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Family Birthday Pubs!

Dear Family,

We love you very much and are happy to be working with you to share the Message of God's Love with as many as we can. Praise the Lord! We thank the Lord for you and your faithfulness to witness and win others to His Kingdom.

As you know, for some years now the DO Homes have devoted some extra time to the Word and prayer around the time of the February 18th Family Birthday. While this hasn't been an organized occasion for the TS Family, we thought that those of you who might be celebrating the Family Birthday in some way would appreciate receiving an extra "Word treat" to feast on during this special occasion!

During this past year, the Lord through His Word has been emphasizing the importance of loving Him more so that we can please Him, receive His Love and pour it out on each other and the lost, and receive His many blessings. This is the subject of the new GN included with this mailing, entitled "Loving Jesus" Parts 1 and 2 (TS GN 21), which we pray you will find inspiring and spiritually feeding!

In addition, we're sending you 9 new children's publications on related subjects, which we pray will be a blessing to your children and a help to you in feeding them. Praise the Lord! These are:

"The Love Story" MLK

"Mama's Love Story" Hope TK

"Heidi" TK (reprint from TK Vol.3)

"Loving Jesus" MLK

"Praise Time" MLK

"I Love You—Just You!" MLK

MLK Posters

Kidz Activity Pages (KAP #6)

Praise Time Ideas (FSM 285)

We'd like to clarify that you are not required to read this GN and the material for the children at the time of the Family Birthday, if circumstances make it difficult to do so. You can read them any time you like. However, if you can put aside time on these days to feast on this new Word, it will make a nice birthday present from the Lord to each one of you. It can make your Family Birthday a very special time, a memorable occasion as we all learn to love Jesus more.

God bless you and continue to prosper you and keep you close to Him throughout this coming year! "It's exciting to look forward and up to heights you're soon to attain and views you're soon to thrill to if you keep fighting, climbing, winning and don't quit!" ("Greater Victories," ML #727, DB1). We love you!

Much love,

Your WS Family

PS: Following is a list of prayer requests that we'd be very thankful to have your help in praying for. As you can see, this list is primarily geared towards children so that they can be prayer warriors as well!

PRAYER REQUESTS FOR BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION PRAYER TIME

1. Prayer for Our Queen Maria and King Peter and their teamwork, and for Family publications.

Please especially thank the Lord for the following:

* For keeping our precious Queen Maria.

* For giving us a new king, King Peter!

* For keeping Mama Maria's teamworkers and helpers.

* The wonderful prophecies from Jesus, Dad and others that Mama Maria is passing on to the Family!

* Grandpa being able to help Mama, as he said he would, through the messages that he gives the Family.

* For more Praise Times to Jesus!

* For Jesus showing Mama Maria and Peter how much closer Jesus wants to be to each one of us, and can be if we ask.

* For keeping the Continental Officers and other Family leadership.

* For helping those in World Services and many Service Homes to keep producing the publications, videos, tapes, and other materials or services needed by our Family.

Please pray for:

* For Mama Maria and Peter's health, strength and wisdom.

* For the Lord's continued anointing as Mama Maria and Peter take on the big job of leading the Family and passing on the Lord's Words and counsel.

* That Mama Maria and Peter's teamwork will be a great strength and blessing to them, and that they will have the Lord's wisdom and guidance as they care for the Family.

* Mama Maria's health, and against the Enemy's attacks on her through sickness and afflictions; for resistance to colds, earaches and headaches; for the healing of her eyes.

* For Peter's health: protection from headaches, neck aches, backaches, heart pains, and other attacks of the Enemy.

* For the spiritual and physical health and security of Mama Maria's staff, plus continued miraculous safekeeping of their Home.

* For strength, anointing and wisdom for our Continental Officers.

* For the WS pubs units and the health, strength, wisdom, protection, inspiration and anointing of those in them, and for the many projects they are working on.

* That the Lord will miraculously supply finances for the many important pubs projects planned, and for WS to be able to keep helping needy field ministries.

* For the production of more GP publications, including books. That our GP materials will bear positive, long-lasting fruit in the hearts and lives of those who receive them.

* For Family Care personnel and their production of materials for our young people and children.

* For more children's pubs to be produced, especially more Kidz Mags, MLKs and Hope TKs!

* For our video and audio studios, and all they are producing, and that they will have good shepherding and oversight, inspiration, health, spiritual well-being, good organization and anointed results, and make good progress on important projects.

* For new equipment as needed in various pub, video and audio ministries. Pray against any equipment breakdowns or theft.

* For our National Printing Centers (NPCs) and other Service Centers: that they will be productive and fruitful, and for the workers to be happy and fulfilled.

* For the security of Family mailings.

* For our LIMs and Lit-pics: that our translators will have wisdom, inspiration, health, safety and security as they work on the Words and GP distribution tools.

2. A time to praise and love Jesus! And prayer for our witnessing.

Take some time to thank the Lord for the following:

* For Mama Maria teaching us to take special time to love and praise the Lord and get closer to Him each day!

* For the great love Jesus has for each of us.

* For making our Family so different and special, and for letting us help and lead other people to Jesus so they can be happy, too.

* For all the friends of the Family the Lord has drawn to His great Love and Light that He gives us so freely.

* For how Jesus takes such good care of us and delivers us time after time from all our fears and sins, and problems and enemies.

* For all the New Wine of the Word Jesus has given us to make us His strong, happy soldiers in His great army of Love.

Please pray for:

* For the Lord to give us all more of a hunger for His wonderful Words.

* For the Lord to help us take more time to love and praise Him.

* For more witnessing teams to reach the needy with the Gospel and win many to the Lord, helping to fill their lives and hearts with God's Love.

* For open doors so we can get out our tools in larger quantities than ever before.

* For good feeding of our friends and follow-up of the sheep the Lord leads us to.

* For all our Family pioneer road teams going to countries or cities where there are no Family Homes: that the Lord will guide them, supply their needs, give them protection, new friends and contacts, and help strengthen their present friends.

* For our Family to be able to learn the local language more quickly and easily so they can be more effective when witnessing.

* For our catacombers and potential disciples: that they will be inspired and grow in faith and the Word.

* For the good care of all new disciples and for wisdom in ministering to their parents and relatives.

* Pray especially for the Lord to bless all the witnessing outings by our Family young people and children. Pray:

1. That we will be excited and inspired about witnessing and have more love for the lost.

2. That we will get good training in personal witnessing.

3. That the Lord will defeat any attacks of the Enemy trying to stop us from doing our very important job for the Lord.

4. That we will be well grounded in the Word and know how to use the Word to boldly and wisely answer people's questions when we are witnessing.

5. That we will be well-prepared for the battles and spiritual attacks ahead.

6. That we will continue to be well-shepherded and be able to talk to our shepherds about questions or battles that come up when we go out witnessing or at other times.

7. That the Lord will bless our witnessing, provide us with exciting witnessing ministries, reward us with thrilling experiences, and let us be able to win lots of souls, change people's lives and win some new disciples!

8. For the Lord's discernment and protection when out witnessing, so we can reach the sheep and avoid the wolves.

9. For all those trying new ways to witness, such as learning sign language so they can witness to deaf people, or doing TV or radio shows, or special performances.

* That the various "consider the poor" ministries will continue to be fruitful, that doors will open and any needs will be miraculously supplied.

* For prison and juvenile delinquent ministries to be blessed, protected, and bear lasting fruit.

* For friends of the Family, including lawyers, theologians, government officials, academics, reporters, etc.

* Pray that all our friends, contacts and supporters will:

1. Grow spiritually.

2. Have the Lord's blessing on their lives.

3. Stay healthy and successful in their work.

4. Receive the Lord's miraculous solutions to any difficult situations they face.

5. Receive and be strengthened by the Word, and draw closer to the Lord and the Family.

6. Continue to help and support the Family.

* For the various mail ministries.

* For the Lord's financial supply for each and every Home and WS, and for large donations and windfalls.

* For good printing contacts.

* For wisdom in knowing how and what to feed different people.

* For lasting fruit in our Family mail and Internet ministries.

* For fruitfulness in the Family's cooperation with other Christian and non-Christian groups.

* That our Family will be able to produce the tools needed for ministering to people of other religions.

* That our Family singing teams will get good openings and bookings and give anointed performances with a fruitful witness. Pray that the Lord will provide all their needs, safe transport, health, security, costumes, and equipment. Also that they will be able to faithfully follow up on the people they meet.

* The Lord's protection against any who want to hurt or trouble us or stop the Lord's work.

* Pray for the wisdom and spiritual washing of those who are on media teams and exposed to many negative comments.

* Pray for speedy and victorious conclusions to any court battles or legal problems we face.

3. Personal and Home prayer requests

Please especially praise the Lord for the following:

* For all the Lord has supplied for you and your Home during this past year!

* For how the Lord has protected and cared for you and your Home!

* For all the souls won and witnessed to, and all the tools distributed!

* For all your moms and dads, aunts and uncles, brothers and sisters!

Please pray for:

* For each one's health. (Have specific prayer for individual health concerns in your Home.)

* For your friends, sheep and supporters.

* That the Lord will pour His Spirit of Love on each person in your Home and help each one become more like Him.

* That everyone in your Home will be a good sample and have good relations with neighbors and be able to minister to them and win their favor.

* That we will show more of the Lord's Love to those around us (Jn.13:35).

* That each of us will have a closer relationship with the Lord, taking time to love and praise Him, spending time with Him in prayer, receiving His Words, strength and direction.

* That the Lord will supply our needs and finances as we follow and obey Him and His Word.

* For kings and supporters, and better follow-up, with more faith for finances and more boldness in asking for help.

* For the Lord's supply of funds or donations in case of any sudden unexpected expenses.

* That the Lord will bless and increase our provisioning, bless those who give, and raise up new and needed contacts.

* For prayerful decision-making and the faith and unity to follow through on what the Lord shows us and not give up when the going gets rough.

* For faith, vision, initiative and fun new challenges and new ways of doing things.

* For faith, patience, strength, endurance and trust when we are having tests and trials.

* That everyone in our Home will be able to get feeding and sufficient Word time daily, and that we will learn to go to the Lord and the Word and prayer to find solutions to our problems.

* Fun inspiration times and feeding devotions.

* Against spiritual attacks of the Enemy, such as fear, bad pictures in our mind, nightmares, and temptations to do wrong things.

* For our Home teamwork members to be inspired, united, loving, prayerful, and close to Jesus and His Word.

* For all new mated couples to have love, patience, understanding and good communications, and that they will be good parents and make good teams for the Lord's work.

* That the Lord will raise up "real fathers" and "real mothers" who will team up with single parents to help them raise their children.

* For strength, good health, protection and safe deliveries for our pregnant mothers.

* For the care, training and education of all the children in our Homes.

* That the children and young people will get sufficient Word time, witnessing time, scholastics and vocational training.

* That the children, JETTs and teens will do better in any weak areas in needed scholastics.

* That our Home will be able to obtain computers, good educational computer programs, workbooks, reference books, videos and other educational materials needed.

* That all of the adults in our Homes will have a vision for our care and training, and that our teachers and caregivers will be happy and fulfilled in their calling.

* That Jesus will bless our parents and teachers with much love, patience, understanding and wisdom, and help us make it easy for them to be good.

* That the Lord will watch over and provide for those young people who have chosen to leave the Family. Help us to keep them in our prayers and continue to love them.

* That we can overcome any of our bad habits easily.

* That we will stay healthy, but if we get sick, that we will recover quickly. Also that we will show love, understanding and compassion to anyone who is sick.

* That the Lord will help any children or adults with handicaps, and that He will bless those who help look after them with great love, patience, wisdom and understanding.

* Healing of those who have eye problems.

* For healing of those who have headaches, heart problems, back problems, trouble sleeping, asthma, hay fever and other allergies or respiratory problems, eczema, funguses, warts or other skin problems.

* For those trying to lose or gain weight.

* For everyone to be able to take regular, vigorous and safe get-outs.

* For good clean food and pure water supplies for all our Homes, free from disease or poisonous materials.

* For the Lord to supply us with good survival food and water.

* Good unity, communication and loving cooperation between our Home and other Homes.

* For those who are making decisions to change Homes or fields: that they will be prayerful and have clear channels to know the Lord's will, and for the Lord's supply of the needed funds, visas, paperwork, etc.

* For the Lord's blessing and supply for pioneer teams and new Homes opening up.

* For any housing needs that we have.

* For good landlords, and that they will want to draw closer to Jesus and our Family, and be supportive and friendly.

* For good phone lines and communications for our Home.

* For our protection from any disasters such as fires, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.

* For our young men in the Family not to have to serve in the military.

* For protection from violence, political trouble or terrorism.

* For good relations with relatives who are not Family members.

* For good vehicles and the safekeeping of our drivers, passengers and vehicles.

* For faithfulness and diligence of the Family drivers and maintenance men.

* For the Lord to successfully resolve any legal situations for us, and supply needed passports, visas, etc.

* Against any attacks of the Enemy such as accidents, loss of documents, sudden sickness, theft, break-ins, random violence, or any sort of crime against our Home or Family members.

* That the Lord will supply funds and materials needed to make our Home a nice, clean, comfortable place to live and a good sample to others.

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