Pray

The motorcycle popped up three cars back in my rear view. I knew in seconds its driver would decide to go in between my rental car and the fiery sports coupe to my left. All six lanes of traffic were maintaining 75 mph and shifting through the slim margins of space between them like a school of Albacore Tuna. Like all other school settings, there are those who defend and those who offend. In our case, the offender wore black from helmet to toe and displayed his predator nature proudly across the side of his motorbike – TRIUMPH. He sifted through the school, 20 mph faster than all the others. I could see the frightened faces of the drivers behind me as they made room for him and slowed their speeds. The coupe saw the approach and pressed itself dangerously closer to the median, then decided it safer to come into my lane but never noticed my rental car in the way.

My break lights screamed danger! The school dispersed. The black shark of triumph blazed through towards feistier foe, and the remainder gathered ourselves back at 65mph and moved in a more focused  manner toward our final destinations.

Ever been to LA?

This moment in the 405 traffic between Irvine and Los Angeles stuck with me for days. I was spending those days teaching on prayer with good friends in Long Beach, meeting with the SEAPC network in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, San Diego, Riverside, and Los Angeles, and finally sharing stories about Jesus at Trinity Lutheran Church in San Pedro. I began the week fasting and praying for personal revival and fresh anointing as I knew this trip was the start of a season of travel and ministry that would take me through December.

That day on the highway raised a question in me. Am I speeding through at 75 mph, seemingly progressing toward a final destination? Am I one step or lane shift away from disaster? Am I texting my way there? When the predators and fears of life creep up behind me, am I caught unprepared?

Prayer is the lifeblood of missions. Prayer is the precursor to compassion. Prayer is what you do in May, June, and July as you trust God to keep the ministry functioning in August.

At SEAPC we are believing God for the miraculous on a daily basis. As our efforts of bringing life to a new generation around the globe produce new fruit, we must maintain our focus on the call to prayer and the stabilizing abundance of Christ. He has been faithful to us. When you see the potential danger approaching in the mirror, slow down, re-read the promises of God, focus to fast, and pray.

If you are believing God for revival in this generation, then please designate time in your day to pray for breakthrough! He is faithful and will hear our prayers.  He will keep us focused, moving safely toward the promises He has for us.

Matt

19 Children Treated!

SEAPC TOUCHING HEARTS is saving lives again this summer

In May, Touching Hearts was able to treat 19 more kids living with heart disease in Tibet!! Thank you Dr. Brad Keller, Dr. Prem Sekar, Dr. Boon Yong, Dr. Vivian, Dr. Gao, Dr. Cherry, Linda and Richard Salley, Belinda, Gail, Daniel, Ciren, Jonathan, Laba, and the rest of the Peoples Regional Team!!

We screened 1720 more kids from Southern Tibet and found many more who need treatment. Treatment in Lhasa will begin again this week. Please be praying and continue to support this life saving cause!

Each case will cost our cause $1,000 and we are looking for sponsors everyday. Please considering changing a life and giving to this need.

Child waiting for treatment, his mother and Matt

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中文 Matt Geppert, 06-10

I Had a Moment

Deep beyond the shuffle of the seasons and the ringing bell of mid-year’s freedom, is a promise you made. Yep, remember back in January, when Pittsburgh, PA was a frigid ice box (I miss you guys in CA) and you spoke those visions and goals out loud.

Don’t worry, I almost forgot mine too.  But my God is a good God who answers prayer and He decided I should remember one of them specifically. So, by the time I reached my mid year, I found myself back in Lhasa, Tibet. This time I was surrounded by medical doctors from Hong Kong, India, Shanghai, and the U.S., working 16-hour days and challenging the physical impossibilities of treating the previously considered untreatable in the world’s most adverse environment. My prayer was, “Let me see your heart for Tibet, oh God, and use me to do your will.”

This amazing team screened 1,720 children over two days in a rural village of southern Tibet. They treated 20 children with interventional noninvasive catheter procedures in the Cath lab at Peoples Regional Hospital. They led strategic government meetings with the health bureau of Tibet. They ministered to countless families and they never stopped working. I was blessed.

In the swirl of high altitude, praying parents, spiritual oppression and the pressures of managing international health and political diplomacy, the Lord met me; and I had a moment. My phone rang. I answered the call and heard a hundred voices in the background worshipping God in Mandarin and praying in the spirit. I looked back through the cath lab window to the child receiving treatment. I looked at the doctors who’d come from  far off lands. I looked at the local doctors, desperate to be able to treat their own. I also looked at the mother softly praying for her son. Time stopped for a moment and I could feel the presence of God.

I found out, later, that the call came from Hong Kong GA611 who had gathered their church to pray for Tibet that day. They will never fully know the situational pressure and spiritual warfare I stood in that day and they will never know how that call ministered to our team. But they do know that the will of God is for these Tibetan families to know Him and to worship Him too.

The heart of God for Tibet is in the eyes of the desperate mothers and His victory is in the child’s life that is restored.

I know you were praying too. Thank You! In our tenth year serving Tibet, we have again seen the miraculous occur, the people come to know God, the darkness be pushed back by the light, and hope be ushered in to a hopeless generation.

Matt

我感受到那一刻

季節流轉，時序進入六月，是從校園出籠得自由的時候了。還記得你作過的允諾，立下的心願嗎？是的，就是一月份，賓州的匹茲堡像個硬梆梆的大冰盒（當然，加州除外），那時你大聲說出的願景和目標。

不要擔心，我也差不多忘了自己的新年新願望。但我的神是一位應允禱告、良善的神，祂決定，其中有一項是我應該特別記住的，。因此，這時我回到西藏的拉薩，身邊有許多來自香港、印度、上海、美國的醫生，每天工作十六小時，在世界上最艱困的環境中，要以手術治療向來被當作不治之症先天性心臟病。我的禱告是：「神啊，讓我看到你對西藏的心意，使用我達成你的心意。」、

短短兩天的時間，在西藏南部的一個村莊，這個驚人的團隊篩檢了一千七百二十個孩童；們用無侵害性的導管插入手術在人民地方醫院的心導管室治療了二十個孩子；他們帶領許多重要的會議，和西藏的衛生保健當局進行研討；他們服事了無數的家庭；他們不停地工作。我真是深受祝福。

在高山的暈眩、禱告的父母們、屬靈的壓迫、處理國際醫療與政治外交的壓力中，主與我相遇，我感受到了那一刻。我的電話響了，我一接起來就聽到上百的人的聲音用中文在靈裡敬拜人，我轉頭，隔著心導管室的玻璃窗看著那個手術當中的孩子，看著那些從遠地而來的醫生，看著當地的醫生們，盡一切力要救他們自己的人，看著那位母親，輕輕地為她的兒子禱告。時間停住了，我感受到神的同在。

我後來才知道，這通電話是從香港 GA611 打來的，那天他們全教會聚集為西藏禱告。他們永遠不會知道那天我所面對處境中的壓力與屬靈的爭戰，他們也不會知道這通電話是如何托住我們的團隊，但他們知道，神的旨意是要這些西藏家庭也來認識祂、敬拜祂。

神對西藏的心反映在這些別無指望的母親眼中，祂的勝利彰顯在被救活的孩子生命裡。

我知道你的也在禱告，謝謝你們！這是我們服事西藏的第十年，我們再一次見到神蹟，人們來認識神，黑暗被光明推開，盼望導入這無望的一代。

Matt

中文 Matt Geppert, 05-10

Tibet

My dad stuck a note into my YWAM journal early this year.  The note was his reference points from a recent study in Matthew 5-7.  These days he and I do not have much time together. So, when he hands me something or shares something with me, it bears tremendous value to me.  I’ve carried this note with me through the nations and have come back to read it hundreds of times.  Before I speak at a church or go into a meeting of significant consequence, or even face some major decision that will impact my family socially or financially, I’ve read the note.

The note I’m carrying is a list of 21 things. 21 keys to live by. This list will be right next to wherever my head rests this month. I’ll need it, especially just before I meet Dolma, a 9-year-old girl from Geda township, in Damxung county of Lhasa, Prefecture, in the Tibet Autonomous Region of Tibet, PRC. She is one of 132 who have been miracu-lously found. Like a needle in a hay stack, she has been set apart, identified to be very sick and desperately in need of help. The pressure in the moment is tremendous. My note starts with this:

-  You are Salt and Light

I will hold Dolma’s hand this month and we will pray the same prayer that I’ve been praying with parents and children in Tibet for six years. When we end, she will undoubtedly look right into my eyes and smile…

-  Keep Asking, Seeking, Knocking

Then, her mom and I will sit in a waiting room, hold hands and pray like never before, as Dolma receives the treatment she needs. We will pray for Dr. Gu Hong, Dr. Prem, Dr. Boon, Dr. Keller, Belinda, Rocky, Dr. Gesang, Dr. Bin Zhen and, mostly, for Dolma…

-  Fast for God

Then, as sleepless and endless prayer has broken through, Dolma will come bouncing down a hallway and her mom and I will be able to smile back at her.  And, we will be joined by the presence of God in an eternal moment predestined by faith, accomplished by the body of Christ and sustained through time by the 21 things you need to know.

The note ends with very clear direction and simple instruction for SEAPC, the body of Christ, and you and I who pray for these kids on a daily basis.

-  Build on the Rock

I need you to pray with me this month for Tibet, its children with heart disease, the doctors coming to help and the finances it will take to cover the costs. I leave on the May 13 for Tibet.

西藏

今年初的時候，我父親在我的 YWAM 手記裡塞了一張紙，上面是他那一陣子研讀馬太福音五到七章的筆記。這些日子來，我們父子很少有時間在一起，所以，無論他交給我什麼或是和我分享什麼，對我而言都是極為寶貴的。我去到各國都帶著這張筆記，前前後後讀了不下數百次。我無論去哪一個教會證道，參加什麼重要會議，或是面臨對我的家庭環境或經濟有重大決定，都會先讀這張筆記。

這張筆記列著二十一件事，二十一條人生鑰則。這個月我會去很多地方，無論我在哪裏枕頭，這張筆記一定會放在旁邊。我會很需要這張筆記，特別是我見到 Dolma 之前，她是一個九歲的女孩，來自中國西藏自治區的拉薩縣Damxung 郡的Geda鎮。她是奇蹟般被找到的一百三十二個孩童之一。就像稻草堆中的一根針，她被挑出來，列為重度患者，亟需救助。此刻這壓力十分沈重。我的筆記上寫著：

    你們是鹽和光
這個月我將握著 Dolma 的手，所作的禱告就是六年來一次又一次和西藏的病童與家長們一起作的禱告。當我們結束禱告時，她一定會看著我的眼睛，綻開笑容‥‥。

    不斷祈求、尋求、叩門
然後，她的母親和我就會坐在等候室，握著手，竭力禱告，陪伴她接受所需要的手術。我們會為 Gu 醫生、Hong 醫生 、Prem 醫生、 Boon 醫生、 Keller 醫生、Belinda、Rocky、Gesang 醫生、Bin Zhen 醫生、當然還有 Dolma 禱告‥‥。

    為神禁食
在不眠不休的禱告後，Dolma 會從醫院的走廊蹦蹦跳跳過來，她的母親和我會笑臉迎接她。在這永恆的時刻，我們將在神的同在中聯合，這時刻是是憑信預見，透過基督的身體而實現，靠著你所必須知道的這二十一件事，不斷堅持而成就的。

這張筆記的最後，寫著非常清楚的方向與簡單的指示，給東南亞禱告中心、基督的身體、以及日日為這些孩子禱告的你和我。

   建在磐石上
這個月，我需要你們和我一同為西藏禱告，為那裡有心臟病的孩子，為來幫助他們的醫生們禱告，也為這些費用的資助禱告。我將在五月十三日出發前往西藏。

Matt

How to Get Cash for Your Upcoming Mission Trip

Congratulations!!! I wanted to be sure to start with that. Why congratulations? Because you, my friend, have just started what will be the most significant process of your life. You have felt the call, or the tug, or the stir in your heart to do something and you have committed yourself to do it. You have said yes.

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