Stepping Heavenward

Here is a list that we are using to pray for the persecuted church, you can find the full post  at this website http://www.cru.org/train-and-grow/devotional-life/pray-for-persecuted-church.html

How to Pray for Practical Needs

Along with the example prayers in the Bible, there are some practical needs persecuted believers would love your prayers for:

• Please pray persecuted believers would have access to a Bible.
• Pray they have the courage to remain in their homeland.
• Please pray for believers who have been rejected by family and friends. Pray that God would surround them with a new Christian "family" who loves them and supports them emotionally and physically.
• Pray for God to be an advocate for women who are socially vulnerable or have lost the custody of their children because of their faith.
• Please pray that God would provide persecuted believers with jobs and safe places to live.

• Please pray persecuted believers would know the hope God gives (Ephesians 1:8).
• Pray the Holy Spirit would strengthen them (Ephesians 3:16).
• Please pray persecuted believers would know how much God loves them (Ephesians 3:17)
• Pray they would know how to share the gospel (Ephesians 6:19).
• Please pray persecuted believers would fearlessly tell others about Jesus (Ephesians 6:20).

To create additional ways to pray from the Bible, take any book from the New Testament (except the gospels). Search for verses with the word "pray." Then use those verses to create prayer requests, just as in the 5 examples above.

Here is a link to the 21 Christians killed http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/18/isis-christians-killed-_n_6703278.html