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Luke 1:37

For with God nothing shall be impossible.

1. Varnavas, Greece: Pray for firefighters to find rescue in Jesus, that they may escape the eternal fires of hell.

2. Plane crash in Brazil: Pray for the Lord to provide opportunities for believers to minister to the families who lost loved ones in last week’s plane crash.

3. Your Choice: Please pray for a request you remember from the other cities featured this week:

New Delhi, India

Reynosa, Mexico

Dassa-Zoume, Benin

Quang Ngai, Vietnam

World Events: Serbia protests, Japan’s megaquake advisory

Thank you for praying!

In an avalanche of volatile world events, everyday there are breaking news stories which represent multitudes of human lives affected and in need of prayer. Today, three of those are TGP’s focus:

1. Japan’s megaquake advisory: As a result of last Thursday’s 7.1 earthquake, conditions in the undersea Nankai Trough could produce a 9.1 magnitude megaquake and tsunami. Japanese citizens have been advised to prepare as best they can, as especially the next week is a time of concern. Pray for everyone facing anxiety over the unknown future to hear the gospel and how to find stability in the unchanging Lord of all.
2. Major protests in Serbia against lithium mining occurred yesterday. Pray for an individual caught up in the political fervor to discover and choose the best Cause to live for – the kingdom of our God and of His Christ.
3. Pray for the many families of people who died in a plane crash in Brazil on Friday, including eight cancer doctors.

Luke 1:37

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, Who is the image of God, should shine unto them.“

1.   It is estimated that 3.2 billion people have never heard the name Jesus. ( https://abwe.org/blog/prayer-focus/ ). Imagine the implications of that fact, for both this life and eternity. Jesus said “the field is the world,” and also to pray that the Lord of the harvest would thrust out labourers into His field (Matt. 13:38, 9:36-38).
2.    Chattogram, Bangladesh: As of 2022, Christianity comprises only one third of one percent of the nation’s population. Pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ who make up this tiny percent to be steadfast in their faith, and have opportunities for continuing discipleship and fellowship with other believers.
3.    Your Choice: Please pray for a request you remember from the other cities featured this week: 
   • Kharga, Egypt
   • Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
   • Quilpie, Australia

Thank you for praying!

Psalm 59:17

“To You, O my Strength, I will sing praises; for God is my defense, my God of mercy.”

1.   Golan Heights, Israel: Pray for the Lord to open doors of opportunity for Christians to minister to the families of the twelve children who were killed last Saturday on the soccer field.

2.   Morogoro, Tanzania: Pray for a set of twins to both be born again.

3.   Your Choice: Pray for a request that you remember from any of the other cities featured this week:

Zuunmod, Mongolia

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Leaf Rapids, Canada

Thank you for praying!

Revelation 7:9-10

After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”

1.   Williamstown, USA: Pray for a new church plant in this Vermont town to have God’s hand of blessing on them.

2.   Krakow, Poland: Pray for an electrician to meet the Light of the World.

3.  Your Choice: Please pray for a request you remember from the other cities featured this week:

Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia

Starnberg, Germany

Victoria, Argentina

Thank you for praying!

Psalm 22:28

“For the kingdom is the LORD’s, and He rules over the nations.”

1. Milwaukee, USA:  The Republican Vice Presidential nominee converted to Catholicism as an adult, and is married to a Hindu lady. Pray for both of them to hear a very clear presentation of the gospel this year, and respond in faith.

2.   Ankara, Turkey: Pray for someone who just received a cancer diagnosis to meet the God of Hope, Who triumphs over life and death.

3.   Your Choice: Please pray for a request you remember from the other cities featured this week.

Hixson, USA

Baranavichy, Belarus

Thank you for praying!

1.   Pray for five people attending the Republican National Convention this week to be saved.

2.   The Republican Vice Presidential nominee converted to Catholicism as an adult, and is married to a Hindu lady. Pray for both of them to hear a very clear presentation of the gospel this year, and respond in faith.

3.   Pray for Milwaukee’s Christian elementary teachers who are getting ready for the next school year to grow in their own relationship with Christ and have opportunities to point their students to Him.

Psalm 22:28

1 We have heard the joyful sound:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Spread the tidings all around:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Bear the news to ev’ry land,
Climb the steeps and cross the waves;
Onward! ’tis our Lord’s command;
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!

2 Waft it on the rolling tide:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Tell to sinners far and wide:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Sing, ye islands of the sea;
Echo back, ye ocean caves;
Earth shall keep her jubilee:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!

3 Sing above the battle strife:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
By His death and endless life:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Sing it softly through the gloom,
When the heart for mercy craves;
Sing in triumph o’er the tomb:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!

4 Give the winds a mighty voice:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Let the nations now rejoice:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!
Shout salvation full and free,
Highest hills and deepest caves;
This our song of victory:
Jesus saves! Jesus saves!

In the “Onward!” attitude highlighted above, Targeted Global Prayer is back. Thank you for understanding as I took a break for a few weeks to have extra time in seeking God with my husband. The Lord has led him to accept an invitation to the pastorate of Open Bible Baptist Church in Cambridge, New York. Our family is in the process of relocating there as soon as possible.

I had considered continuing to pause TGP until the transition to OBBC was complete, but have decided to restart now in a scaled back fashion. As you know, normally each post includes a picture and background information in addition to the three prayer requests. To give more time to tasks related to our move, for the next couple months posts will consist of only the city name, prayer requests, and weekly Scripture reference.

Thank you for understanding, and thank you – as always – for praying! I pray for each of you to find joy and encouragement today in the words of the hymn above; Jesus really does still save and rescue, and we can live unapologetically under that banner of truth. Jesus Saves!

You can listen to and sing along with “Jesus Saves!”, written by Priscilla Owens, by following this link:

https://youtu.be/cxnFr-NLeLU?si=lBnnYVVBhpe-5aCF

Immutability. Holiness. Chesed. Wisdom. Sovereignty. Omnipresence. Righteousness. Justice. Fatherhood. Joy. Omniscience. Love. Eternality. Omnipotence.

All of these attributes and many more are characteristics of our great God. No human study can ever fully grasp all that He is.  While this series was originally planned to last the entire month of June, due to the need to focus personal prayer time on an in-person ministry opportunity, TGP will be taking a two week break. Thank you for praying through this mini-series with us!

Isaiah 45:5

“I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God besides Me…”

1.   God’s Omnipresence & Koror, Palau: Pray for a worker at the Blue Palau Gift Shop to hear about God’s omnipresence, and come to know that in a personal way through receiving the gift of salvation.

2.   God’s Righteousness & Xidajiao, China: Jesus said in John 16 that one of the Holy Spirit’s jobs would be to convict the world of sin, righteousness, and judgment. Pray for  a student in Xidajiao who is studying traditional Chinese characters to ponder the meaning of the character for “righteous,” and to pay attention to the Holy Spirit’s conviction in her heart. Pray for the Lord to provide that student with the complete gospel message of how to obtain personal righteousness through faith in the Lamb of God.

3.   Your Choice: Please pray for a request you remember from the other cities featured this week:

God’s Justice & Osana, Namibia

God’s Joy & Cambridge, USA

God’s Omniscience & Fenua Fala, Tokelau

God’s Fatherhood & Banja, Serbia

Thank you for praying!