Russia: An affiliated Saddleback Church to open in Moscow
During a meeting with the leaders of the Associated Russian Union of Christians of Evangelical-Pentecostal Faith, Tom Holladay, one of the pastors of the Saddleback Church led by Rick Warren, stated that Moscow together with 12 other world cities had been chosen for the creation an affiliated Saddleback Church, reports Christian Telegraph in reference to the Union Press Centre. The Christian leaders discussed Rick Warren’s future visit to Moscow scheduled for this summer. Pastor Tom Holladay noted that, according to Warren’s vision, their main task is to find Christian leaders within the culture where a Church is being created and then support them. More than 400,000 pastors from different parts of the world have already been trained in the Saddleback Church’s training centre. Also, the Church will be focused on covering non-believers. ‘We seek to find new people,’ underlined Pastor Holladay.
Pray: that the Saddleback training programme will bless Moscow and other cities in building the church. (1Cor.3:10)
Burma: Inching Toward Democracy
“Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was one of 43 members of the National League for Democracy party elected to Burma’s parliament on April 1. Her party swept the elections, only failing to win one of the 44 seats it contested. But the elections filled just 7 percent of the seats in parliament with 25 percent of the seats filled by the military as required by Burma’s constitution. Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters are railing against the military’s role in politics, and the United States has announced that while it will lift some sanctions on Burma, it will keep the most significant ones in place until Burma implements more meaningful reform. Can pressure from inside the government combined with pressure from the West bring Burma closer to becoming a democratic state?”
www.Lignet.com
Let’s rejoice at this answered prayer for Burma and its freedom from political repression. Pray for strong and steady progress towards political and religious freedom as well as for the end of ethnic conflict and true reconciliation among all the people of this land.
WPA Prayer Concerns
We are now just two months from the World Prayer Assembly. Your prayers have been a sustaining and encouraging force for us. We know that without your support in this way, we could be dead meat in the spiritual battle that rages against us and this “once in a generation” gathering of praying people from around the world.
Here are some key issues for the last weeks before the WPA:
1. That those God wants to come to Jakarta will respond to His voice and register in the next month. The deadline is April 14. Pray that they will come from every nation and region of the world- adults, youth and children.
2. We are hoping to raise additional funding to help up people with subsidies for their accommodations and ground transport and some with partial travel help. Please pray that donors will respond now and provide all that is needed.
3. Pray for the many speakers, facilitators and worship teams that they will be anointed and prepared to play their part at the WPA. We want to follow a new/old paradigm of letting the Lord guide and speak as He did in Acts 13 to the five leaders at Antioch. Pray that we may have special wisdom and sensitivity to know how to do this effectively in both the plenary and track sessions.
4. The Indonesian national committee needs our prayer as they seek to bring together the very challenging and detailed logistics- hotels and other accommodations, ground transport involving many buses and program details. It is a huge undertaking; please pray for them regularly.
5. The May 17 national stadium event will link the 100,000 participants live to over 350 cities within Indonesia with an estimated audience of 5 million and then many millions of others throughout the world through satellite TV and Internet streaming. Please pray for an anointed, powerful program that is being developed now and for excellent collaboration with Christian and secular media outlets.
6. We all need His protection both physically and spiritually as we move into these last weeks and during the WPA as well. The evil one wants to hinder such a global prayer tsunami from happening, of course, and we must not underestimate his resolve to disrupt it. Pray for unity, love and humility among the Indonesian committee and our international coordination team.
7. Finally, pray that the WPA will be used of God to fulfill His purposes and to be a vehicle for world revival and breakthrough in mission. Here is below is a word that Leslie Keegel, one of our IPC colleagues, gave to us during a planning session a few weeks ago. Let’s pray accordingly.
Thanks so much for standing with us for the final push to the WPA.
Yours in Christ,
John Robb (on behalf of the WPA International Coordination Team)
Mexico – Keep Praying for the Overthrow of the Sinaloa Drug Cartel and the Arrest of “El Chapo Guzman”
PRAY:
• For all hidden activity of the Sinaloa cartel to be exposed.
• For supernatural wisdom and protection for all local and federal law enforcement that deal with taking down all the illegal trafficking by the Sinaloa cartel.
• For all Arizonians to be alert to any unusual activity within their neighborhoods, to have the boldness to call local or federal authorities.
• For the arrest and conviction of “El Chapo” Guzman and the dismantling of the Sinaloa cartel!
I have posted watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night. You who call on the LORD, give yourselves no rest, and give him no rest till he establishes [Arizona] and makes her the praise of the earth. ~Isaiah 62:6-7
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, whose capture we have been diligently praying for, NARROWLY ESCAPED capture three weeks ago. According to the Associated Press, Guzman had been hiding in plain sight in a coastal mansion in Los Cabos…Rumors also surface regularly that police have shown up in various hideouts just as Guzman is escaping out the back door…Guzman moves frequently among 10 to 15 locations to avoid arrest, and has a security detail of up to 300 men. Guzman's narrow escapes, including this latest one, raise the suspicion that he could be getting tipped off.
U.S. law enforcement officials say no other cartel has the international cocaine distribution networks of Guzman's Sinaloa Federation, which is also making a major push into methamphetamines in Mexico and Central America. Guzman appears annually on the Forbes magazine list of the world's billionaires, and also has been named by the magazine as one of the world's most powerful people. He has a $7 million bounty on his head in Mexico and the U.S., and teams of law enforcement agents from both countries are devoted to his capture.
PRAY:
• That law enforcement, governmental officials or any insider passing on confidential information that interferes with the capture of "El Chapo" Guzman will be discovered and apprehended. "But there is nothing covered up that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known" (Luke 12:2 NLTse).
• For supernatural strategy, tips and the whereabouts of "El Chapo" Guzman to be given to law enforcement for the successful capture and conviction of Guzman.
• That the Lord would send His mighty heavenly army to position Guzman and law enforcement to be in the right place at the right time for Guzman's capture.
• That confusion will fall upon Guzman's new security chief, body guards and security plans. "Then panic struck the whole (Sinaloa Cartel) army-those in the camp and field, and those in the outposts and raiding parties-and the ground shook. It was a panic sent by God" (1 Samuel 14:15 NIV).
• WE DECLARE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST THAT JOAQUIN "EL CHAPO" GUZMAN WILL BE CAPTURED TODAY AND THE SINALOA CARTEL WILL BE DESTROYED!!
But the LORD your God will deliver them over to you (law enforcement and government officials), throwing them into great confusion until they are destroyed.
~ Deuteronomy 7:23
