Pray Together

We as a community know that prayer is integral to the global work for children at risk; in fact it is as vital to the changing of children’s lives as any project programmes, partnership initiatives, or training schemes.

Therefore we must not only plan and strategise together but also pray for one another, lifting up our different ministries, projects, and initiatives to God, interceding in unison for the great numbers of children we support. Lamentations 2 v 19 says "Arise, cry out in the night, pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at the head of every street."

We must also have great faith. We are not just caring for children at risk in our own strength: we are living and working in the power of God. Although the work is challenging, and often we can feel overwhelmed, we are God's people and we are able to make a tangible difference on His earth. He does want to see the vulnerable and valuable children of His world set free from their difficult circumstances, and He also wants to strengthen and renew those working to make that happen. So let us pray as the Apostle Paul prayed with the church at Ephesus:

"I pray that out of God's glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen." (Ephesians 3 v 14-21)