1 Timothy 2:1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men.
Ephesians 6:18 Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints.
Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
As the Tokyo Summer Olympics kick-off, two Japanese Christian organizations are calling for churches worldwide to engage in a total of one million hours of prayer for a spiritual awakening in Japan.
Japanese believers make up less than one percent of the country’s population of 126 million people.
Japan Evangelical Missionary Association has launched the prayer campaign, Japan 1 Million, as they invite fellow believers to pray for at least one hour during the Olympics for God to move in Japan.
Pastor Keishi Ikeda, who leads JISP, explained he is “driven by a vision to see the Japanese Church grow to ten million people by 2024.” “Imagine ten million Christians in Japan … This would change Japan,” he said.
About 1,975 people or groups have signed up for the campaign, which has already seen 140,254 hours of prayer.
I believe it would be a good thing if you’re going to pray for Japan that you include America in your prayer.
America has many people claiming to be Christian and going to church once a week for an hour or two but many are lukewarm or not saved at all.
Many American church people are more interested in the world than they are interested in God.
But this way of going to church once a week for an hour or two and not having any more to do with God until the next time they go to church has become the norm for many so-called Christians in churches around the world.
Revelations 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
Revelations 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
Revelations 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
1 John 2:15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
1 John 2:17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work sin.
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