Devoting Ourselves

I love our International Executive Team. I feel like we are doing Acts 6:4 more than any other team I’ve been in, devoting ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.

MinistryDavid LyonsJanuary 8, 2020executive team, devoting, strategic prayer, Chee Hoe

Divine Hours

Have you experienced the effects of your Quiet Time evaporating by mid-morning? Many do. Here’s a remedy: The Divine Hours.

MinistryDavid LyonsJanuary 2, 2020divine, hours, quiet time, morning, Christ

Schools of Tyrannus

I love our fierce Middle Eastern fellow workers. Most of us would respond to opposition by hunkering down; however, they are responding like Paul did in Acts 19:9-10.

MinistryDavid LyonsDecember 30, 2019schools, Tyrannus, Middle Eastern, hunkering, equip

Our Descendants

Thirty-five years ago, Renee and I thought that God was calling us to live overseas, but God interrupted and told us that it would be our descendants who would go.

MinistryDavid LyonsDecember 18, 2019descendants, calling, possess, missions, Nigeria

Not For Beginners

I tried to squirm out of this trip to Nigeria. I prayed about it a long time. But the Lord made it clear that I’m to go, so I’m going.

MinistryDavid LyonsDecember 9, 2019beginners, Nigeria, dangers, inspiring, spirit-led

My Unbelief

Yet again, the gap in our funding for this year takes my breath away. It shouldn’t. God has fully met our needs every year for our last 35 years of making our living by the Gospel.

MinistryDavid LyonsDecember 2, 2019unbelief, Goliath, believe, Pary, Gap

Worthy

Our MENA Regional Leaders will be gathering this Thursday to Monday to wrestle with some sticky issues around major missions issues like what “church” and funding are to look like…

MinistryDavid LyonsOctober 30, 2019MENA, missions, church, funding, networks, harmony

Alongside

We all need encouragement all of our lives, especially those in demanding pioneering situations. So, next week we’ll be with our MENA Regional Leaders for equipping a group of new Arab “mobile alongsiders,” for our ministries in the Middle East and North Africa.

MinistryDavid LyonsOctober 25, 2019alongside, encouragement, pioneering, MENA, equipping

No Scrolls

Jesus was an oral disciple-maker. I’m pretty sure that He and the 12 were not carrying scrolls around Galilee.

MinistryDavid LyonsOctober 3, 2019scrolls, disciple, Lausanne, Orality

And To Us

This weekend we’ll begin meetings with our Regional Directors here in the Middle East to consider how God is leading us coming out of our Pioneering Forum and Global Missions Consultation.

MinistryDavid LyonsSeptember 27, 2019regional directors, middle east, leading, pioneering forum, global missions, unity, trust, readiness

Come Upon

According to Acts 1:8, when the Holy Spirit comes upon His people, they become His witnesses where they are (e.g. Jerusalem & Judea), where they are uncomfortable (e.g. Samaria), and to the ends of the earth.

MinistryDavid LyonsSeptember 23, 2019pioneers, witness, rebuild, forum

Breakthrough

Seventy-one of the 112 countries where we have Navigator ministries are in the pioneering stage, waiting on God to raise up a foundational generation of nationals to take the lead.

MinistryDavid LyonsSeptember 18, 2019Gordian, pioneering, ministries, breakthrough

David & Renée Lyons