POWER TO PRAY FOR AFGHANISTAN

JOIN US IN PRAYER FOR AFGHANISTAN:

We have been interceding every day from 8am-9am central time for Afghanistan. Please join us as we continue to pray.

The underground church in Afghanistan asks that you pray for them to have strength and endurance. It is a very intense time, which many of us reading this cannot even begin to fathom.

Yet, many are showing amazing resilience. They are continuing to lead Bible Stories, prayer meetings, and share the good news. Pray that God will meet them and hide them as they flee to the mountains — like Moses who was hid in the cleft of the rock — and that they would see the glory and beauty of the Lord:

“WHEN THE WICKED CAME AGAINST ME
To eat up my flesh,
My enemies and foes,
They stumbled and fell.

THOUGH AN ARMY may encamp against me,
My heart shall not fear;
THOUGH WAR MAY RISE against me,
IN THIS WILL I BE CONFIDENT:

One thing I have desired of the Lord,
That will I seek:
That I may dwell in THE HOUSE OF THE LORD
All the days of my life,
TO BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF THE LORD,
And to inquire in HIS TEMPLE.

For IN THE TIME OF TROUBLE
HE SHALL HIDE ME in His pavilion;
In the secret place of HIS TABERNACLE
He shall hide me;
He shall set me high upon a rock.

And now MY HEAD SHALL BE LIFTED UP ABOVE MY ENEMIES all around me;
Therefore I will offer SACRIFICES OF JOY in His tabernacle;
I WILL SING, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.”

(Psalm 27)

BEST DAYS AHEAD:

What’s incredible is that the Afghan Church believes that the best days of the church are before them, and that they will be witness to the greatest movement of salvation among Muslims from the ashes of this catastrophe.

PRAYER POINTS:

⁃Pray for the global body of Christ to be revived and awakened in a deeper way as we pray and have our hearts connected to the persecuted church

⁃Pray for those who are nominal Muslims / Afghan civilians to come to the light of Jesus as they see the true face of Islam revealed for what it is. That they would turn to the only One who can hear them and save them.

⁃Pray for those fleeing to the hills to be protected (Psalm 73, Psalm 91)

⁃Pray for miraculous protection for women and children being forcibly taken and those that have already been taken for their protection, salvation, and deliverance. (2 Thess. 3:1-5)

⁃Pray for the Afghan Church to step deeper into her identity in the love of Jesus

⁃Pray for radical salvations even within the Taliban; for Saul to Paul experiences and conversations — from darkness to light

FIRST-HAND GROUND REPORT

“What we are witnessing right now is the decimation of the country and people of Afghanistan. We are watching twenty years of work and the strengthening of a nation being destroyed in a single day.

The Taliban has a hit list of known Christians they are targeting to pursue and kill. The US Embassy is defunct and there is no longer a safe place for believers to take refuge. All borders to neighboring countries are closed and all flights to and from have been halted, with the exception of private planes. People are fleeing into the mountains looking for asylum. They are fully reliant on God, who is the only One who can and will protect them.

The Taliban are going door-to-door taking women and children. The people must mark their house with an “X” if they have a girl over 12 years old, so that the Taliban can take them. If they find a young girl and the house was not marked they will execute the entire family. If a married woman 25 years or older has been found, the Taliban promptly kill her husband, do whatever they want to her, and then sell her as a sex slave.

Husbands and fathers have given their wives and daughters guns and told them that when the Taliban come, they can choose to kill them or kill themselves—it is their choice.”

Global Catalytic Ministries (GCM) is taking an active stance in prayer, support, and advocacy for our brothers and sisters—many of whom have been serving as leaders as the Afghanistan church grows at a historic rate (second only to Iran right now). Although people are heading for the hills, many want to stay in the country and continue to advance the Gospel; Our brothers and sisters in Afghanistan continue to inspire us with their boldness and resolve in their darkest hour.