{"id":20581,"date":"2022-11-22T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/?post_type=prayerline&#038;p=20581"},"modified":"2022-11-22T16:26:36","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T16:26:36","slug":"the-god-of-being-broken","status":"publish","type":"prayerline","link":"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/the-god-of-being-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"The God of being broken"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> \u201cGod puts great value on broken people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is how Lydia is praising God for the way he is working in <a href=\"http:\/\/zves.si\/\">ZVE\u0160, the national movement in Slovenia<\/a>. Originally from the UK, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufm.org.uk\/member\/lydia-adams\/\">Lydia has been<\/a> a ZVE\u0160 staff worker for ten years, which she hasn\u2019t found easy. After a recent season of real personal discouragement, \u201cfeeling confused, lost, and disappointed that God didn\u2019t help me as I thought he should&#8221;, she now shares her renewed faith in a God who loves to turn our brokenness for good. She is \u201cstriving to find my encouragement in God and keep my eyes focused on Jesus. Please pray that I would not depend on <a>myself, but<\/a> stay humble and dependent on him\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though student ministry can be challenging with only a 0.1% evangelical Christian population in Slovenia, God is providing blessings. The ZVE\u0160 discussion group for international students has had a great start to the new academic year, and half of those attending are not yet Christians. <ins><\/ins><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lydia has a new apartment in a great location in Ljubljana, where she recently hosted an open house to welcome students. Some are very enthusiastic about meeting together to study the Bible, while others are very unsure about their faith. Lydia wants to encourage them to think about reaching out, without alienating those who need a safe, nurturing environment to explore knowing Jesus for themselves on a more fundamental level.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let\u2019s pray for Lydia and ZVE\u0160 Slovenia:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-list\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pray that God would continue to uplift Lydia spiritually and give her the confidence that God is able to bless her \u201cabundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that she needs, she will abound in every good work\u201d (2 Corinthians 9:8).<\/li><li>Pray that God would sustain the ZVE\u0160 team more generally through various health problems. As Lydia says, \u201cwe have no idea how this year will go, but pray that through God\u2019s grace he would use the little we can do and multiply it.\u201d<\/li><li>Pray that God would continue to work in the lives of the students who are part of ZVE\u0160, speaking to them, and meeting them wherever they are and drawing them more and more into a knowledge and deep assurance of the love of Jesus for them and truth and power of the gospel.<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you for supporting ZVE\u0160 Slovenia in prayer. If you feel led to contribute to their movement financially, you can do so <a href=\"https:\/\/give.ifesworld.org\/customgiving?t=3&amp;d=ERSLV_TRANS&amp;s=UKPL&amp;a=0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block block-core-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019d like to hear more from Lydia, sign up to her newsletter on the UFM website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufm.org.uk\/member\/lydia-adams\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":20584,"template":"","area":[458,590],"theme":[],"class_list":["post-20581","prayerline","type-prayerline","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","area-europe","area-slovenia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The God of being broken &#183; IFES Prayerline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u201cGod puts great value on broken people.\u201d This is how Lydia is praising God for the way he is working in ZVE\u0160, the national movement in Slovenia.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/the-god-of-being-broken\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The God of being broken &#183; IFES Prayerline\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cGod puts great value on broken people.\u201d This is how Lydia is praising God for the way he is working in ZVE\u0160, the national movement in Slovenia.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/the-god-of-being-broken\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"IFES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-22T16:26:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Road-trip-with-internationals.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1066\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/the-god-of-being-broken\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/the-god-of-being-broken\/\",\"name\":\"The God of being broken &#183; IFES Prayerline\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/es\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/the-god-of-being-broken\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/the-god-of-being-broken\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Road-trip-with-internationals.jpeg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-22T05:08:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-22T16:26:36+00:00\",\"description\":\"\u201cGod puts great value on broken people.\u201d This is how Lydia is praising God for the way he is working in ZVE\u0160, the national movement in Slovenia.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/the-god-of-being-broken\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/the-god-of-being-broken\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/the-god-of-being-broken\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Road-trip-with-internationals.jpeg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Road-trip-with-internationals.jpeg\",\"width\":1600,\"height\":1066},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/the-god-of-being-broken\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Prayerline\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/en\/prayerline\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"The God of being broken\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/es\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/ifesworld.org\/es\/\",\"name\":\"IFES\",\"description\":\"A movement of students sharing and living out the good news of Jesus Christ. 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