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The WORD
I have hidden Your Word in my
heart
that I may not sin against
You. (Psalm 119:11)
Devotions, Family Worship, Church, Sunday School: it may seem like
everywhere you go, you’re learning about God.
Maybe sometimes you get bored of having to read the Bible. It would be way more fun to play with
friends, or with your most favourite toy or a video game.
The people of Aweil desire to learn about God – but as of this moment,
they do not have a full Bible in their dialect, called Dinka Malual. Julie Ward (Abuk) told me a story from her
first time in Sudan: she met a little
boy, who didn’t have a lot of food. He
told Julie that he was hungry, not for a meal, but for the Word of God. He so desperately wanted to read God’s Word
for himself, with his own eyes, in his own heart language, that he wasn’t
noticing his stomach.
Do you know what it means to
take something for granted? If you take
something for granted it’s like you get so used to it, that you forget to be
thankful for it. While we have many
Bibles in our homes, many times we are slow and lazy about reading it. Do not forget about the blessing of God’s
word!! Thank Him for it, and ask God to
make your heart more hungry for His word then your stomach is hungry for
food!
Pray
à That God would make you thankful and
hungry for His Word
Imagine this: Your friend around
the corner is dying, and you have a doctors note to get the medicine to help
her!! But nobody can read the note. It’s
written in a language that they can’t understand.
Well our friends in Sudan, living around the corner in Africa, are
desperate to read of the Hope that God speaks to people through His
Word.
When we pray to God we talk to Him and we know He hears us. But does God talk to us? He does talk to us in a lot of ways but
mostly He talks to us through His Word:
when we read the Bible, God is talking to us; when the Pastor
reads the Bible to us, God is talking to us; when our parents read the
Bible to us, God is talking to us; when our teachers read the Bible to
us, God is talking. . . .TO US!! This is why it is so important that the
people of Aweil have a Bible in their own language -- because they are hungry
for God to talk to them through His Word!!
Pray
à
That the people of Aweil would remain faithful and hungry for His Word. That the Holy Spirit would speak to their
hearts clearly and often. That the Word
of God would come to them quickly.
God
has not forgotten about the people in Aweil.
He has numbered the hairs on each of their heads. And He is beginning to work in the hearts of
the Sudanese people to desire to hear from Him. Vince (Deng Garang) and Julie
(Abuk) have a ministry partner, named Martin, who is in school learning how to
translate the Bible into Dinka Malual for the people of Sudan. That
means, Martin is kind of being used as a microphone for God; he’s
taking the Bible in its original languages and writing the same words down but
in the Dinka Malual language.
If
you’d like to, you can email Martin at martinyai@yahoo.com and tell him that you
are praying for Him and the Aweil people.
He would love to hear from you and I’m sure it would encourage him a
lot.
Pray à That God would bless Martin as he studies in school, and
translates His Word into Dinka Malual.
Vanessa Sugar
Kids Korner
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