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How will this benefit you, Pastor?

You might have guessed, I didn't create this website to benefit anyone but the 2.4 billion members of the 10,000 Unreached People groups, and of course to promote the Lord's glory. But there are significant, even life-changing possibilities for your own heart, and for your people.

Incidentally, I understand we cannot add to the Lord's intrinsic glory, the honor, the splendor that is his because of who he is. But we can all add to his extrinsic glory, and we do ourselves a huge, double-faceted favor when we do. First, it adds wonderfully to our sense of self-worth, our fulfillment of our purpose. Second, it draws us in tighter with our God. David sang, O God, you are my God. Earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water. (Ps.63:1)

Intimacy with God has its own rich reward. It brings its own splendid satisfaction.

However, I do want you to realize how leading your congregation in prayer on weekends for the Unreached Peoples will benefit your people, and also how it will benefit you personally.

First, it will benefit your congregation.

Many who attend your church are aching over a fractured relationship. Understanding the gravity of the situation of the Unreached Peoples (UP) will put the sadness of the temporary, or even forever, loss of a friend or the loss of closeness of a long-standing friendship, into perspective. Without Jesus, the UP will never have an opportunity to enter the kingdom, or to hallow the name of the Lord, or to enjoy the fulfillment of God's will, eternal life.
Nearly all of the congregation are dissatisfied with the fact that they cannot do much ministry. Some feel very second-class in their Christian walk because they have never led anyone to the Lord. Others want to teach the Word but know they are not qualified. A few would love to go to the mission field but know God wants them at home, ministering to their family. As they enter into heartfelt prayer for the UP they will know God is using them for what is arguably his top priority, after his own glory.
Even worldly psychologists recognize, for many who are emotionally unstable, having an assignment they believe to be from God promotes good mental health. Focusing on helping a neighbor in need. Praying for the UP is such an assignment for the believer.
I think you and I will agree, worshiping the Lord in spirit and in truth brings us into our most sane and satisfying moments. And next to worship is prayer for those who cannot help themselves, praying for what God most desires for them, that they would hallow his name, enter his kingdom, achieve his will for them which is their eternal salvation.

Now, Pastor, how would leading your congregation in prayer for the UP benefit you?

I suspect you have already seen the most impressive answer to that question. Your great, even eternal benefit, will be two-fold, the now and the hereafter. Now, you will the pastor of this emerging body of totally committed, perhaps almost ecstatic believers. You will find yourself, much to your own joy, more and more absorbed in this endeavor to get the UP into the kingdom.
Hereafter you will reap a rich reward as thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, possibly millions will meet you at heaven's gate, hugging you and thanking you for your role in bringing them into the kingdom of God, where they hallowed the name of the Lord on earth, and now in heaven, do so with even greater joy.
There will be other rewards in heaven waiting for you, though we cannot name them or describe them now.
I wish I could tell you your church will grow by leaps and bounds if you take time to lead in prayer for the UP. The fact could be quite the opposite. Some of your people, so absorbed with their desire to "feel good" about themselves might leave your church before you get enough teaching and understanding into their hearts and minds to enlighten them.
Okay, so that one was a negative. Or was it? Will you not be left with a congregation totally dedicated to the Lord and his will for them? Will that be all that bad? Even if some of the defectors were among the 20% who tithe, will you really feel like a loser? Can you trust God with the fallout? With the results of your obedience to him... assuming, of course that you agree, this prayer effort is right from his own heart?

I would appreciate your response to this page. If you correct I will read every word and take it to him. I know he will show me whether your words to me are from him. Pray for me that I will see the error of my ways.

Whether you write to me or not, I appreciate you for reading this page, right down to these very last words: Thank you!

Don.