Sunday, March 13, 2022

Praise Points

  • Failure to establish air superiority – utterly miraculous
  • Putin turning on the FSB – putting the supreme commander of external operations and his deputy under house arrest
  • Putin is turning on his generals – fired as many as 8 (out of 20) – many in his inner circle questioning his decision-making ability/paranoia
  • Kuleba, the Ukraine Foreign Minister has indicated that peace could be negotiated once Putin was removed.
  • 44 Deputies of Kherson have rejected the lie-based Kherson People’s Republic that Russia is attempting to create
  • The world has rejected Russia’s lies about chemical & biological weapons – UK & US declaring them lies
  • France & UK declare that Putin doesn’t want the war to end and France recognized that Putin wants ALL of Ukraine
  • Lithuania has been listed as Russia’s next target while Moldova has been seen as another objective.
  • Despite massive bombing and Russia encircling Mariupol, the Ukrainian army and the people of the city still stand
  • Increasing reports of the people of Russia turning against the war as Navalny calls for a major protest Sunday
  • 12 failed assassination attempts on Zelensky
  • The people of Kiev (1/2 remain) are digging in to stop the tanks
  • Limited movement forward for Russia in the north of Ukraine / convoy broken up
  • Limited movement in the south
  • Aid & Arms coming to Ukraine
  • Pastors rising up to serve the refugees and going to the front lines to feed the hungry
  • Churches rising up in worship & prayer amid the bombs
  • Over 12,000 Russian soldiers killed, 2 major generals and 2 lieutenant generals killed and thousands surrendering
  • Evacuation Lines have been opened particularly in Mariupol & Sumy
  • Multiple convoys destroyed each day through civilians helping Ukrainian army target them
  • Limited loss of life considering the intensity of the bombing
  • The Black Sea Fleet still hasn’t attacked Odessa and has in fact returned to Crimea for the 2nd time
  • Oligarchs turning on Putin and Oligarchs’ kids speaking out against war – Now a wife – Tatyana Yumasheva as well!
  • Massive shift in public opinion in Russia in the past 72 hours as stores empty, Anonymous takes over Russian TV to post real war videos, and people begin to protest
  • Over 14,000 Russians arrested for protesting
  • EU Sanctions increasing – 3 Belorussian banks and more oligarchs – including Abramovich & Lebedev
  • US banned the import of Russian oil
  • Russian Intelligence encrypted phone service doesn’t work – revealing their plans

 

Prayer Points

  • Putin has upped the intensity of the bombing and indications are he needs to beat Ukraine into submission in the next 72-96 hours – Pray for Bombings across central Ukraine to cease and the weak and the fleeing to be protected.
  • Protests in Russia today have been called for by Navalny
  • Belarus’ 5 battalions going to Ukraine border would not invade.
  • That Ukraine would be given the Missile systems that can reach high-altitude bombers
  • That the 16,000 Russian mercenaries from Syria and the Assad Syrian and the Central African armies would not make it to Ukraine
  • Mariupol – 1500+ dead, very limited electricity, water & heat with below freezing temperatures and very little food and ceaseless bombing
  • For the Russian military to turn on Putin
  • Putins’ inner circle to undermine the war and turn on Putin and each other (Lavrov, Shoigu, Medvedev and the oligarchs, particularly Derispaska and Abramovich)
  • For the continued safety of Zelensky and the other leaders of Ukraine
  • The drive to encircle Kiev from the East would be stopped. That all Russian gains to the northwest and east of Kiev would be retaken
  • Evacuation corridors for Mariupol and 9 other cities would be honored and not attacked
  • Humanitarian Aid can reach Kharkiv and Mariupol
  • The weak to be protected & food to get to them
  • Those arrested (the protesters and the mayor of Melitopol) and captured by Russia and those protesting in those territories
  • The Church to continue to rise up
  • Ukrainian army and civilians to know what to do and when to thwart all attacks & sabotage
  • Soft Targets (hospitals, orphanages, etc.) & Infrastructure (dams, power plants, etc.) to be protected.
  • Russian military logistics (supply chains) to continue to be thwarted and that the frontline units would be cut off
  • Belorussian military refusing to enter the battle
  • Russian oligarchs continue to turn against Putin
  • Putin’s inner circle to turn on him
  • Russian people continue to wake up and speak out
  • Russians who protest and speak out to be protected
  • Bloodless Resolution – Soldiers surrender, supplies cut off, peaceful protest, etc.
  • West continue to support Ukraine

Prayer Strategies

  • EVERYTHING HIDDEN REVEALED
  • Things would NOT be able to go back to domination, control & corruption
  • Ukraine, Russia & Belorus would throw off oppression & corruption and receive Christ!
  • There would be peaceful transition.
  • The past would be confronted (Lyubyanka – the KGB Archives – would be unsealed) and the Truth would be made known!

Bonus Material #1: Why Putin is Not the Savior

  1. Persecution of the Church: Ever-increasing over the past 23 years, where now it is illegal to share the Gospel with anyone outside of a church and if it is minor (which sometimes can be as old as 25!) it is considered child abuse. In the areas of Donbas that Putin has taken, every single non-Russian Orthodox minister has either been killed or forced to flee.
  2. Human Trafficking: Under Putin human trafficking has not disappeared, but rather has been normalized and organized. When he came to power there were many gangs and many different mafia groups causing chaos and Putin organized them and now they only operate with his protection and with his allowance. So if he has allowed and normalized human trafficking in Russia, we can be certain he would do the same in any areas of Ukraine he takes.
  3. Biological & Chemical Weapons: It is a well-documented fact that ever since Putin took power, he has flaunted the international conventions that Russia is party to banning a whole series of chemical and biological weapons, by continuing to develop and even use these in war. If that is the case, WHY would him taking over these supposed facilities in Ukraine cause ANYONE to sleep better. Even if they did exist, they would simply be arming him with more terrifying weapons.

Bonus Material #2: Why is this not some Deep State play?

  1. Always the Goal: Putin has indicated since the very first days of his reign in 1999 that his goal is to re-establish the Russian Empire (of which Ukraine is an absolute core element).
  2. Never a Country: He has continually stated his hatred and distain for Ukraine, refusing to see them as a country and blaming them, rightly, for the territorial dissolution of the Soviet Union that they precipitated when they pulled out of the USSR.
  3. Same Playbook: Everything Putin has done in Ukraine is identical to what he has done in the first four wars he has conducted: Chechnya, Georgia, Crimea & Donbas & Syria. Nothing there was a response to anything the West has done.

Bonus Material #3: Why diplomacy and negotiation does not work with Putin?

  1. No Compromise: In Russian culture, compromise is NEVER good, but rather always a sign of weakness. The only acceptable outcome is total domination.
  2. He Lies: Over and over again, for 23 years Putin has demonstrated that he says one thing and does another. When he is talking it is always to buy time to do something else. Talk for him is another weapon, and means absolutely nothing to him.
  3. His Goals: His goals are all that matter to him and they are non-negotiable. And his goal has NEVER been peace. But always to advance his goal of Russia being the preeminent super-power, dominating Europe and the world.

 

***There is obviously so much more that could be said in response to both of those questions, but these alone should be enough to encourage suspicion enough to reject extremely convoluted narratives and embrace the clear and obvious fact that Russia has invaded Ukraine to achieve regional dominance at all costs.