Emma Harris @emmaharris@dingdash.com

Please don’t forget to pray for the orphans in China. Because of Covid no international adoptions are moving forward and there are many children waiting for parents and a loving home. 😰😰😰😰😰 they are on my hearts every day. Some little children even had parents arriving to be pick them up and bring them home.... when suddenly the China wall went up and no one could come in to pick them up anymore until Covid restrictions are lifted. Those children have been waiting ever since. Those parents are besides themselves waiting to come get them! Please pray the hearts can be turned soon to opening back up the roads for adoption. And that the people of God could also have moved hearts towards providing homes for children who have been abandoned and are suffering every day without a family.

Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in it's undiluted sternness.
Oswald Chambers

https://youtu.be/XFl87Ft2wmY

Urgent help needed in Bangladesh! 57 dead and two million displaced. Tens of thousands homeless. BTJ sending aid to our missionary partners now
YOU CAN HELP US BY SHARING THIS INFO WITH OTHERS
https://backtojerusalem.com/urgent-help-needed-%e2%9a%a0%ef%b8%8f-57-dead-and-two-million-displaced-as-deadly-floods-smash-bangladesh/

LOVE THIS!
Prayers are needed as this woman's testimony is changing lives!

So you don't think the war in Ukraine isn't spiritual warfare?
Think again.
We need prayer warriors like NEVER before during these last days.
"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places."
https://backtojerusalem.com/spiritual-warfare-witches-gather-to-cast-spells-on-putins-enemies/

Life in the Taliban's Afghanistan
This was fascinating and so incredibly sad to watch. It's easy to forget it's already been more than six months since the Taliban took over Afghanistan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIFi_Rgm-T8

I've been working in Iran for years and thought I'd seen it all, until I saw this torture device that the Islamic government uses on prisoners and children.
https://backtojerusalem.com/heres-a-torture-device-in-iran-wanna-guess-what-it-does/

Our friends asking for Prayer
https://backtojerusalem.com/a-prayer-for-rain-in-iran-in-2022/

A dear brother pointed out to me that isolation and solitude are polar opposites, which is so true. This lead me to these thoughts:
"solitude and isolation; the first produces fruit and the second empties our barrel. I suppose a modern analogy could be an electric car; it needs to sit in solitude on a charging point before it can do the miles required that day."

As a parent, I know that it is difficult to see your child suffer. I have worked with the persecuted church for over 20 years and know how much harder it is for Christians to see the authorities come after their children than after themselves.
This is why we started the BTJ Martyr Scholarship fund.
I have two kids in college and I know the kind of unexplainable excitement a scholarship can bring to a family. One of my favorite things to do in life these days is to see the tuition of a child of a persecuted family get their tuition paid for!
Nothing Like it!
https://backtojerusalem.com/btj-martyrs-scholarship-fund-goes-to-iran-family-on-run-from-police/

This is a 30 day devotional like none other.
Starting next week on Chinese New Year.

If you have a spare hour today, listen to this podcast. If you don't, try and make time.

Honest, difficult, challenging and inspiring...

https://backtojerusalem.com/podcast/episode-554-the-biggest-problem-and-blessing-in-ministry/

🙏🏼 12 Days of Christmas Prayers 🙏🏼

Today we pray for Pakistan. Pakistan holds a special place in the heart of BTJ. It is the nation where the first BTJ missionaries were martyred.

Join together with us as we pray for Pakistan and for the missionaries who continue to faithfully serve there.

Day 9: https://backtojerusalem.com/day-9-pakistan-12-days-of-christmas-prayers/

China has just proposed new laws to punish foreign Christians doing personal ministry inside China. We outline the specific laws that are the most problematic.
https://backtojerusalem.com/china-proposes-new-laws-targeting-christian-missionaries/

The Pope just signed a secret agreement with China that increases persecution against the underground house church. https://backtojerusalem.com/pope-bows-to-china-in-secret-deal-made-over-weekend/

"Yielding to a temptation is like yielding to a blackmailer: you pay to be free, and find yourself the more enslaved."

—GK Chesterton

The BTJ tour with the Heavenly Man starts this week!
COME AND JOIN US!
https://backtojerusalem.com/%f0%9f%94%a5-brother-yun-on-tour-starting-this-week-%f0%9f%94%a5/