DMM: Listening Prayer

Listening Well Precedes Loving Obedience

So Paul warned them, 10 “Men, I can see that our voyage is going to be disastrous and bring great loss to ship and cargo, and to our own lives also.” 11 But the centurion, instead of listening to what Paul said, followed the advice of the pilot and of the owner of the ship.-Acts 27

It can be said that listening is more important than doing. The Apostle Paul was one who exemplified the practice of God’s presence as well as a desire to listen and obey His voice at all costs.

Intimacy with God is always Plan A to be cultivated and experienced by those who follow Christ. What one does for Christ is to be done out of the overflow of a daily growth in the practice of intimacy in Christ.

Listen to discern God’s ways

Several times weekly we search for Persons of Peace (POP) as delineated by Christ in Luke 10 and Matthew 10. As we walk through our respective days, we trust the Holy Spirit with anticipation to lead us to anyone, anywhere, anytime. In most cases, we are intentionally with our national partners together in this pursuit.

On one particular day, S and I were en-route to an overlook located at the northwestern part of our island. Usually, we have found loads of SaSumBi and other Unreached People Groups as they take in the ocean side view. On the hour’s drive to this spot, we prayed for however the Father desired to lead. We listened. We prayed through the 10 essential elements to trust the Holy Spirit to launch a Church Planting Movement (CPM)/Disciple-Making Movement (DMM). 

On this day, no one we met was readied to start a Discovery Bible Study (DBS) with us but interestingly so, a group of female dentists from Mr and Mmj areas of the eastern part of our country were visiting this scenic overlook.

After we established that we are followers of Isa Al Masih we talked with them about the reality that many Islamic peoples have not taken the opportunity to explore the stories from the prophets in the Bible, though the 4^th letter of the Koran admonishes Muslims to do so. (Sura 4:136)

These women were scheduled to return to their area of this country the next day. We exchanged cell phone numbers and asked if we could contact them on our planned survey trip to their area and go through some of these stories upon meeting again.

Our vision and passion is to continue to train, coach, be practitioners of CPM/DMM among the SaSumBi. In addition, for the past several years, we have been able to train more indigenous college students as professionals (doctors, teachers, fisheries specialists, and such) to prepare them to launch CPM/DMM teams among the Unengaged/Unreached People Groups (UUPGs/UPGs) of other parts East in this country.

The other Strategy Trainer team we are recruiting is for the area from where these gals above mentioned originate. In a couple of weeks we plan to meet with a potential couple whom God may lead to facilitate CPM/DMM among UUPGs/UPGs in the southern area of the Eastern region.

Prayer for…

Ask God to rip the heavens open and come down in provision for those from within this country to be equipped and sent, as well as strategically placed foreign facilitators of CPM/DMM.

Postscript 2017 Update…the above was written in 2011. Since that time, the above forementioned couple came, surveyed, prepared to come, have come, have been in language study, have been here with us for DMM hub in their first 1 ½ years and now they are on site. We recently saw the first DMM training connected to formerly cultivated potential local partners in that region of SW Sl. This couple is now one of the DMM Catalysts for the training up, modeling/implementation of together in that region of UUPGs/UPGs.