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

THANK THE LORD, Ivy and Juanito have arrived safely in Athens and joined the Filipino missionary outreach team in the Greek capitol. AMEN

LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, may Ivy Bray's exhortation on "A Missionary Wife's Ministry" touch many hearts as she testifies to ladies in a women's conference today in Greece and ministers one-on-one to women throughout this missionary journey. AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you" (John 15:7).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, September 28, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

THANK YOU LORD that Ivy has arrived safely in Amsterdam and is on her way to Greece and thank you for the blessings of this week that have already been provided, the financial gifts, the paid bills, the wisdom, the insights and the many answers to prayer. AMEN

THE WAY, we ask you to anoint and use Dr. Bray and his support team at home in the USA as they continue to work on the Exodus Mandate and CDA-Colombia banquets, the organization of CDA International in the USA, and help keep all the other communication and development projects on track. Help the team as they prepare for a month filled with lots of support raising and missionary travel in the United States as well as abroad. We especially pray for key Bray Family supporters in Alabama, California, Gainesville/Atlanta and throughout Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. Heal them of their diseases, prosper their businesses, and protect them from all harm. AMEN

SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK: "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done unto you" (John 15:7).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, September 27, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

TRUE VINE, we thank you that God is taking care of us because we are attached to you. We trust you to meet our every need today and this month. What courage this gives us to boldly go on missions and undertake the impossible. Thank you Lord for choosing us and ordaining us to be fruitful...and we know that what you ordain cannot be changed...and we also thank you for calling out Filipinos in Greece to be your witnesses. AMEN

AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, give Ivy, Juanito and the whole PhilAm Missions Team great favor and opportunities to witness and to prepare their hearts and minds today as they fly to Greece. Give Ivy a sound mind as she teaches the word on marriage to missionary wives. May they go with healing power to encourage the sick and free captives from sin and error. AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you" (John 15:7).

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

WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, thank you Lord for bringing missionary bishop and evangelist Juanito Sanchez safety from his travels in the USA to unite with Ivy to fly and unite with the rest of the team in Athens for the Greek mission which begins on Thursday. AMEN

RESURRECTION AND LIFE, give protection to Nora Sanchez and the rest of the Phil Am Team as they travel from the Philippines to unite with Dr. Bill, Ivy and Juanito in Atlanta when they return from Greece. Confirm all the last minute details, plans, itineraries, programs and especially finances as the team celebrates the life of Jesus Christ and applies their faith to the work ahead. AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be given you" (John 15:7).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, September 24, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

THANK YOU LORD for using us as a channel of blessing to meet the ministry needs of indigenous missionaries at home and around the world, and for giving us good partners with which to do the work of God. AMEN

THE WAY answer the cries of Dr. Bray's heart to become a clearer and better channel of blessing to the poor and needy of Greece, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda and other countries around the world including the USA. Lord, there are so many suffering saints crying out to you in prayer! Hear and answer their need. Enlarge the support base of the Brays and of the ministry partners they serve--and bring new ministries to Dr. Bray that want to do more to reach the needy and are willing to pay the price to grow and be channels only of your love. AMEN and AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish and it will be given you" (John 15:7).

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

THANK YOU LORD for the new churches and congregations that are showing us favor in Charlottesville and thank you for the growing number churches that are standing against apostasy and heresy in the American churches. AMEN

LORD OF ALL, expand our fellowship with Bible-believing, mission-minded churches and open doors for us in local congregations which will support the Brays and the CIS PhilAm Mission to Greece that leaves for Europe the end of next week. May many join us in prayer and send the $8,500 needed to meet the direct costs of this mission. AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, September 20, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

THANK YOU ALPHA AND OMEGA for opening doors for us to do two short-term mission trips this fall, first to Greece and then to Colombia. AMEN

ALPHA AND OMEGA, bless, guide and prosper Dr. Bill's development ministry with CDA International today and this weekend as he writes the preliminary Action Plan for that ministry. Bless also Ivy's missionary prayer letters appealing for urgently needed support for her mission to Greece leaving next week. May she see the full $8,500 raised that she needs to cover the costs of the team. AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28).

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

MESSIAH, we thank you for Elise and all the other staff and volunteers who are helping Chaplain E. Ray Moore prepare for the Exodus Mandate Tenth Anniversary "Call to Victory" Celebration October 9 in Columbia, SC. AMEN

MESSIAH, we pray for Elises' total healing as she returns to Columbia today to work with the Exodus Mandate staff to organize administrative matters for Chaplain Ray and with volunteers on details related to helping every Christian child to get a Christian education. Help her and Ivy Bray to work out critical bugs in the Partner Data Base. Protect her from every attack of the enemy and give her a strong mind and body. You Lord, are the strength of our lives. AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28).

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

EYES OF THE LORD, thank you for the doors for support and partnership you have opened in Charlottesville and around the country with local pastors and churches. AMEN

LORD OF ALL, help us to bond with mission-minded pastors who want to make a difference in the whole world and with those who have a thirst as you do for souls and nations. Speak to your obedient shepherds and make it possible that in Charlottesville and around the country Dr. Bray will be allowed to speak in churches, meet friendly mission committee leaders and find new sponsors for the Bray family indigenous mission projects. May no Sunday pass that Dr. Bray is not speaking in some local church. Help the Brays find churches that want them to set up the CIS missionary book table again. AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28).

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

SPIRIT OF PROPHECY...We thank you for friends and supporters in Georgia and for the offer of donated office space and support to set up an international development office for indigenous missions in the Atlanta area. We thank you for the businessmen, churches, and foundations that have offered support for the Brays this year on their overseas missions, and for support to Ivy Bray as she leads the next CIS Mission team to Greece at the end of this month. AMEN and AMEN

DOUBLE PORTION...Use our friends in Georgia to raise up the full $8,500 that Ivy and the mission team needs this month and open doors this week for Dr. Bray to speak and meet with friends and supporters when he is in the Atlanta and Columbus areas October 11-18. AMEN and AMEN

SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, September 14, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

SURE FOUNDATION...We are thankful to you for the way you have watched over the health and financial affairs for the Bray Family Missionaries all these years. AMEN

SURE FOUNDATION...We ask you to please continue to give the gift of total health, healing and long life to Dr. Bray, Ivy and to the whole family and staff. For your glory, let them never be ashamed financially. Help them to obey the rules of divine health and finance so that all men will look at their ministries and lives in wonder at how God has blessed them in His service. We pray for the miracles needed to fund the PhilAm Mission to Greece this month. AMEN and AMEN

SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK: "And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity" (I Peter 5:2-7).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, September 12, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

LIGHT OF THE WORLD, we thank you for calling Ivy Bray to join and lead the PhilAm Mission Team to Greece this month and for the details that have already fallen into place including necessary visas and tickets. AMEN

LIGHT OF THE WORLD, we turn to you to finalize all finances, speaking dates, and all other details for the mission including the determination of the right victims of the Firestorm to assist. We pray that we will receive over and above the $8,500 that is needed to cover the expenses of this mission team; especially ministry gifts for Sister Lourdes and the other indigenous missionaries who will host the team. AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "And besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity" (II Peter 1:5-7).

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

WORD OF LIFE...We thank you for giving great talent to the artists and graphics people that produce work for the missionary clients Dr. Bray serves, especially Roy McClanahan, Rick O'Neil and sometimes John Lindner, Jr. and others. Thank you for giving them the patience and skills to make your message attractive, credible and productive. AMEN

WORD OF LIVE...Give Rick and Roy special grace as they produce so many newsletters and other materials on tight deadlines this week and next. We pray that you will provide all the talented people needed to produce our websites, newspapers and magazines. AMEN

SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK: "For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge,self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love" (I Peter 1:5-7).

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

CHIEF CORNERSTONE...We thank you for credit cards and faith that moves mountains as Ivy Bray and Juanito Sanchez finalize travel plans for the CIS PhilAm Missionary Team to Greece that will be leaving later this month to aid and encourage Filipino church planters and assist Christian firestorm victims in the Greek isles. AMEN

THE TRUTH...Help Dr. Bray as he plans to remain in the USA to complete final Fourth Quarter 2007 communications projects for Exodus Mandate, CDA-Colombia and other mission agencies and projects around the world. Give Dr. Bray energy and inspiration as he writes the vision, mentors, motivates and teaches Christian leaders how to grow and develop. We especially look to you Lord to bring in the funds needed to complete both parts of the mission this month. AMEN

SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK: "For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love" (I Peter 1:5-7).

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

ROSE OF SHARON, thank you for the many wonderful Table Hosts and Sponsors who are coming forward to build the attendance and cover the costs of the 10Th Anniversary Celebration of Exodus Mandate on October 9. AMEN

BISHOP OF SOULS, embolden Chaplain Ray Moore, Gail, Elise and the whole network of Board Members, Table Hosts and Sponsors as they sell tickets and raise sponsorships for the Tenth Anniversary Celebration Banquet. Lord, we pray that you will guide them to call on the right people and give them courage and wisdom as they challenge friends and strangers face to face. May this banquet be a turning point in the history of Christian education in the USA. Lord, help Frontline Ministries to get the message out that every Christian child needs a K-12 Christian education. AMEN AND AMEN

SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK: "For this reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love" (I Peter 1:5-7)

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

LORD, thank you for your provision of blessings of all kinds; but especially clothing, finances, food, rest, partners, safety, shelter, supporters and work. AMEN

CHIEF CORNERSTONE, may many lay friends give to the Greek Firestorms Appeal this month and to Ivy and the CIS PhilAm mission team as they go to Greece to distribute aid, encourage missionaries, preach Christ, and heal the sick. AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance" (Psalm 65:11).

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

MESSIAH, we thank you for your promises to send the streams of God to provide your people with grain! What a wonderful God you are and how gladly we look up to you to provide for our needs and the needs of your people and the work of your Kingdom even when we go through times of drought. AMEN

GOVERNOR, prosper all our donors both small and great this month and this very week. Enable them to be generous as our letters of appeal arrive in their homes and businesses. We look to you to "crown the year with your bounty" so that your people might shout for joy and sing this month. We especially pray this for the Bray Family, the Moore Family and all the partners in this ministry to the world. May they obey you in their giving to missions and may they be blessed. AMEN AND AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance" (Psalm 65:11).

BILL'S BLOG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4: This morning as Ivy and I prayed here in New Bern, NC we were actually overlooking a drought-stricken tidal basin behind our cabin. The lack of water before our eyes and the havoc it was creating for the creatures in the waters below contrasted with the promises of God in our readings for today in Psalm 65 and Deuteronomy 28:12-14. In these passages, the Lord is portrayed as one providing abundance and streams of living water to his faithful people. How important it is that we obey his commands but also how comforting it is to know that as we obey, he has promised to bless us with everything we need to survive in this world. So this month, we go forth bearing precious seed. We are planting it by faith in the soil of God's work, expecting a harvest. Sometimes, we feel like those floundering fish, hungry birds and other creatures that depend on the rivers of God to survive the droughts that come in our lives and families and ministries. How comforting to cling to the promises of God in these times and know that he has promised to send streams of blessing our way.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday, September 2, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

LORD OF ALL, thank you for giving Dr. Bill and Ivy some time alone during the planning retreat this week to work on their own relationship and marriage vows. AMEN

MORNING STAR, give Dr. Bill and Ivy that wisdom which is from above as they renew and review not only their relationships with partner ministries this week, but also with each other. Help them to steward their time carefully this week as they are away from the children, the community in Charlottesville and the daily obligations of the office there. May they use this time to do the essential remedial work and communication that is needed in their own marriage--and we pray that you will grant all missionaries and support partners of the ministry this same desire and privilege. AMEN and AMEN

SCRIPTURE OF THE WEEK: "Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died -- more than that, who was raised to life -- is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us" (Romans 8:34).

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday, September 1, 2007
30 Second Pause for Prayer from Bill and Ivy Bray...

WORD OF LIFE, we thank you for the first quarterly planning retreat Dr. Bray is having this coming week in New Bern, North Carolina. We thank you for all those who are able to join Bill and Ivy there for this leadership event. AMEN

MORNING STAR, help Dr. Bray and Ivy as they pack and prepare today for planning meetings this week focusing on Exodus Mandate and CDA-Colombia as well as other projects like the CIS PhilAm Emergency Mission Team to Greece. May this week of prayer, planning and training be most effective. Enable as many of the partner ministries as possible to come and may these retreats become an essential educational and development part of this growth and development ministry in coming years. AMEN and AMEN

VERSE OF THE WEEK: "Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died--more than that, who was raised to life--is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us" (Romans 8:34).