Welcome to Daily Prayer with myself, Reverend Van Cooper, recorded live here in London, England, where faith meets a world in daily devotion and global hope. This is our five-minute commuter prayer, quick fired moment to carry us through the rest of the day. If
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go any farther further, or sorry, we are in Isaiah 41, verse 10, and this is Faith Under Fire. We're praying for the persecuted church and we try to do this once a day.
And right now we're going to pray, dear God, for our brothers and sisters when faith is under fire. So, dear God, we come before you, Lord, and we pray and we we plead this word over their lives. Lord, we speak this word over the persecuted church, over the underground church. Father, we pray for our brothers and sisters when their faith is under fire. Lord, when they're walking through the towns and the villages and they cannot expose the Bible that they are carrying. We pray, Father, that Bibles will be smuggled into those lands. But right now, Lord, we declare Isaiah 41, verse 10. So do not fear, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41, verse 10. Father, we pray for thousands, dear God, 380 million displaced Christians around the world, as we worship together. Lord, as the Christians, thousands of them, uncountable believers, are worshiping tonight in this early hour, in the dead of night, in the early hours of this morning, as Christians are worshiping in secret. Father, as they hide in houses, as they hide in the corner of prisons. Lord, as they put their head, dear God, in their hands and they pray silently under trees, in caves, in areas where no one can see them. Father, we thank you that as they read the scripture in the underground church and as they pray behind locked doors, we ask you, dear God, as they risk imprisonment, violence, silence, and dear God, death for carrying the word of God. We pray for such a breakthrough in the underground church. We pray, Father God, for the light of Jesus Christ to shine in those areas. Lord, I thank you that the voice of God is carrying the believers right now, whatever nation, whatever town, whatever tribe, whatever tongue, wherever they are, running because of the power of the word
of God. We ask you, dear God, from Tehran, dear God, all the way to Lagos, from Lagos to Beijing, from Germany to North Korea. Father, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iran, Pakistan, India, and far beyond. These nations, dear God, that are in the world watch list. We ask you, Father, for the top 50 nations in the world watch list that they will know Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. We thank you that the body of Christ is carried by the Holy Spirit. Lord, we ask you, Lord, as people are getting wounded and hurt and lives are being taken because of the gospel, we pray, dear God, that you will give us understanding. We understand what the scripture says. We read it and we see it. But Lord, sometimes our mind cannot grasp
it. But Lord, we declare today that the battle is not ours, but the battle belongs to the Lord. Father, we ask you that their faith will inspire us. Lord, that their anointing will encourage us to seek ye first. We ask you for the global church, dear God, the global persecuted church, that it will fill anointing. We ask you, dear God, for the underground church that is being felt uh held hostage, dear God, the underground church, dear God, the church that is moving in the secret church, the underground pressurized church, strengthen them, encourage them, bless the believers that are facing imprisonment and danger right now. Lord, we ask you that the Bible, dear God, will reach hearts, minds, and bodies and souls. Lord, as they worship in secret, as they gather right now, protect the gatherings that are coming together. Lord, as they preach the word, Father, we thank you, dear God, that the word is breaking change, that the shackles are gone. Lord, we come to you right now and we make this a life application and we say, Father, bring comfort to the underground church. Father, bless them as they worship in danger. But we declare today that we stand with the persecuted church. Lord, we refuse to be silent. We're their voice in the wilderness. I pray, I support, I remember until every believer is free. But Lord, the call to action today is that we share the global prayer for the persecuted church. Lord, have your way we pray. Lord, come and bless those that are in prison right now. My name's Reverend Ben Cooper. Until tomorrow.