HERE

Hey guys,
Monday morning...thinking through the next 6 months...and trying to wrap my heart and mind around the ride that Holy Ghost has us on...
I know that lots of times it is really difficult to stay focused on something when you are not able to hands on engage it or do something about it...Whether you are in Estevan, far away, or whether we are here, trying to figure out how to live and get around and find new schedules and routines...it is easy to let life pull our attention away from the mission.

I want to encourage you this morning to push for His presence. push. make sure you carve out a little time every day to listen to His Spirit. Make sure you carve out time every day to allow your spirit to pray. make sure you carve out a little time every day to let His word settle in your heart. In the intense times, it is the little things of spiritual disciplines that truly give us the awareness we need to be effective missionaries.
I know that it is hard some days. But know that His grace is sufficient for you, and He will help you if you ask.

For those of you on the Burnaby Team in Estevan, finish strong. love people. minister with passion. engage. engage. engage. It will keep you pushing for the right reasons...and if you see each other pulling away...a good slap will do...chuckle.

For those of you who are staying home and praying for us and supporting us...engage. engage. engage. Let this season of your lives be one that is all about dreaming of a new level of ministry and the reality of His transforming power in the lives of people in the community. Open your homes. Open your coffee times. Open your hearts. You got the stuff....give it away!!!

Know that we are praying for you from here. We are in the process of developing some strategic prayer items and plans...will let you know when that is done...
We are building a prayer wall here in the house...and was thinking we should duplicate it for estevan. Will let you know as that develops.

Let me leave you with this. I have been meditating on this scripture and it has become my prayer for you and those we love:
Colossians 1:9-12.
9For this reason we also, from the day we heard of it, have not ceased to pray and make [special] request for you, [asking] that you may be filled with the full (deep and clear) knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom [in comprehensive insight into the ways and purposes of God] and in understanding and discernment of spiritual things--
10That you may walk (live and conduct yourselves) in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him and desiring to please Him in all things, bearing fruit in every good work and steadily growing and increasing in and by the knowledge of God [with fuller, deeper, and clearer insight, acquaintance, and recognition].
11[We pray] that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the might of His glory, [to exercise] every kind of endurance and patience (perseverance and forbearance) with joy,
12Giving thanks to the Father, Who has qualified and made us fit to share the portion which is the inheritance of the saints (God's holy people) in the Light.

its our nation,
jonathan