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Urgent: INDIA - IRIS Tsunami Relief
by Heidi Baker
Jan 4, 2005
 To
our friends around the world,
After much prayer concerning the massive tsunami tragedy suffered by our
brothers and sisters in Southeast Asia, we announce with great joy the launching
of Iris Ministries' first India base. Within the next two weeks, we will send
out missionaries to establish a home near Madras for orphans who are tsunami
victims in order to best funnel relief efforts to southern India. Our mission is
to bring the good news of Jesus Christ and limitless love to those who have had
their lives and loved ones swept away in this unprecedented natural disaster.
The purpose of this simple home is literally to love these children back to life
and release them as part of the next army that will reach India for Jesus. As
Mother Teresa said, "You love until there is pain, you love through the pain,
until all that remains is love."
In 2000-2001, when Jesus called us to help feed Mozambique during some of the
worst flooding in world history, we saw beautiful Jesus begin to break forth in
the midst of darkness and despair with a glorious "flood" of revival. Now we are
believing Jesus to do even greater works than these in India. Surely He is
"shaking everything that can be shaken" in order to best call the lost into the
Father's house, bring in His bride from every tribe and tongue, and release His
great end-time harvest. We are believing for a tidal wave of His glorious
presence to sweep over those most affected by these recent events. We are
trusting Jesus for an ocean of children to be rescued from India and beyond.
Please believe with us for the glory of the Lord to cover the earth as the
waters cover the sea (Hab 2:14).
I pray your New Year is filled with the glorious promises of God. I pray you be
taken to an even deeper place of love. As I have been praying and meditating on
God's purposes for 2005, I feel Jesus taking us deeper inside His huge heart of
love. My heart is drawn into abandoned, laid-down love. All within my life cries
out for the plans and purposes of God to be birthed this year. I hear Jesus call
us to find and take in the lost, orphaned and abandoned children. I hear Him say
(Matthew 25) I am hungry, give me something to eat. I am thirsty, give me
something to drink. I am a stranger, invite me in. I am in rags, clothe me. I am
sick, look after me. I am in prison, visit me. Whatever you do for the least of
these, you do for me. Where there is love, there is always service.
I am greatly moved by the words of my mentor, Mother Teresa, who perfectly
shares her thoughts with us: "Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. Love has
to be put into action. You have to love without expectation, do something for
love itself, not for what you may receive. Love in action is what gives us
grace. We have been created for greater things -- to love and to be loved. Love
is love -- to love a person without any conditions, without any expectations.
Small things, done in great love, bring joy and peace. To love, it is necessary
to give. To give, it is necessary to be free from selfishness."
God has called me to simplicity, the simplicity of love. I do not feel called to
what many call greatness or success. My only call is to love more. True love may
cost everything. It may cause pain, and at the same moment bring joy. I ask
Jesus for more courage to love without limit. God has called His Bride to be
carriers of His love-glory. To do this He leads us to deepen our life of
sacrifice, prayer and abandoned love.
To be true, love must empty itself of self...
As I close, I pray that the promises of God for 2005 in your life will come to
pass quickly. For The Lord clearly spoke to me that even in the wake of such
calamities, His promises and purposes for 2005 would not be aborted! The things
God has planned, we cannot accomplish in our power or by our effort. Like Mary
we are called in glorious, abandoned worship to yield our lives to the Holy
Spirit.
He will speak His word to many: "Greetings, highly favored ones. Do not be
afraid. You have found favor with God." In the natural realm, that which God
wants to birth through our lives could never come to pass. The Holy Spirit will
overshadow us and the holy promise will be born! Our only appropriate response
is Luke 1:38: "Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according
to your word."
Thank you so much for caring for the poor and praying for us. Please believe
with us for every holy promise to be birthed.
Much love in Jesus,
Heidi
Heidi Baker Support Address:
Iris Ministries, Inc.
P.O. 339
San Juan Capistrano, CA, 92693-0339
USA
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PRAYER POINTS:
1. Please pray for the greatest amount of souls to love Jesus the most
passionately with much, much eternal fruit.
2. Such an outpouring of irresistible love that each beautiful child is
completely healed by our Heavenly Father.
3. My assistant will be leading a very small team including her
non-Christian father. Please pray for protection over the team, great favor with
the government, and the salvation of her father who will help with legal
documents.
4. Apostolic authority to be poured out to reach every single one of the broken,
lost and dying.
5. Please pray for God's divine connections with our wonderful Indian brothers
and sisters to raise up long lasting, local leadership.
6. For Jesus to receive all the glory and honor that He is so worthy of!
7. A passage to focus on in intercession is Isaiah 61:
"The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to
preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to
proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,
to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to
comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion -- to bestow on
them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of
mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair. They will be
called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of his
splendor. They will rebuild the ancient ruins and restore the places long
devastated; they will renew the ruined cities that have been devastated for
generations. Aliens will shepherd your flocks; foreigners will work your fields
and vineyards. And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named
ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their
riches you will boast. Instead of their shame my people will receive a double
portion, and instead of disgrace they will rejoice in their inheritance; and so
they will inherit a double portion in their land, and everlasting joy will be
theirs. For I, the Lord, love justice..." (Isaiah 61:1-8).
About the disaster in India, Pastor James Rebbavarapu of India Christian
Ministries wrote: "There are more than 3000 people dead and several thousand
missing in Southern India. The people in the coastal villages of Andhra Pradesh
are still in shock after being hit by 20-foot tidal waves caused by a powerful
earthquake in the Indian Ocean on Sunday. As of today, in the state of Andhra
Pradesh, where ICM works, more than 100 bodies have been found. Thousands of
people are missing, and over 25,000 people from the 80+ villages along the
coastline are now homeless. People have lost everything they owned, they are
without food, and the water sources are polluted. Property damage is estimated
to be around US $12 million." |
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