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- Hello, welcome back to Coffee with a Calvinist.
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- This is a daily conversation about scripture, culture and media from a Reformed perspective.
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- Get your Bible and coffee ready and prepare to engage today's topic.
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- Here's your host, Pastor Keith Foskey.
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- Welcome back to Coffee with a Calvinist.
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- My name is Keith Foskey and I am a Calvinist.
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- Today is going to be a little different than normal because today I am putting out an urgent prayer request.
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- And this prayer request actually comes from HeartCry Missionary Society.
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- Now, if you are not familiar with HeartCry, you may be familiar with Paul Washer who is of course associated with HeartCry Missionary Society.
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- Paul Washer is very well known as a conference speaker and a missionary.
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- And if you've never heard of Brother Washer, I certainly would encourage you to listen to some of his messages.
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- Certainly, if you've never heard the shocking youth message, I would encourage you to go listen to that.
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- But that's not really the focus of today.
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- I just want to let you know who HeartCry is if you are not familiar with them.
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- This is a missionary society.
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- And there has been an urgent prayer request that has come in from Myanmar.
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- And I want to read it to you exactly as it is written.
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- This is on their page online so you can go and read this.
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- If you simply look up HeartCry Missionary Society, you can go and read this.
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- But I want to read it to you and then I'm going to pray and invite you to pray with me.
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- It starts out, hashtag Myanmar urgent prayer request from HeartCry Missionaries in Myanmar.
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- Dear loving brethren, I'm writing this report with a broken and trembling heart.
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- My eye is filled with sadness and my tears of hurt.
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- First of all, I want to beg you to pray for our safety and protection.
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- I pray that the angel of the Lord will continue to surround every home in our country.
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- The military has taken control and is killing civilians.
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- Every day we needed to collect dead bodies on the road with tears and pains.
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- Banks are being shut down and it isn't easy to get online.
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- It breaks my heart so much.
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- Everywhere is filled with smoke and fire as factories are burned and destroyed.
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- Thousands of people don't have work, food and a place to stay now.
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- Almost all of our church members ran back to their village.
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- There is neither market nor a shop where we can buy food because every road is blocked now.
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- How long will we last if it continues like this? Just a while ago, the soldier's truck came and stopped near our house.
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- We were terrified.
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- They captured six people who were having tea in the shop.
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- We don't know what they will do to them.
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- God is my only hope.
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- All missionaries are suffering the misery of this greatly.
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- My faithful missionary friend has a wife who is about to give birth and there is no hospital opened.
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- He said to me they would deliver the baby themselves in their small house by trusting God.
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- Dear friends, I have two small little girls.
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- One is two years and another is six months.
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- I don't care if I don't have food to eat, but I think much for them and their safety.
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- May you continue to uphold us in your prayer for our safety, provision and protection.
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- Soldiers are catching people from every house and now they are near to us.
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- Please pray for us.
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- Let me say a few things and then I'm going to pray.
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- First of all, I can't imagine the pain and the fear that these brothers and sisters are facing as missionaries on the front lines in a world or rather in a land that is war-torn.
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- We hear about things like this, but it's hard to imagine being in the middle of something like this.
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- I have heard over the years of the atrocities that have happened in Myanmar.
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- In fact, if I remember correctly, it's formerly Burma.
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- The tremendous atrocities that were happening there and apparently are continuing to happen there have been documented in movies and documentaries and news media outlets.
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- It's truly a terrible place.
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- One might ask the question, well, why in the world would somebody go to Myanmar to be a missionary knowing how dangerous it is? And honestly, we have to remember when we ask that question, this is the mission field.
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- We, our church, we support Scott Phillips, who goes with his whole family, his wife and their many children, beautiful children.
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- They take those children to Indonesia, often to places that are unsafe.
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- Their children have all been sick.
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- They have all dealt with malaria and other diseases while they were there.
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- And people say, why would you do that? Because they love Jesus Christ and they love souls.
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- That's why they do it.
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- They do it because they believe that the salvation of a soul is worth risking their life.
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- Why would somebody get on a plane to go to Myanmar? Because they love the people there and they want to share the gospel with them.
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- And not everyone is called to do the same things.
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- Not everyone is called to board a plane and go be a missionary.
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- But for those of us who are here, who perhaps have not been called to go and do what these men and women are doing, we need to pray and support them through our finances and through prayers.
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- As the one missionary, I don't remember who it was, referred to what the church does for the missionary is holding the rope.
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- Like a person who is going into a deep well or over a cliff and the other person is holding the rope for them.
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- And that is the job of the church when missionaries are sent.
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- We are to pray for them.
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- We are to hold the rope for them as they go and provide for them as needed.
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- And as more information comes about with this situation with heart cry, we will post in this format.
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- We will post in other formats ways to support as those ways become apparent.
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- Because we as Christians need to be holding the rope.
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- So let's pray for this missionary and the people that he is dealing with.
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- Father in heaven, we thank you for the love of God which compels people to go to unreached people and to share the love of Jesus Christ with them and share the gospel with them.
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- Thank you, Lord, for putting urgency in men's hearts that they would go and they would risk everything for the gospel.
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- And I pray, Lord, for this person who has written this email, this request for prayer.
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- Lord, that you would bless even now this person and keep him safe.
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- We pray for the ones who are having the baby that the baby would be born safe.
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- We pray that you would create roads of opportunity for them to find safety and comfort and food and shelter and make sure that they have what they need, Lord.
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- But also, Lord, in whatever way you plan to use this in their lives, Lord, that you would be glorified by it.
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- That they would trust in you, that they would hold fast to the scriptures which remind us that nothing can touch us save you decree it.
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- And Lord, you have decreed everything that happens to us for our good and for your glory.
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- So I pray, oh, God, that you would comfort them with that knowledge.
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- And Lord, put it in our hearts not only to pray for them, but to support them in whatever ways are available.
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- We love you, Lord.
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- We thank you.
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- We ask you to be merciful to them.
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- In Jesus precious name.
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- Amen.
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- Please continue to pray for the missionaries of Heart Crime Missionary Society who are in Myanmar.
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- And listen up for updates as they come available.
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- I'll post them on the program.
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- My name is Keith Foskey and I've been your Calvinist.
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- Jesus Christ came to save sinners.
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- May God be with you.
