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Pray for Japan

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Every week, I attend a group of mainly Japanese students that come together to pray for Japan. Presently, our focus is on the recent earthquake and tsunami disaster that had devastated the nation nearly a month ago.

Here are some of the prayer requests that we prayed for in last night’s session. I hope that you will read them and inherit a burden to also pray for Japan.

Pray for the nation as it undergoes its presidential elections. Pray for smooth transfers of leadership and more importantly for godly wisdom and leadership in government.

Pray for the immediate end to the present nuclear crisis as its now at very severe levels.

Pray for relief of needed aid for the 200,000 people who have become homeless because of the quake and are presently living in shelters.

Pray for the almost 15,000 people that are still declared missing. Pray for a miracle.

Praise God for the many people who have turned to receive the hope of Jesus Christ during this crisis. Pray for many more to turn their eyes upon Jesus in this time of brokeness in the country and for the Church of Japan to seize the opportunity to bring help and hope to their nation.

Thank you for your prayerful concern.

Japan and the God Who Sees

Last night, I was invited to pray with some of the Japanese students here on campus at their weekly prayer group. Their prayers are centered on the recent earthquake catastrophe that struck the nation a month ago.

It was hard to pray when you can’t find answers to why these things happen. When it was my turn to pray, I felt God moved me to call on one of His other special names.

El Roi – The God Who Sees.

Hagar, the servant to Abraham’s wife, gave Him this name. She had fled from her master and now in the wilderness felt succumbed to face evident doom.

When she was so hopeless, so confused, so lost, she met El Roi.

He called to her and blessed her and gave her promise. (Although Genesis 16 refers to Him as an angel of the Lord, we know its Jesus because in verse 10 He says, “I will multiply your descendants.”)

At this word, Hagar responds: “Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are- the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, ‘Have I also here seen Him who sees me?’ (Genesis 16:13).

I don’t know why this disaster happened, but I do know God sees all and He sees Japan. Nothing goes past His sight and even in confusion and chaos, He is love and He is sovereign. We know He works all things -even the ugly ones- together for good for His purpose (Romans 8:28).

Trust Him even you don’t see Him because El Roi sees you.