From Joni Eareckson Tada: "Hours ago, as the Taliban took control of Kabul, Afghanistan, my friends and I sat and stared breathless at my iPhone – the BBC showed hundreds of terrified people racing across the airport tarmac, pleading for help and hoping to climb onto U.S. Air Force planes leaving the country. It was pandemonium and I wept at the sight. The church in Afghanistan is the second fastest growing church worldwide – and now, our brothers and sisters in Christ are facing vicious retaliation from the Taliban. Please join me in praying that God will strengthen them, pouring out courage, and mercy, and comfort… and that the Afghanistan church will be bold in witnessing to panicking neighbors and friends. May Jesus Christ protect and defend the widow, the orphaned, and the disabled (please join me in interceding for the weak and vulnerable in that forsaken country). And may Christians in that horribly broken nation hold fast to Psalm 59:1-2, 10-11, "Deliver me from my enemies, O God; protect me from those who rise up against me. Deliver me from evildoers and save me from bloodthirsty men.… oh, my Strength, I watch for you; you, O God, or my fortress, my loving God." #PrayForAfghanistan #intercession #prayforprotection https://www.instagram.com/p/CSxIu12pAuc/?utm_medium=tumblr
