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

Cloud of Witnesses

September, we will see the first four students that will be graduating from the Garden of Hope. They are from three different tribes, the Tai Dam tribe, the Hmong tribe and the Bru tribe. These students have been with us for two years now. We would like to take this opportunity to thank and acknowledge our partners in this endeavour.

South East Asia Prayer Center (SEAPC) – For their constant support, prayer and financial gifts, especially the seed money.

International Christian Mission (ICM) – For the free use of their training material as our textbook these 2 years.

Crest Christian Bookstore – For always giving us a platform to invite others to partake in the ministry in Laos.

DNA Financial – For Miss Doris Ng who is constantly giving and coaching us in different areas.

Autumn Rain – For always sending teams to bring ‘GIFTS’ into Laos.

Challenge Mission in Asia (CMA) – For sending teams to bring ‘GIFTS’ into Laos.

GA 611 – For their generous giving and

ministering to the Lao people in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Mennonites – Especially for James and the Mennonites from his Church in Ohio, who helped us with the pigs and coached us in agriculture. Yes, the pigs have piglets now.

Calvary City Church – For sponsoring a student and sending friends to Laos to work with us.

Friends of SEAPC who receive this newsletter monthly – For praying for us and giving to the work in Laos.

These individuals and friends of mine who give their time, energy, prayer and finance to Laos.

• Mark and Matthew Geppert (SEAPC)

• Andy and Jenifer Sim (Bethel AG)

• Chang Wee Lee (Calvary AG)

• Matthew Wai (Grace AG)

• Doug Mcgowen (AR)

• John Chin

• Ken and Liza Starkey

• Chuck Lenhart

• Martha Chuang

• Song Li

• Fang Seng

• Wang Seng

• Ray Brubecker and his wonderful

Mennonite friends

• Mark and Michael Risse

And finally to the countless widows who gave that “widow’s mite” who, due to the frailty of the human mind, I might not have mentioned. Please forgive me. Nevertheless our Lord does remember and for that I leave behind you a verse. “For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have showed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.” Hebrews 6:10

Once again we thank all of you for recognizing and believing that this is the hour for Laos. There are great needs but through your prayers and generous giving, these needs are being met in Laos.

Because of you, the Lao people have the opportunity to know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Hubert

The Blessed State

Praise the Lord!

“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name. For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting, and His truth endures to all generations.”
(Psalm 100:4-5).

“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.”
(1 Thessalonians 5:16-18)

“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28)

The blessed state of the righteous starts with praising God. The more you praise Him, the more blessed you will be. The more things you praise Him for, the more things He will bless you in. Praise Him in everything and see Him bless you in everything. So praise Him more!

Lemuel

The Sling Stone

The intercessors are usually ahead of the times. Those who “stand in the gap” dedicate a place filled with pictures, and maps, and prayer letters, and a time; more often than not, in the early morning. They sit in their prayer chair and ask great things of God. As part of their time with Him, they dream dreams. They think thoughts of how the nations, or families, or their local church, or the United States or other lands would look if Christ was on the throne of the hearts of the people involved.

Jesus’ promise is, “He will do exceeding abundantly beyond all we can ask or think” Ephesians 3:20. The scripture goes on to say, “according to the power that works in us.”

How great is the power of faith when released through the function of prayer. When the anointing of the Holy Spirit ignites the fire of faith in our hearts, we see beyond the current situation and reach through the veil of the flesh to grasp the promise of God and draw it into our present reality. We call things that are not seen as though they were.

God sees the extension of our faith and says, “Here, my little child, let me reach that for you.”

For those of us who travel, we are the bead of whetting on the harvest blade. We travel behind curtains, iron and bamboo, and confess Christ until the curtain falls and the walls tumble. We walk in city and village. We travel by any means, eat any food, go to mountain height or valley deep to see the hand of God reach through governments and ideologies to bring freedom to the oppressed. We believe in the face of arrest and persecution, “that this present suffering is not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us.” From hungering and fasting, from persecution and financial need, from pressures among the heathen and compromised Christians, we emerge as more than conquerors, eager and hungry for the next battle.

What force of man or spirit can raise its banner against the Most High God? What force of man or spirit can long endure when a worshipping warrior picks up a stone made smooth by the currents endured and fitting it to a simple sling proven in battle and runs to the fracas declaring “I come to you in the Name of the Lord Almighty?”

Nothing shall stand before the armies of God.

Oh yes, I am excited.

It is once again time to pack up and go get the giants. A month in the United States has called me to a Daniel fast for 120 days. I cannot believe that the church has gone gay and the Moslems are going to put a training center in the midst of the globe’s biggest market place. Forget the one room that is a Mosque, it is the other 13 floors of training that poses the threat. I have been in Islamic Centers throughout Indonesia, and Malaysia, and on campuses in the United States. All Islam believes that this is the time for the world to become an Islamic Global Community.  And the Islamic Center is the place for training and preparation for this event.

I have been told this by Imams and businessmen, radicals and moderates, school children and senior citizens. Islam around the world is united in this quest. Women have a baby every year. Polygamy pushes the birth rates to levels that will tip populations  so that  democratic representation propor-tionate to population redefines fledgling democracies.

This is a spiritual battle, one to be won in the prayer closet and through strategic prayer journeys. Instead of running from the fracas, we must run toward it with the high praises of the Almighty God in our mouths and the Word of God on our lips. We must declare faith in the face of the creeping darkness.

The same way that Daniel and Nehemiah found the power to change nations, we must call upon the Lord with prayer and fasting. I tell you, something really has to touch my heart to get me to fast. But I am far enough into this to feel the conversion of my body to the will of God and I call you, as well, to join in a united effort to see the power of the living Christ manifest through the anointing of His Holy Spirit.

Although I pray for him every day, I do not expect President Obama to deliver us.  Although I enjoy her drama and theater, and her stories are very motivational to me, I do not expect Sister Sarah to deliver me. Although I do appreciate his testimony and can relate as a former addict, I do not look to Glen Beck as the One who will deliver us from this darkness.

Someone on a street corner, or prayer closet somewhere is going to get hold of a True and Living God — the One who has a Son ­— and that God is going to answer believing prayer and another Goliath is going to fall.

Pray as though your nation depended on it. Pray as though your children depended on it. Pray as though your life depends upon it; because it does.

One of the men who deeply impacted my life for prayer was Russ Bixler. He and his wife, Norma, are the founders of Cornerstone Television Network in Wall, Pa. They embraced me and taught me how to host a TV program, how to interview some of the great leaders of the Charismatic and Evangelical Church, and how to pray in faith for the healing of those who called in to the program. Russ and Norma would hear from the Lord and call out what God was doing and then pray. The phone center would burst into activity with people calling in to report their healing.

Russ has gone to be with the Lord, but Norma is still “on air” and seeing healings every program. We welcome, this month, their son, Paul, to be the new Chief of Operations at CTVN and encourage you to pray for this great ministry, as together we “Lift High the Signal.”

In the air, on the ground, and in the GAP, we will cry out, “Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.”

Mark

September Letter from Mark

Dear Donor,

Praise the Lord for His great goodness. Your gift is very much appreciated as we have hundreds of kids going back to school next month. Every home feels it, the increased costs when school begins. With more than 350 children and 30 in college you can imagine the pressures on the SEAPC Global Community. Thank you for sharing the laod.

The more I see the nations we serve, the more I am compelled to “do something about it.” James teaches that pure religion and undefiled is to care for the widow and the orphan and to stay unaffected by the world system. Your gifts make it possible for us to do these three things and I appreciate it.

God Bless You as you continue to serve Him.

Mark

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