Cassie* is a remarkable young woman from the Philippines. She is bright, charismatic and has an infectious smile. Today, she’s studying hard and is excited about her future but for nearly five years - from the age of 12 - Cassie was a slave.

From outside appearances, Cassie’s trafficker took good care of her. She was enrolled in a good school, she wore new clothes, and had a notebook and backpack for the first time in her life.

But behind closed doors, every day when she came home from school, she was raped and abused for an online audience.

She said: ‘He hurt me every day, I was very scared. I was lonely and far away from my family.’

Cassie’s trafficker successfully hid his crimes from unwanted eyes for many years. During the time Cassie was held by her captor, he preyed on the children of family friends, and his nauseating reach eventually extended to a 5-year-old boy and a girl less than a year old.

One Friday night, Cassie came home from school, knowing that the weekend ahead of her held untold terror. That night, Cassie woke up to loud noises. Police were there to rescue her from the home where she had suffered for nearly five years.

“I was very scared. I was crying,” Cassie recalls. An International Justice Mission social worker was there that night, and she told Cassie that she and the other children were not in trouble. They were being rescued. They were finally safe.

45 million people live in slavery today. One in four are children like Cassie. Modern slavery takes many forms - from forced labour in brick kilns to sex slavery in brothels. Cassie was a victim of a new and disturbing form of slavery called cybersex trafficking.

International Justice Mission UK’s Ruth Cooke explains:

‘Cybersex trafficking is a new and horrific form of abuse where paedophiles can go online anywhere in the world and direct the live sexual abuse of children over a webcam. Many of these boys and girls are under ten years old. It is a growing problem for many reasons - such as easy access to the internet, the equipment needed (just a webcam or mobile phone) and - in the Philippines particularly - the widespread use of English that means western customers can be easily understood.’

The problems of cybersex trafficking and slavery are growing. The good news is that organisations like International Justice Mission – the world’s largest anti-slavery charity - are ramping up their response to it.
Ruth Cooke said:
‘There is hope. IJM has rescued thousands from slavery and has helped transform justice and law enforcement systems to stop the problem at the root. We know that with enough funds, prayer and support it is possible to end slavery in our generation.’

Our heavenly Father is not overwhelmed by injustice. Psalm 10 promises us that He hears the desires of the afflicted, He listens to their cry and He takes action defending the fatherless and the oppressed. He is the source of all justice.

The end of slavery starts with us, with our churches. Join IJM by giving, praying or supporting the fight until all children like Cassie are free: www.ijmuk.org

*A pseudonym

One of the joys of working at WPC is to hear wonderful testimonies from across the world. We have so many examples of God on the move. Nowhere more so than in the remarkable work God is doing enabling unity across our cities. I have shown some testimonies below. Jesus prayed for the church – “That they might come into complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you loved me.” John 17:22 As one person put it – “We have invested too much time in building our church, instead of God’s Kingdom.”

Movement Day in Methodist Central Hall, London in early October brought 1000 people together from across England, and many other nations. There were four key elements:

Prophetic teaching – Roger Sutton opened the event. He said God’s plan for transformation starts with personal transformation – changing our attitudes and deepening our commitment to each other, it creates a transformed church and leads to a transformed city. God so loved the world that He sent His son, and declares His ownership in every place where we plant our feet. World Vision shared how Jesus wept over Jerusalem, and continues to weep over cities today. God told people to pray for Babylon even though it was their oppressor. There is a prophetic grieving over the poor. The speaker said “Unless we grieve we just do projects.” He challenged church to take the presence of God to the poor so they know they are not abandoned.

Powerful prayer – there was a strong prayer foundation to the conference; Roger’s final comment when he closed the event was to thank the intercessors and prayer people. The prayer culminated in 1000 people including most of the main denominational leaders praying together in Parliament Square. A number of people had had prophetic visions of this event and there was a strong sense of excitement and awe as we praised and declared together. I had the privilege of praying with the leaders before and I would like to honour their humility and unity. It was particularly important to have Cardinal Nichols with us, again a lovely humble man who joined us to proclaim and praise Jesus. We prayed for three key things – unity in the church, for the church to bless the nation and for the United Kingdom to rediscover its call to take the gospel to the nations. Is it a tipping point in the nation? We shall see, but many believe this was a very significant time.

Extraordinary testimony – we have so many testimonies of God moving powerfully and graciously in cities. Here are some examples:

Toowoomba – Australia - city of 120,000 has seen churches work together to change the spiritual atmosphere. They have done a remarkable work with women, ministering to the hurts men have inflicted on them and releasing them into who Jesus wants them to be. To date 30,000 women have been heavily impacted by this. This led to a concern about domestic violence and the church challenged the city to look at porn. 1 in 3 girls in their city had been sexually abused. 81% of porn shows violence to women. Porn leads to marriage and family breakdown and abusive behaviour in men. The city recognised the huge damage porn was doing and the Mayor has declared his commitment to making Toowoomba a porn free city. Many in the audience wept as we heard the stories of church tackling tough subjects to see their city released.

Portland in Oregon - a city where churches and the city council were at odds. It was a liberal administration with an openly gay leader who was very wary of the church. The church wanted to break the antagonism and offered to give 15,000 man days over the year to serve the city in whatever way Portland wanted. They cleaned the streets, tidied parks and offered to serve a school that was in freefall with appalling results and a fast declining population. The turnaround was so remarkable the churches gained great credibility. Now churches across Portland and linked with every school in the city. The barriers are broken and the city recognises that the church is serving and blessing them.

Bristol -  worked hard to bring church and city leaders together. Prayer lies at the heart of all they do and they have the vision to pray for influence in every aspect of Bristol from its politics to its health, from its media to its schools. The newly elected mayor is a committed Christian who was with us at Movement day and Bristol has seen significant change and church growth.

Pretoria, South Affrica - Doxa Deo church commissions church members to minster in their place of calling whether it be the workplace, health, schools or serving the poor. They say “the churches programme is all about people – mobilising them to take Jesus into the city” They celebrate what God is doing in the hospitals, in the schools, with the homeless, in the police. Their church is a sending place.

A call to pray
Movement Day finished with a challenge from Pastor Agu as the Redeemed Church finished a 75 day commitment to pray for our nation following the “If my people” prayer. He called leaders to put prayer at the centre. He referred to Nehemiah’s call to transform and rebuild his city of Jerusalem. Nehemiah loves his city and he stops and weeps over its state. This leads to prayer and action. He challenged us to pray for breakthrough and to take on humanism, gangs, fundamentalist Islam and other issues in prayer. He said we must wrestle in prayer if we want to fuel revival. We should not let go until we see God move. We are at war for our cities and the weapons of our warfare transform mindsets and strongholds (2 Cor. 10). He said this is a time of freshness in the church as Jesus prepares to come for his bride.

Source: Steve Botham, World Prayer Centre

He did it out of compassion – responding to the horrors of botched ‘back street’ abortions performed on scores of desperate women who felt they had nowhere else to go – but David Steel MP’s 1967 Abortion Act resulted in the destruction of 8.5 million lives. This year marks the 50th anniversary of his Private Member’s Bill becoming law in the UK, except in Northern Ireland, and is a timely opportunity to prayerfully consider the practical and spiritual implications.

Over 120,000 unborn lives were aborted in England, Scotland and Wales during 2016, and abortion not only destroys unborn lives but deeply wounds the women who decide to terminate their pregnancy. The British Pregnancy Advisory Service – a major abortion provider – claims that one in three women in mainland Britain will have had an abortion by age 45. Many of them belong to our churches, probably feeling deeply guilty and unable to share their secret with anyone else. That’s why CARE’s initiative ‘Open’ reaches out with healing and hope to Christian women who have had terminations – and miscarriages too – through healing retreats, training for church leaders and speaking. www.weareopen.org.uk. There are also scores of Christian centres around the country living this out, by offering advice and support to those affected by abortion. www.pregnancycentresnetwork.org.uk.

Currently there is heated debate in Northern Ireland, with those resisting any change in the law to allow abortion sometimes caricatured as judgemental and uncaring. Earlier this year CARE was part of the ‘Both Lives Matter’ campaign, which put out an advertisement saying ‘100,000 people are alive today because of our laws on abortion – why change that?’ There were more than a dozen complaints to the Advertising Standards Authority but they ruled that this statement was perfectly reasonable – so not only was the objection dismissed but the ad received far more publicity than before!

We face a considerable battle at this time. There are many who favour making abortion more accessible by removing the legal requirement for two doctors to approve and allowing anyone to have a termination for any reason. Not wanting a girl for example, or aborting a child on grounds of disability. MPs have already framed Bills to present to Parliament and the battle continues.

Please consider being part of an important commemorative event CARE is hosting to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Abortion Act, at the Emmanuel Centre in Westminster on Saturday 28 October at 2pm. You can apply for your free tickets at www.care.org.uk/event, by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or phoning 020 7233 0455. We would so appreciate your support.

Lord, please have mercy on our nation which has sanctioned the wholesale killing of our most vulnerable citizens – those not yet born. May Your forgiveness and grace be received by those who are affected and Your wisdom given to every Christian organisation working in the political sphere to oppose still further liberalisation of the law. 

Source: CARE

Does God really listen to our prayers? Does he really hear us when we cry out to him?

Sometimes we pray for a long time about big things, like a health issue or a prodigal child or a difficult work situation, and things don’t get better. We wonder if God’s been paying attention.

I prayed for my wife regarding a life-threatening disease for 27 long years. We prayed and prayed, but her condition only worsened. Why aren’t you answering, God? How could it be true that you have “heard my voice and my pleas for mercy” (Psalm 116:1)? It doesn’t feel like you have “attended to the voice of my prayer” (Psalm 66:19).

Perhaps my faith wasn’t strong enough. Maybe I wasn’t good enough. Such questions assaulted me like a tribunal of vicious accusers. They wore me down, leaving me doubting and discouraged.

Persist in Prayer

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I continued to look to God’s word for encouragement. There was certainly no shortage of it. For example, Jesus told the people “a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart” (Luke 18:1). This was the story of the persistent widow who only received an answer because she kept coming and asking — she refused to give up. Jesus then asked, “And will not God give justice to his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them?” (Luke 18:7).

Is that the sort of persistence in prayer that’s required? Many of us who have prayed for years for the same thing have sometimes lost heart amid the ups and downs of waiting for God. And then we’ve wondered how God could possibly answer our inconsistent prayers. This is how the accuser can use God’s word to discourage us.

Faith in Prayer

Jesus is also clear that faith in prayer is vital. He’s bold in his promises about what will happen when we pray in faith. Jesus said,

“If you have faith and do not doubt . . . if you say to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and thrown into the sea,’ it will happen. And whatever you ask in prayer, you will receive, if you have faith.” (Matthew 21:21–22)
How many of us can say we’ve prayed that single-mindedly — without doubting — for something huge we were looking to God for? If we had, this passage tells us that we’d have seen the answer and been left rejoicing rather than discouraged due to our doubts and double-mindedness (James 1:6–8). Many of us likely feel like we’re lacking that kind of faith.

Never Good Enough

So what do we do when important passages like these leave us struggling with self-recrimination rather than encouraged amid lengthy battles in prayer? Will God only answer our prayers when we measure up to such impossible standards like praying day and night or having faith to move mountains? Such teachings might leave us thinking that we’re just not good enough.

But perhaps that’s exactly what Jesus wants us to realize. Perhaps the liberation we long for from that tribunal of accusers is that very admission: We are not good enough! Our prayers aren’t good enough. And there is nothing in our life with God for which we are good enough!

Boast in Your Weakness

Yes, God certainly looks for faith. Yes, we must persist. Yes, earnestly seek God to believe and endure. But even as we do, we recognize that we’ll always be deficient in faith and deficient in persistence on this side of heaven. Yet, this should not hinder us from embracing the reality that when “this poor man cried . . . the Lord heard him” (Psalm 34:6).

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We need God’s help to endure in faithful prayer when things are not going well. The most confident and steadfast saints put no trust in the level of faith they attain, but only trust that Jesus himself is “the founder and perfecter of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2). They know that “the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words” (Romans 8:26). Prayerful saints trust Jesus to be our “advocate with the Father,” who covers our sinful inconsistency and unbelief with the very blood he shed for us (1 John 2:1–2).

Jesus Fills What We Lack

This gives us boldness as we persist in crying out to God, even though we know that our prayers are never good enough. God more than makes up for our inadequacies when our trust rests first in the person of Jesus, rather than first in our own disposition in prayer. Yes, the disposition matters. But the decisive factor is God’s riches of mercy and grace to meet us in our need.

And speaking of God’s mercy, God certainly did answer all those prayers for my wife, when in his perfect timing, she finally received a kidney transplant in 2015. We are daily grateful for God’s gift of life to us!

We aren’t good enough, but Jesus is. And because he has earned his Father’s ear, we can rest assured that God hears our every prayer.

By Ken Peters. Source: desiringGod.org

Ken Peters is a husband and father of three, and has been a pastor at Gateway Church in Winnipeg, Canada for twenty-five years.

I spend the majority of my investment helping people to live with an awakened and powerful heart. Unfortunately our busy and overloaded lives cause us to neglect the life of our spiritual hearts. We get so lost in “getting by” that we fail to keep in mind the most important aspect of life–the inner life of the heart.

Quite often when people come to me for help, their heart is either deeply immersed in their personal woundedness or highly shut down emotionally. Both arenas can come as a result of neglecting the life of the heart.

But I don’t want to overcomplicate it. Sometimes the most important things for our hearts are very simple, yet incredibly foundational. All it takes is a willingness to incorporate some healthy habits every day and you can cultivate a heart life that is conditioned to go the long haul.

Here are some simple habits you can implement to cultivate a spiritual heart that is awake and healthy. Practice them every day and you can be sure that over the long haul you will set yourself up for greater victory in life.

1. Feel
I know we are not supposed to let our feelings run our lives, but we’ve allowed this way of thinking to keep us from feeling at all. Over the years, too many believers downplay emotions as all evil, when we forget, we are designed to connect and experience from the heart. We are made to feel, not just compute.

So it’s important that we allow ourselves to feel the gamut of emotions that we need to process for spiritual and emotional health. It’s ok to rejoice and to mourn. It’s healthy to grieve and to celebrate. Anger is not always evil. We need to process when we are upset. Take time every single day laugh and celebrate. Be open to crying or connecting to pain.

Stop shutting down, stuffing down or living an unemotional life. It’s ok to feel. Your heart was made to connect and experience.

2. Let Go
There are many burdens and issues we carry in our hearts that we were not meant to carry. Every single day, we need to cast our cares upon God and enter into His rest. Casting your cares doesn’t lead you into denial, it just releases the pressure of it all upon God’s ability to work in our situations. Healthy people know how to release their cares, concerns and frustrations to God.

3. Forgive
Some of the healthiest people I know have cultivated the ability to forgive constantly. They don’t allow resentment or being offended lay around too long. They keep toxicity out of their life because they know to not keep accounts on people and overlook offenses that rise up in relationships.

I am astounded that people who have walked with God for decades forget that we need to forgive people every single day. Our forgiveness muscles need to continually grow as we release and let go of hurt and offenses that come our way all day long. The more we hold on to those bitter roots, the more contamination will build up in our hearts.

4. Say Thanks
I think it’s the best practice in the world to let your first thought and last thought of the day be gratitude. If you cultivate a heart of gratitude, then your focus throughout the day will be on all that you have, not on what you do not have. Your thoughts will hover around what is awesome about your life, not allowing discontentment to steal your joy. Every single day and all day long, take frequent stops to express gratitude in all areas of your life.

5. Rehearse Who You Are and Where You Are Headed
Every day, I spend time talking to myself. It’s a habit I have cultivate for decades and in many ways it has preserved my sanity in the toughest of storms. Sometimes all you got is you and God. So you need to be able to leverage your words to comfort, encourage and strengthen yourself.

We need to declare out loud who God says that we are, otherwise we will spend most of the day serving who we are not. We also need to use our words to declare where we are headed.

There is so much pressure on people’s hearts to go somewhere in life. We overwhelm ourselves with the need to achieve or manifest success, when in reality, life is a journey. You have each and every day to practice and rehearse who God says you are and where you are headed. Using our words every day to encourage and strengthen our identity and destiny can be the most fruitful daily habits for your heart.

6. Get Still
Most of our stresses and times of overwhelm come out of the lack of peace in our hearts. It’s important that every day, we set our compass for stillness; not just to pray, but to set the atmosphere in our hearts for peace. Stillness trains our hearts to lean into that peace all day long, so that we are not taken out by the busyness and pressure of modern living.

7. Face Your Fears and Stretch
Every day you need to do something that moves you out of your comfort zone. Millions of people are looking for great breakthrough without being inconveniences or made to feel uncomfortable. There is no blessing in the comfort zone. No breakthrough lives in the world of comfort. Everything you are looking for is outside the boat. The water is waiting for you to walk on it. You just have to face your fear and step out there.

To exercise the muscles of your spiritual heart, you need to learn to be stretched, every day. The moment I realized that I will always be challenged, always be growing and always facing new challenges is the moment I hit a stronger place, because I open myself to new challenges continually.

Practice these habits every day and see what begins to change in your life. Your heart will thank you for it.

Source: Mark Dejesus

More people are in slavery today than at any other point in history. Over 45 million men, women and children are locked in slavery as you read this email. But there is hope.

We're inviting you to join us in Saturday 4th November at St. Paul's Hammersmith London for our National Prayer Gathering as we seek to start the biggest move of prayer to end slavery that the UK has ever seen!

Hear Saroeun Sek tell his incredible story of leaving his job as a nightclub DJ to become Director of Legal at IJM when he witnessed the brutality of slavery, with worship from the amazing Christian singer songwriter Lucy Grimble.

We believe in the power of prayer so we're asking you to join us in petitioning our God of justice to act, to join us as we fight to bring light into some of the world's darkest places. God is calling us to rise up -to repair and rebuild what is broken, to bring restoration, and fight to see the end of slavery for good.

The end of slavery requires a move of God's people. That movement starts with us. So sign up, share and join the fight. Thank you for standing with us until all are free.

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For your average child, these words mean a sad farewell to the summer and a reluctant hello to homework. But for 12-year-old Noeh in Iraq, school is something he longs for.

Noeh’s family were displaced three years ago when Islamic State (IS) seized control of their village near Mosul. The terrifying threats of IS sent the entire village running for their lives. Since then, the villagers have been living as a displaced community, supported by their church leader Father Thabet, and Open Doors partner organisations in Erbil.

A few months ago, they were able to celebrate the liberation of Karamles, but most won’t be able to return for some time. IS fighters set fire to all 800 homes upon their retreat, severely damaging most, and razing about 100 of them to the ground. With no easy access to water and electricity, the job of rebuilding is an uphill struggle. “We start with the houses with the least amount of damage,” says Father Thabet, “But our budget is limited and the government is not helping us.”

The government wants children to go back to school – but that’s not possible yet, either. The cracked cream-coloured walls of Noeh’s old classroom still stand, but there’s rubble everywhere and weeds peeping through the floor. Worse than that, IS may have hidden bombs there.

“Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our homes to foreigners,” says Lamentations 5: Written in the 6th century BC, these words could have been uttered by any number of displaced peoples in Iraq today. Christians and other minorities feel unsafe in their own land. It’s not just new homes they need. It’s a new environment. In order to return to their villages and towns, Father Thabet says, “We will need international support and protection. That is the only way our future as Christians in this country can be guaranteed.”

Noeh’s family can pay tribute to the faithfulness of God in their period of exile. Thanks to the prayers and gifts of Open Doors supporters, they and thousands like them have received practical aid are now looking to the future with faith. But they need the church in the UK, Ireland, and around the world, to speak up for them. That way they can rebuild their homes, their lives and their beloved nation – and Noeh can get back to school.

Please pray:

• for the rebuilding of Karamles, giving thanks for God’s faithfulness to Noeh’s family and community
• for increasing peace, stability and for pressure on the government, through the petition to bring a positive future for Christians in Iraq
• that the body of Christ around the world will stand in solidarity with their brothers and sisters, bringing hope to the Middle East.

You can hear more stories of faith from the Middle East and pray with others for persecuted Christians around the world at Open Doors celebration in Birmingham on 14 October: Standing Strong. For more information and to sign the global petition, go to www.opendoorsuk.org

Years ago I heard Sir Steve Redgrave talk about his decision to return to rowing for one final gold medal. They started their preparation when he and Matthew Pinsent made the hard decision that their previous best performance from the last Olympics would not be good enough to win gold in the next. They needed to get better.

As God moves in His Church, we need to recognise that we need to improve and in many cases we need to repent. Matthew writes about Jesus starting his ministry, “From that time on Jesus began to preach, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near’”. It was a Kairos moment – Jesus moves into a new season, the waiting was over.

We believe it is a Kairos moment for our nation, the waiting has stopped. It is time to change. Jesus tells the people of Israel to turn from sin and turn to God. His message starts with His people. The Old Testament refers to repentance over 1000 times; again it is primarily a call to God’s own people. They use the Hebrew word shuv, which means to turn around. Jesus uses the Greek word metanoia meaning a change of mind, or re-think.
God is challenging us to go deeper with Him. We were with a group of national prayer leaders recently. God told us we needed a deeper understanding of the work of the cross in our lives. We need to truly die to ourselves if we are to move to deep oneness with Jesus. I know I have a range of ‘old me’ issues that need crucifying and God is saying “it is time”. We need to move to a new level. We repent by turning away from what is holding us back and turning to Jesus so we can run the race (or row the boat) He has set before us. Here are five specific turn away challenges.

Turn from fear - many of us carry fears. They may be fears of what others will think, fears around our finances, fears about doing things in public etc. None of these fears are from Jesus, He gives us wisdom. They are holding us back – it is time to turn.

Turn from disunity - we can often embrace disunity. We criticise this person, fall out with another, we stand on our high horse, or don’t like that person’s theology. In short we can be very judgemental and it is time to turn.

Turn from unbelief – we can all fall into the disbelief trap. We may have prayed for things where we saw no change and the enemy loves to tell us it is a waste of time to pray for healing, for this person to come to the Lord, for our church to see a deep move of God. The enemy imprisons us with lies which undermine our faith. We need to be free of these lies - it is time to turn.

Turn from prayerlessness – this can be a huge challenge for people of prayer because we look at wrong measures. It is easy to find people who pray less that you, with less faith, with less standing on the Word of God and that makes us think “I’m not doing too badly really”. We need to keep pushing ourselves on, in particular to go deeper with Jesus with a prayer life inspired by Him and filled with the things on His heart. It is time to turn.

Turn from sin – from our wicked ways. Galatians 5:16 – 26 gives us a good starting point. Paul says the works of the flesh are plain to see – anger, selfishness, jealousy etc. We live in a corrupting world where so many temptations are thrown at us it is easy to lose our moral compass. John Wesley and friends set up a Holy Club with a self-audit asking questions like “Am I honest in all my acts and words, or do I exaggerate?” We need to ask God to highlight our sins, bring them into the open that we can pray for change. It is time to turn.

Repentance and turning start with us because we should be the very first people to give testimony to God’s wonderful mercy and freedom.

Steve Botham, Director World Prayer Centre

As we watched in horror as the storms lashed The Caribbean Nations and parts of America, an earthquake in Mexico, floods in India and Bangladesh to name a few, it was as if everything that could be shaken was being shaken.

As Christians, we have the privilege and calling to stand as watchmen and sometimes, this is one of them, we can be overwhelmed by all that is going on as we watch. Everything is being challenged, from institutions that we have grown up with, the structure of marriage and family life in nation after nation, personal, national and global security, worldwide attacks on our Christian faith and its values.

As we see in the natural, buildings demolished, trees uprooted, crops destroyed, bridges collapse, so in the spiritual. Around the world today, often in the midst of such devastation and often at great cost, we see the Church being stirred, God’s Kingdom being built, new life is springing up, green shoots of spiritual awakening are becoming evident, bridges of unity are being opened, and united prayer is rising. Around the world today, as God’s people humble themselves, pray, seek His face and turn from their wicked ways He is hearing from heaven, forgiving their sins and healing the land.

So by God’s grace, we will not be overwhelmed. As we stand and watch the unfolding of ‘the times’ in the nations, it is on Christ the solid rock we stand. As God places a nation on your heart today, pray that in the midst of the chaos His kingdom will grow as individuals, relief agencies, mission agencies, united churches; reach out with God’s love bringing His light into very dark situations.

 Ian Cole

Founder of World Prayer Centre