releaseinternational.org
prayershield
January–March 2021
A young woman worships in a house church near Vientiane, Laos.
JANUARY 2021 Heavenly Father, You hear the cries of the oppressed and, in Your great compassion, You respond (Nehemiah 9:27). You are the One who sets us free. Thank You, Lord, that You are Defender, Deliverer and Redeemer for our persecuted family. Fight their cause, Lord, and deliver justice for them. Though their enemies lay snares and traps for them, lead them out into wide, open spaces where they can walk with You in freedom and in peace. In Jesus’ name, Amen
LAOS
FRIDAY 1: Lord, at the start of a new year, we declare Your Lordship over all the earth, including those nations such as Laos where Your people are persecuted. We pray that Your will be done and Your kingdom come.
SATURDAY 2: Ask God to bless and protect His people in Laos. Christians represent about two per cent of the country’s seven million people, most of whom are Buddhists.
SUNDAY 3: Pray for a change of heart among Laos’ majority Buddhists who often view Christians as traitors practising a ‘foreign’ religion.
MONDAY 4: Officials in Saravan province recently drove out of their homes two families from Pasing-Kang for refusing to renounce their faith. Pray for these believers, now forced to live in the nearby forests.
TUESDAY 5: Thank God for the Lao Government’s recent attempt to promote a 2019 law for the ‘protection and awareness’ of Christians. Pray that the law will be respected and upheld across the country, including in rural areas.