Remembering to Pray

Prayer is so important.  I have always said that prayer was important but for many years I did not act like I thought it was important.  God continues to call us to prayer through His Spirit and His word.  More recently I have been overwhelmed by the need for prayer and fasting.  There is a crazy world out there with a very real enemy.  God's people need to continue in this Spiritual battle through prayer.

Ephesians 6:10-20

I believe that the Holy Spirit will bring to mind things we should be praying for and will burden our hearts causing us to pray.  I also believe that we live in a very distracting environment so we tend to ignore this call to prayer.  So as we fight back against the world's pressure and continue to pray. There are ways to help us remember to pray.  Such as Echo Prayer.  it has been around for awhile but I have just been reminded of it.

I think echo prayer is genius.  It is a website that will send you reminder texts or emails with different prayer requests.  You can set up different times to send specific prayer reminders or set it to send you random prayer requests that you have previously entered.

So it can remind you to prayer for a missionary at a certain time of the day that they might feel spiritual attacks  on a consistent basis or remind you to pray for specific events such as a neighbor's surgery that maybe taking place next week.

I would encourage you to check it out and/or follow the Holy Spirit's calling to pray: )
Romans 12:12 Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulations, be constant in prayer.

 www.echoprayer.com .

Blood and the Thai political situation.

Well I am leaving for Thailand in 3 months.  I cannot believe it!  The time is going so fast, July is going to be here before we know it.  God has been continuing to provide me with support, loving community members and new things to learn before I leave.

Recently, I have been hearing a lot about the political situation in Thailand.  I just wanted to make you guys aware of what is going on.  There have been huge fights and protests happening in Bangkok.  There are two groups the red shirts and the yellow shirts.  The yellow shirts are in favor of the current prime minister and the red shirts are in support of a past prime minister Thaksin.  Thaksin was taken out of office by a past military coup from a few years ago.    The red shirts are mostly people from the country areas and the yellow shirts are from Bangkok and other large cities.  So recently, the red shirts have been protesting for the return of Thaksin.  These protests are huge 50,000 to 60,000 people converging on Bangkok by from all over Thailand.  

The protests are seen as mainly peaceful, but there is a deep underline spiritual battle happening during these protests.  Thailand is a very spiritual place and even politics are effected. During one of the protests the red shirts burned down the "Spirit house" that is in front of the main government building in Bangkok.  This is a big deal because the Thais believe all the spirits that control that building live in that "spirit house".  Almost everyone has a Spirit house in front of their home and/or business. Here is an example: This is where the spirits live and they must be kept happy so that things on their property go well.   I believe there is real power in these spirits and if they are upset these spirits will hurt the Thai people, that is if they do not have the power of Jesus Christ to overcome these spirits.

SO that was a shocking development within itself.  The next part of their protest was even more deeply shocking and spiritual.  The thousands and thousands of red shirts decided to draw their own blood and pour it out in front of the government steps.  Blood is such a significantly powerful in many religions especially in Christianity.  To think of the sacrifices throughout the old testament and today being Good Friday.  Christ's blood was poured out saved the souls of many!!! 

Here is a picture of the Thai blood being collected and poured out.  

The blood of the Thais has some power to...they poured out a deeply demonic occultic power to try to control the Thai government.

Pray against this power and the very real spiritual warfare in Thailand.

Pray for the Thai Church that they would separate themselves from any left over demonic worship that might be still effecting their lives.

Pray for the missionaries that they will be able to preach about the power in the Blood of Christ and in CHRIST ALONE!!!

Check back here for more frequent posts about my journey and the situations in Thailand!