Prayer Burdens & Weekly Pursuit – Week 2 of November

Prayer Burdens:

India

Pray that the Lord would, through the present situation and the prayers of the saints, usher in His further move in North India, and that the Lord would gain many seekers of the truth for His testimony.

Myanmar
Pray for the 106 churches to be kept in the Body of Christ.

Sri Lanka

Pray for the campus work, especially at the University of Colombo, to gain highly educated young people for the Lord’s testimony.

Tajikistan

Pray for the saints’ time to be released so that the group meeting can be restored and established.

Timor-Leste

Pray for the church in Dili to gain more young people (the campus students and the employees of the saints’ stores)

Turkiye

Pray for more new ones to be gained.

Weekly Pursuit:

Verses:

2 Cor. 10:4 “For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly but powerful before God for the overthrowing of strongholds.”

Excerpts:

The church has a great responsibility on the earth today. On the negative side, the church has to subdue the power of darkness and continue the warfare that Christ waged against Satan. On the positive side, the church brings God’s will to earth. Wherever we are, we should stand firm. When we read the daily news, we can find where the enemy is working, and we should render proper, opposing prayers. Our prayer must be powerful before God in order to oppose the power of darkness. Before we can reign in the future, we have to learn to rule over everything today. We rule over the thrones on earth by the throne in heaven. Believers fail because they have not exercised their authority; they have not prayed to reign over the political events. As soon as we see the devil’s power or work, we should exercise our authority to pray. We have to learn to exercise the overcoming authority of Christ to rule over the power of darkness.

Genuine prayer is a joint labor with God to bring His kingdom to the earth and to carry out His will on earth. Hence, prayer is nothing less than a spiritual battle. Prayer overturns the power of darkness and opens the way for God’s will to be executed on earth.

May God execute His will and accomplish His purpose through the church. The church’s responsibility on the earth today is to perpetuate Christ’s victory on the earth and to bring in God’s kingdom. When the church is faithful to its position and responsibility, God’s eternal purpose will be accomplished. (CWWN, vol. 44, pp. 779, 781)