Worship Without Borders is asking all our fellow-worshipers to join us in prayer for these critical areas in our lives.
1 – Pastor Wendell Smith – Pastor Wendell is Tim’s brother and has been facing a serious cancer diagnosis in his body for over five years now. Through faith, wisdom and treatment he has outlasted his doctors’ prognosis but he is now facing a very challenging season.
This is his son’s (Judah) statement this week:
My Dad has been suffering quite a bit of pain in the last week. While we all are maintaining our confidence and confession in the Lord and our trust in His healing power, we feel it necessary to call the church to prayer and ask some of my father’s friends in the ministry to join us in 7 days of breakthrough prayer and fasting on his behalf. Let’s agree for a lifting of this pain and a breakthrough of healing for his body.
Please join us in this crucial moment in my brother’s battle.
2 – Nigerian Children – My son, David, made me aware of an evil practice in Nigeria, by so-called churches and pastors there who have been committing great atrocities against their children. Please read this recent article from the Oregonian and join with us in prayer and any other thing you can do to thwart this vile practice against innocent children. Nigerian children
- Ecc 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for high official watches over high official, and higher officials are over them.
God is not mocked – God will vindicate the innocent, the poor and the needy – so we appeal to the highest authority to stop the oppression and deaths of innocents in the name of Christianity.
3 – Indian Christians in Orissa – Join with us in praying for the thousands of Christians in India (Orissa state) who are being massacred by Hindus, burned alive inside their churches and fleeing into the jungles for their lives for over a year now. I met a young man in Coimbatore, India whose parents (pastors) are still (a year later!) hiding in the jungle waiting for an opportunity to return to their home and church (if they are still there). I have heard no worldwide outcry for such an injustice to innocent people (they were being blamed, attacked and killed for the murder of a Hindu leader that has since been attributed to the Maoists in the area). We must be their voices, their intercessors. Imagine hiding in a jungle for a year, fearing for your life and your family. How would you want Christians around the world to pray?
4 – Kamchatka Full Gospel Church – Most of you know we have been to this church and school in Kamchatka, Russia 3 times and they are a wonderful spirit-filled group of people who have built this church building and renovated this school campus over the last 10 years against amazing odds. They now stand in jeopardy of losing both unless God supernaturally intervenes. Please pray for the finances (over $400,000) and the workers to complete the building before January. These are steep odds but God has literally worked miracles on their behalf already – He who has begun a good work will finish it!
Thank you for your prayers for these people around the world.