Welcome to 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 your five-minute commuter prayer, quick fired moments of faith, to carry us through the rest of the
day. If these prayers are blessing you, please tap the follow-in button on Apple, Spotify, BuzzSprout, and leave us just a short quick review. You can also support this listener-funded ministry just by £3 a month. Buy me a coffee, hit the link in the show notes below. If you need your prayers prayed for, whether it's online or whether it's in the quietness of this studio, we will do that and you can send them into infodailyprayer.uk. Info at dailyprayer.uk. If you need a Bible wherever you are across the world, please hit us up on the same email account and we will get you a Bible sorted in the glorious name of Jesus
Christ. We're praying for our brothers and sisters that are coming under serious attack right now. We're praying for our brothers in the persecuted church in uh Iran, Afghanistan, Eritrea, and Sudan. So will you join me today? I invite you in. I invite you into this prayer family. Come on, we're gonna lock down in the scrum of prayer and we're gonna pray for our brothers and sisters in these four nations that are war-torn, that are really restricted when it comes to the word of God, when governments are not following uh the Bible, following the way. But we're
gonna pray right now. Father, in the name of Jesus, we believe. 2 Corinthians 4, 8 and 9. Lord, we believe as we pray this together, Lord, as we lock shoulders, as we lock shields, as we lock arm in arm, as we stand together in faith on the touchline of hope. Father, now we scrum down as brothers and sisters as we join each other around the world. We are praying for the underground church. We're praying for the whispering church. We're praying for the persecuted church. We're praying for those that are imprisoned because of their faith. Well, Lord, we're praying for those that are uh their faith is under fire. We're praying for governments, we're praying, dear God, for churches to be restored. We ask you, Father, that Bibles will get in. Father, that the Bibles will be smuggled across the borders, under the borders, around the borders, over the borders, that the word of God is getting in, and nothing can stop the word
of God getting in Iran, getting in Afghanistan, getting in Eritrea, getting in Sudan. The word is in. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. But Lord, we pray together, we lock shields of hope, and we believe that 2 Corinthians 4, verse 8 to 9 is for our brothers and sisters that are being persecuted when we are hard-pressed on every side, but not crushed, perplexed but not despaired, persecuted but not abandoned, struck down but not destroyed. Father, we believe as we lock together right now, our sisters and brothers that may be on the run. Lord, as they're worshiping in silence, although they're hunted, although they're silenced, although they're imprisoned, dear God, they are not abandoned, because the Spirit of the living God is over them. And we pray wherever they are right now, whatever nation, whatever tribe, whatever tongue, that the spiritual power of God, the supernatural charge of heaven will lift them up. Father, we thank you that you are blessing the whispering church, the church that is under fire, faith that is under fire.
Lord, as we bring them before you right now, we're the prayer is for protection over the secret believers, the prayer for courage in the underground underground gatherings, the prayer for strength for prisoners of faith, the prayer for endurance under interrogation, the prayer for safety over hidden churches, the prayer, dear God, for hope in isolation, the prayer uh for boldness to witness the gospel of Jesus Christ in dark and very dangerous places. Lord, we pray that provision will come for displaced Christians. We pray for those that have been martyred, those families that have been left behind because their families are being martyred for the gospel of Jesus Christ. Lord, we're praying for God's presence to sustain the persecuted believers and wherever they are across the world, whatever tribe, whatever tongue, Lord, we believe that the word of God is over them. So we're praying again and again and again. We stand together for our brothers and sisters, Lord. We pray, dear God, that uh Iran will be saved, Afghanistan will be saved, Eritrea will be saved, and Sudan will be saved. Lord, let the churches grow in those four nations that are seriously under threat because of the gospel of
Jesus Christ. Come, Lord, send your glory, your power to the whispering church. Holy Spirit, bless us all we pray. My name's Reverend Ben Cooper. Until tomorrow, stay blessed.