April 6, 2022

Praise Reports

  • Shotdown – Ukrainian forces have reportedly shot down a Russian Su-35 fighter jet, the aircraft was brought down near the city of Izyum, about 75 miles (120 km) east of Kharkiv
  • Truth Revealed #1 – “We’ve only seen potentially the tip of the iceberg” of atrocities committed in Ukraine by Russia, says @PressSec
  • Truth Revealed #2 – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says the EU has given €35bn to Putin in energy payments since the start of the war, compared to €1bn given to Ukraine in arms and weapons
  • Sanctions – working somewhat, as Russia announced a 38% drop in oil revenues for this last quarter even as the price of oil has skyrocketed.
  • EU – additional sanctions were unveiled, including an embargo on all coal, all maritime traffic (except oil and food) and all overland trucking from Belarus and Russia, transaction ban on four Russian banks (23% of Russian banking)
  • UN Security Council
    • Good – Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, Rosemary A. DiCarlo led the charge by declaring overtly that Russia was solely responsible for starting this war, for targeting civilians and for all the atrocities and they must be held accountable. While the US, the UK, Ireland, Kenya and the EU demanded Russia be removed from the Human Rights commission by a vote in the general assembly and demanded they be held accountable and that Ukraines territorial integrity just remain in tact – i.e Russia must leave.
    • MEH – General Secretary Antonio Guterres led the charge to “stop the guns” at all cost ostensibly to save human lives but really to stop the economic fallout from the invasion – Gabon and Mexico and Brazil echoed his cry – suggesting a ceasefire must be enforced regardless of the outcome – allowing Russia to continue to occupy, abuse, arrest and deport Ukrainians.
    • Bad – While India, China and the UAE decried the crimes committed in Bucha but said we couldn’t rush to conclusions over who had done these crimes and rather didn’t want the rest of the world to have to pay economically for Ukraine defending itself and was more than willing to offer Ukraine on the international altar.
  • Poland – PM @MorawieckiM : „If don’t act now, the Bucha massacre will only be a prologue”. Poland calls for EU agreement on: -confiscation of Russian oligarchs property and Russian state assets in the Western banks -Ban for Russian oil imports – International committee investigating Russian war crimes
  • European Council – EUCO president Charles Michel says that sanction measures on oil or gas will be needed “sooner or later”
  • Evacuations – Ukrainian Railways company evacuated 15000 people from Pokrovsk, Kramatorsk, Sloviansk and Lozova today
  • Mariupol – Red Cross team has led a convoy of buses and private cars carrying more than 500 people to Zaporizhzhia
  • Finance – Washington will ban all new investments in Russia from Wednesday. As of Monday the treasury department band all US financial institutions from facilitating Russian payments thus pushing Russia dangerously close to default.

Pray Points – Today’s Latest

  • False Flag – missile scene in Belgorod and now according to Kursk governor, border checkpoint Sudzha was shelled with mortar, Russian border guards had to return fire. These are completely contrary to Ukraine has been fighting back up to this point. And serve no benefit to Ukraine. But they can serve as a narrative to justify a reinvasion along the Sumy front where Russia has been regrouping.
  • Narrative – pray that international horror at Russian war crimes continues to create pressure on the international community to hold complete expulsion from Ukrainian territory and prosecution of the Putin et al. as the only acceptable outcome
  • Evacuations – another huge wave of people are attempting to leave Donbas right now, these are those who have limited means to flee, but are not aware that Russia is coming for them. Pray they may have the means to flee safely.
  • Gas – the cost of gas to empower those evacuations and the delivery of food and supplies is set to skyrocket as Russia continues to target oil and gas storage facilities. Pray that new resources would be put on line and that those who need it would be able to get it.
  • Donbas – Russia continues to bomb the Ukrainian military positions and civilian infrastructure in Donetsk & Lukansk
  • Zaporizhiye – Explosions reported in Zaporizhiye and Synelnykove – pray against sabotoage
  • Germany – be impressed by Poland and others to embrace an embargo on Russian oil, Germany warned it was too soon to cut off Russian gas.
  • Mariupol – pray for supplies, support, protection and evacuation for the 160,000+ who are without food, water, electricity or heat
  • Kharkiv – pray for the people in the midst of incessant bombing for protection and food and shelter
  • Occupied Territories – pray for protection of body, mind and soul for all those and to prevent deportations and for the people to continue to rise up.
  • Evacuations – for people to continue to be able to get out of the worst hit areas
  • The Truth #1 – that the West will embrace the complete Truth of the narrative of not just this invasion but of the past 14 years and even the past 40 years of Post-Cold War Europe that has led us to this place and so will be steeled to meaningful action.
  • The Truth #2 – that the fighting between the government administrators and the military would spill into the open and reveal the lie-based narratives the Kremlin has been pushing and the people will realize how deeply they’ve been lied to.

Pray Points – Continued

  • Europe/US – pray they will block all gas imports and provide truly meaningful military support.
  • Russia’s Invasion – pray against the preparations the Russian army is making to re-invade Sumy and Donbas and Mikolaiv
  • Oil – Pray that Europe would have the political will to do a complete embargo of Russian fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal, etc.)
  • Retreating Russians – Russian troops planted explosives at Cookies plant in Bucha, also poisoned all products at warehouses also retreating Russian forces are creating “a complete disaster” by leaving mines on homes and corpses in their wake, as renewed missile strikes on Ukrainian cities were reported. And 200 Ukrainian National Guard troops were also taken prisoner back to Belarus when the Russians left Chernobyl.
  • Sumy/Kharkiv – Many villages completely cut off from all supplies and food and water!
  • Izyum – Russian troops captured Izyum town in Kharkiv region
  • China – Ukraine’s security service said the Chinese government attempted to hack more than 600 websites belonging to the government and other key institutions, beginning before the Olympics.
  • Global Food – there could be a global food crisis as Ukrainian farmers are being forced to limit what they plant due to the war. And also due to the fact that the main ways that they have a reaching global markets through the Black Sea is now blocked by Russia. Russia and Ukraine together produce 25% of all green in the world!
  • Refugees – According to Polish border guards, more than 2.4 million people have fled Ukraine to Poland . However, supplies have dropped off and now the whole regions are struggling.
  • For the Weak – Russia has flown more than 300 air sorties over Ukraine in the past 24 hours: senior U.S. defense official
  • Russian Elites – to turn on one another and on Putin
  • Russian Conscripts – President Vladimir Putin on Thursday signed a decree ordering 134,500 new conscripts into the army as part of Russia’s annual spring draft, but the defence ministry said the call-up had nothing to do with the war in Ukraine.
  • Russian Mercenaries – British military intelligence said on Monday the Russian private military company, the Wagner Group, has been deployed to eastern Ukraine. “They are expected to deploy more than 1,000 mercenaries, including senior leaders of the organization, to undertake combat operations,” Britain’s Ministry of Defense said. These are particularly used to create terror to break the back of citizen resistance in occupied territories
  • Russian Military – continuing to press in the north, but the real danger is that Russia seems to preparing for an all-out push in Donbas to encircle the Ukrainian army and to take the entire region and to create a united front against Ukraine.
  • Russian Soldiers – pray for their physical,emotional and spiritual well-being and for them to have the courage to face the Truth and the opportunity to receive the Gospel which is the ONLY answer to the atrocities they’ve already committed.
  • Russian Opposition – that those in the inner circle will see a way out and that Russian Opposition would be able to gather together in a meaningful way
  • Russia Offensive – Russia attempts to break
  • The Truth – In all things that the Truth would be painfully evident and unavoidable in all public discussion
  • Ukrainian Army – Russia is attempting to encircle the Ukrainian Army in Donbas
  • Russia – for the people to wake up to the Truth and rise up
  • Putin’s Inner Circle – to fragment and turn on one another
  • Protection of the Weak
  • The West – to not grow numb to atrocities, but be compelled to action
    • Military Aid – High Altitude Missiles
    • Evacuation – Mariupol
    • Peace Keepers – to aid evacuations and protect and provide humanitarian aid

Prayer Strategies

  • Corruption & Domination Falls
    • Russia, Belarus & Ukraine
    • The Former Soviet Union
    • China, India, UAE & Saudi Arabia
  • Truth & Freedom prevail
  • The Gospel is spreads like wildfire
    • From Ukraine
    • To Russia
    • To the whole world

Prayer Encouragement

“Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!”

— Andrew Murray