It is such a blessing to be part of a mission organization that focuses on prayer. I always look forward to our weekly Tuesday evening prayer meetings and tonight was no exception. How great it is to be able to serve a living God who invites us to come before Him with our thanksgiving and our requests.

John shared this evening about the enormous need for Christ's name to be known throughout Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, and Bihar in northern India. He painted pictures of the pilgrims that come to bathe in the Ganges River in hopes of finding forgiveness, of the Buddhists and their prayer wheels, of the Hindus and their search for reincarnation. He shared about a people group in southern India comprised mainly of 50,000 girls who have been or are been subjected to temple prostitution. He urged us to pray and ask for laborers for those areas in particular.

It is easy to get overwhelmed with the enormity and seeming impossibility of the task to which God has called us. But as John urged us to pray, he quote Matthew 9:38 "Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth laborers into his harvest." John said, "It is not a 'Pray and maybe I might send workers.' God will send workers. If we pray."

God has given that task to you and I. Praying. Standing in the gap for others. In Ezekiel 22:30-31, God was looking for someone to 'stand in the gap,' to 'make up the hedge.' He found no one, and so his wrath was poured out upon his wayward people.

What if God looked today? Would he find you and I filling the gap?

Pray.