Prayer and Bible Study
Scripture Memorization Program
Prayer Calendar - Nalja, Irian Jaya
DOES PRAYER REALLY HAVE ANY EFFECT?
Can we believe that God ever really modifies His action in response to the suggestions of men? For infinite wisdom does not need telling what is best, and infinite goodness needs no urging to do it. But neither does God need any of those things that are done by finite agents, whether living or inanimate. He could, if He chose, repair our bodies miraculously without food; or give us food without the aid of farmers, bakers, and butchers, or knowledge without the aid of learned men; or convert the heathen without missionaries. Instead, He allows soils and weather and animals and the muscles, minds, and wills of men to cooperate in the execution of His will... It is not really stranger, nor less strange, that my prayers should affect the course of events than that my other actions should do so. They have not advised or changed God' s mind -- that is, His overall purpose. But that purpose will be realized in different ways according to the actions, including the prayers, of His creatures.
-- C. S. Lewis, The Efficacy of Prayer(Lewis has so much insightful material, like this example. Buy some of his books for your own library.)
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SOME CURRENT PRAYER REQUESTS/PRAISE FOR DORIOTS' MINISTRY
(Notes on our children below)
1. PTL that the ENTIRE Nalja New Testament has been translated, checked, printed, and is in the hands of the Nalja people! Pray that they will read it faithfully, understand it, and apply and obey it! Pray as we work now on the Old Testament. And pray as we try to get some translation projects started in some other small tribes using national translators (including the following possibilities, among others: Kimki, Kosare, Kaure, Kapori, Lepki, Yetfa, Sause).
2. Indonesian political situation still not good. Pray for President Megawati, and for good solutions to the desire for independence in Aceh and here in Papua/Irian Jaya. Pray for an end to the atrocities that have taken place where jihad groups have operated.
3. PTL for how well our computers and printers have generally worked. Pray that they will continue to do so, and that Nalja fellows will learn to use them properly and effectively.
4. PTL for the faithfulness of our supporters for so many years. Pray that sufficient funds will be received as we expand into starting Bible translation projects in other language groups using MTT's (mother tongue translators - nationals). (Contact us if you'd be interested in helping support a new translation project in a language group with NO Scripture yet!)
5. Pray for a revival in the Nalja church, and development of faithful committed leaders.
6. Pray for Suzanne's work with Nalja women, medical work, etc.
7. Pray for Roger in responsibilites teaching in an Indonesian Bible school here in Sentani this school year.
8. Pray for Roger concerning opportunities for ministry via the Internet, especially for wisdom in balancing opportunities and other priorities.
9. Pray for evangelistic work in the Kosare tribe by Nalja workers. Response has been poor, and the work difficult in a hot, sparsely populated area. We have baptized no believers yet in this area. Pray for a first baptism soon!
10. Pray for funds and wisdom about getting a couple good notebook computers for our national translators, and for use of our new digital video camera in preparing videos for supporters, short video segments to send by email attachment, etc.
PERMANENT PRAYER REQUESTS for ministry at Nalja
1. Spiritual growth and testimony of Nalja believers.
2. Wisdom for, and continuing development of, church leadership.
3. Love, patience, wisdom, and personal discipline for Doriots.
4. Evangelism of the unreached and the uncommitted.
5. Translation, distribution, and reading of the Scriptures.
6. Bible school, literacy (many still can't read!), and general schooling.
7. Adequate finances to carry on necessary ministries, and development of self-support by the church there.
Kathy (May): She and her husband, Gary, have recently moved to Florida and have new jobs there. Pray for their witness there, and for direction as to permanent housing, etc.
Jonathan: He, and his wife, Rachel, will be teaching English in Southeast Asia very soon. Pray that all of their needs will be met as they go and as they work there. Contact us for more information.
Brian: He is in Omaha, Nebraska. He needs one more course to officially graduate from Grace University. Pray for direction for him as he considers where the Lord would have him live and work - in missions or otherwise.
Linda: She transferred this year to Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. She is interested in missions, communication, and Christian music. Pray for a job for her to help with expenses.
Daniel: Cheerful, calm, composed, and helpful to others, he has exceptional mechanical and computer ability, and is interested in becoming a missionary pilot or mechanic perhaps. He is in the eleventh grade at Hillcrest International School in Sentani, Papua, Indonesia.
We praise the Lord for our children, and are thankful for the many people who have prayed much for them through the years. A lot of those prayers have obviously been answered!
Email addresses: (Click on the name to send.)
Kathy Doriot May kathymay@mindspring.com
Jonathan Care of Roger Doriot
Brian D. Doriot bdoriot@yahoo.com
Linda B. Doriot sourgreen8@yahoo.com
Daniel R. Doriot ddoriot@hismk.orgWe plan to put more on our web page here about our kids and the Lord's leading in their lives - and pictures. We'd appreciate anyone who'd like to "adopt" one of them for regular prayer! :)
Doriots' BIRTHDAYS
Roger: October 6, 1943 Suzanne: February 18, 1949 Kathy: December 26, 1973 Jonathan: February 26, 1975 Brian: July 12, 1976 Linda: October 12, 1982 Daniel: December 27, 1985
USING PRAYER LISTS ON YOUR COMPUTER
In the past I have used various prayer lists as reminders to pray for lots of things for which I wished to pray. Since no one can pray for everything all the time, I developed lists for each day of the week, and for each day of the month, so I could pray for many things regularly, even though I couldn't pray for them all daily.
Now since I use my computer a lot and don't bother to open my Bible any more - because of the tremendous Bible programs for the computer, of course :) - I have also been developing a method to use my prayer lists on the computer. I have a file called PRAYER on which I list: 1) Permanent requests to be prayed for daily 2) Temporary requests to be prayed for daily (add and delete as desired) 3)Requests to be prayed for once a week - with some listed under each day of the week 4) Requests to be prayed for once a month - with some listed under each day of the month (01, 02, 03, etc.) 5) Other lists on various topics where I have one request for each day of the month - each request with its date: 01, 02, etc.
When I open the file each morning, I go over the daily requests, then use FIND and the day of the week to jump to my weekly requests for that day. Then I use FIND again with the day of the month (01, 02, etc.), which takes me to that day on my monthly requests, and then FIND NEXT as many times as needed to jump to that day's request on my various topic lists.
Of course, you can add new things to whichever list you choose anytime, change priority if you wish (change to weekly from monthly, from daily to weekly, or whatever), delete items you no longer have interest in, etc.
Contact me if you need further explanation, help, or examples.
A SCRIPTURE MEMORIZATION PROGRAM FOR YOU !
Steps that will CHANGE your life! Guaranteed!!!
1. Decide that systematic Scripture memorization and review is important enough to spend some time on regularly. (It certainly is! See Col. 3:16; Deut. 11:18; Josh. 1:8; Ps. 119:11; II Pet. 3:18; Ps. 119:93.)
2. Pray for God’s help in disciplining yourself to take the necessary time, and to keep at it regularly.
3. Obtain 3 x 5 ruled index cards to put verses on. Keep a supply of cards on hand.
4. Write (or type) verses you wish to memorize on your cards - the verse on the ruled side, and the reference in the middle of the blank side. Start with some key verses that you know of, or get advice from your pastor or a friend on a number of verses to start on.
5. Keep a list (perhaps in your Bible) of verses you read or hear which you would like to memorize. Write these verses on cards whenever you have time. (Always have some good verses written out on cards ready to be memorized.)
6. Begin taking a few minutes daily to work on memorizing Scripture verses. Start with five or six verses. You do NOT need to learn the verses immediately. Just spend some time going over them each day.
7. Mark a blank card “Daily Review” as a cover card for the stack of cards you are beginning to memorize. (Use a rubber band to keep the stack together.) Remember, you must review these DAILY, if only to read over each one carefully. Some days you may be able to spend more time on them, but don’t miss a day of spending at least a few minutes on them. You will find them getting more and more familiar until you have some memorized after two or three weeks!
8. Determine a schedule for adding new verses to your Daily Review to be learned. You may want to add one every third day for a while, or once a week. Just make sure it is regular! (You may add more often at first, then later change your schedule to add less often as you accumulate more verses and need a little more time for reviewing them.) Write the date you start to review each verse in the upper right hand corner of the side of the card with the reference on for that verse.
9. Mark another blank card “Weekly Review.” As soon as you have any verse in your Daily Review stack learned well (so that you can quote it and the reference several days in a row without looking, transfer that card to this new stack. Review the cards in this stack just once a week. Write the date each time you review these on the Weekly Review cover card, so you don’t forget when it’s time to review them again.
10. Mark another blank card “Monthly Review.” When you have reviewed verses in your Weekly Review stack once a week for a couple months or so, you will find that you can recall some of them very well each time you review, so you can now transfer those into this new stack to be reviewed just once a month. Again, write the date on the cover card when you go over these, so you can see when it will be time to review them again.
11. As you move more verses from Daily Review to Weekly Review, you may want to eventually divide your Weekly Review stack into smaller stacks for several different days of the week, so you won’t have to spend so much time on any one day reviewing those weekly review verses. Likewise, later on you will want to divide Monthly Review verses into several smaller stacks and review on different days of the month. (Eventually, you can have a Weekly Review stack for each day of the week, and a Monthly Review stack for each day of the month. At that point, you will each day be reviewing your Daily Review verses, some Weekly Review verses, and some Monthly Review verses. However, it still will not take you a lot of time, because you will know your Monthly and Weekly Review verses well, and you will still just be going over your Daily Review verses for a few minutes, not taking time to try to memorize any verses in just a day or two.)
12. You will probably want to alternate reviewing the verse and the reference every other time. As you review each stack, after you turn over each card to check whether you said the words or the reference correctly, leave the card turned over so you will be reviewing the opposite side the next time.
13. Quote the verses you have learned, or are learning, to others whenever you have the opportunity.
14. Never quit reviewing the verses you have learned until you meet the Lord in the air and He gives you permission to stop.
15. Encourage and help someone else (many others, if possible) to get started in this program also. It will make it so much easier for you to keep at it if you always have some friend doing it as well, and you pray for, encourage, and check up on each other.
THIS WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE! YOUR LABOR WILL NOT BE IN VAIN!! START NOW!
PRAYER CALENDAR 1999-2000 - NALJA, IRIAN JAYA
Pray for one request each day of the month.
Day Daily Request 01 Jeremi, Martin, Samuel, Bible translation workers 02 Church leaders - Benny, Amos, Markus, Esau 03 Gidoman and other outreach on outskirts of tribe 04 Commitment and faithfulness of believers 05 Bible school program - Principal: Andrias Mirin; other national teachers 06 Wisdom, love, discipline, patience - for Doriots 07 Adequate finances to carry on needed ministries 08 Literacy program, reading of the Scriptures 09 Recognition and overcoming of Satan's working 10 Joyfulness, zeal, boldness for believers 11 Village and area leaders - Websanya, Yandonya, et al 12 Government relations, school and health workers 13 Children, young people - salvation, schooling 14 Women's ministries; development of Christian families 15 Unity and fellowship of all serving at Nalja 16 Computer, printer - translation, printing 17 Students away at Bible school and other education 18 Our children’s contribution in prayer and other ways 19 Economic development to aid the church 20 Spiritual growth, testimony of Doriots 21 Ability to communicate effectively 22 New believers - spiritual growth, testimony 23 Dani missionaries serving at Nalja 24 Recognition, use, development of spiritual gifts 25 Health and physical safety of Doriots 26 Development of church leadership 27 Family relationships, needs - Doriots 28 Medical program, nutrition, medicines 29 Believers' unity, dependence on God 30 Prayer requests from recent letters, emails
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord. (I Cor. 15:58)
