Precision Prayers for Peace THIS WEEK IS CRITICAL

 


The war in Ukraine is a clarion call for the church to come together in prayer. Around the world and even the warring countries have churches that are standing up for peace and kneeling down for prayer. We must join then. I mentioned in our congregational prayer time last Sunday this concern:

“We pray that you would bring peace in peaceful ways. We are aware that every April 1 Russian men between 19 and 20 are conscripted into the military. This year around 130,000 are to show up for duty-we pray that they would stay home. We ask that 10s of thousands of young men would be convicted that this war is wrong and that they will not go and fight. We pray for the Russian people that they would send a clear and courageous message to President Putin that this war must end and they will not fight in it! Let you church rise up in Russia and Ukraine and that your body would not be broken by this war but rather built up by the power of the Holy Spirit… “

Here is the link to the interview with Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Ben Hodges that inspired this prayer:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2022/03/10/amanpour-ben-hodges.cnn

If even 10,000 would stay home the General said it would cause an earthquake in the Russian military so your precision prayer is this:

That between now and April 1st the Holy Spirit would convict masses of Russian men to NOT GO to conscription centers to join the army. That they would see the madness of this war and have no part of it. Pray that they would have the courage to not take up arms.

 This leads to another precision prayer: 

That the Russian people would stand for peace and truth in this war thier leaders have begun-already many people have been jailed for thier opposition to the war. I marvelled at this Russian news editor Marina Ovsyannikova who stood on state television with this sign...


                  "STOP THE WAR don't believe the propoganda they are lying to you here"

She was taken into custody and questioned for 14 hours with no legal counsel. No one knows what the government may do to her.

We must pray that  Marina Ovsyannikova and others like her would have the courage to speak out against the government and be protected from any harm-or have the strength to face it!

 

Feel free to add your prayers/concerns in the comment section below and thanks for praying!


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