-Devotion and Prayer for the Day: Psalm 88

Join us in today’s prayer and devotion-

Read Psalm 88 and then join us in prayer:

Our Father,

O Lord, God of our salvation; we cry out day and night before you. Let our prayers come before you; incline your ear to our cry! For our souls are sometimes full of troubles and sadness yet we praise you and your Spirit helps us to feel joy in the midst of it all.

So many of our brothers and sisters in far away places are going to their deaths; faithful ones who are called by the name of your Son. Their children see their parents killed before their very own eyes while they pray to you. Then they are dragged away to slavery in their tender years without hope. Their captors all of the time are chanting false prayers and praise supposedly to you in the process and appealing to a false book and prophet for their motivations and justifications.

This is the greatest era of Christian martyrs since the first century. Yet here in America we are comfortable and ignorant of the sacrifice of our brothers and sisters in Africa, the Middle East, North Korea, India, and in china. Rise up O Lord and bring down this enemy, let your signs and wonders save your little ones, let the plans of the evil one be thwarted and his minions destroyed. Their blood cries out from the dust and their children cry daily for your action and resolution. Do not let their sacrifice be wasted; but let many of the perpetrators themselves be converted to the real faith in your Son Jesus.

Many are saying that we may see the day soon when all churches in the Middle East will be destroyed and every Christian there forced to convert to Islam or be killed or expelled. Ancient communities that have survived for nearly two thousand years are being ground in the dust and those of us who are comfortable in the West are doing nothing or very little. We also pray for our brothers and sisters in India and China who are being persecuted and face demands to give up their faith.

Rise O God, bring revival to those very nations and bring miracles, visions, dreams, and healings that convert the armies of the enemy to the truth of your Son Jesus. Bring a halt to the terror and death they are bringing to those called by your Son; the servants of your Kingdom. The evil one would destroy them all, but reverse it O Lord and bring new converts to the truth and build up new churches and communities from among the very ones who are bringing the terror.

Let your Kingdom come in their midst and let your Word be demonstrated in all the nations of the earth as it is in Heaven.

In Jesus name, Amen.

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