Rally the Troops!

I learn best through story. So whenever I think about prayer warriors, I think about the pastor in Frank Peretti's This Present Darkness. The pastor feels compelled to pray for his church and for the people in his small town. Unbeknownst to him, his prayers and the prayers of the other believers give God's angels the authority and the power to battle against the demonic forces attacking the town. It's a serious offensive against the powers of this dark world. The church grows, lives are saved, and the bad guys go down!

So now, when God's people pray, I imagine God giving the go-ahead for his angelic troops to launch an all-out spiritual offensive. And right now, I'm feeling the need for some serious spiritual intervention.

This Thursday, 10/20, at 8:30 am Eastern Time (2:30 pm Lesotho Time), there is an important meeting about adoptions in Lesotho between the Lesotho Department of Social Welfare and the adoption agency representatives. It is heavy on my heart to cover this meeting from top to bottom with all-out prayer action. Rally the troops! Forward, CHARGE!

1) Pray for clarity of roles and processes and for relationships to be healed and clarified.

2) Pray against confusion and the spirit of competition and control.

3) Pray for cooperation and a focus on the best interests of orphaned and vulnerable children in Lesotho. And here I seriously mean the BEST interests. I don't propose that adoption is the best option for every orphaned and vulnerable child, but it is the best for some. (That's another blog post in itself.) The determination requires much wisdom and discernment.

4) Pray that God will act mightily to defend the weak and  the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and oppressed; rescue the weak and the needy (Psalm 8:2).

5) Pray that God will continue to flood P. with a peace that comes from knowing he is loved, he belongs, and he has an identity.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12