Pete and Pip Gardner provide insight on how to pray geo-politically for what is happening in Iran and the Middle East. There latest update provides prayer pointers to pray for regime change. Here is an excerpt but download the full update or sign up to receive to your email.
In this update we want to share some thoughts from our own experience in praying geo-politically. We hope it will be an encouragement to you in your own prayers for a world in crisis.
There are days when praying the same prayers for a rogue nation, a head of state or for regime change seems like pushing a boulder up a hill! The Lord has given direction in prayer and we pray from this in the face of the external signs that are discouraging. We know we are partnering with the Lord but how we long to see answer! How do we handle His ‘delay’? How do we strengthen our hearts when daily we see the clear manipulation, corruption, lies and deception at work on the earth?
Isaiah 14:24-27
The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying,
“Surely as I have thought, so it shall come to pass
And as I have purposed, so it shall stand
That I will break the Assyrian in My land
And on My mountains tread him underfoot
Then his yoke shall be removed from them
And his burden removed from their shoulders.
This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth,
And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations
For the Lord of hosts has purposed
And who will annul it?
His hand is stretched out
And who will turn it back?
There are appointed times for judgement. Times that the Lord has determined that will not be annulled. Times when he will break the staff of wickedness held in the hands of the rulers who are empowered by the principalities and powers who manipulate their earthly counterparts (Ps 82). Yet in waiting for that time to arrive it is easy to grow weary and to come under an oppression that silences prayer and quenches faith.
We often face such occasions of struggle. Recently the Lord popped the following phrases into my heart (Pip) …
- You need to endure
- For yet a little while
- God is not mocked
Two of these are found in Hebrews 10:35-39. The Jewish believers were experiencing persecution and began to wonder if they had made the right decision leaving Judaism. They expected Jesus to return but his delay caused them to doubt. Had they got it all wrong? Paul exhorted them,
“Do not cast away your confidence which has great reward. For you have need of endurance so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise” … “For yet a little while and He who is coming will come and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith but if anyone draws back My soul has no pleasure in him”
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