Prayer Points 6 Oct 2024
Our Church
Children’s Day – As Genesis has been showing us, sin arises from each of our hearts, such that even children rebel against our Creator God. Pray that our children may recognise their need for Jesus as their Saviour and submit to His loving rule as their good King, listening with soft hearts to His words of life. Pray for their parents and spiritual families to have God’s Word on our hearts and teach them diligently to the children (Deuteronomy 6:6-7). As a church family, may we all model to the children around us: growing deeper in God’s Word, getting real with one another in following Jesus, and getting sent to tell others around us about Jesus and His Gospel!
Our People
Nepal – This past week, Rachel L and another person left on 4 Oct, Friday, to join Joey T, who is already in Nepal to help run some youth programmes next week. Pray for good connections between the group and the Nepali older boys and girls. May all these children and youths grow in their faith and loving obedience to our Heavenly Father.
Our World
West Asia Conflict – Tomorrow, 7 Oct marks the one year anniversary of the attack on Israel by Hamas, the radical Palestinian organisation in Gaza (The Straits Times, 2 Oct). This precipitated a war where both sides have suffered. (BBC) On 1 Oct morning, Israel mounted a “limited ground offensive” into Southern Lebanon” – a major escalation in the ongoing crises. On the same day (1 Oct), Israel came under a missile attack from Iran. In this ongoing conflict, pray for God’s mercies for all civilians on all sides, who are suffering from the devastating effects of the ongoing armed conflict. These include being displaced from their homes and trauma from seeing loved ones killed. We are thankful for loving and generous partners who have been serving the displaced in Lebanon. May all churches in these conflict zones continue to shine the hope and love of Christ to those affected.
Rains (Myanmar /Nepal) – Our partners have separately reported rains / floods that have affected local populations in their respective countries. In Nepal, due to the hilly terrain, landslides are also affecting local travel including our ZB groups who were visiting last week and their flights back to Singapore. For Myanmar, thank God for the safe delivery of relief food and supplies for flood victims by OM-MTI (Mercy Teams International) which we prayed for last week.
