Jun 14, 2024 | Flashpoints, PRAY, Prayer Focus for the Nations, READ, World Watch
Italy has long been dear to my heart. It has a long and complex history, and has exercised enormous influence in the world, whether through the edicts of its empire-building Caesars, or the epistle that Paul wrote to its Kingdom-of-God-seeking believers. That seed of... 
May 14, 2024 | Flashpoints, Israel, PRAY, Prayer Focus for the Nations
Recognising that it will be to the Mount of Olives and Jerusalem that Jesus returns – and that Israel is the only country in the world that the Lord specifically calls ‘His’ country (Deuteronomy 7:6, Amos 3:2 and in many other places) we can be sure that it will also... 
Apr 22, 2024 | Flashpoints, PRAY, READ
Modern defence systems such as The Patriot are capable of tracking large numbers of incoming missiles at one time. So too must we be as our gaze shifts moment from Ukraine-Russia, to Washington-New York to Israel-Iran. All are important, but it is with this last that... 
Mar 15, 2024 | Events to pray for, Flashpoints, PRAY
“Not praying is tragic. But praying and not preparing is catastrophic.” These are the words of Lazarus Yeghnazar, whom I have known for years. He was actually speaking about the need to translate the Bible into the many ethnic languages that are spoken in Iran, where... 
Feb 22, 2024 | America, Flashpoints
The Lord has called me to be a watchman. Some watchmen stand atop a watchtower: my own watching is done from a basement with a viewless window! Nevertheless, I roam far and wide in my watchings, and the scale and intensity of developments in the world in these last... 
Feb 22, 2024 | Flashpoints, Ukraine, Watchmen for Russia, World Watch
As things looked in 2015 From a prayer post I published nearly ten years ago: “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. But perhaps there is a key – that key is Russian national interest.”...