These are pictures we took at an orphanage we visit to help. Our hearts break as we wipe dirt or dry vomit off their little bodies. Or unleash them from a chain holding them to the wall so they can’t move more than a foot away. Or tend their oozing infections in their mouths, feet or wherever. When I have one of these little ones near me all I feel is love and compassion. To tend them with the most Jesus love possible. We can’t go see them right now because of covid. I hate covid. But when I PRAY, I ASK GOD TO SHEILD THEIR MINDS AND HEARTS and to help them feel HIS LOVE regardless of what humans are doing. And I BELIEVE with ALL MY HEART that God answers and honors these prayers. For HIS heart breaks even more than mine.
So Christians please care! As a church we CAN make a difference. We can adopt. We can support financially. We can help physically. We can pray. We can advocate.
Or We can forget and look away.
My thoughts from China tonight.
I’ve found myself returning to this article a few times this week. Each time my heart breaks and I feel powerless to bring about change. The one thing I can do is pray!
It’s easier to close our eyes and ears to things that happen in other nations but we have a responsibility to pray as though it is happening on our own doorstep. These girls, children, aren’t protected or even free to choose their own future. Please read…. Please pray….
This Sunday, let's remember our brothers and sisters being persecuted.
A church in Chengdu gets a surprise visit from the police during their Sunday morning worship service. Then the believers do something that the police rarely see and they are SHOCKED...
https://backtojerusalem.com/chinese-police-stunned-when-house-church-raid-doesnt-go-as-planned/
Prayer warriors – we need your prayers!
🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾
The Taliban is using sophisticated biometric equipment that they have captured from the military, and they are using it to go door-to-door to hunt down Christians.
BTJ is working with our hackers to develop a way to disable this equipment. It is a long shot, but our God is ABLE!
Prayers are desperately needed.
https://backtojerusalem.com/urgent-prayer-needed-christian-hackers-focus-on-disarming-new-taliban-biometric-program/
UPDATE: the father has returned home and is with his two children who were not near the fire the day it happened. Mom has had successful surgery and is now awake in the hospital. The two children have had successful surgeries and are slowly recovering.
Sadly the grandpa has been charged with negligence causing injury to 5 people, and the death of the 1 year old. Something to do with the Gerry can filled with gas? He is utterly broken so please pray for him!
Please keep us in your prayers today
https://backtojerusalem.com/urgent-btj-prayer-request/
I wanted to pray more effectively, and more specifically, for the persecuted church. And Nigeria has been on my mind for a while now.
I highly recommend @sinbach 's podcast with @Olamide - https://backtojerusalem.com/podcast/episode-586-the-christian-persecution-is-real-in-nigeria/
It is a really helpful call to action!
And next week in Prayer 2:62 we're gonna have a focus on praying for Nigeria, so I asked Olly D for a video clip we could use, and he sent me the video I've used here.
If nothing else, Olly makes it super simple what, why and how to pray and that's a priceless gift in, and of, itself!
Andy B
People of God in your prayers, please do remember the Christians in Northern Nigeria: Pray against the very evil spirit of radical Islam..pray for the Nigerian Government to act to stop the killings and abductions...pray that the International Community would work to stop it!
Pray for the protection of Christians in Nigeria.. pray for those who are suffering. Thank you!
PLEASE PRAY FOR THIS FAMILY~! And all the firemen, police , ambulance, medical and frist responders as they are traumatized also.
They were having a bonfire when the dad went to add gasoline to the fire as it was not starting. And explosion happened and the Dad, Mom, 1 year old and 4 year old girl, and 6 year old boy were all injured. The children and mom have life threatening burns and the baby just died after surgery.
We were best friends in Canada with 2 of the first firefighters that arrived on scene and have been in contact. They are taking it very hard.
Blessings
Orlena
Children at Christian schools are being targeted.
Why aren't we hearing about it?
1,000 children have been abducted this year alone.
Why aren't we hearing about it?
More Christians were killed in Nigeria last year by Muslim gunmen than any other place in the world.
Why aren't we hearing about it?
I am doing a podcast with our Nigerian partner Olamide Olly Dawson today to learn more about what is happening and how we can raise the awareness with the Christian Body. NIGERIA - YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN.
https://backtojerusalem.com/muslim-gunmen-kidnap-140-children-from-baptist-school/
@Jo_PrayerN_actionCenter
Father
Send labourers with Your heart - intercessors who are mechanics, intercessors who are IT specialists, intercessors who are administrators, intercessors to strategically man all stations
Lord send angels with certified documents/approvals
Father replenish the supply of bibles
Let Your Spirit choose and anoint every bible selected for distribution -each bible given we ask for it to yield a 100 fold increase
Hand pick and release a distribution team who is sound in faith, well rested, obedient to Christ, bold, emotionally balanced and mentally and physically strong.
Father we ask You to dispatch intercessors and angels all along the distribution routes to remove all hindrances and prepare the path.
But above all Father, do something new, unexpected, unheard of to fully saturate this outreach with Your felt presence. Where Your presence is we see Your Word, Your provision and Your authority.
We ask according to Your will. In Jesus name we ask. Amen
North Koreans are starving to death and now a nuclear site was just discovered to be active.
https://backtojerusalem.com/north-korea-nuclear-site-seems-active-as-people-starve/