My Prayer Request for 2009 and Beyond

[Mark Seay]

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus,

As I recall the Genesis account of Noah and
the Flood. Mankind's wickedness and violence
precipitated a cataclysmic reaction from God.
That was a lot of rain!

I was reminded at a most basic level that it matters
how human beings think, live, and act. More specifically,
it matters how I think, live, and act. God is neither
indifferent nor inexhaustibly indulgent toward us. It
matters how we live because our actions can trigger
tragic consequences for those around us if we live
contrary to God's will. On the other hand, Noah reminds
us that one man who loves God and lives for Him can
be dramatically used to bless the entire earth. One
man or woman is all God needs to rescue a place,
a race, or just one face.

Just as sobering is the "second act" of Noah's life.
Despite Noah's love for God and the redemptive way
God used his life, Noah did not lose his propensity
for self-centeredness. Neither do we. Noah was a
righteous man, he was God's man, but he was still
a fallen man. Despite the fact that God literally put
him in the captain's seat to heroically ride out one
of the most tragic and redemptive events in human
history, when the flood waters receded Noah had to
decide afresh to live the next chapter of his life for
God. Whatever great blessing or accomplishment
God has given us, we cannot let it open a door for
careless living. Each day, fresh with promise and
fresh with hope, demands a sober life of carefulness
and cautiousness, lest we forget who we are and
what we can become.

This is precisely why those of you who pray,
volunteer, or give to this ministry are so important.
As a flood of shame and sin washes across the
prisons of America and the world, you, like Noah,
are a strategic part of God's redemptive plan. You
are a living rainbow--a reminder that God is a God
who loves deeply enough to rescue a drowning world
for Himself. We need you, and God calls you to live
each day afresh with sober passion and decisiveness
for Him.

Would you pray for me, Mark, that I would walk
carefully and deliberately before God?

Ask God how you might grow closer to Him through
an opportunity to minister to those in prison or their
children.

Ask God to supply my ministry's financial needs in
these tight economic times.

Give thanks with all of our readers for the open doors
of ministry that we have in prisons. Ask God to keep
them open and to grant Lighthouse Prayer Line
continued access to men and women behind bars.

Thank you for kneeling with me. Without you, my
heart and hands would grow weary in the work.

In His grace,

Mark Seay
Lighthouse Prayer Line
www.LighthousePrayerLine.org

"Jesus answered and said unto
him, If a man love me, he will keep
my word: and my Father will love
him, and we will come unto him, and
make our abode with him. He that
loveth me not keepeth not my words:
and the word which ye hear is not
mine, but the Father's who sent me.
These things have I spoken unto you,
while yet abiding with you"
(John 14:23-25).

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I am saddened by the fact that a lot of people...
end up disillusioned or bitter because of prayers
not granted, see God as an uncaring God who
doesn't answer prayers, stopped praying, assuming
their prayers won't be granted anyway or worse,
think God does not exist at all:

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