"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, May 31, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

MY PROVIDER, we thank you that you are our source of supply. Lord you meet every need, hallelujah! AMEN

JEHOVEH JIREH, move your people to support the Bray Family Missionaries this month as never before. May we never be ashamed as we face our June bills. Especially supply donated living quarters for us in Georgia so we can continue to work out of the Atlanta area, a donated car to replace our old van, and any thing else that will help us reduce our budget in this end times ministry. AMEN and AMEN

SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK: "Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing" (I Peter 3:9).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, May 30, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

LORD, we thank you for the local churches and ministries in Columbus, Georgia and elsewhere that have shown a fresh interest in becoming partners with us in the work of God. AMEN

SEAL, Holy Spirit of God, we ask you to confirm our work in the eyes of churches, foundations, individuals, pastors and mission agencies. Prompt them to retain us and include us as a regular line-item in their monthly budgets so that we can serve them and the indigenous missionaries overseas. Help us to meet our monthly bills, dear Lord. AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: 'Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing' (I Peter 3:9).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, May 29, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

SPIRIT OF THE LORD, we thank you for a bonafide offer to buy our little office and home in Columbus next month and for a sponsor to send us to Chicago for the annual COSIM indigenous partners conference in Chicago. Praise the Lord for his leading and guidance through provision to meet our needs! AMEN

LORD, help Bill and Ivy to plan carefully and still meet all their regular deadlines in the month ahead as well as plan for a potential move on June 22. Open many doors for them to speak in Chicago and form new alliances to assist the indigenous partners of World in Need in Wheaton on June 9-14. In all this provide the finances needed to meet the bills. AMEN AND AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "Do not repay evil with evil or insult, but with blessing, because to this end you were called so that you may inherit a blessing" (I Peter 3:9).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday, May 26, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

FIRE, ETERNAL SPIRIT, BREATH OF THE LORD - Thank you for using the last three days of consultation in South Carolina to help restore Christian Education to the Great Commission. Thank you for giving Dr. Bray a successful time of plannning and much successful bonding with Chaplain Ray Moore and the staff of Exodus Mandate and Homeschooling Family to Family. AMEN AND AMEN

ANOINTING - Use Ivy and Dr. Bray this Memorial Day Pentecost Weekend to connect and attract much new support in Columbus and throughout the USA. Empower Bill's missionary work through increasingly successful local meetings and various writings and publications. AMEN and AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing" (I Peter 3:9).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, May 23, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

GOD'S TESTIMONY, we ask you today to anoint Dr. Bill and Ivy with power and productivity as they start three-days of consultation and travel with the staff and key volunteers of EXODUS MANDATE in South and North Carolina. AMEN and AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise say the Lord. I will protect them from those who malign them" (Psalm 12:5).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, May 22, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

THANK YOU LORD for giving so many wealthy people a vision to share some of their estates with missions and the poor. Thank you for giving Dr. Bill and his team the power to present the vision to them. AMEN

YOUR PRESENCE, guide Dr. Bray to select the right foundations and report to trustees properly so that he can connect needy leaders with the sources of help. Add an accountability element to the CIS projects writing team. AMEN and AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise says the Lord. I will protect them from those who malign them" (Psalm 12:5).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, May 21, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

STREAMS ON THE DRY GROUND: We thank you Lord that you send water to thirsty places and people. We thank you for using Dr. Bill and Ivy to bring water to the needy. We thank you for supplying their family budget needs this month so that they can keep going in this work. AMEN

JEHOVAH JIRAH, OUR PROVIDER: Help Dr. Bray edit and Doug Travett and his team get the June newsletter out on time this week for Exodus Mandate. Use this letter to help supply advocacy teams with the funds they need this summer to exhibit at Christian school conventions all across the Southeast. May they bring many innocent Christian children out of the world and into Christian schools. AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise, says the Lord. I will protect them from those who malign them" (Psalm 12:5).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday, May 19, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

SPIRIT WHO GIVES REST - Thank you for giving Dr. Bill and Ivy their first day off in three weeks this weekend to pause and reflect on all the wonders that have happened on their last mission trip. Thank you for giving wisdom to those who ask. AMEN

SPIRIT OF CREATION AND RENEWAL - Help Dr. Bill to have wisdom to discern your will for the Bray Missionary family and be patient and wait upon you to solve the problem of living in Columbus. Help Bill and Ivy not to take things in their own hands but to trust you to solve the mystery of which assignments to pursue and find the right provision to meet or reduce the family budget. Help the Brays to combine the right mixture of austerity and actions that will provide the needed funding. Give us all this day our daily bread. AMEN and AMEN

SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK: "Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, 'I will now arise" says the Lord, 'I will protect them from those who malign them'" (Psalm 12:5).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, May 18, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

STREAMS OF LIVING WATER - We unite today to ask you to bless the graphic artist working on the EXODUS MANDATE newsletter starting today and to add to the Bray communications team many talented young artists, writers and media or development specialists. God, we know that you don't need our talents but for some reason you have chosen to use human beings to accomplish your will on this earth. Bring the right ones into the Bray missionary ministries. AMEN and AMEN

SCRIPTURE: "If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask of God who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him" (James 1:5).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, May 17, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

MIND OF THE LORD - Anoint Dr. Bray with your Holy Spirit today as he edits the June newsletter for Exodus Mandate. We ask you Lord, to use this letter to kick off a summer of strategic outreach to the churches of the Southern Baptist Convention and also to many Christian education and home schooling conventions. Use Dr. Bray's pen to write a meaningful tribute to Jerry Falwell and anoint his words with power in whatever other editorial work he finishes today. AMEN and AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "If any of you lack wisdom, he should ask God who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him" (James 1:5).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, May 16, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

LAMP OF THE LORD - We thank you for the safe return of Dr. Bill and Ivy from three weeks working on the LET MUSLIMS SEE JESUS MISSION in Europe. We praise you Lord for your day to day guidance over the last three weeks, and the many answers to prayer. We praise you for opening so many new doors and friendships and for renewing old links with Messianic believers in Jesus throughout the Muslim world. AMEN

SPRIT OF GRACE - Be with Ivy and Bill today as they unpack, open mail, pay bills, and follow-up on some of the many contacts made. May they be faithful in business and serve you in every way, especially as they renew work on deadline concerns for June communications in the USA. Guide them in the use of their time and provide all the funds needed to cover every obligation. AMEN and AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him" (James 1:5).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, May 11, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

EYES OF THE LORD, help us find the right partners and indigenous missions to support in Persian, Iraqi and Iranian lands including minorities like the Kurds. AMEN AND AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, May 10, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

DOUBLE PORTION, connect us to the right networks and apostolic networks here in Europe, in London and around the world especially as we start our meetings today with WORLD IN NEED missionaries gathering in Sussex. AMEN

Bill?s Blog for Thursday, May 10, 2007
JOINING the half-night of prayer with George Verwer and the OM Special Projects Team here has evoked a rush of memories of how we prayed and tapped into the heart of God over four decades ago. The way we prayed back then was based on yielding to the Lord and letting the Holy Spirit lead us into intercession for the things most on His heart. As we did so, we would pray in bursts of faith as the Lord empowered us, asking for miracle breakthroughs in particular areas. This kind of prayer normally took several hours, although in emergencies, we also prayed this way spontaneously.

Most of the early decisions in my missionary career were made this way, not as deliberations, but as commands of the Spirit. Now, looking back, I see that these were the very same impossible prayer requests that have since been fulfilled?things like by adolescent decisions to go to India, to seek a faithful man there, to pioneer Rajasthan and start a media development ministry.

We had one of these "breakthrough prayer sessions" Tuesday night as we linked our faith with the local team in asking God to lift them out of a holding pattern. As George Verwer led us in prayer, others joined in, each one asking more specifically for additional staff, finances, new relationships, and doors to open. It was like writing a PERT planning chart in faith rather than on paper.

It has been years since I?m prayed this way. Yet, this is exactly how the OM movement began back in our student dorms at Moody. Late in the evening, usually after we had already "pray-read" many letters or heard reports and interceded in small groups for 2-3 hours, the leader would get up and announce some of the greatest challenges facing the ministry at that time.

This is a kind of creative, dynamic prayer that seems so far away from the way we intercede so often today. I want to learn to pray and practice this kind of prayer again. Had I kept praying this way through the years, I can?t imagine the additional miracles we would have seen.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, May 9, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

SPIRIT OF PROPHECY, lead Dr. Bill and Ivy to more divine appointments with local mission leaders and help them to learn more about the resources available to help reach Muslims here in the UK and throughout Europe. Open doors with OM and others to mobilize a new generation?connect us with the next crop of George Verwers who will lead the way into the new century. AMEN

Bill?s Blog for Wednesday, May 9, 2007
MY posts about Post Christian Europe and the UK have been a bit darker than I actually feel! Not that things here aren?t even worse than I thought they would be, they are in some ways as most local leaders will be quick to lament.

However there are many bright lights on the British and London horizon. Out of their years of "minority status" here, British evangelicals have found many ways to network and create positive responses far more effectively than we have in the USA.

God still answers prayer. He still loves the people of Britain, and he will answer our prayers if we call upon him to lift this people out of their darkness, decline and despair. God wants to raise up a new generation of leaders?people like:

• ...PASTOR SIMON JONES and some of the other pastors and members of the leadership team I met on Sunday at Bromley Baptist Church in west Kent. Here is a church that seems to be rolling with the waves of "Post Christian" cultural changes in their community?reaching out daily with cross-cultural, holistic ministries that are inclusive of believers, "seekers" and their "non-seeking" neighbors. One of these is through their vibrant international fellowship. When I first came to England back in the 1960?s, Bromley was an all-white, very Christian Anglo suburb featuring single family homes with well-kept lawns. Today it has transformed itself into mostly multi-family housing. It has both declined and gentrified. The population looks like the United Nations. Hard to realize that there are over 300 languages spoken here with even more people groups.
• ...PASTOR RANDY LAWLER of the Trinity Center in the South Asian and Caribbean ghetto of North London is another beacon of light that God has raised up. We feel we have connected with the mother lode of help in this ministry. They are in the streets, planting churches and carrying on a host of ministries to minorities here, many too sensitive to mention.
• ...LONDON CITY MISSION, GLOBAL DAY OF PRAYER, and a host of united community missions are flourishing here.

Meanwhile, I feel that God is calling Christians around to world to be faithful to mobilize prayer, send short term teams, and to obey and engage another generation here. This is my message of hope to the troops in the trenches here. We have to encourage them without patronizing and realize that these great gateway cities like London, Bangkok, and Bombay are not going to be reached unless Christians around the globe make special sacrifices to pray and support outreach here.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, May 8, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

SURE FOUNDATION, we unite our hearts today to pray for E. Ray Moore and the team back home in Columbia, South Carolina as they complete the computer database entry for EXODUS MANDATE. Amen and Amen

Bill?s Blog for Tuesday, May 8, 2007
IVY is reading ?Millstone and Stumbling Blocks? by Bradley Heath as our study book for the week. It is a radical critique on government controlled ?secularized? education in the USA. This is one of those prophetic, pioneering books written by a man of faith who has gone way out to the very edge of the cliff for Christ. It is good to see that there are still some prophets around. Without this kind of vision, the American people will perish. American democracy cannot survive without a strong faith community. Not everyone must be a Christian, but Christians must be tolerated and God will bless a country that provides for their religious freedom and safety.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, May 7, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

COUNSELOR, guide George Verwer and the Brays as they begin four days of meetings and discussions today at OM in Bromley, Kent. May God show us many ways to work through OM and STL all over Europe and the Muslim world. AMEN and AMEN

Bill?s Blog for Monday, May 7, 2007
GOD is giving us opportunities to have many natural conversations with new friends, acquaintances and neighbors. Out of the small talk of life, we must be able to discuss faith issues and hopefully Christ?s claim on our lives and souls.

Although this is the primary way, the British are reminding me of other ways to live lifestyle evangelism by praying before meals, carrying Bibles, and even wearing religious symbols occasionally. Above all, it is obvious that the primary way to reach most people here is still by living lifestyles of love and through acts of kindness, and then always being ready to answer questions when God gives the opportunity.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday, May 6, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

THE ANOINTING, SPIRIT OF GLORY, use Dr. Bray and Ivy to glorify you today and next Sunday in British churches and place them into the stream of your revival outpouring here. Send revival to the churches of the UK. AMEN

Bill?s Blog for Sunday, May 6, 2007
FIRST IMPRESSIONS PART II: Along with 700 mosques which serve as outreach centers for Islam and 1,200 Qur?anic Muslim private schools here, nearly every university in London has an active Islamic society openly propagating Islam. More than one million of 11 million residents are Muslims and many are Muslim missionaries. Everywhere you go you see Muslims, including some British girls who have donned headscarves and veils against the immodest excesses of western ?Christian? culture. Muslim women are models of motherhood and respect, raising obedient children and submitting happily to their husbands. Why is it that the enemies of the cross are so often more fervently zealous in their religious practices than us? Where are the joyful, loving Christians?the saints here who are overcoming the world and offering a light to those in the darkness of post-Christian Europe? England needs an awakening. Where are the praying believers seeking a fresh move of God?s spirit here?

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday, May 5, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

MIGHTY GOD, guide the board of directors and leadership planning meetings today in Sussex and all this weekend as they are led by missionaries Ron and Nancy George at World In Need. Pray for Bill and Ivy as they travel to Kent and the London area to start meetings. AMEN

Bill?s Blog for Saturday, May 5, 2007
FIRST IMPRESSIONS PART I: London is not only the Islamic capital of Europe, it is also the global center of Muslim Shi?ite missions to the world and of evangelical Christian missions to the Muslim nations of Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Will the sword of Islam or the love of Jesus Christ prevail?

Meanwhile, the atmosphere is profoundly post-Christian?and definitely anti-Christian in spirit. Why do we call this apostasy and backsliding "post-modernism" when we really mean "post Christian"?

I hope I am proved wrong, but most British Christians seem apologetic and secretive about their faith. Many churches are being turned into bars, nightclubs, and mosques. Pagan May Pole and Spring Festival celebrations this week are featuring representations of pre-Christian fertility rites. Some are going backwards into superstition and ignorance, not forward into scientific reason as they think. Like computer and psychic games, these festivals are more real than most people realize. The occult and spirit world should never be considered harmless fun.

Misguided "speech nannies" and secular media barons forbid Christian radio and TV broadcasts here as "hate speech." Meanwhile, they run a steady stream of anti-Christian programming and filth on their own channels. Upon our arrival we were assaulted on the first day with smug news taglines blazing reports of the sentencing to jail of a choirmaster for homosexual pedophilia. On the "telly" a crude made-for-TV drama featured the expose of an ignorant and hypocritical Christian fundamentalist trying to start a Christian school to oppose evolution while carrying on an extramarital affair - the storyline mocked evangelical piety, prayer and witness while portraying the secularist school teachers as sincere defenders of a balanced education seeking only the welfare of the innocent school children. It was very unsophisticated propaganda against Christians. One only hopes that the children watching it are not as foolish and gullible as the producers who created it.

President Bush and the war in Iraq are popularly viewed here as an evangelical Christian crusade against Islam?even in the churches. Christians are being seriously mis-represented in mass communications and even in the faith communities.

Of course, London is not the only great world capital where the light of the gospel is shinning dimly today. May it not go out here, or anywhere.

Where, Lord, are your prophets for England today? Have mercy on the British Isles.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, May 4, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

ROSE OF SHARON, we ask you to release travel and personal funds for the ?LET MUSLIMS SEE JESUS? mission and continue to inspire and help Dr. Bill write his next book as he travels. Provide the right publisher who will help get this book into the hands of young male readers. AMEN and AMEN and AMEN!

Bill?s Blog for Friday, May 4, 2007
WOKE up an alpha-man today, I am taking charge and full of faith and trust in God. The Lord will provide and must provide for we are his children and the sheep of his pasture. We?ve landed on the ground, and are now in spiritual combat on this mission field, and the Lord will never let us down. I am still unsure of where the money is coming from or what will happen next. Things may not happen the way I plan, but the Lord will not fail. He may not provide the way I dictate or plan but he will always provide. Circumstances change but Jesus never. Glory to his Name!