Shan Dai Advocacy

Haggai

March 23, 2007 on 1:03 pm | In His First Bible, Old Testament, PrayerGrams |

Do you feel too old to make a difference for God’s Kingdom? Haggai was qualified for all of the senor citizen discounts of his time when God chose him to stir up the Jews. Complacent in making their homes just a little cozier, they neglected God’s temple and their individual spiritual condition. God warned the people to give careful thought to their ways. “Wei” thought carefully about how he lived so he diligently followed the eight-fold path of Buddhism. Living in the bamboo back woods of Dai-land, he was a Buddhist temple leader, highly respected and prosperous. Then Wei heard that Jesus not only pointed the way to meaningful life but Jesus is the Way. He placed his trust in Christ and burned a lifetime of Buddhist paraphernalia. Giving up his social security as a Buddhist elder and in his second half of life, he was born again. Now it is the Lord who directs his priorities. Wei excitedly teaches others to give careful thought to their ways and leads them to Jesus. These new Christian bothers and sisters need our prayers. In a society where there is not a church on every corner with hot coffee and a welcome committee, these believers face hardships from many directions. As they live out life with honor to You God, may they experience this simple yet powerful blessing that the Jews received, “I am with you, says the LORD!” (Haggai 1:13b). No matter what their age, may the Shan Dai truly find new life in You and comfort and strength in knowing that You are with them.