Daily Post: Peculiar
Could I ask you to pray for me? Would it seem peculiar to you if I did? Allow me to briefly share my need. I don’t need money, food, water, shelter, clothes, or donations of any kind… so please, please keep reading.
It was a strange, peculiar feeling for me as the reality of how the message was getting out around the world finally settled in my mind. According to a simple Google search, there are 193 countries in the world today, or 195 if you count the Holy See and the State of Palestine [United Nations classification]. Depending on the criteria used, “Stratfor” in their June 2017 article suggests there are 204-207 de facto sovereign states. The total of IOC-recognized Olympic nations is 206, and FIFA countries eligible for the World Cup Soccer trophy numbers 211.
What was the strange and peculiar feeling I had, and what was the reality I discovered? Using the United Nations criteria of 195 nations, this blog has almost reached the half-way point around the world. As of yesterday, September 9th, 2017, there were readers from 80 different countries, the most recent being Guatemala. The map above shows the origination point of readers around the world, the clear countries have no readers. I was ecstatic to learn that the message of the gospel was being delivered to these highlighted countries through this blog.
Technology is a wonderful thing. It has allowed me to continue to have a voice even now, while not being associated as a staff member/pastor of any particular church or denomination. This means I can write and the message of God’s Word can be used around the world in ways that I will never see or know. It is the true meaning of several different Scriptures. Here are just a few that keep me going every day.
Hebrews 6:10
For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.
Isaiah 55:11
So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
Acts 1:8
…but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.
So here is my prayer request:
Would you please pray for me as I write? Pray that I would write with wisdom to reach people with the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Pray that I would be a true witness of the faith in Flower Mound, in Texas and the United States, and to the remotest part of the earth.
I’m not sharing this map with you, or my stats with you for you to praise me, or for any regard in any way. Please don’t do this. Instead, I’m sharing this to hopefully inspire you to just be you. Be the you God designed you to be, and you too can reach your world with the truth. Be the witness for faith that makes a difference in someone’s life who really needs to see it, hear it, and experience it for themselves.
One last thing.
If you will pray for me in my endeavor to reach the world with the message of truth please consider this final request.
On any given day you may not relate to my topic, the thoughts I convey, or the image that I use as a platform for my message. That’s ok, it’s a broad-spectrum blog. But please keep reading. Then, when you find that one article that touches you, that you relate to in ways I’ll never know about, would you do me the great honor of sharing it with your friends, or reposting it with a link to my blog, or on your Facebook page with all those hundreds of other readers…?
Above all, if you don’t feel like sharing, then don’t. But please, please pray for me as I write, that God would send out His message in these words, and they would not return to His throne void, but will accomplish all that He sends them to accomplish.
Thanks for reading!
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