Daily Decisions

God has given each of us two amazing gifts: “choice” and “today”. The freedom to choose what we will or will not do is an incredible and powerful responsibility. When choice is combined with living each day to the fullest, (redeeming the time), our eternal destiny and that of those we influence is impacted. Everyone makes daily choices for either good or evil.

Daily decisions are the building blocks of our lives. The prophet Isaiah put it this way, “For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:” (Isaiah 28:10) In a culture that is about bigger, better and brighter it can be easy to lose sight of the power of consistent commitments. The accumulative value of our daily choices is eternal and immeasurable in every area of our lives (spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical). We decide, daily, if God’s law of sowing and reaping will abound to our good or avalanche to our destruction.

Here are two tools that can help you identify and improve the impact of your daily choices: Reflect and Review. Pray that we effectively incorporate these tools. 

Reflect

Count your blessings...
• List how God has blessed you (ex. salvation, work, family, etc.), then take time to meditate on how their loss would affect you. How often, and with what intensity, do you thank God for them?
• Having reflected, is there anything that hinders God from blessing you more? Ask Him. Write down what needs to change. Repent. Ask. Seek. Knock.

Review

What are your priorities?
• List the things you think should be the priorities in a Christian’s life (ex: prayer, work, family, etc.).
• Number them in order of priority (1 being most important, etc.).
• How have you lived out your priorities in the last 24 hours?

I keep a copy in my Bible. It helps me keep my priorities, remember what I value, and keeps me focused on what I most need to change (by His grace). Furthermore, this list becomes a matter of the most important and impactful of all my daily decisions: my prayer time.

What will be the reward of your daily decisions? We all will find out on that great and final day!

Bishop Jeff Tracy
New Life St. Louis
Bridgeton, Missouri
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Praying for Africa
 
The continent of Africa has the most countries without a UPCI presence. The Church has not yet been able to send missionaries into at least 7 countries due to safety concerns and lack of financial support. Africa contains more sovereign nations (54) than any other continent, according to classroom.com. According to God's Word, government must be considered first when praying for any nation. The most widespread form of government is a presidential republic, where presidents are elected, and may maintain power by force or coercion. The other forms are: parliamentary republic, where power resides in a cabinet of ministers, and semi-presidential republics, where elected presidents serve as heads of state, and traditional Monarchies, with a king as head of state, and a prime minster as head of government (classroom.com). There are many challenges facing those living in Africa, as it is a developing country. According to globalyoungvoices.com, the following are: poverty, illiteracy (two out of five cannot read or write), ill health, violence (domestic violence is twice as high as the rest of the developing world), hunger (19 countries in Africa have the worst food and nutrition security), financing (70 percent work in agriculture, leaving no protection against volatile weather, i.e., drought), and economic growth is too low. At the time of this writing, Mozambique, Uganda, and Faso have lost all crops and animals. While all of these needs can provoke us to prayer, God wants to do more in Africa. Cush, implying Ethiopia, is mentioned as a nation that will reach out to God. (see Psalms 68:31; 87:3-6). "Biblical scholars are aware that "Cush" sometimes refers to all of Africa except Egypt, and sometimes to ancient Nubia, stretching from modern Aswan in the north to Khartoum in the south. Today most of this area lies in Sudan" (cbeinternational.org). Strong's Concordance translates Cush as Ethiopia, but this does not include the modern county of that name. David Adamo, professor of Biblical and religious studies, has suggested the best interpretation to be Africa. Africa is a beautiful continent, with beautiful people, diverse cultures, and languages. God cares about Africa.
 
Therefore, let's pray that…
 
  • God would turn the heart of all government officials to do His will. (Proverbs 21:1)
  • All nations and leaders within the continent of Africa would have a visitation of the Holy Ghost, and desire to reach for truth. (Psalms 68:31)
  • There will be a supernatural move of God that will open doors for evangelism for the unreached countries.
  • God will provide the finances needed to send evangelists and missionaries.
  • God will send His angels to protect missionaries and their children. 
  • The spirit of lawlessness and murder would be bound, and that violence and crime would be repented of, and godly sorrow would fall on those committing violence and crime.
  • God would use the needs of the people to do the miraculous. Supplying food like He did when He walked on this earth, and that even greater things would be done, per His promise.
  • The Church would have a burden to financially support and pray for missions. And that Apostolic doctrine would fill Africa.
 
Beth Marie Evans
Prison Ministry/Apostolic Author
International Christian Fellowship
Brookfield, Illinois
World Needs:

  • Pray for families and loved ones in our world during this season of death by gun violence. Recently, three people were killed and three injured in a shooting at a Kenosha, Wisconsin, tavern; in Austin, Texas three people were killed after an apparent “domestic situation.” In Columbus, Ohio, one person was killed and five wounded in a drive-by shooting.
  • Pray for our world with all military and political conflicts that all political leaders’ hearts be in the hand of the Lord, and as the rivers of water: God will turn it whithersoever he will. It is now being reported that China and Russia are modernizing their nuclear weapons and capabilities, and Chad’s long-serving President Idriss Deby has died following front-line clashes with rebels.
  • Pray for the Lord to show Himself to be a God of possibilities to the family members of the 53 crew members believed to have been on the Indonesian submarine that has been declared sunk, with no hope of survivors.
  • Continue to pray for the current season of Covid-19 that the Lord would bring it to an end.
  • Continue to pray for the peace of Israel and for the return of their land.
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Spring ’21 90 Day Prayer Journey 


We are all familiar with the Good Samaritan parable in the Bible.  There are similarities between the character of the Good Samaritan and the Father in the story of the Prodigal Son.  Both depict the love of Jesus.  

In the story of the Good Samaritan, we would have expected a Jew, a Priest, or the Levite to be the one who would have been the hero, not the Samaritan.  However, perhaps we can go back to II Chronicles 28 where the prophet Oded convinced the Samaritans who were the outcasts, to assist their Judean captives to show compassion.  

In the story of the Prodigal Son, the Father showed great love toward his son.  His son did not deserve the beautiful mercy bestowed upon him. Compassion won.  

Prayer wins.  Compassion wins.  Love wins...every time.  

As we enter into our thirteenth 90 Day Prayer Journey for our beloved prodigals and we who love them, we pray for hearts of love and compassion toward them.  We pray for the heart of the compassionate Samaritan and the heart of the loving Father. When we pray with brokenness, not with anger, condemnation, judging, we will then minister in love with our actions. 

Seeds of compassionate prayer reap mighty blessings. Faith rises.  HOPE awakens.  Love flows. We receive answers to prayers we’ve been praying for months or even years.  

We invite you, your churches, youth groups, small cell groups, families, couples, and singles to unite with HOPE Prayer, a ministry of The Pentecostals of Alexandria, for those with prodigals to pray for our beloved prodigals. This will be our 13th prayer journey praying the book by Dr. James Banks, 90 Days of Prayers for your child. God has performed miracles in the past. He will do it again. 

Tools:

  • We encourage you to take advantage of these tools 
  • Prayers For Prodigals, 90 Days of Prayers For Your Child, Dr. James Banks 
  • Available @ POA White Steeple Book Store (1-888-443-2113) and on Amazon 
  • Daily prayer call with Partners In Prayer, Billie Jean Bishop, Founder 
  • 10 AM CST USA teaching, testimonies, prayer (sharing encouraged...will remain posted daily after each session)
  • FB Billie Jean Bishop, Donald Long, HOPE2HOPE15
  • Daily posts(sharing encouraged)


One mind, One accord Fast Days...Day 1, Day 45, Day 90 

Don and Dy Anne Long
FB: Don Long, Donald Long, HOPE2HOPE15, Messenger 
IG: Don Long, sdyannelong, HOPE2HOPE15 
EMAIL: HOPEJER3117@aol.com

Prayer wins.  Compassion wins. Love wins...every time.   
Dr. David K. Bernard
General Superintendent of the UPCI
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The National Day of Prayer is an annual observance held on the first Thursday of May, inviting people of all faiths to pray for America, and will be commemorated on May 6, 2021. In its primary mission, this day exists to mobilize unified public prayer for the nation, in light of the understanding that this great country was birthed in prayer and in reverence for God and respect for the Bible. Please plan to pray for America on this day!
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