Global Call to 24/7 Prayer

My wife and I joined our comrades at Territorial Headquarters for the Global Prayer meeting. We are glad we are part of the Global Call to 24/7 Prayer - A Day and Night Cry for Justice. This call comes from the Parable of the Persistent Widow in Luke 18: 7-8, where Jesus said,"And will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones who cry out to Him day and night? I tell you, He will see that they get justice and quickly."

We started our prayer meeting with the great song of praise, "How Great Thou art." We were gathered in prayer because of our firm conviction that the Lord is great and not only that He is also good and gracious. Each of us was asked to pray a sentence prayer for praise, then we joined in the singing of the Song, "There is none like You."

"There is none like you, No one else can touch my heart like You do,
I could search for all eternity long, And find there is none like You."

Our prayer subjects for this week included Myanmar. There has been extensive flooding in the north resulting in some bridges being swept away and affecting access to as number of our Salvation Army centres.

We are sorry that the Regional Officers, Majors Mick and Colleen Marshall will need to conclude their service in Myanmar on 21st September to return to New Zealand for family reasons. They have not been in Myanmar long and have done great work. We shall miss them, more so for the folk in the Region. Major Colleen Marshall has been contributing articles for our War Cry.

In the meantime, Major Samuela will be responsible for the Region until someone is appointed. We've never been so short of officers in the territory as today and a number of our corps have no officers in charge.

The kyat rate has dropped significantly resulting in much hardship for the people. It has impacted grants from The Salvation Army Headquarters and project funding. Some of the projects have to be put on hold.

We also prayed for International Headquarters which has to give financial support to many developing and third world countries.

We ended the prayer sessions with as song of joy, "Rejoice, Christ is in you, the hope of glory in your hearts."

Life is hard, there is much pain and suffering, but we know the Lord is on the throne and He will remember His own. Hallelujah.