Pray4Guam
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Guahan
Guahan is the Chamorro word for plentiful. The island is more of a land of blessing and provision and that was a primary reason for its strategic value throughout modern history. Magellan claimed the island for Spain as a colony for the purpose of resupplying the galleons for their regular commute between Mexico City and Manila. Today, the US Military sees this island as an important strategic asset. World War II ended in the Pacific through actions launched from Guam and its neigbor to the north, Tinian.
During the colonial period, the island has seemed to have lost the ability to be fruitful. During the colonial period, much produce was regularly harvested. Life has chanaged singificantly through the colonial years. Today, only a few locally grown fruits and vegetables are available for purchase. The local people today are significantly reliant upon welfare programs.
Our prayer thrust is to restore productivity and abundance to this island. Genesis 49:22 declares that Joseph shall be a fruitful bough by the well whose bough goes over the wall. We want to extend our faith to see the ministries shift from simply building walls to become more focused on being the fruitful bough that God created us to be. As we see the people of God becoming more fruitful and multiplying resouces, we will become a people of blessing, produces rather than consumers.
In this current time when we see the economy reeling from the shockwaves coming out of the stockmarket, banks and stalwart business centers. Christians need to set in motion a new paradigm, one that we see a shift in the way of living where we become the lenders rather than the borrowers. Economic integrity is not going to be possible in a moral vacuum. We must become the leaders to establish a new way of living and doing business.
Many of the corporate leaders in these past decades have practiced a kind of corporate greed and entitlement that modeled self-indulgence and lacked justice. Stock brokers have pushed junk investments on trusting investors who were simply hoping to preserve and extend their limited retirement funds.The practice has left many facing serious crisis.
Pray therefore that Christians will repent of living beyond their financial means through credit. Many have become so addicted to stuff, our identity is defined by what we have rather than our relationship with God. May the mercy of Jesus transform us to being a people who find great gain through Godliness and contentment.
It is God who gives us the ability to create wealth. I see this as a fruit of righteous living as well as inspired entrepreneurial faith ventures. Our prayer is that we will see new levels of creative ideas break open upon the people of God. These are wonderful days to be alive as we grow in our dependancy upon the Lord for new ideas and step into initiatives with strategic vision and Holy Ghost plans empowered by faith.
May the people of God grow in faith and obedience to follow the leading and voice of the Lord.
