Thank you for joining us today on our daily prayer with myself, Reverend Ben Cooper, recorded live here in London, England, where faith meets the world in daily devotion and global hope. This is our five-minute commuter, quick fired prayer as we gather around the word of God for faith to carry us through
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Father, in the name of Jesus, we gather our thoughts. And right now, Lord, we jump straight. Lord, we go back into the book of Philippians 4, verse 13. And Lord, we're praying for this nation today. We're
praying, dear God, the global prayer today is for strength and for courage and pro for protection within the persecuted church across North Korea. Father, we pray today for North Korea. We pray for the persecuted church. We ask you, Father, that you will strengthen the underground church. Father, we bring North Korea before you. Lord, as it remains one of the most dangerous nations on earth to follow Jesus Christ. We pray for our sisters and our brothers. Lord, we understand owning a Bible can mean execution. So, Father, we pray, Lord, that Bibles, dear God, will get, Lord, into lives. But Lord, we pray that the Bible becomes invisible to the system, dear God, of North Korea. Father, we pray that the word will be on the tablet of their heart. Father, as the secret church, as the underground church prays in secret, Father, we thank you as they meet in prison camps, under trees, in houses, in ro under rocks, dear God, wherever they are gathering right now, we thank you that the underground church is alive in Jesus Christ. Strengthen it. Father, we thank you that it's being strengthened, dear God, right now in the name of Jesus. Lord, I thank you right now, but Christ is with you. If you are listening to this, if you are in North Korea, we believe that this scripture is over your life. I can do all things through Christ that gives me strength. You are in a persecuted land and God is with you. You are under highly uh an area of severe danger, but God is with you. You are in critical situations, but God is with you. I pray for you. You are surviving this because of the Holy
Spirit. Believers gather and whisper and pray in silence and worship in darkness, Spirit of the living God. Yet they declare, I can do all things through Christ that gives me strength. Lord, we stand with them today. We stand with you, brother and sister. We pray as one global body. We pray right now for South Korea. Lord, from the UK to South Korea to Brazil, Kenya, we are asking God to strengthen the hidden and the underground church right now that chains of oppression will break. Lord, as we intercede, Lord, as we are intercessors, as we pray, Father, Lord, strengthen every persecuted believer, protect the underground church. Let your gospel break through every moment, every wall. Lord, every fear to go. Lord, we declare the power of God in their lives. But right now, Lord, as we stand together with the persecuted believers, the underground church, the secret church, Father, we pray that the persecuted Christians for North Korea, Lord, that they will be blessed and highly favored. We pray as the underground churches around the world strengthen, dear God, Lord, strengthen them right now. Give them courage to follow Jesus in a deeper way. Let Bibles reach the hidden believers. Father, we pray, Lord, as Bibles are getting in right now, as Bibles are getting into North Korea, Father, we pray, dear God, that you will save, that North Korea will be saved, that they will come under the blood of Jesus. We pray for the prisoners of faith and their families. We ask for protection from a government surveillance in the name of Jesus. We ask you that revival will start in this hostile nation, that there will be an outbreak, an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. But we declare today that Christians are being converted in secret right now. Oh Jesus, we thank you for North Korea. We thank you that your blessings are over it. We thank you that the gospel is opening up right
now in North Korea. So, Father, we pray for the love of God to bless them. Father, as we pray right now on the outside of North Korea, we believe freedom is not silence. We believe right now that fear is going. We stand on the word of God. And Father, we thank you that Christ's strength, that the persecuted Christian right now, wherever they are, they will not be in silence, but they will stand and rise in the name of Jesus. Nothing can chain the word of God. We pray for you right now because nothing can chain the word of God. And we believe whether you're in prison, whether you're a prisoner for faith, whether you are locked down for whatever reason in that nation, we pray that the hand of God will be over you in North Korea. May the Spirit of the living God carry you. Never give up. And the scripture for you today persecuted Christians, wherever you are, 380 million displaced Christians, I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me. My name's Reverend Ben Cooper. Until tomorrow.