Christian Pastors in Afghanistan Issue Urgent Request
Excerpt:
...The situation is dire for Christians across the country after several officials and veterans have asserted the Biden administration botched the exit from Afghanistan this month after 20 years of U.S. combat operations and occupation.
“We can’t go out like normal. It’s dangerous. We moved to one of my friend’s houses, but it’s not safe at all,” one pastor wrote. Manley noted that several pastors have said the Taliban has already contacted them and warned it will come for them.
Christians preaching God’s word across the country also shared their circumstances with Manley, who asked for prayers for them.
“We need to pray that our sovereign God would physically protect our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan. Boldly go to the throne of the universe and plead with our God to restrain evil and confuse the plans of evildoers,” Manley wrote. “Pray also for physical provision.”
“Pray for me to be strong in my faith. It is really hard to stay here,” another church leader wrote to him.
Mindy Belz at WORLD Magazine shared on Twitter over the weekend what she has heard from those who are certain to face the wrath of the Taliban.
“A person who works with house church networks in Afghanistan reports its leaders received letters last night from the #Taliban warning them that they know where they are and what they are doing. The leaders say they aren’t going anywhere. So it begins,” Belz tweeted.
Christian pastor who built churches in Afghanistan in tears, says the Taliban are going to “exterminate” the Christian church there:
“Pray for the believers there... President Biden has thrown them to the wolves... Pray that they be strong.”
...“A number have specifically asked that we would pray for visas to get out of the country. So let me throw in an additional request to you, dear reader: Is helping secure a visa something that you or someone you know are in a position to help with? If so, do what you can,” Manley wrote.
“Over the past weeks, U. S. missions agencies have pulled out their workers. I have had the great privilege to minister the Word to some of them as they have processed their own grief and confusion,” the pastor continued. “I’m grateful they could get out. Pray for them as well as for any who chose to stay.”
“But pray especially for the Afghans who have no choice but to stay, such as one brother who has already spent time imprisoned for his faith in Afghanistan,” Manley stated.
“He has assured me again and again, ‘We can trust that our Lord is mighty and will care for his children.’ And: ‘Our hope is not in politics but in Jesus who is the King.’”
Manley invoked Hebrews 13:3: “Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.”
FATHER GOD,
We stand on the Promises of Psalm 91 on behalf of the brave Christians in Afghanistan. May HOLY SPIRIT make them invisible to their enemies.
In JESUS NAME we pray. AMEN.
PSALM 91
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+91&version=NLT
we, the Americans, who have leaders that have allowed every bit of scum from all over the world...
URGENT PRAYER REQUEST - for those trapped in Kabul, or helping evacuate them
8/17/2021, 7:39:26 PM · 1,519 of 1,556
Sobieski at Kahlenberg Mtn. to ransomnoteChristian Pastors in Afghanistan Issue Urgent Request
Excerpt:
...The situation is dire for Christians across the country after several officials and veterans have asserted the Biden administration botched the exit from Afghanistan this month after 20 years of U.S. combat operations and occupation.
“We can’t go out like normal. It’s dangerous. We moved to one of my friend’s houses, but it’s not safe at all,” one pastor wrote. Manley noted that several pastors have said the Taliban has already contacted them and warned it will come for them.
Christians preaching God’s word across the country also shared their circumstances with Manley, who asked for prayers for them.
“We need to pray that our sovereign God would physically protect our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan. Boldly go to the throne of the universe and plead with our God to restrain evil and confuse the plans of evildoers,” Manley wrote. “Pray also for physical provision.”
“Pray for me to be strong in my faith. It is really hard to stay here,” another church leader wrote to him.
Mindy Belz at WORLD Magazine shared on Twitter over the weekend what she has heard from those who are certain to face the wrath of the Taliban.
“A person who works with house church networks in Afghanistan reports its leaders received letters last night from the #Taliban warning them that they know where they are and what they are doing. The leaders say they aren’t going anywhere. So it begins,” Belz tweeted.
Christian pastor who built churches in Afghanistan in tears, says the Taliban are going to “exterminate” the Christian church there:
“Pray for the believers there... President Biden has thrown them to the wolves... Pray that they be strong.”
...“A number have specifically asked that we would pray for visas to get out of the country. So let me throw in an additional request to you, dear reader: Is helping secure a visa something that you or someone you know are in a position to help with? If so, do what you can,” Manley wrote.
“Over the past weeks, U. S. missions agencies have pulled out their workers. I have had the great privilege to minister the Word to some of them as they have processed their own grief and confusion,” the pastor continued. “I’m grateful they could get out. Pray for them as well as for any who chose to stay.”
“But pray especially for the Afghans who have no choice but to stay, such as one brother who has already spent time imprisoned for his faith in Afghanistan,” Manley stated.
“He has assured me again and again, ‘We can trust that our Lord is mighty and will care for his children.’ And: ‘Our hope is not in politics but in Jesus who is the King.’”
Manley invoked Hebrews 13:3: “Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.”
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Father in Heaven, You have given us miracles in the past, and rescued us over and over again when hope seemed lost. If it be Your will, please grant safe passage, safe harbor and peace to our brothers and sisters facing imprisonment and death in Kabul.
Give the shelter even in places where there is none. Send them help even where they are surrounded by enemies. Lead them to safety and past/through checkpoints that would otherwise stop them. Grant them flights said to be unavailable or full.
Give them strength they did not know they possess to carry them through this trial. Protect them and our military and once again rescue all from what we mistake for impossible odds, for nothing is impossible for you. Bless all who labor and risk to help. Please send more pilots, aircraft and other creative means i can't think of to rescue them from all harm.
I ask these things in the name of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Amen. ~ ransomnote
On my prayer list.