April 26, 2022

Praise Reports

  • Success – destruction of Fuel depots in Bryansk undermine Russia’s ability to attack in the north and is most likely the cause of utter silence in the northern front today.
  • Kherson – Ukrainian forces continue press forward toward Kherson moving
  • Transdniestria – two huge radio towers were knocked out that would probably be used by Russians to coordinate attacks from there. There was also an attack on the Russian u it’s staged there as well.
  • Moldova – Moldovan president Maia Sandu is to convene a meeting of the country’s supreme security council this afternoon over incidents that took place in the breakaway Transnistria region.
  • Belarus – Russia and Belarus will hold joint drills of their air forces and air defense forces in Belarus, Minsk’s defense ministry said in a statement
  • NATO – Sweden and Finland have agreed to submit simultaneous membership applications to the US-led NATO alliance as early as the middle of next month, Nordic media reports.
  • UK – UK armed forces minister James Heappey has described Ukrainian strikes on Russian soil that hit supplies and disrupt logistics as “completely legitimate”. He said: “The fact Ukraine was a sovereign country living peacefully within its owner borders and then another country decided to violate those borders. In war, Ukraine needs to strike into its opponents depth to attack its logistics lines, its fuel supplies, its ammunition depots, and that’s part of it.
  • Germany – Germany will authorize the delivery of used Gepard anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine, the German defense minister has said, in what would be a clear switch in Berlin’s cautious policy on military backing for Kyiv. In a huge shift, the three coalition parties now plan to present a joint proposal in parliament calling for the delivery of heavy weapons to Ukraine, urging the government to “continue and, where possible, accelerate the delivery of necessary equipment to Ukraine, including extending the delivery to heavy weapons and complex systems”, and also suggesting Ukrainian soldiers be trained in Germany and other Nato countries to operate the weapons.
  • France – delivering Caesar cannon with a range of 25 miles (40km)
  • US – the defense secretaries of forty countries are holding emergency talks at the airbase in south-western Germany on bolstering the defense capabilities of Ukraine. The US-hosted meeting will “focus on doing things to generate additional capability and capacity for the Ukrainian forces”.
  • Putin – Health – many rumors of Putin’s health problems. Shaking, bloating, weakness in arms, swaying – all of these have led to many trying to diagnose everything from overuse of steroids to cancer to Parkinson’s. Beyond these simple lack of sleep and stress, along with fear, rage and despair together are enough to fundamentally degrade one’s health, let alone sanity.
  • Truth Revealed – Mariupol – Russia’s defense ministry says it will allow civilians to evacuate from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol on Monday, according to a statement shared on Telegram and translated by Western outlets. Ukraine says no humanitarian corridor agreement has yet been reached.

Pray Points – Latest

  • UN – General Secretary Guterres is meeting with Putin and foreign minister Lavrov today.
  • Evacuations – Ukraine’s governor of Luhansk Oblast, Sergey Gaidai, has appealed again for people in the area to flee when they get the opportunity. “I understand that it is difficult to evacuate those who have never been outside Luhansk region – but leave, in other regions of Ukraine there is life, life in safety.

He said that five locations – Severodonetsk, Lysychansk, Rubizhne, Popasna, Gorskoye – would attempt evacuations today.

  • Russian Attacks – as predicted Russia has begun to shell Ukrainian positions on either side of the Zaporozhia Reservoir with western forces pressing toward Kryvyi Rih and eastern ones pressing to Zaporozhia.Kherson/Kryvyi Rih – Russian forces are massing for a push toward the Ukrainian heartland.
  • UN – secretary general António Guterres will visit Turkey, which has played a key role in negotiations, on Monday before meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday and Zelenskiy in Kyiv on Thursday.
  • Mariupol – even as Russia continues to bomb and attack the Azovstal Steelworks, even taking a few warehouses in the northern part, they claim they will let civilians exit Azovstal. The Russian Defense Ministry claims their troops won’t attack civilians sheltering at the Azovstal steel mill in Mariupol if they leave the plant on April 25. Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova earlier said that about 1,000 civilians were trapped at Azovstal, the last Ukrainian stronghold in the largely destroyed and partly occupied city. Pray because every other time it has been a trap.
  • Izyum/Kherson/Zaporozhye – there is much evidence that Russia is desperately attempting to catch and conscript any and all able men in the occupied regions and force them to fight for them.
  • Russian Military – time is running out and so their attacks and tactics will become increasingly desparate as these are the true last roll of the die. Because they have till May 9th to deliver Putin his victory but even sooner is May 4th the financial default and true victory would give them means to negotiate.
  • 6 Russian Key Objectives to Pray Against
    1. Kharkiv – Destroy, Encircle, Capture
    2. Izyum – push south to encircle Donbas
    3. Slavyonsk and Kramatorsk – in the east to complete a smaller encirclement of the cities
    4. Mariupol – completely destroy all opposition and export the populations
    5. Zaporozhye – Russian troops are building up forces and building logistics a massive concerted attack
    6. Kherson – Russia is facing sabotage from the people but is still attempting to push north toward Kryvyi Rih and west toward Mykolaiv, then to Odessa and to Transnistria and eventually to Moldova.
  • Ukrainian Artillery – all of the defensive positions are using Soviet Era 152mm ammunition and NATO has been scrambling to provide Ukraine with all that it needs but they are running out. As the US is finally willing to send artillery (theirs is 155mm) it will still be months until it can reach the front lines and be used effectively.
  • Deportations – Russia has deported over 500,000 people from Ukraine to Russia. 134,000 of those from Mariupol alone.
  • Mercenaries – Continue to pray for all mercenaries to be neutralized in any way!
  • Logistics – Russia logistical challenges are still problematic even though the supply lines to the Donbas are shorter, and much will depend on the condition of the roads and railways.
  • Refugees – now 5.2 million have fled Ukraine. Pray for their safety, provision and care.
  • West – pray that the pressure would continue to mount on western leaders to ban oil and gas imports and to continue to increase meaningful heavy arms donations.
  • Russia – pray that the emotional need to make a huge statement and reaction to the sinking of Moskva will lead to Russia moving prematurely and without adequate preparation and coordination and thereby dooming their own assault. Or to make a move that so steels international resolve that it makes supporting Russia impossible even for China and India.
  • Belarus – Secretary of security council of Belarus warns of provocations from Ukraine to get Belarus involved in the war
  • Russian People – pray they understand the Truth and reject the lies they’ve been told and rise up
  • US – pray that Lend/Lease gets fast-tracked and raise on the House floor and approved today
  • China – has doubled down and the Russian propaganda and refused to admit the atrocities were committed by Russia or any other point

Pray Points – Continued

  • Ukraine – Almost two-thirds of Ukrainian children have fled their homes, the UN says. About 4.8 million out of 7.5 million children had to leave their homes, said Manuel Fontaine from UNICEF. He confirmed the deaths of 142 children, but added that the number is “almost certainly higher”
  • Economy – Ukraine economy to contract 45.1% this year, Russia 11.2%: World Bank
  • Rage – Pray against rage as videos have come to the four about Ukrainian soldiers summarily executing Russian soldiers. Although they can obviously feel incredibly justified, this is destructive to them and provides ammunition to Russia their attempt to create an alternative narrative in Ukraine.
  • Russian Military – Russia is sending an 8-mi long convoy of 100s of vehicles, including armored vehicles and artillery southbound through the Ukrainian town of Velykyi Burluk. The convoy is moving about 60 mi east of Ukraine’s 2nd-largest city of Kharkiv, as Russian focuses on Donbas. Russian Ministry of Defense claims destruction S-300 SAM at Chuhuiv airbase and Starobohdanovka in Mykolaiv region. Also claimed destruction of National Guard base in Zvonetske of Dnipropetrovsk region
  • TRUTH – pray that an ever-increasing steady stream of the atrocities committed by the Russians will be revealed and documented to maintain the ever-increasing pressure on political leaders and parties to act with speed, vigor and determination.
  • Russian Lies – pray that all their various alternative narratives would be revealed as rags and shadows for all to see.
  • Evacuation & Panic – Ukraine has urged civilians to leave the east of the country “while the opportunity still exists” before a massive Russian military assault that it expects in the coming days. The governors of the Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions were calling on people to move immediately to safer areas. “It has to be done now, because later people will be under fire and face the threat of death. There is nothing they will be able to do about it.
  • May 9 – Reports are that Putin needs the invasion successful in time for the Victory Day parades, thereby threatening great attacks over the coming month. Putin would want to have an “announceable success” by then, which could create “some tension” with Russian commanders as exhausted forces were likely to be thrown into battle fairly soon in an attempt to gain ground in Donetsk, Luhansk and Kharkiv. This also is at the end of the 30-day default negotiation period (ending on May 5) meaning incredible pressure is on Russia to achieve victory by then.
  • Europe/US – pray they will block all gas imports and provide truly meaningful military support.
  • Oil – Pray that Europe would have the political will to do a complete embargo of Russian fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal, etc.)
  • Occupied – Many villages completely cut off from all supplies and food and water!
  • 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 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
  • 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
    1. Sanctions – Loopholes would be closed and sanctions rendered effective
    2. Oil Embargo – That Europe would make the choice to stop immediately at the very least paying for gas & oil
    3. Heavy Weapons – provide planes, tanks, heavy artillery and high-altitude weapons

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