God Hears Prayer Letters

The Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs, headed by former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Dore Gold, has published a paper entitled, “Is Canada’s Justin Trudeau the Great Reformer of Islam?”

While reading the Gospel of John today, my attention was drawn to Jesus telling His disciples as He washed their feet that they were already clean (except for one) and just needed to have their feet washed (Jn 13:3-10). This was before the cross and the resurrection.

“I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. Pray this way for kings and all who are in authority so that we can live peaceful and quiet lives marked by godliness and dignity. This is good and pleases God our Savior, who wants everyone to be saved and to understand the truth. For, [t]here is one God and one Mediator who can reconcile God and humanity—the man Christ Jesus. He gave His life to purchase freedom for everyone.”

Our Canadian federal election has taken place, for the most part peacefully (despite the war of words and suspicions of some unethical practices). We continue to pray for “all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way” (1 Ti 2:2). Sometimes when I wake up in the morning, I thank God for the peaceful night, aware that elsewhere, others can’t sleep because of gunfire and bombs.

Many Muslims who convert to Christianity later leave Christianity. They’re attracted at first to the kindness of Christians (which they have not experienced in Islam), but Westerners often avoid confronting them with the more demanding aspects of the Christian life, such as righteousness and suffering. Then when issues come up because of unrighteousness, or life gets difficult because of their new faith, they don’t accept the discipline and leave

On the recent prayer journey to the Middle East, my partner and I were very aware that Canada has a God-given assignment coming from Revelation 22:2, which describes the tree of life growing on either side of the river of the water of life: “The leaves of the tree [are] for the healing of the nations.”

I have just returned from a prayer journey in the Middle East. It was so encouraging, and a profound privilege, to be of one Spirit with the believers there, to hear accounts of what the Lord is doing in the harvest fields of Islam and to sense how the attention of heaven is focussed on the Middle East!

“Whatever is good and perfect is a gift coming down to us from God our Father, who created all the lights in the heavens. He never changes or casts a shifting shadow”

I had an amazing experience camping last weekend

Do you want to be victorious (i.e. defeat the enemy)?  Then show mercy. God’s word says, “judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; but [to the one who has shown mercy] mercy triumphs [victoriously] over judgment” (Ja 2:13 AMP).