India Prayer June 11th & 12th

June 11,12
Spend time with our friend Thomas Samuel in Bangalore then go to Quiet Corner retreat for prayer teaching and time of intercession.

This city is home to some 5.2 million people. Poverty runs deep into the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Some 10% of Bangalore's population lives in one of over 500 slums throughout the city1.

When I am faced with the tragedy and reality of extreme poverty and the plight of the orphaned child living in the vicious hopelessness of the slums, I find that my prayers quickly become anemic. How quickly I run out of words that will encourage a hungry kid or give a sense of safety to the homeless child who has no one or no place to rest her head tonight.

My prayer...
I pray that we will learn to pray for others through the Spirit and in faith. I pray that we will recognize the power in us that comes from God; not ourselves. That we will pray in faith, not because we embraced God, but only because He embraced us. God places us in Christ so that we can go and bear fruit among those who are afflicted. May we ask in confidence. May we come in his name and in his power.

"You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you." (John 15:16)

Petition...
Pray that we will minister to others in the power of the Lord, not ourselves.

Reflection...
1 Cor 2:3-5; 1 John 4:4; 2 Cor 12:9; 2 Tim 1:6-8;

1. "Total Population, Slum Population...". Archived from the original on 2007-08-06.. Census of India, 2001. 2006. Government of India.