely known but little to Jesus.

The missionary organizations which are supposed to be responsible to expand God’s kingdom have almost become like those of the government development program. The end result, they had received plague and the praises go to the leadership not to Jesus. The leaders get all the glory. The attention of the members were stolen by the leaders and the result, members lose their admiration to Jesus. Jesus said, “As for me, if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all people to myself." John 12:32. Jesus used the word "lifted up," this is related to the word “exaltation” to give a strong emphasis on His glorification. This means when we lift HIM up high, He has the way to achieve to be acknowledged and glorified by men. And so how could the people come to Jesus when He isn’t lifted up?

Why this has been happening? Because many outreach organizations were stucked unconsciously by their humanitarian programs. It has become their main focus not the glorification of the Life-giver-person-Jesus Christ. They get stuck on these developmental, humanitarian and feeding programs. They actively supporting the government program but they don’t have the extensive program to lift up the crucified Savior, so many might see Him. The worse is that they don’t have the disciple-making program to equip the new converts into maturity, that they may be able to participate to lift Jesus up.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

How the Church in the West Confuses the Church in Asia

"...They received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.” Acts 17:11

Nowadays, the current confusing situation of God’s people in the West affects the Asian church so much. This has made many Adventists in the verbally base community in Asia to wonder why there is so much confusion when it is simply obeying what the Bible clearly says.

The Seventh-day Adventist church in the West has been characterized by division. Many educated church leaders, have tried to question the fundamental beliefs of the church. Some members who want to keep the Biblical doctrine pure have form independent organizations. I was surprise to see how this confusing Adventist community in the West affects our church in Asia especially in my home country in the Philippines.

These hilltribe Adventist people in the mountain has been wondering why there is so much division and confusion going on when they think it is simply obeying the plain teaching in the Bible. To them who could not really read, they open their hearts and simply believe that, “Blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.” Luke 11:28. While some, "they received the word with great eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.” Acts 17:11. But they have not criticized the Word of God.

Today, many Adventist missionaries in the West love to be God’s representatives in the church in Asian but in reality their teachings are representing other branch of Adventism. They can be hardly recognized by the very ordinary members who plainly accept the Bible as inspired. Now it is the time to learn from those ordinary people we called needy and ignorance. The one we came to reach, teaching them some basic knowledge could give us wisdom, to draw close to God. They have many things to teach more than we could share.

They are simply more on verbals, but when the Holy Spirit will work in their heart, they can be intelligent for God’s cause. Our formal schools may produce leaders but may not produce humble servants. It may produce scholars but may not produce diehard missionary frontliners. It may produce teachers but may not produce teachables. It often produces dominant-like but may not produce Christ-like. It may produce intellectual but may not produce spiritual, which is the greatest need of the world to see among us.

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Friday, December 12, 2008

One For All

“See that you say nothing to anyone...instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news.” Mark 1:45

Through experience, I learn something in my own culture that breaking the heart of one means breaking the heart of all. Many leadership tragedies happened because they broke the heart of just one humble worker. The sympathy of all workers to just one who poured out his heartache to his fellow workers became a big fight between workers versus administrators.

This is something we need to learn. This is true also in the Asian classroom situation that having a relationship problem with one student means having a fight to all. Then after all who would listen to you then? This means that you are no longer effective in reaching them all because of that one person.

But this cultural principle could be use to accomplish our task. Being kind to one seems unlovable person in the village, seems like you are doing it to all, because everyone will know about the good things you did for him. After Jesus healed the sick person He said, “Go home to your friends, and tell them how great things the Lord has done for you, and has had compassion on you.” Mark 5:19. But in other occasion Jesus warned the miraculously healed leper in Mark 1:44, 45 but “instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places. Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.” And everyone knew.

But we don’t have to do this just for catching their attention, but as real Christians with real intention to glorify God, this action just comes within us naturally. “I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.” Matt.25: 45. Then we become the light, spreading the character of Jesus not only His words.

Sowing or Ground Breaking?

“Greet also the church that meets at their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.” Rom. 16:5.

By nature, our frail human side demands the things we could see. Something we could call our accomplishment. We feel this is important especially when working in the foreign land and your home church has been eagerly waiting to hear your success stories since those donors are more interested on the literal evidence of your success-finish structure. They want to see the beautiful building than church character. They are more interested in ground breaking than sowing.

If a missionary is doing a church planting project it is not necessarily mean building project. Church planting means reaching people for Christ’s sake. It means sowing seeds in the heart not ground breaking ceremony for the building to be put up. This is sometimes hard because naturally we love to see structural outcome.
Missionary visa in restricted countries is extremely hard to obtain.

Usually, restricted countries have made new visa policy which is expensive and difficult to obtain. But those foreign missionaries who obtain missionary visas miraculously, who were suppose to be commissioned to make disciples, have delayed their work by focusing on the so called “church-building” projects, which later on were destroyed by the extremists. How can gospel be heard by all? Excepting some home churches that were attacked at home, the ekklesia were being prematurely persecuted because of the building. Many Christians were suffering because of the building.

The missionaries did not fully understand that the people’s heart who believes in Jesus Christ is the true church of God. They are God’s temple and God dwells within their hearts. That’s why the Bible refers church as the people who are called out rather than the bricks. No wonder the Apostle Paul said, “Greet also the church that meets at their house. Greet my dear friend Epenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in the province of Asia.” Rom. 16:5.

Illiterate But Not Ignorance

Sulad Jhun Cardeinte

"Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody." Rom. 12:17

We often label the verbally base community as ignorant where in fact the reality is that they have all the good values we need to learn from them. These verbally base communities are students of the “school of practical experience.” To confess, I have learned many things more than I could give. What I have learned is that these people enjoy life to the fullest. They don’t worry about how little they have. They don't worry about the time. This is so contrary to our city life which are full of hassles, deadlines and demands, which if couldn’t achieve, the result is so much stress caused by frustrations.

Most of these people work hard every day just to have food on their tables for their families to eat, but they are so contented of the life they have. These families, which are poor in the eyes of the world, are very happy with the life they have. And how about their bonding? These people are willing to stop just to listen. They know what it means to be a neighbor. Where in many civilized areas, you can readily observed close door neighbors but not friends. Civilized community separate friends to neighbors, neighbors to friends. But for them “neighbors means friends.” Their community bonding is strong. They closely support each other in good and bad times. They are ready to cancel any plan just for an ordinary visitor. These are the many realities of life that highly educated people are ignorant about.

Though they are illiterate in the eyes the world but they are not ignorance. For example, the Manobo hilltribe in the Philippines they are not following written rules but they have oral rules to ensure and maintain peace order and to solve problems, which sometimes better than our ways. Contrary to the very highly urbanized community which have written laws and judges to base the decision but still problems can hardly be solve. Why? Because many members of these urbanized people have lose their conscience. I will not explain this but just surf on the internet, watch the news or read newspapers. Greed and selfishness can be seen in the civilize world. People hurting each other without thinking others’ feelings. They killed, robbed, raped and tortured. To them they are safe if the police are not there. They afraid of the police not the bad things they have been doing.

How about these people we called illiterate? They have lived with pure conscience. They have unwritten rules and experience that we can learn from them. When the Holy Spirit will work in their heart, they can be intelligent for God’s cause. Formal school may produce leaders but may not produce humble servants. It may produce scholars but may not produce diehard missionary frontliners. It may produce teachers but may not produce teachables. It often produces dominant-like but may not produce Christ-like. It may produce intellectual but may not produce spiritual, which is the greatest need of the world to see among us. This is something we need to think about.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Teach Me How to Pray

Sulad Jhun Cardeinte

1.*Prayer for encouragement

We praise You Lord for the many blessings we received from you. We thank you for guiding us all the time and for sending Jesus Christ to save us from our sins. Thank you for what you have done for us. Thank you for dying on the cross to take away our sins. Help us to Lord to know You more because we want to have strong faith in You. Lord, our sins are many. We need you Lord because we are sinners and we are separated from you. We ask you Lord to forgive us from all our sins. We need your help Lord because we want to give our lives fully to you everyday. Lord, thank you for your promise that you will not leave us nor forsake us. Help us to find time to pray. Satan is so happy when we forget to pray. Satan has made many ways to keep us from praying. We ask you Lord to remind us to pray all the time so that we won’t be overcome by temptations. Help us to give up the sins that we love so much so that you will hear our prayers. Thank you Lord for helping us and for giving us strength to overcome our weaknesses. Help us to give our life fully to you everyday. Help us to be faithful to you. Help us to obey your will. I pray for brother Somchai and his family. May you continually bless them spiritually and materially. As we are waiting for your coming, may your Holy Spirit will change our hearts, so that we will be ready when You come. All these I pray in Jesus name amen.

2.*Prayer before giving Bible study

Thank you Lord for giving us time to study Your Word. We admit that we are sinners. We have done many things that don’t please you. Many times, we run away from You. We have lived our lives for ourselves. We are so sorry and we repent. We ask you to forgive us. Thank you for dying on the cross to save us. You have done what we couldn’t do for ourselves. We come to you now and ask you to take control of our lives, we give it to you. Help us to live everyday in a way that pleases you. In a special way, I pray for brother Somchai as he’s going to study Your words may you guide him through Your Holy Spirit. Give him wisdom so that he may able to understand Your word. Help us to believe your words and take away all our doubts. Thank you for the promise that whatever we ask in your name, you will do it. Please, send your Holy Spirit to help us understand Your plan of salvation to us. Bless us all today. Give us peace of mind. Help us to love one another. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

3.*Prayer after Bible study

Thank you Lord for giving us Your words that helps us understand your plan of salvation to us. Thank you also for sending Your Holy Spirit to us, who helps us to know what You want us to do. May Your Holy Spirit help us to grow in the knowledge of our Savior Jesus Christ. So that we will be change and our character will become like Him. Help us to know You more. We want You to be the ruler in our lives. May your Holy Spirit will continually work in our hearts. I pray that you will bless brother Somchai. Help him to make the right decision. May you are always there in every decision he makes. Bless also his family. Give them health and keep them safe. Protect them from sicknesses and bad people. Bless them materially and spiritually. You know them and You know what is best for them. But I asked You Lord, that if they have problems, please helps them. We believe that Your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. I pray that every day You would always be the center of our lives. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

4.*Prayer for members who have problem

Thank you Lord for the life, for the protection and for the health. We don’t know our future. But thank you Lord that you know what lies ahead and you know everything about us. Thank you that you know what is best for us. Brother Somchai is facing big problem today and You know it. Help him to decide the best things to do to solve it. You are the source of help and strength. I ask you Lord to solve his entire problem. We believe that You can help us. Lord you understand our pain and sorrows. When we start to follow you Lord, Satan is not happy and he will attack us and he will do everything possible to prevent us from trusting you. Lord, in ourselves we are not strong enough to resist him. But thank You Lord for the Holy Spirit who comes close to us to help us every problem we face. Thank you Lord for the promise that you will not leave us nor forsake us. You know the future and what is best for us. Lead us always to the right direction so we will know the right way to go. Gives us strength to face our problems. Give us a clear direction. And help us to understand Your will. Help us not to doubt. Help us to trust you more even in difficult situation. Satan gives us problem to keep us away from you. We know that this is the work of Satan. And he will do all in his power to stop us from believing you. But we thank you Lord for the Holy Spirit that gives us strength, to help us and to help brother Somchai in this problem. Help us to be faithful to you no matter what comes into our lives. Lord, we know that Your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for Your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

5.*Prayer before giving sermon

Thank you Lord for being so good to us. Thank you for the guidance of the Holy Spirit and thank You for the many blessings we received from you throughout the week. We worship you because You are our Creator and we owe everything we have to You, including our lives. We are so thankful for protecting us and for giving us health and other blessings. As we listen to Your words today, may these inspire us and help us to be ready for Your coming. We ask Your Holy Spirit to Help us to live a victorious Christian lives. Help us to develop a closer relationship with You. So that in everything we do, it will be pleasing to You. Take away all our doubts and help us to trust You more. Help us to believe to receive what we are praying for. Help us not to doubt. May your Holy Spirit dwell in our hearts. We believe that your coming is very soon and so help us to walk closer to You in every moment in our lives. Forgive us from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

6.*Prayer after giving sermon

Thank you so much Lord for the worship we have today, that helps us to understand more about your plan to us. Thank You for the Holy Spirit who is able to help us in many ways. To help us in bringing love, joy, healing, wisdom and conversion. Thank you for the words we have just heard, that helps us to have a closer relationship with You and gives us encouragement and hope. May Your Holy Spirit will help put Your words in our heart. So that we may draw our heart closer to You, to help us love You more. Thank you Lord that you suffered and died for us that we may be able to have eternal life. May You keep us safe as we go home. We ask You to bless us with the things we need, such as knowledge, guidance, peace and health. Help us to grow more spiritually. We ask You to give us a clean heart. Help us to know You more and more. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

7.*Prayer for the doubting

Thank you Lord for the time to pray. Thank you for the life we have. Help us to believe your promise that we will receive what we ask if we believe to receive it. We admit that we are sinners. We have done many things that don’t please you. We have lived our life for ourselves. We ask you to forgive us. We believe that you died on the cross for us, to save us. You did what we could not do for ourselves. Thank you Lord for your promise that you will supply all our needs. Nothing is impossible with you Lord and so we ask you to supply the need of brother Somchai. We come to you now and ask you to take control of my lives, we give it to you. Help us to live every day in a way that pleases you. We love you, Lord, and we want to spend all eternity with You in heaven. Help us to develop a closer relationship with You. Help us to believe to receive what we are praying for. Help us not to doubt. Take away all our doubts and unbelief. Help us to believe that nothing is impossible with you. We want You to be the ruler in our lives. Please provide us with our spiritual and material needs. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

8.*Prayer offered for the local co-Bible workers

Thank You Lord for choosing us to be Your instruments in reaching other people. Thank You for sending your Holy Spirit to lead us. Help us not to do Your work with our thinking and in our strength. Lord, we want to work under Your direction, so help us to be your humble instruments. So that your name will be praise in everything we do. Help us live like Jesus in our homes, our work and our neighborhoods. Help us to use our talents to lead people to You and to strengthen Your church. So that the work you want us to do will be done in a right time. Thank you for Your promise that when we seek, we will able to find and when we knock, the door will be open and when we ask, we will receive. Help us to please You in every way. Use us to be Your instruments to bring people to know about your great plan of salvation. May Your Holy Spirit open the way for us to share Your great love to the people around us. We ask You Lord to fill us with genuine love for our friends and neighbors. Help us what to do to be a good friend to those around us. May your Holy Spirit guide us in every word and deed so that we may say and do the right thing at the right time. May the life of Jesus will be seen in our lives. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

9.*Prayer for members who is leaving for work

We praise Your name Lord for what You have done to each of us. Thank you for the life and for giving us another day to work and to do our daily responsibilities. We thank you for the health, strength and for the many blessings we received from You. In a special way, I pray for brother Somchai as he leaves for work. I pray that you will protect him. Please bless him and his family. Bless his work, his fellow workers and the company he is working in. Take good care of him and give him wisdom and strength as work. I ask You also to please take care of his children as they leave for school and wherever they are. Please protect them and bless them. Thank you for giving us your Son Jesus Christ who died for us. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

10.*Prayer for the food

We thank you Lord for being so good to us and for the fellowship we have today. We thank you for the health and for the life. We thank you for all the blessings and for providing our daily needs. Thank you for the good food. Bless the hands that are so kind to prepare for this. May you continually bless them. Bless this family and their livelihood. We thank you Lord for giving them the job, to give them source of their income to live on and meet their daily needs. Bless the food we are about to eat today. May this give us good health and strength. Thank You for keeping us healthy, strong and able. May your name will always be glorified in everything we do. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

11.*Prayer for the sick

Lord, we humbly come to You today to ask Your blessings. You know brother Somchai so much better than I do. You know his sickness and the burden he carries. You also know his heart. Lord, I ask you to be with Somchai now, to work in his life. Let your will be done in his life. Lord, I pray for brother Somchai because your Word says I should pray for his healing. I believe you hear this earnest prayer from my heart and that it is powerful because of your promise. I have faith in You to heal him, but I also trust in the plan you have for his life. We trust You because you are the best doctor and the greatest healer. Lord, I don't always understand Your ways, and why Somchai has to suffer, but we trust you. I ask that You look with mercy and grace towards him. Let him know You are there with him through this difficulty. And may You always be glorified in his life and also in mine. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

12.*Prayer for members about to travel

We praise your name Lord for the life we enjoy each day. We thank you for keeping us safe all the time. I pray for brother Somchai as he travels to Bangkok. May Your angels will watch over him. Keep him safe in his entire trip, so that he would be able to come back in a right time. Bless also his family he left behind in a short time. May You take care of their daily needs and will keep them safe. Help us always to continue to grow spiritually and be connected to You through prayer, Bible study and meditation. Help us to trust You more. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

13.*Prayer before going to bed

Thank You Lord for the success of our activities today. May your Holy angels will watch over us as we rest tonight. We ask You to wake us up early tomorrow so we could spend time with You in prayer and in Bible study. Thank You Lord for dying in the cross for us. Help us to watch and pray continually. Lord, we need Your help because we cannot change our hearts. And so we surrender our lives to you now. Because it is only You who can transform us. We humble our hearts and we recognize our weaknesses. But we thank You for sending us Your Holy Spirit to work in our hearts. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Give us peace of mind as we sleep tonight and forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

14.*Prayer before starting the day

Our Father in Heaven, thank You for the new day. We know You love us so much. Thank You for Your love and care. Thank You Lord for waking us up and for the new strength. We want to start our day with You because we want to draw closer to You everyday. We ask You to take control of our lives today. And help us to give our lives completely to You. We ask You Lord to transform our hearts, that we become more and more like Jesus. We ask You to strengthen us to be kind to each other and to be witnesses to the people around us. May Your name will be glorified in everything we do. Help us to be faithful in our work today. As we start to do our responsibilities, may You guide us and protect us from any harms and dangers. Help us to be blessings to the people around us. Use us Lord to lead them to You. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.

15.*Prayer for comfort in loss

Lord we come to you today to seek Your comfort and guidance. We believe that you love us and you are there all the time. You suffered and died for us and you understand the pain and grief we bear at this moment. To experience death, sickness, and pain are not part of Your plan because You want us to be happy. But Satan is making troubles to give us sufferings. I pray for brother Somchai and his family. Please help them in this time of loss and overwhelming grief. Sometimes it’s hard to understand why our lives are filled with pain and heartache. But we turn to You as we seek to find strength because You will not leave us. Help us not to despair. Brother Somchai’s heart is crushed, but I know that you will not leave him. Please Lord shows him your compassion. Help him through the pain so that he will hope in you again. We believe the promises in your Word to send him fresh mercy each day. Though we can't see what lies ahead of us today, I trust your great love will never fail him. Thank You for Your promises that You will come again to take us to heaven, to end up all our sufferings. We believe that your coming is very soon, so help us to be ready for your coming. Forgive us Lord from all our sins. In Jesus name I pray amen.