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On March 23rd, 2022 / by Glen Elliott
Pray for Ukraine
No one wins a war. One side might dominate another and claim victory, but no one really wins. As I watch the destruction of high-rise apartment buildings (most were built during the Soviet era), the loss is impossible to calculate. I lived in those kinds of apartments and spent so many hours visiting friends in […]
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Pray for Ukraine
No one wins a war. One side might dominate another and claim victory, but no one really wins. As I watch the destruction of high-rise apartment buildings (most were built during the Soviet era), the loss is impossible to calculate. I lived in those kinds of apartments and spent so many hours visiting friends in them. Then, we consider what is more important – the loss of life. It just makes no sense. I’ve had a lot of hard conversations with God over the last four weeks. And like I’ve said before, while I still feel helpless, I refuse to be hopeless.
I still put my hope in God, who is greater than the missiles, tanks, or an evil mad man. So we need to pray to our God, who is still on the throne of the universe. We pray to our God, who knows each hair on our head and those of the 44 million Ukrainians and of the invading soldiers whose lives are not what they wanted them to be right now. He knows it all. He is compassionate, abounding in love and mercy. He is good… even when you or I can’t make sense of any of this.
So, we pray. And that is the most important thing we can do. It is not the least we can do; it’s the greatest thing we can do. Thank you for praying. Now it’s time for us to pray together. We have set up two options where we can come together and pray.
Join us Online
I’ll be hosting a prayer time online via zoom on Monday, March 28th at 7 pm. You can join the Zoom prayer meeting by clicking this link.
Meeting ID: 818 2868 4225
Passcode: 023869.
Feel free to invite others to join us.
Join us In Person
I’ll also be hosting an in-person prayer time. We’ll gather on Thursday. March 31st at 7 pm in the Student Union.
How to Pray
Here are some things you can pray about now, whether you can or can’t join us:
- Pray for peace. Pray that somehow miraculously, the war ends.
- Pray that Belarus, North Korea, China, and other bad actors will not join and expand this war.
- Pray that Putin repents and surrenders to Jesus. Pray for an “Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus” kind of experience for him.
- Pray for the Russian and Belarusian people to stand up and revolt against this evil.
- Pray that the Russian soldiers see the evil they are engaged in and refuse to fight further.
- Pray for the Russian oligarchs to take a stand against Putin (even if only for selfish reasons).
- Pray for a miracle of resilience on the part of the Ukrainian people.
- Pray that the West fully supports and supplies the Ukrainian people with all the needed resources.
- Pray that the believers in Ukraine will stand strong in their faith as they love and serve all and be a witness to the life-giving Jesus.
- Pray that the kingdom and influence of God will advance in the midst of chaos and conflict.
Glen Elliott
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