Lift Off! Task Unfinished - Day 07
A Promise to Bless All People: His Glory in Blessing Abraham (Genesis 12:1-4, 15:1-6)
Through the story of Abraham, God begins to give us a glimpse of His promises to bring glory to Himself by revealing His blessing of love to all nations. God makes an unconditional promise to Abraham and swears on His own character to bless Abraham and to bless all the nations of the earth through him. God asked Abraham to trust Him to be who He is: faithful and good! God’s covenant was not for Abraham alone, but for all his descendants.
Pray for the Lesu
The Lesu (Lay-soo), commonly referred to as mountain people, are known as the poorest people group among the Yi. Most are farmers with little or no education, and they live so high in the mountains that they are separated from accessible communities. The majority of their 20,000 people live in 100 different villages scattered throughout China’s Yunnan Province, and they communicate with outsiders using Mandarin.
The Lesu are primarily animists and worship the mountain god. They try to appease this god by offering sacrifices to him during the annual Mountain Sacrifice Festival. On this day, the Lesu are not allowed to work in their fields for fear that the mountain god will be offended. The Lesu are unevangelized and unreached with a mere one-tenth of 1 percent being Christian. They have yet to hear the good news because they don’t have Bibles in their language, and few Christian workers have visited the region.- Pray that the Lesu will come to know the one true living God.
- Pray they will know the One who created the mountain they worship.
- Pray that God will be glorified among the Lesu in all the villages where they dwell.
Excerpted from: https://www.imb.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/East-Asia-UUPG-Prayer-Guide.pdf
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