Where You are, and Where You are Headed

Early in my attempts to follow God’s will, it seemed to some that I had gotten myself on a dead-end road, in a place that had no future. Looking back, it was a place used by God to prepare me for everything else I was to do in ministry. I learned when you follow God’s will, where you are is as important as where you are headed. After Joseph had been sold into slavery, he was put into Potiphar’s prison. Genesis 39:20 says, “Joseph’s master took him and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined.” Surely it was Joseph’s dead-end road. Not so. Later Joseph would serve in a position of power. Pharaoh said to Joseph, “See, I have set you over all the land of Egypt” (Genesis 41:41). Joseph was in prison, on his way to the palace. Don’t ever let where you are, keep you from where God is leading you.

Join me this week in praying for the following global concerns:
• Pray for missionaries who have accepted their agency’s Volunteer Retirement Incentive and are preparing to return to the states in December – many with needs for housing, transportation, jobs, etc.
• Give thanks with Lori for the 22 people baptized on a recent Sunday in her church in Mali. West Africa.
• Pray for the church leaders in Turkmenistan. Several evangelists and leaders were arrested, fined, imprisoned, and confiscated because of their evangelistic activities and witnesses to the Turkmen people.