300 local church leaders and 50 internationals in prayer ministry will gather at the Hallelujah Church in Seoul to pray for breakthrough in the deliverance of North Korea from its decades-long oppression and suffering at the hands of the Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il regime.
The current situation in North Korea cries out for such an international prayer initiative like this. These are some of the ways it has been described in the media and by those who have been there as eyewitnesses:
• “Largest prison camp in world”
• “Worst human rights violating country”
• “Worst persecutor of Christians”
• 4 million North Koreans have died of starvation since 1995
• Economy “literally collapsed, operating at about 20%” due to adherence to juche central planning failures
• Famine again stalks the land
• 500,000 fled to China for survival, mostly women and 80% of them raped and sexually trafficked
• 1 million killed in concentration camps with cruel brutality
• North Korean people are “the most isolated, most persecuted, and most suffering”
Please join us in fervent, faith-filled, ongoing prayer for North Korea until it is liberated.
DALAI LAMA steps down from his political role
Legal expert Lobsang Sangay has won an election to become head of the Tibetan government-in-exile, taking over the Dalai Lama’s political role. The change, yet to be written into the exile constitution, reverses 300 years of tradition in which the top monk also guided the Tibetan government.
This is interesting in light of the Buddhist concept of Chakravartin (World Ruler) which concentrates political (worldly) and spiritual power in one person. Himmler with his fascination for Buddhism had integrated this concept in the new nationalistic socialistic religion with Hitler the embodiment of just such a world ruler. The Chakravartin rules over the whole earth and is a warlord. According to a prophecy in the Tibetan Buddhist Kalachakra-Tantra, the Chakravartin will lead an army that will destroy the enemies of Buddhist teaching to then establish the worldwide rule of Buddhism, the kingdom of Shambala.
Pray for Lobsang Sangay
In 1995, Dr. Sangay was selected as a Fulbright Scholar and obtained his Masters degree at Harvard Law School. His thesis was on Buddhism and Human Rights. In 2004, he earned his Doctorate in Law from Harvard Law School, becoming the first Tibetan to receive this degree. As an expert on Tibet, international human rights law, democratic constitutionalism, and conflict resolution, Dr. Sangay has given lectures on Sino-Tibet issues in various universities, think tanks, and other public forums in Europe, Asia, and North America. He is often consulted by the news media, and his articles about Tibet are widely published.
Pray for the Dalai Lama
Pray that the Lord will bring believers across his path. In July, he will be laying a Kalachakra Mandala for World Peace in Washington, DC, USA, from July 6-16. Curing the first three days of the Kalachakra from July 6 through 8, the Dalai Lama, along with the monks of Namgyal Monastery and senior lamas, will conduct rituals which prepare and consecrate the venue. These include chanting of prayers, creation of the sand mandala, and other rituals. From July 9 to 11, he will give preliminary teachings. On July 12, the Kalachadra Ritual Dance will be performed by the monks of Namgyal Monastery. The Dalai Lama will confer the Kalachadra Initiation from July 13 to 15. On July 16, a long life empowerment (tsewang) and a ceremony offering prayers for the long life of the Dalai Lama will be performed. Website: www.kalachakra2011.com
(Excerpted from the Vision for Asia call to prayer)
Pray that any occult spirits from the Dalai Lama and monks of Tibetan Buddhism will be bound and unable to bring harm to Washington, D.C. or the U.S.A. May they and those they seek to influence or have influenced in the past be set free from the power of darkness and come to know the light of life in Jesus Christ!
For five years now, the North American Prayer Summit has united Canadian, Mexican and American prayer leaders in wonderful, powerful times of prayer for the issues of our continent. We have seen much answered prayer and heartening unity build among the three nations. A solid foundation has been laid from which to further develop and enhance this already very successful initiative. As leadership met recently to discuss our go-forward position, we felt we were to continue to meet with the following focus:
• That our unity continues to deepen and broaden among the prayer movements of the three nations.
• That there will be an increase of the younger generation involved. It is critical we partner in a more structured and dynamic way with the future leaders in North America. This will be a specific, focused and strategic direction for our next gathering.
• That future initiatives will develop among the three nations. We now have the unity required to take advantage of the resources each nation presents to assist one another as needed. The three-nation prayer initiative over the past year in Mexico, focusing on the drug cartel issue is a good example of this. Even though there is continued violence, many drug cartel leaders are being taken down in answer to the prayers of many.
We will gather this year near Santa Fe, New Mexico, in the gorgeous Sangre de Cristo mountains for three days of seeking the Lord, hearing His heart for our nations and praying for transformation of the political, economic, social and spiritual aspects of our continent. We have no agenda except the Lord and each other, wanting to get on His wavelength, to stand in His council and to develop the kind of heart unity with one another that Jesus said was crucial to the world believing in Him and to His Kingdom coming on earth. The NAPS will also serve as a stepping-stone to the World Prayer Assembly (May 14-18, 2012, www.worldprayerassembly.com) when leaders from up to 220 nations will gather in Jakarta, Indonesia, to pray and coordinate plans for the future of the global prayer movement.
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Please pray for the North American Prayer Summit that those prayer ministry leaders God is calling will be able to take part and that we will all be led by the Lord into a time of deep encounter with Him and each other. May all the preparations come together effectively for a powerful, anointed time of standing in His council together!
Over 2 billion people live in a Commonwealth nation. The Commonwealth Prayer Initiative strengthens and connects their 54 nations in a yearlong prayer thrust for the Commonwealth, and its people and leaders.
20-22 October, Commonwealth Christian Assembly (SHINE) is celebrating the 54 nations of the Commonwealth plus its friends. It will be held in Perth, Australia prior to the heads fo government meeting, CHOGM. 50 nations are now taking part.
24-29 October, CONVERGE will happen during CHOGM week (night and day prayer, worship, special events and sessions with international local teams).
Please see more details about participating in these efforts at
Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) News has produced a video about the situation in the war zones of Burma. We invite you to view it on the CBN site here: http://www.cbn.com/media/player/index.aspx?s=/vod/GLA153v3_WS
This video provides a good, concise overview of the situation in Burma, especially the situation inside Karen state, and includes footage and an interview with a survivor of the recent attack on Tha Dah Der village.
Your prayer support will be all-important to the planning of this event which is intended to be a “new paradigm” for an international congress—carried out Acts 13-style—incorporating listening to God, united prayer, and strategic implementation of world-impacting action that proceeds out of that encounter with the Lord and one another.
Prayer Concerns:
1. Please pray for the eight planning task forces: Program, Logistics, Mobilization (including the Media Strategy Group), Finance, Registration/Website, Youth, Children, and Prayer Support. We need to be led of the Lord, given His creative, anointed ideas, and to all do our work diligently, joyfully, and unitedly.
2. This will not be just another prayer conference. The word “world” adds a great deal of complexity and challenge to the planning process since we hope to have 5000-7000 ministry leaders from all 220 nations. Please pray for excellent organization on the part of the Indonesians and Koreans who are co-hosting the event, for the International Coordination Team, and for the right people from every nation to hear about the WPA and be able to come to Jakarta for it.
3. The WPA Concert of Prayer in Indonesia this year on May 17, 2011. This will also serve as preparation for the WPA that is one year to follow. Please pray for further guidance, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and unity.
4. Some organizers that are key to the WPA process are: the Indonesian and Korean national committees who will co-host the event and the WPA International Coordination Team (14) that provides overall oversight. Please pray for His guidance, protection, and provision for each of us. The spiritual battle, as you can imagine, is intense.
Here are the two Scripture passages that have particularly inspired us in arranging the WPA:
• The Church Becoming United—that all followers of Christ may be one so that the world may believe. (John 17:20-26)
• Our World Being Transformed—that “the earth may be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea”. (Hab.2:14)
Thanks so much for your gracious help through prayer that will mean so much, not just to those of us doing the planning and organizing, but also to our world that will be affected by the World Prayer Assembly.
Please also help us get word of the WPA out to “ministry leaders of influence” who will represent the “seven mountains” of society (Arts/Media, Business/Marketplace, Church, Development of the Poor, Education, Family, and Government) who should be part of the WPA. Again, for more information, please have them see www.worldprayerassembly.com where they can also register their interest in participating.
During our last Connections prayer alert, we featured the Mexican drug war and asked you to pray for the apprehension of the remaining seventeen “most wanted” drug cartel leaders, people who are utterly ruthless criminals, responsible not only for the deaths of tens of thousands of people in Mexico but also the enslavement of many through drug shipments in the USA and other parts of the world. God is answering the prayers of many in Mexico and elsewhere with the interception of many drug shipments and by turning one cartel against another in chaotic fights for dominance. Remember how He often did this with the enemies of Israel as they attacked His people?
Nathan Hughes, writing for the STRATFOR online journal, described the huge logistical challenges for the U.S. and other coalition partners in the landlocked nation of Afghanistan where “hundreds of shipping containers and fuel trucks must enter the country every day from Pakistan and from the north to sustain the nearly 150,000 U.S. and allied forces stationed in Afghanistan, about half the total number of Afghan security forces. Supplying a single gallon of gasoline in Afghanistan reportedly costs the U.S. military an average of $400, while sustaining a single U.S. soldier runs around $1 million a year (by contrast, sustaining an Afghan soldier costs about $12,000 a year).” No wonder that the U.S. President Barack Obama announced June 22 that the process of reducing military forces in Afghanistan would begin this month. Hughes worries that “though the initial phase of the drawdown appears limited, minimizing the tactical and operational impact on the ground in the immediate future, the United States and its allies are now beginning the inevitable process of removing their forces from Afghanistan. This will entail the risk of greater Taliban battlefield successes.”
Please pray for wisdom for the 50-nation coalition and the Afghan authorities and that the Taliban will become disillusioned with the conflict, giving up their misguided struggle to take over the nation so that peace and healing can come to this austere and isolated area of the world.