247 Watch Prayers (01.06.2025-07.06.2025)
(I) Prayer items for the nation
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- To enter destiny – gratitude and self-purification
- Give thanks
- To enter destiny – gratitude and self-purification
In fact, when we were with you, we kept telling you that we would be persecuted. And it turned out that way, as you well know. For this reason, when I could stand it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith. I was afraid that in some way the tempter had tempted you and that our labors might have been in vain. (1 Thessalonians 3:4-5)
Thank God that He controls everything and that the future is in His hands. He is willing to tell us what will happen in the future. Thank God! Although we will experience tribulation, He has promised that He will always be with us and help us through trials.
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- Repent in self-purification:
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so that no one would be unsettled by these trials. For you know quite well that we are destined for them. (1 Thessalonians 3:3)
May the Lord forgive us for being influenced by materialism and the theology of success, for being greedy for comfort and unwilling to suffer, and for thinking that everything will go smoothly after believing in the Lord. However, the Lord has reminded us in the Bible that suffering is inevitable. May the Lord help us to break away from the lies of the theology of success and complaints about reality when facing suffering, and ask the Lord: “What lessons do You intend for me to learn in this suffering?” So that we can more quickly overcome this environment with the Lord and experience Jesus’ victory.
2. For kings and those in power
You made them rulers over the works of your hands; you put everything under their feet: all flocks and herds, and the animals of the wild, the birds in the sky, and the fish in the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. (Psalm 8:6-8)
Jesus came not only to restore our relationship with God, but also to restore our mission and authority to manage the land.
Therefore, we pray for the leaders of the country, asking for You to help them stay away from the wrong direction, grant them justice and wisdom in governing the country, so that they can honor Your words and laws, restore the prosperity of our country, and enter the destiny of Your kingdom.
(II) Intercede for all the people of this land
But even if he does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.” (Daniel 3:18)
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and exalt and glorify the King of heaven, because everything he does is right and all his ways are just. And those who walk in pride he is able to humble. (Daniel 4:37)
At the end of last year, the Indian community proposed to build an Indian temple in South Auckland, planning to build a 12-meter-high Indian monkey and worship South Indian gods. In addition to the religious significance, in order to pass the proposal, the Shri Hanuman Youth Program was also proposed to provide youth education and community services to make it a cultural hub. A hearing on the temple will be held in June.
Prayer: May God have power in this hearing and raise up more people to speak out against the establishment of idols and idol altar temples on this land, breaking the influence of lies such as DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, DEI for short) on our country. At the same time, we also pray that God’s light will illuminate the Indian community, so that they can experience God’s power like King Nebuchadnezzar did in the past, and then be humble and turn to praise, honor and worship Jesus.
(III) Pray for the church
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in his holy people, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is the same as the mighty strength (Ephesians 1:17-19)
The Alpha and AI generations have been immersed in the Internet, mobile phones, and various media communities since birth. They are not short of material things, but in the era of rapid change, facing the impact of multiple values, more and more young people tend to “lie down in faith”, that is, they do not deny God, but are unwilling to pursue Him; they do not oppose the church, but choose to be bystanders. Because of the rise of AI, young people’s excessive dependence on the Internet has accelerated and lack of spiritual depth pursuit, further replacing their sense of freshness and awe of spiritual content, leading to a gradual loss of touch, enthusiasm and belonging to the church, and entering a lukewarm religious participation.
May the Lord grant the spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that young people can “really know” Him, experience the transformation of faith knowledge into the practice of spiritual life, and see the connection between faith and life; May the Lord make us all caregivers, willing to accompany young people, spend time to care for them, and pray for them, so that they can not only hear about the Lord, but see Him with their own eyes.
(IV) Israel and the nations
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- For Israel
“And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. (Joel 2:28)
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. (Zechariah 12:10)
June 2 is the day for the Jews to celebrate Pentecost. It is also the time when the Holy Spirit poured out on the disciples and the church was established. Let us pray for the house of Israel to experience the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and for the people to turn to Jesus the Messiah: May the Holy Spirit of the Lord work in the youth, children, adults, and elderly of Israel in these last days, so that their eyes will no longer pursue the glory of this world, but will awaken in spirit, long for the spiritual and look to Jesus in everything.
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- Three Kingdoms
In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together. In that day Israel will be the third, along with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing on the earth. The Lord Almighty will bless them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria my handiwork, and Israel my inheritance.” (Isaiah 19:23-25)
God promised to be the God of the Jews, Egyptians, and Arabs. They will live together in harmony and rise up to worship our Lord. When the descendants of Abraham in the flesh can come together to worship the Lord, all nations will be blessed. May the Lord continue to work in the land of the Middle East, raise up more people to spread the gospel, so that more Jews, Egyptians, and Arabs can hear the gospel and accept salvation, and fulfill this promise soon!