I Will Wait For You

Erasing Hell

Lord, I Will Go

Just attended the most amazing missions conference at church...my repsonse is below.

I Will Go - Starfield
To the desperate eyes and reaching hands
To the suffering and the lean
To the ones the world has cast aside
Where you want me I will be

I will go, I will go
I will go, Lord send me
To the world, To the lost
To the poor and hungry
Take everything I am
I'm clay within your hands
I will go, I will go, send me

Let me not be blind with privilege
Give me eyes to see the pain
Let the blessing You've poured out on me
Not be spent on me in vain
Let this life be used for change

I wanna live for you
Go where you lead me
I wanna follow you
Send me!

Prayer for Japan

I found the below prayer for Japan on John Piper's Desiring God website. Wanted to pass it along to you as a reminder to pray for Japan. They are people just like us suffering there through this tragedy. They are exactly one day ahead of us, so when we are awake they are awake too, yet right now their days are very different than ours. There are women over there just like us that are our same ages and in the same stages of life that are suffering immensely and most likely without the Lord.

There are babies in wombs, there are newborns, young girls and boys who are now orphaned, little ones who are looking to their parents for their next sip of water and their next morsel of food, little ones who may no longer have parents, school aged children that are listening to the older generation and probably hearing them questioning God, teens and young adults who have experienced tragedies that we will never experience and at such a young age, single women, single men, young couples, wives without husbands, husbands without wives, parents in search of children, children in search of parents, the elderly married and now widowed.

I read a story today of a hospital that was hit by the wall of water and some of the walls are still standing, but it was totally gutted. That hospital had to have been filled with many patients. Heard another story of a school where kids are still waiting for their parents to come pick them up and the truth is - they won't be.

I would like to ask that we all pray for the men and women of Japan that are in the same stage of life as we are. As we awake in the morning and talk to our Lord that there is someone across the world who is waking at the same time as us without the Lord.
As we eat our breakfast there is someone without.
As we go off to work and ride in our car their are men and women who don't know how they will provide for their family.
As young mother's spend time at home with their children, their are mothers and fathers looking for theirs.
As the elderly think about their future after everything they owned has been washed away.

As we go through our days please remember them in prayer. Don't forget them. First and foremost for their salvation and that the Good News of Jesus Christ would reach them and secondly that their needs would be met.
Suffering of this magnitude is not only a day, not only a week, not only a month...remember they are no different than us. We could be them and suffering something of great proportions. Wouldn't it comfort you to know that sisters in Christ half way around the world are praying for you?!

Psalm 107:13
"Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble; He saved them out of their distress"

Psalm 46:1-3
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we should not fear, though the earth should change and though the mountains slip into the heart of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains quake at its swelling pride."

The power of moving water is greater than most of us can imagine. Nothing stands before it. We are driven to our knees:

Father in heaven, you are the absolute Sovereign over the shaking of the earth, the rising of the sea, and the raging of the waves. We tremble at your power and bow before your unsearchable judgments and inscrutable ways. We cover our faces and kiss your omnipotent hand. We fall helpless to the floor in prayer and feel how fragile the very ground is beneath our knees.
O God, we humble ourselves under your holy majesty and repent. In a moment—in the twinkling of an eye—we too could be swept away. We are not more deserving of firm ground than our fellowmen in Japan. We too are flesh. We have bodies and homes and cars and family and precious places. We know that if we were treated according to our sins, who could stand? All of it would be gone in a moment. So in this dark hour we turn against our sins, not against you.
And we cry for mercy for Japan. Mercy, Father. Not for what they or we deserve. But mercy.
Have you not encouraged us in this? Have we not heard a hundred times in your Word the riches of your kindness, forbearance, and patience? Do you not a thousand times withhold your judgments, leading your rebellious world toward repentance? Yes, Lord. For your ways are not our ways, and your thoughts are not our thoughts.
Grant, O God, that the wicked will forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Grant us, your sinful creatures, to return to you, that you may have compassion. For surely you will abundantly pardon. Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord Jesus, your beloved Son, will be saved.
May every heart-breaking loss—millions upon millions of losses—be healed by the wounded hands of the risen Christ. You are not unacquainted with your creatures' pain. You did not spare your own Son, but gave him up for us all.
In Jesus you tasted loss. In Jesus you shared the overwhelming flood of our sorrows and suffering. In Jesus you are a sympathetic Priest in the midst of our pain.
Deal tenderly now, Father, with this fragile people. Woo them. Win them. Save them.
And may the floods they so much dread make blessings break upon their head.
O let them not judge you with feeble sense, but trust you for your grace. And so behind this providence, soon find a smiling face.
In Jesus’ merciful name, Amen.