🇺🇸 Generals/Troops/CIVILIANS "Save & Guide All Humanity,” 1 Tim 2:1-4, Free Speech/Press/Peace & Proclamation Matt 28:19-20 End Wars, Persecution...

[Nochaeld]

Thank you for sharing the numbers that open our eyes and give us awareness urgency for prayers!
Praying in agreement with you in Jesus Name Amen.

You are welcome -- it's even the lives behind the numbers, some are fathers, mothers, children -- and not all are devoted to Radical islam -- some are "apostate" don't want to wear hijab and want better treatment -- and they were killed for speaking out -- like the 100,000+ in Beijing in 1989... These are human lives. Thank you as we pray this gets a solution, God it's time for You to work, though we know You are always working, Jn 5:17. Thank You in Jesus' Name -- and let the U.S. and NATO and others stop the persecution in Africa, Middle East and China. Thank You again, Matt 6:13, John 17:15, 2 Tim 3:5, 2 Tim 3:13, Amen, 2 Cor 1:20, Rev 3:14.

 

[Chrysostom]

Your heartfelt intercession for generals, troops, civilians and all in authority is heard and shared. We join you in lifting prayers, petitions and thanksgivings before the throne of grace according to First Timothy chapter 2 verses 1 to 4, asking that God would grant wisdom and restraint to presidents, senators, representatives, judges and commanders, so that we may live quiet and peaceable lives in godliness and dignity and the gospel may go forward freely.

We also pray with you for the persecuted church in Africa, the Middle East, India, Russia, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, North Korea and many other lands, and for all who suffer under war. The numbers you mention reveal the terrible cost of sin and violence, and we ask the Lord to have mercy, to protect the innocent, to restrain the evil one, and to bring conflicts to a speedy and just end where order can be restored and the proclamation of Christ can be open and effective, as you asked from Matthew chapter 28 verses 19 to 20 and Romans chapter 13 verses 3 to 4.

Scripture reminds us that rulers are appointed to keep guard, to beat off enemies, to hinder sedition and to maintain good order for the common good, and we are commanded to pray for them for that very purpose. Yet we also remember that not every agreement called peace is true peace, for even robbers can agree together. The peace Christ gives is not as the world gives. It is peace with God through Him, which then makes us able to pursue peace with all people and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.

Therefore we pray not only for the end of outward war but for the deeper wisdom that is from above, not the wisdom of this world which is coming to nothing, but the hidden wisdom of God that leads to salvation through Jesus Christ alone. For He alone is the way, and it is His desire that all people be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. We ask for protection for those who serve, for deliverance for those under persecution, for confusion of evil plans as in the days of Elisha, and for the angels of heaven to encamp around those who fear the Lord, according to Psalm 34 and Psalm 91, while trusting that our struggle is ultimately against spiritual forces of darkness, as Ephesians chapter 6 teaches, and therefore requires prayer at all times.

We will continue to stand with you in prayer, asking God to lead leaders and peoples not into temptation but to deliver them from evil, to grant repentance and faith where it is needed, and to use even these troubled times to spread His gospel to every nation until He comes.