We serve a God with a remarkable track record of working through surprising people in surprising circumstances to accomplish surprising things. 

- A cursory glance through the Old Testament reveals person after person in situation after situation when God showed up and did something surprising. Names like Abraham, David, Rahab, Ehud, Esther, and Amos should call to mind moments when God caught His people off-guard. 

- In the New Testament, all the major players surprise us. From a homeless Jewish carpenter who hailed from a nothing village to His ragamuffin band of apostles to the unbelievably changed pro-Jewish Gentile evangelist Paul, they are all not whom we would have chosen. 

- The last two thousand years of Christian history are no different. God has repeatedly brought either reformation or revival or movement through the most unlikely characters. 

- We are living in peculiar days, friends. The world has ground to a halt in ways that no one saw coming. Economies are stuck, food-supply chains are threatened, and travelers are grounded. The most vulnerable among us are particularly threatened by a pandemic. By all accounts, movement out of darkness and into light should be grounded as well. 

It most assuredly is not.

God is at work. His Holy Spirit is still drawing men and women to Him. Darkness is still being pushed back. Lost sons and daughters of the Father are still discovering the way back Home.

Months before a pandemic was ever envisioned, the workers in the MedRim identified five prayer points they called their global partners to keep bringing before God. They remain as pertinent as ever. Join us this month in praying over the MedRim, the Bengal, and Emerging Leadership Initiatives that God would:

1. Move supernaturally by revealing Himself to people that are not seeking Him through dreams and visions and by connecting the workers to people of peace;

2. Develop emerging leaders who are bold, passionate, obedient, and stirred in their spirit to see the Gospel move among their people – as well as able to persevere in suffering;

3. Provide the resources necessary to facilitate movement, including locations for discovery groups to gather and Bible translations in local dialects;

4. Transform the workers to be spirit-led disciples of Jesus who model kingdom living; 

5. Help the workers’ children and families to thrive socially, spiritually and emotionally and to accept and understand God’s love for them.

Keep expecting the unexpected from God. Watch for it. Pray for it.