et into the mind and character of God because He understands this new culture better than anyone else and He has the plan for success. God came up with the missions plan to reach the world from the beginning of time we could not ask anyone better to begin a new work.
             God is a strategic God and thinks in terms of generations. So when we are putting together the purpose for our ministry we need to grasp this idea so that when we pray we can ask for God's strategy. God's love is so vast and so great and because He sees more than what we can, and because He loves the people that we are going to reach for His glory and we do not even know them yet but He does, God is already planning their salvation and purpose. God already understands that what you do in your ministry will affect generations of this culture. You can see this time and again in the Bible and one such instance is the promise of nation's being blessed because of Abraham and then is reiterated from generation to generation from Abraham to Isaac, Abraham's son and then to Jacob, Isaac's son.4 God is truly a God of promise and generational. There is a saying that says wen God looks at an apple seed, He not only sees the apple seed, but He sees the orchard that will come from that seed. If we do not have the heartbeat of God, how can we see the orchard that God is planning?
             You get into the heart of God through prayer. There is no other way but to seek His face. It says in Matthew 6:33 says, "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."5 If we want to know how to do this God laid out the plan right in His word in Matthew 6:9-13; for our purpose we are going to look at verses 9-10 which says, "Pray, then in this way: Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."6 In a new culture that we do not know or understand as of yet, we do know that God's desir...