As Muslims worldwide continue to observe Ramadan, praying for a revelation from heaven, and praying daily that they will know the ‘Right Way’, join with millions of Christians who will also be praying each day - for Jesus to be unveiled to them in dreams and visions, and through meeting believers who love them.

(written by Gordon Hickson, Mahabba Network)

Our election has resulted in a hung parliament and the prospect of a minority government - so there is all the more reason to pray. ‘Father, we ask You to bless our new Government, so that the United Kingdom will display God’s Kingdom in all decisions made by our politicians. Bless them and their advisors with clarity and wisdom. Father, bless and anoint our politicians as they settle into their new responsibilities. We pray that You will give the Prime Minister supernatural revelation and strategies from heaven that will lead this country easily and purposefully into and beyond Brexit. Father God, we ask you to raise up Josephs, Daniels and Esthers in governmental circles, and anoint them to bring about the revisions and transformations that are exactly what we need in this uncertain season that we are entering. Father, Your word says, “Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall” (Matthew 12:25). Lord, bless our MPs with unity and vision.’

(written by Linda Digby of Prayer Alert)

Churches across Britain are being asked to ‘adopt’ care homes to provide comfort and succour to lonely dementia sufferers. When former nurse Tina English had a vision of churches across Britain adopting care homes to alleviate a crisis, she did a simple sum. ‘There are about 50,000 churches in the UK and 17,500 care homes,’ she says. ‘I thought, if one in three churches started a care-home-friend project there would be a lot less isolation and loneliness.’ Tina, director of Care Home Friends, now has the chance to make it happen after receiving funding from Cinnamon Network, a Christian charity, to start projects across the country. A video that she posted on YouTube has been an effective recruiting tool. She has built up a network of fifty volunteers visiting seventeen care homes in the borough of Richmond upon Thames over the past two years. ‘God has given me a heart for older people,’ she says.

The jihadists’ fetish for anniversaries should not go unnoticed. The barbarity on 3 June in London was four years to the day after Drummer Lee Rigby’s murder by terrorists. Haras Rafiq of the Quilliam Foundation (an Islamic thinktank) has called on political parties to take terrorism threats more seriously, with strong, committed leadership. He said: ‘Barely thirty words appear on counter-terror in the three major parties’ manifestos - not the razor-sharp focus that the single biggest threat to our way of life warrants. It is time for British Muslims to self-diagnose the malaise seeping through our community. It is not enough simply to distance our faith from these monsters: we must categorically refute the Islamist ideology that fuels their twisted worldview. We must hold our community, our religious leaders and our mosques accountable when they say something that just doesn’t sound right. We must work together and collaborate on counter-extremism programmes such as Prevent.’ (See article below, on Prevent)