Abortion is Murder

I am glad Mitt Romney did not choose a running mate who is not pro-life. If Paul Ryan were not pro-life he would be called “pro-choice.” The opposite of being pro-life is being pro-death, being favor of the death of unborn human babies when that is the mother's wish. Women who are in favor of abortions are called “feminists.” Is being in favor of the death of unborn human beings feminine? Animal mothers always want to protect their babies. Are human mothers different? One thing which probably has contributed much to the success of the abortion industry is the fact that unborn babies are called “fetuses.” People who perform abortions want pregnant women to think of their unborn babies as being globs of nuisance tissue. Abortion performers become wealthy at the expense of unborn human beings and their duped mothers. An abortion cannot be done without the uterus being damaged, and the possibility of successful subsequent pregnancies being less likely. Also, babies who are born to women whose previous babies were put to death before birth have the tendency to have severe brain damage because the uteruses were not in good condition. God was very wise when He gave the Ten Commandments and said, “You shall not kill.”

Some Thoughts about Prayer

Some Facts About Prayer The reason why it is necessary to pray is not that God is ignorant or that God is reluctant to help people. Prayer helps eliminate self-centeredness and causes compassion. Fruit of the Spirit is produced. Because Christians pray, they think about the needs of other people more and action is a result. John 15:16 “You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you.” Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Jeremiah 29:13 And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. James 4:3 You ask but you do not receive because you ask amiss, that you may consume it upon your lusts. What is asked for in the name of Jesus is not asked for because of lust. Romans 10:17 Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him. Is it sufficient to hear the word of God twice a week? Deuteronomy 6:5-7 "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart; you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. I Peter 3:7 Likewise you husbands, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered. Some Prayer Requests Pray for the protection of missionaries, pastors and other Christian workers in Cartagena, Bogata, San Francisco, San Vicente and the other towns against terrorists in Columbia. Pray against Muslims imposing Sharia law in Nigeria Pray for beggars who live in the market in Djibouti. Pray for the native Christians of Djibouti and Ethiopian Christians and other foreign Christians who are in Djibouti to win a great many people to Jesus, and establish churches and schools. Pray for people who listen to evangelistic radio programs in the Middle East. Pray for Christians to lend or donate motor vehicles for missionaries who are with Wycliffe Bible Translators and are on furlough to use. Pray for people who hear the gospel through Rock of Israel Ministries, Hope of Israel Ministries, American Board of Missions to Jews, Zion Society for Israel, Hebrew Christian Witness, and Jews for Jesus. Pray for the protection of missionaries and other Christians who are in the Philippine Islands against Muslim terrorists. Pray for a confusion of the terrorists. Pray for people to come to Jesus through German Blind Mission, Deaf Christian Ministry Foundation of the Midwest, and American Leprosy Missions. Adoption Intercession Various organizations adopt various stretches of highways. It is beneficial to systematically and regularly intercede for various institutions, various people groups and various individuals. There are two kinds of adoption intercession-- intercession which is done at regular intervals, such as, once a week or once a month and seasonal intercession. Schools, hospitals, libraries, medical clinics, prisons, courts, missions, sports teams, poor nations, nations which have civil war, ethnic groups, members of cults, book stores, toy stores, city governments, fire departments, senior citizens homes, hotels, home owners associations, medical research, neighbourhoods, foundations, church associations, police departments, churches and adoption agencies are some institutions and people groups who need adoption intercession. Adopt an elementary school, a middle school or a high school. Before the next school year begins, pray that good choices concerning the hiring of teachers and administrators will be done. If there is a parents-teachers association, pray for very many of the parents to be involved in the association starting early in the year. If it is a private school, pray for parents who would like for their children to attend, but do not see how they can afford it, to have enough money. Adopt a Christian fine arts college or university. Pray for the administrators who do the hiring of professors to be wise concerning which people to hire for the next school year. Pray for people who would like to attend, but do not have enough money, to have enough money. Pray for students to be wise concerning majors and how many units to carry. At the end of the school year, pray for students who seek employment to obtain good employment. Adopt a secular fine arts college or university. Pray that young Christians, who must not attend it because they are too spiritually weak to not be influenced to abandon their Christian beliefs or to participate in activities which they must not participate in, will not attend. Pray for Christian students to be wise concerning majors and how many units to carry. Also, pray for them to be wise concerning how many hours per week to work. Adopt a Christian seminary. Pray for the administrators who hire people to teach will be wise concerning whom they hire. Pray for students to be wise concerning how many units they carry and how many hours per week to work. At the end of the school year, pray for all the students who seek employment to obtain employment. Adopt a library. You ought to pray for the library at least once a year. Pray for the librarian to be wise concerning choices of books to obtain and amounts of money. People read various categories of library books. Pray for people who read various categories of books. Some people read books at the library and some borrow them. What can you pray concerning people who read the following categories of books--philosophy, cult, occult, crafts, literature composition, medical, sports, political science, sociology, psychology, diplomacy agriculture, history, plays, geography, anthropology and novels. Pray for people to forget things which they have read which would be detrimental spiritually or socially, and to remember reading things which would be beneficial for them to remember. Adopt a fire department. Pray for the protection of fire fighters against various kinds of accidents; explosions; snipers; the collapse of roofs, walls and floors, and fire arches. Pray for the protection of fire department vehicles. Pray against the male fire fighters having sexual inter-course with the female fire fighters who sleep at the stations. Pray against the hiring of female fire fighters. Adopt a municipal, superior, appeals or supreme court. Pray for the judge or judges to understand cases well and to be wise. Pray for prosecution attorneys to do well at prosecuting criminals and for defence attorneys to do well at defending wrongfully accused people. Pray for the wise selection of jury members. Adopt a police department. Pray against police officers being shot, strangled and bludgeoned. Pray for protection of the cars against various things. Pray for the cops to be wise concerning various matters. Pray for the police chief to be wise concerning hiring of cops and dispatchers, and to be wise concerning policies. Adopt a community, regional, veterans’, psychiatric, children’s, maternity, cancer, heart, military, senior citizens’ or rehabilitation hospital. You might find a hospital listed in the yellow pages. Intercede for the salvation of unsaved patients. Pray for Christians to visit them. Adopt a country. Pray for the government. Pray for the salvation of the “chief of state” and other government people. Pray for Christians to be free to preach the gospel, distribute Christian literature, have Bible schools and gather for services. Pray against natural disasters and epidemics. Pray for the establishment of churches. Frames of Mind and Prayer I Peter 4:17 The time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God. Five frames of mind keep Christians from praying and keep their prayers from being answered. They are Adamic, base, carnal, childish and haughty. The Adamic frame of mind is the result of influences which have been passed down. Certain observations of conduct of grandparents, parents and other members of a person's society influence that person, and some influence comes through precepts. The base frame of mind involves low self-esteem. Some of the sins which are the result of the base frame of mind are sexual perversions and some of them are eating disorders. The carnal frame of mind produces the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes and the pride of life. The childish frame of mind is displayed by pouting, whining and withdrawal. The haughty frame of mind is arrogance. Sometimes a sin is the result of more than one frame of mind. Sexual perversions can keep Christians from praying and keep their prayers from being answered. That is true concerning both the perpetrators and the victims. The pastor of a denominational church and his wife attended a district conference of pastors of their denomination, and took along their little daughter, who was raped by the man who was in charge of the conference. That resulted in the couple being very distraught. I'm sure that being distraught had effects on their prayer life. It can be very difficult to pray when distraught. Dwelling on what someone is distraught about keeps a person from praying, and time which would be spent praying about other matters is spent praying concerning what the Christian is distraught about. The pastor whose daughter was raped wondered whether he ought to quit being a pastor. There used to be a youth ministry in Palm Springs called "House of Joshua." The founder and director of that ministry went to prison for child molesting, and House of Joshua ceased to exist. Certainly the base frame of mind of the director of that ministry prevented the answering of some of the prayers made by the director and his wife. The carnal frame of mind keeps Christians from interceding and supplicating, and keeps their prayers from being answered. I John 2: 15&16 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world--the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life--is not of the Father but is of the world. James 4:1-3 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet do not have because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. Gluttony, laziness, alcoholism, cigarette smoking and other drug addictions, sexual immorality and some occult activities are lust of the flesh sins. A Christian eats too much and/or eats harmful artificial flavorings, becomes physically and mentally tired very quickly and becomes sick. The illness is sometimes a heart attack, appendicitis or some other critical ailment. Consequently, the Christian does not spend as much time in corporate prayer or private prayer as would be spent otherwise, and because of medical expenses gives much less money to the church and missions. Sometimes an illness which a Christian has because of wrongful eating causes that Christian to miss work so that his or her tithe is less, and because less money is given for use by the church for construction or maintenance of buildings, for purchases of video tapes and literature for youth meetings, for Sunday school, for women's ministry and for men's ministry so that Christian's prayers are not answered. Also, less time is spent ministering in other ways. Laziness can cause a Christian to earn less money so that he or she gives less money for use by the church or missionaries, or sit and watch television instead of going over to the church or rescue mission to do what he or she has been called to do, so that some of that Christian's answered. Money gambling is a lust of the flesh sin, a lust of the eyes sin and a pride of life sin. Some Christians gamble hoping to have more money to spend on things and/or activities. You can see how the lust of the eyes and the pride of life are involved. The lust of the eyes can get a Christian started in gambling. A Christian might want to do some sight-seeing at a casino, not planning to gamble, but start gambling on his or her first visit to the casino. Time and money are wasted. There is far more chance of losing money than there is of winning money. A visit to a casino can keep Christians from praying and keep prayers from being answered other than through the loss of money. Casinos are dens of demons, and Christians can take such home from them. You can see how other lust of the flesh sins can keep a Christian from praying and keep prayers from being answered. The lust of the eyes keeps Christians from praying and keeps their prayers from being answered. Materialism, anorexia and wearing of improper shoes are sometimes lust of the eyes sins. Too much time and too much money can be spent on houses, vehicles, furniture, appliances and other things so that failure to pray and failure to minister occur, and certain prayers are not answered. The pride of life keeps Christians from praying and keeps their prayers from being answered. Some of it is trying to keep up with the Joness. Materialism, anorexia and wearing of improper shoes can be pride of life sins. Pride can cause a Christian to spend too much time and too much money on various things. Boasting, strife, divisions and organizational positions competitions are pride of life sins. Time which ought to be spent praying (supplicating and/or interceding) is spent boasting, arguing and seeking of appointments to positions. Resentments bring strife and divisions among Christians. They have occurred in churches and missions. Time which should be spent praying is spent musing about insults. Romans 12:14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. Galatians 5:13-14 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Philippians 2:14&15 Do all things without murmuring and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world. Many prayers are not answered because of strife. The childish frame of mind keeps Christians from praying and prevents the answering of prayers. It causes separation from reality and responsibility, whining, pouting and poor relationships with other people. Philippians 4:6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. Notice that it does not say, "with pouting let your requests be made known unto God" or "with whining let your requests be made known unto God." The childish frame of mind brings Whom would you rather attend a service or a prayer meeting with, whiners and pouters or people who give thanks? Read Psalm 133, Ecls. 4:9-12, Acts 2:42-47 and Acts 4:23-31. The haughty frame of mind keeps Christians from praying and keeps their prayers from being answered. Proverbs 16:5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord. Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Proverbs 27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth. The haughty frame of mind is arrogance, resentment and spite. It is possible for a Christian to resent something which associates--members of his or her church, relatives or people at school--do and later realize that those people acted properly. Read John 13:1-14. Read Matthew 11:2-6. Jesus was referring to resentment. John would be best off if he should not resent. Blessed is he who does not resent. Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place with who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." What does this verse reveal? Sometimes failure to pray against yielding to temptation is arrogance. A Christian thinks that certain other people might be tempted to do a certain thing, but that he or she will never be tempted to commit that sin. What did Jesus say about this matter? Matthew 18:2-4 And Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, "Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven." One Sunday school teacher told another Sunday school teacher about how much trouble she had when making a craft for her class. She said, “It made quite a mess, and I got the ingredients allover the kitchen," and the other teacher replied, "Well, I certainly never had any trouble with it. Didn't you follow the directions?" The teacher who had the trouble said, "Yes, but I still had problems," and the other one replied, "It always works for me, and I can't see why you had to spend money on this ready-made stuff. I've been making the homemade kind for years." That speech did not edify the teacher who had trouble with a craft. I wonder whether the teacher who had a lot of trouble continued teaching. If the arrogant teacher prayed for there to be enough Sunday school teachers, her arrogant frame of mind opposed it. It is very possible that the teacher who had much trouble with a craft was the better of the two teachers. The teacher who had trouble with the craft persevered. Would the Sunday school teacher who had never had trouble with a craft persevere if she should run into a difficult situation? One wonders whether the arrogant teacher sneered at one of the children once in a while. Children have the tendency to drop out of Sunday school. If the arrogant Sunday school teacher sneered at some of the children and prayed for the children not to drop out of Sunday school, her arrogant frame of mind opposed it. Prayer for Fathers vFathers you know of` ØFathers of new-born babies ·If the father has rejected the baby Intercede against that. ·If there is physical trouble Pray for the father to be wise concerning the physical affliction. ·If all seems to be fine Pray for things to remain fine. ØFathers of babies ·Employment Matters Pray for the father to get good employment if he is unemployed. ·Fathers of babies with physical ailments Pray for them to be wise concerning contending with them. ØFathers of children ·Their behavior Pray for them to set good examples. ·Their spiritual welfare A father’s spiritual welfare affects his children. Pray for fathers who are in cults to come out of those cults. ·Divorced or separated fathers ·They must get along well with the mothers. ·They must allow the children to see their mothers if it is alright to do that. ·They must not be malicious to the mothers. ØFathers of adolescents ·Vigilance concerning drugs Peers can influence adolescents. ·Vigilance concerning safety of daughters ØFathers of adults ·Fathers of lost people It is possible for a father to keep his son or daughter from becoming a Christian. ·Fathers of disabled people Pray for them to be skillful. vFathers you never heard of ØWalking and praying Walk down a street. ØPraying for fathers who reside in other towns You can think of other towns. Ephesians 6:4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord. Prayer for Mothers vMothers you know of` ØMothers of new-born babies ·If there is danger of rejection Intercede against that. ·If there is physical trouble Pray for the mother to be wise concerning the physical affliction. ·If the father is not around ·If the father of the baby is deceased pray for support, and pray for the mother to remarry if that is God’s will. ·If the father abandoned them pray for him to return. ·If the baby was abandoned Pray for the adoptive mother or foster mother to accept the baby as well as if she were the birth mother ·If all seems to be fine Pray for things to remain fine. ØMothers of babies ·Employment Matters Pray for the mothers to have good employment if it is necessary for them to be employed. ·Mothers of babies with physical ailments Pray for them to be wise concerning contending with them. ·Mothers who have everything going well Pray for them to take their babies to church. ØMothers of children ·Their behavior Pray for them to set good examples. ·Their spiritual welfare A mother’s spiritual welfare affects her children. ·Divorced or separated mothers ·They must get along well with the fathers. ·They must allow the children to see their fathers if it is alright to do that. ·They must not be malicious to the fathers. ØMothers of adolescents ·Vigilance concerning drugs Peers can influence adolescents. ·Vigilance concerning safety of daughters ØMothers of adults ·Mothers of lost people It is possible for a mother to keep her son or daughter from becoming a Christian. ·Mothers of disabled people Pray for them to be skillful. vMothers you never heard of ØWalking and praying Walk down a street. ØPraying for mothers who reside in other towns You can think of other towns.  Prayer for Teenagers Teenagers live in Mecca, Thermal, Salton Sea Beach, Oasis, Coachella, Indio, Indio Hills, La Quinta, Thousand Palms, Indian Wells, Palm Desert, Rancho Mirage, Cathedral City, Palm Springs, North Palm Springs, Painted Hills, Desert Hot Springs, North Shore, Desert Shores, Bermuda Dunes, Beaumont, Banning, Calimesa, Yucaiipa, Mentone, Cherry Valley, Forest Falls, Redlands, Colton, Rialto, Highland, San Bernardino and City Terrace. Pray for the ones who do not have Jesus as their Savior to hear the gospel, and realize that Jesus is the Savior and that life is very brief. Pray against the ones who live in those towns and elsewhere where in Riverside County and San Bernardino County being led into various cults including Feng Shui, Confuscianism, Sufism, Buddhism, Silva Mind Control, the Watch Tower Society cult ("Jehovah's Witnesses"), Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Philadelphianism, Unitarianism, Shintoism, Unitarianism, Spiritism, Taoism, Bahai, Maifested Sons, British Israelism, Throne Room, Solar Power, the Local Church, Higher Source, Unification Church ("Moonies"), Satanism, Foundation of Human Understanding, Islam, Deism, Eckankar, Unity, Sikhism, Mormonism, Astrology, Santeria, Urantia, Jainism, Forum, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Scientology, Life Spring, Sweedenborgianism, Voodooism, Christadelphianism, Holy Order of Mans, Kabalaria, the Walk, Universal Spirituality and Convince, and cults called "Church of Truth," "Mystic Christianity," "Church of Bible Understanding," "Church Universal and Triumphant," "Christian Science," "Religious Science," "Divine Science," "World-Wide Church of God," "the Way," "Mental Physics,", "Family of Love" and "Love Family." Pray against teenagers who live in those towns, else- where in Riverside County and in San Bernardino County committing suicide because of playing Dungeons and Dragons; being depressed; being sick; being told certain things by their parents, peers or fortune-tellers, being sick or disabled or being embarrassed because they think that some people laughed at them, thinking that their parents don't love them, being addicted to drugs or desiring to be re-incarnated as other kinds of creatures. Pray for the unsaved ones to hear about Jesus, pray against teenagers committing suicide for various reasons and against them being led into various cults in various areas. Pray against teenagers who live in various counties becoming vandals, dope peddlers, prostitutes, burglars, robbers, shoplifters, poachers, dope producers and arsonists. Pray against teenage girls being seduced by their boy- friends and being raped by their fathers and their step-fathers. Pray for teenagers who live in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and one other state. Pray for the ones who are not Christians to hear the gospel, against the teenagers being drawn into various cults, against them committing suicide for various reasons and against them committing various crimes. Teenagers live in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, and in the Yukon and other territories of Canada. What can you pray for them? Teenagers live in Mexico, Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Columbia, Venezuela, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Surinam, British Guyana, French Guyana and one other American country. Which one is not listed? What can you pray for teenagers who live in those countries? Pray for teenagers who do not attend church regularly to come here and for them to continue coming. Pray for teenage school acquaintances of teenagers who are members of your church to tell them about matters which they can intercede about for them. Pray against teenagers of your church becoming involved in occult activities. Prayer for Churches Pray against young people of the church being adversely influenced by professors. Pray for members of churches to remember to pray for missionaries, itinerate evangelists, door to door evangelists, prisoner evangelists, hospital patient evangelists, sreet meeting evangelists and mental hospital resident evangelists. . Pray for certain categories of church workers every month. Make a check list and go over it periodically. The list might be pastor, associate pastor, Sunday school superintendent, Sunday school teachers, youth minister, men’s ministry director, women’s ministry director, elders board, trustees board, deacons board, deaconesses board, music director, organist, pianist, choir director, choir members, ushers, greeters, nursery attendants, audio equipment operators, treasurer, head janitor, grounds maintenance supervisor, bus driver, counseling director and prayer minister. You might design a monthly prayer form, and type “Church Workers Prayer Check List” at the top and under that type “For the month of.” Pray for protection of the church building against vandalism, fire, explosions, earthquakes, floods and strong wind, and pray against burglaries. Pray for the finances. Pray that everyone will be willing to tithe. Pray for the trustees to be wise concerning allocations, and if the church has the congregational kind of government, pray for the people to be wise concerning the budget at business meetings. Pray for members of the church to love each other with pure hearts. l Peter 1:22 Since you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the brethren, love one another fervently with a pure heart. Pray against members doing things because of selfish ambition and against members being arrogant. Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself. Pray for visitors to feel welcome. Pray for various categories of people to come to your church. That might include depressed, suicidal, sick, lame, deaf and blind people, as well as people of cults. You can pray against various categories of church members worrying. For instance--you can pray against the pastor thinking of members of the church failing to do things which they have accepted the responsibility to do, or being afraid that they will not perform their duties properly. For one thing, you can pray that he will not worry about various matters when he is supposed to be preparing a sermon. You can pray against members of your church being affected by mind-binding-spirits--demons which make it hard to believe things which they ought to believe. Pray for counseling and discipling to be conducted simultaneously. Pray against members of a church thinking that: demons were very active when Jesus was on Earth, but their activity has subsided, what the early church called “demonic activity” we understand to be mental illness or that demonic influence is only evident in extreme or violent behavior and gross sin. Pray for the pastor to make wise choices concerning what to preach about. Pray for the pastor to be wise concerning which missionaries to have come and speak at services, and concerning the scheduling. Pray against members of the church being drawn into cults. Pray for churches in areas where there are many Hindu fanatics and in areas where there are many Muslim fanatics. Pray for the protection of the people, their church properties and their homes. Pray for the salvation of the fanatics and their relatives. Pray for wisdom concerning which weekly and monthly activities to establish. Prayer for Residents of Towns. Prayer against natural disasters, including floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanoes, avalanches, and fires. Pray against terrorism, robberies, including bank robberies, burglaries, homes, business buildings, and industrial buildings burning by arson. Pray also against kidnappings and rapes. Pray against fathers raping their daughters. Pray for the town to have good schools. That includes having public schools at which there are godly teachers and administrators, and having Christian schools. You can pray for the Christian schools to have all the teachers and teachers' aides that they need, and to have all the finances which they need. Pray that none of the students of the schools will be led into occult activities, gambling, or sexual immorality. Pray for any of the teachers and administrators who are not Christians to come to Jesus. Pray for door to door evangelism in these towns. Pray for Christians whom God wants to be in the ministry, and who are not in that ministry, to enter it. Pray for those Christians to make wise choices regarding what Bible literature to take along with them. You can pray for them to do well at introducing themselves to people and at what they say after they introduce themselves.7 We ought to pray for the closing of any liquor stores, abortion clinics, pornography shops, and x-rated or r-rate theaters. Also houses of prostitution, palmistry or fortune-tellers. Pray for the eradication of marijuana crops. Pray for police detectives to find all the narcotics crops, meth labs, and the like. We ought to pray against the establishment of cultic and occult churches, such as New Age, or churches that claim to be Christian, such as Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormonism, and Scientology, in the town. Pray that people who go door to door with false doctrines don't get converts. Pray that people don't get drawn in by videos or television programs or literature, including literature at libraries. Pray for Christian parents of children and adolescents to be watchful concerning what their youngsters watch on television and the internet. Pray for industrial plants. Pray against them being closed and pray against layoffs of workers. Pray for the safety of the workers, that they do not have accidents. Pray for businesses. Pray that the businesses will have all the clientele they need. Pray for the people who work in these businesses to have all the work they need. If there are any churches which God wants to be established in the town, that they will be established. Pray that if there are any pastors who are at any Christian churches, or associate pastors and youth pastors who ought not to be pastors, that they will be wise and quit being pastors. Pray that if the town has a city government, the city council, or the mayor, or the city clerk and the heads of the departments, will be godly people. Pray for the protection of residents of the town against mosquitoes, fire ants, gnats, and other insects, as well as rabid animals, and other wild animals. Prayer for Prisons Pray for national, state, provincial, county, and town prisons. Pray for the staff people, including, wardens, guard, and medical workers, food service workers, and maintenance people to do well at their work. Pray against rioting, stabbings, murders, and suicides. Pray for evangelism of inmates through Christian inmates, radio programs, television programs and visitors. Pray for any inmates who were wrongfully convicted and sent to prison to be exonerated, and for parole boards to be wise concerning which inmates to grant parole to, and for the head of state, such as presidents and kings, and governors to be wise concerning the granting of pardons, and clemency. Prayer Against Terrorism We can pray against terrorists doing various things to various categories of buildings, including, setting them on fire; planting explosives with detonation timers in the buildings or in containers which are to be carried into the buildings and planting explosives in buildings and detonating them by the use of cell phones; crashing land motor vehicles or aircraft into buildings; firing bullets and rockets into buildings; entering buildings and shooting, hacking or spearing or strangling people; and firing bullets into or running land motor vehicles into crowds of people who are outside the buildings. We can pray against terrorists blocking and damaging roads and railroad tracks, and ought to pray against them firing bullets or rockets into stadiums and setting them on fire or planting and detonating explosives in them. We can pray against terrorists attacking crowds of people at parks and cemeteries, and attacking funeral processions. We can pray against suicide bombings occurring at various categories of places. We can pray against the bombing of bridges, dams and canals. We can pray against the financing of terrorism. Terrorists steal and sell cars. Piracy is terrorism. We can pray against piracy occurring in various areas. We can pray against the sabotage of oil pipelines and water pipelines. We ought to pray against terrorism occurring in various areas. We can pray against the hijacking of aircraft and watercraft. You can pray for the conversion of terrorists. Prayer for Missions The enemy tries to prevent people from coming to Jesus. They try to prevent Christians from wanting to be missionaries, and the enemy attempts to keep Christians who want to be missionaries from going to the mission fields. If the enemy is not able to keep a Christian from going to the mission field, they do various things hoping to cause that missionary to quit being a missionary. Pray for Christians to want to go to various mission fields and pray for them to not be prevented from going to the mission fields, and pray against missionaries quitting. Matthew 9:37&38 Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest." If the enemy cannot prevent potential missionaries from going to the mission fields they try to prevent them from preaching the gospel on the mission fields, by various means. If the enemy cannot keep the missionaries from preaching the gospel, they try to prevent the natives from listening, by various means. If they are unable to keep the natives from listening to the preaching of the gospel, the enemy uses various tactics in the attempt to keep the natives from accepting Jesus. Prayer is vital all along the way. Pray for Christians whom God wants to be missionaries to get the education which they need, pray against them committing various sins, pray for them to grow spiritually, pray against them being harmed physically, and pray for the necessary money to be provided. Some missionaries have left the mission field because their parents were sick and needed those missionaries to return and take care of them. When praying for the missionaries of a particular mission field, you can pray that it will not be necessary for any of them to return to their countries because their parents are sick. Pray for natives to be willing to listen to the preaching of the gospel, and pray for them to believe what they hear. Pray against procrastination, and pray for people to accept Jesus in spite of threats. Pray for missionaries to not leave the mission fields through death or being told by a government to leave, and pray against them leaving because of being discouraged or because of illnesses. Pray about the selection of missionaries. Pray for mission boards to be wise concerning which people to send to the mission fields. Pray against them sending people who are homosexuals and people who are mentally deranged. Pray that, if certain missionaries are unfit to be missionaries, mission field directors and mission field councils will recognize that that is true. Some missionaries, because of their personalities, ought not to have been missionaries. Pray for Christians to be prepared for various categories of ministries and to be placed in those ministries. Some possibilities are blind people evangelism, deaf people evangelism, prisoner evangelism, door to door evangelism, street meetings, drama, aviation, medical, leper colony, Bible school, dental, orphanage, waifs home, translation, mental hospital patient evangelism, elementary school, high school, radio and television. Pray for missionaries to go to various countries. It might be beneficial to look at an atlas. Pray for missionaries to understand scriptures well. Intercede against the decrease of missionaries’ love. Pray for missionaries to not neglect to pray enough, and for them to realize that nothing is more important than worshiping God. Pray for missionaries to get along well with native Christians and other missionaries. Pray for the moral purity of missionaries. Pray for them to have joy, and have confidence that they are doing what God wants them to do. Pray for missionaries to continually learn from the Bible. Pray for them to overcome spiritual attacks. Pray for missionaries to be wise concerning the use of time, resources and energy. Pray that they will be wise concerning requests for money and food. Pray for singles to receive suitable spouses (as per God's will for them). Pray for missionaries to have the strength to resist the temptation to form unwise relationships with those of the opposite sex. Pray for missionaries who have children to enjoy them, and to have wisdom for raising them. Pray against the murder of missionaries and their children. Pray for field directors and field councils to be wise concerning where to open mission stations. Pray against missionaries being involved in occult activities. Pray that they will not attempt to obtaining things by occult means. That is always very disastrous. Pray for various categories of things to be provided for missions according to the kinds of missions. Missions, Ministries and Guilds to Pray For Orinoco River Mission Gospel for Asia Latin America Mission Mission to Latin America Central American Mission The East African Missionary Society East European Mission East African Mission Mission to East Africa East Africa Missions Los Angeles City Mission Jews for Jesus Rock of Israel Ministries United Indian Missions Gypsies for Jesus Greeks for Christ Christian Advocates for Israel Slavic Gospel Association Gospel Furthering Fellowship Jesus Night Patrol Holy Ghost Repair Service United for Jesus Biblical Discipleship Ministries Christ for all Nations Youth for Christ International Youth With a Mission Los Angeles City Mission Union Rescue Mission Orange County Rescue Mission Fred Jordan Mission Fresno Rescue Mission Pacific Garden Mission His Hands Extended Ministries Wellspring Intl. Everything is Possible Ministries Nothing is Impossible Ministries Compassion International Well Spring International Millstone Ministries Berean Gospel Fellowship Coming Out Ministries Ray of Hope Ministries World Shakers Planet Shakers Foursquare Missions Soldiers for Jesus Motorcycle Ministries Soldiers for Christ Soldier of Christ Training Ministry Soldier for Christ Ministry Soldiers of Christ Arise The Soldiers for Christ Christian Dental Association Christian Medical and Dental Society Christian Medical and Dental Association Corruption, Human Rights, and Social Justice Advocates Christian Legal Society, Advocates International Advocates Newswire Advocates International Christian Advocates Fellowship of Christian Athletes Christian Athletic Association Valley Christian Athletic Association Christian Athletic League Kentucky Christian Athletic Association Proverbs 31 Ministries Berean Mission World Outreach Open Doors Samaritan’s Purse Global Outreach Ministries Mossyfoot Project Wycliffe Bible Translators Christian Chaplains Association of America Hospital Chaplains of America Unevangelized Fields Mission Hospital Chaplains Ministry of America New Tribes Mission Far East Broadcasting Company World Radio Missionary Fellowship Far East Broadcasting Associates Trans-World Radio Christian Broadcasting Network Trinity Broadcasting Network Christian Television in Italy Gideons International Child Evangelism Fellowship American Sunday school Mission Canadian Sunday school Mission Alliance for Children Everywhere Arab Christian Ministries Wounded Children Ministries Mission to Children Full Gospel Men’s Fellowship International Fellowship of Christian Puppeteers Christian Performing Artist’s Fellowship Fellowship of Christian Filmmakers Christ for India India for Christ German Blind Mission Missions and Ministries Lists Regional Ethnic Disaster Relief Literature Medical and Dental Youth Evangelism Homeless People and Needy Women Handicapped People Prisoner Evangelism Denominational Radio and Television Prayer for Nations A continental map or a world map can be beneficial. Pray for missionaries to go to various countries. Pray for the salvation of unsaved legislators, monarchs, presidents, vice presidents, prime ministers, premiers and supreme court judges and other judges. Pray for nations which have good governments to continue to have good governments. Pray against civil wars. Pray for kings, monarch queens, presidents, premiers and legislatures to be wise concerning the appointments of ministers and vice ministers. Pray against epidemics and other natural disasters. Pray for preparations for natural disasters. Pray against various kinds of terrorism. Pray for governments to make wise trade agreements. Pray for them to be wise concerning taxation and the appropriation of money. Prayer for Courts We can pray for municipal courts, superior courts, appeals courts and supreme courts. You must pray for judges, juries, and prosecution attorneys to understand criminal cases well. We can pray against people committing perjury, and for witnesses to have good memories. You can pray that, if witnesses give false testimony, that will be discovered, and they will be punished for doing that. Also, pray that if some criminals plead innocent by reason of insanity, the judge or jury will be wise concerning whether to find them guilty. Pray against people who are not guilty being found guilty, and for people who are guilty to be found guilty. Pray that courts will be wise concerning in which, cases to give prison sentences and in which cases to give the death penalty. You can pray that judges will be wise concerning lengths of prison terms. We can pray for judges and juries to understand civil cases well. You can pray that no false testimony should be given and for witnesses to have good memories. Pray that, if a person files for redress of grievance and a jury decides to award them compensation, they will be wise concerning the amount. In some civil cases in which the victim is granted an award, the judge decides to impose a fine. You can pray that, if that is done, the judge will be wise concerning the amount of the fine. Pray for Christians to be appointed as judges at each level of court. Prayer for Members of Cults Pray for them to read and believe various Bible verses—including--John 3:16 and 6:37, Titus 3:5-7, Romans 10:9-13, I Corinthians 3:11, l Timothy 2:5, Acts 4:10-12, Hebrews 7:24 &25, Isaiah 42:8, Romans 3:23 and 6:23. Pray against the legislation of the minds of those in cults. Pray against cult members being prevented from listening to the preaching of the gospel in various ways—including—other members of those cults telling them not to listen, thinking that they don’t have time to listen, falling asleep, telephones ringing and the preaching being drowned out. We can pray that, when cult members come to our front doors, we will know what to say to them. Pray for the closing of cult schools and against the establishment of cult schools.