In moments like these…

 In moments like these…. A song from  a play about Joseph, Jacob’s son…

Yesterday I received a letter from a well known worldwide mission organization asking for prayer, “specific and urgent requests” for those in the Ukraine…

The leaders in the Ukraine, the workers in the Ukraine, the decisions each makes, 2-4 am Ukrainian time for strength…the staff and their families, etc….

Another shared letter -From a Missionary on the field in Ukraine:

“For us this is no surprise. We all knew it was coming.

But even still, to officially announce you are in a full-scale war with a delusional dictator in 2022 is a horrific thing. So many people are going to die. And for what? Please don't forget us, dear brothers and sisters in Christ. Don't despair and don't grieve like those who have no hope. Instead stand firm on the promises of the Lord.

Reading and praying over Psalms is really getting me through right now. It's good to remember that God always gets justice in the end. Eternity is waiting.

Fellow believers, I beg of you, cry out to God to save the Ukrainian people! Open a map of Ukraine on

Google and pray over it. Ask the Lord to put His hand of protection on Mariupol, on Kharkiv, on Sumy, on Dnipro, on Kherson, and on and on and on. If you hear a news report please pray for the city mentioned.

There is no greater weapon you have to help us than your prayers.

"For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not

the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds."

Cry out to God for a spiritual awakening among the Russian and Belarussian people. Pray that God would do a miracle in the Slavic nations who call themselves our brothers and that they would cast off their chains.

Pray that evil will be defeated.

May God bless and keep Ukraine!”

The pictures  that keeps coming to mind are Moses with his arm held up during a battle…or David and Goliath…

Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Exodus 17:11-12

1 Samual 17…

Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. and that all this assembly may know that the Lord saves not with sword and spear. 

For the battle is the Lord's, and he will give you into our hand.”

1 Samuel 17:45,47

I don’t pretend to know what the outcome of these battles in the Ukraine will be… or for that matter the wars that are less talked about around the world that are ongoing…

So…

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 6:2 

In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer and supplication. To that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints,

Ephesians 6:16-18

But we know this….

Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord  that will stand.

Proverbs 19:21

Thank YOU….