Prayer Wall 5/4/16

P R A Y that we will corporately & individually, return to the God of our Fathers in reverence for His Precious and Holy Name.

“Shout it aloud, do not hold back. Raise your voice like a trumpet.” Isaiah 58:1
 “Thus says the Lord who made the earth, the Lord who formed it to establish it, the Lord is His name, ‘Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’” ~ Jeremiah 33:2-3
“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.” – Oswald Chambers
Arise & shine; please pray for the following! 
COMMUNITIES OF THE PERMIAN BASIN
Let us PRAY for peace, comfort, wisdom and patience for the families and businesses that have been affected by the economic downturn due to low oil prices. “They will have no fear of bad news; their hearts are steadfast, trusting in the Lord.” ~ Psalm 112:7
AWAKENING
Give thanks for all the Lord is AWAKENING IN YOU!! There is power in His blood and the name of Jesus Christ. May others experience the goodness of this truth and have an encounter with the Living God in this season! Pray for our local and global churches; for our pastors to stand firmly on the Word of God.
GOVERNMENTAL LEADERS 
Pray for our leaders to stand firm on God’s Word. Give thanks we have leaders that are in the Palm of His Hand! Isaiah 41:13 May they call upon Him for wisdom.  May they give Him thanks for the peace and order that He brings.  Give thanks for God fearing men and women serving in these positions. 
PERSECUTED BELIEVERS
We lift up our brothers & sisters & those yet to come that they may know He is present in their midst and hears their prayers.  Let us pray that even in the midst of dire circumstances and even in the midst of severe threats and actions of death they will have the grace to STAND NO MATTER WHAT and not forsake Jesus Yeshua Isa – Son of the Living God.  Lift up where ISIS is controlling in places like Nigeria, Middle East and Algeria, etc.
ISRAEL
Lift up Israel and individuals within the country (Jews & Arabs alike). Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May those who love you prosper, Psalm 122:6, Pray that Israelis will move forward with the leader that the Lord appoints. May there be peace.
Special Prayer Request!! Pray for the mothers of Wosene and Getaneh. Let us also pray for safe travel for Getaneh and others as they travel to Washington D.C. for National Day of Prayer. Let’s pray for great awakening; and that the Lord will shake up our country!

ISIS Sends Parents Body Parts of Daughters, Video Showing Their Brutal Rape and Torture
Published May 03, 2016 — Horrific stories of… genocide being carried out by the Islamic State… against Christians and other religious minorities were shared at a conference in New York last week, with one account revealing that a couple was sent the body parts of their dead daughters with a video of them being raped and tortured.

KOREAN CHINESE PASTOR MARTYRED BY NORTH KOREAN SPIES
May 03, 2016 – OPEN DOORS: North Korean secret agents have martyred a Korean Chinese pastor who lived in Chiangbai, a town on the Chinese side of the Sino-Korean border. Han Choong Yeol was active in helping North Korean refugees by giving them food, medicine, clothing and other goods…Han was 49 and leaves behind a wife, a son and a daughter. 

Christian missionary sentenced to 10 years hard labor in North Korea
Published May 02, 2016 — A Christian missionary has been sentenced to 10 years in one of North Korea's punitive hard labor camps for alleged "unpardonable espionage". Kim Dong Chul, aged 62, who was born in South Korea and is a naturalized US citizen was accused of stealing information, including military secrets, and passing it on to South Korea.

American Missionaries Found Brutally Murdered in Jamaica
Published May 02, 2016 — At about noon on Saturday, shocked residents of the Boscobel, St. Mary community on the Caribbean island of Jamaica stumbled upon the bound and lifeless body of missionary Randy Hentzel, 48. On Sunday, at about 4 p.m., they found the body of Hentzel's colleague, missionary Harold Nichols, 53.

BAPTIST STANDARD GUEST EDITORIAL: It Is Wrong To Neglect The Persecuted
April 29, 2016  – It is inexcusable for one to use religious faith as a justification for ignoring the cries of the oppressed. It was William Wilberforce’s faith that awakened him to the inhumanity of slavery. Transformational leaders such as Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela were driven by the base awareness that all people are created in the image of God.

ISIS Horror: 9-Y-O 'Raped by So Many Men She Died,'
April 22, 2016 ​– A 16-year-old Yazidi girl has revealed in her testimony that Islamic State fighters raped every last girl older than age 8 in her community, including one 9-year-old girl who was raped by so many men she died from her injuries.