North Korea: creative prayer challenge this week!Carla Harding - 19 Sep 2011

Korea is the only divided country in the world and many people in North Korea are dying in hunger and oppression every day. In response, this week, people around the globe are praying for the nation of North Korea and for freedom for its people.  An organisation called PINK (Prayer Initiative for North Korea) is spreading the word and sharing resources to help people pray.

"To bring down the barriers around North Korea and set the people there free, we believe that God is calling the nations, including those who delivered His gospel to South Korea in the past, to pray together for the decisive breakthroughs we need to see in the North. Pyongyang was once called the “Jerusalem of the East” during the 1907 revival that swept Korea so we believe that as we pray, the Lord is able to transform and restore North Korea to its former spiritual greatness." http://www.pink2011.org

Let’s join with the global church and pray for North Korea this week!

Pray in your personal prayer times, in prayer gatherings or with your church community.  Choose something you look at or something you use every day and write ‘Pray for North Korea’ on it to remind you.  Tweet us a photo or post it thes coments below or on 24-7’s facebook wall to inspire others to do the same.  

Together let’s use these simple prayer points and add to the crescendo of ‘amen’ reaching God’s ears for this nation:

1. Pray for the estimated 40,000 believers who follow Jesus against the commands of the oppressive government; that they would be strengthened and rooted and grounded in the love of Jesus.
2. Ask the Father to raise up leaders among the Korean church as many of its leaders fled to South Korea in the past; for sound doctrine and teaching.
3. Pray for the many believers in labor camps due to be followers of Jesus. Ask for them to be strengthened physically, mentally and emotionally and for the welfare of their families.
4. Ask the Father to reveal himself to the leaders of North Korea; for his mercy and leadership to come to the entire nation.
   

“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… including North Korea.”