Prayer from Within Syria

One of our sisters in Christ in Syria has sent the following prayer concerns. "Appreciate being in your prayers since we choose to stay here in our country and have a lot to do among refugees. We visit, help, support and share the Gospel with them. We have a home bible study once a week in addition to prayer meetings. Our prayer requests are: 1 Pray for the peace of Syria and special prayers of protection for those who hold the name of Christ in Syria and serving him in pure heart. 2 Pray to have courage to continue visiting those refugee families although it is dangerous. 3 Pray to have wisdom how to share our faith. 4 Pray for those who lost family members and for traumatized people as a result of all this violence, killing, bombing, and kidnapping, It is so frightening. Pray for both the children and adults." Additional prayer concerns from our office: 1 Please pray that the USA and other external powers will hold back and not get involved in the conflict there except for humanitarian purposes. There are too many possible unintended consequences. 2 Pray that the evil one and his principalities and powers of destruction, violence and death will be bound and that peace, calm and restoration will come to this conflicted land. Thanks for your prayer support! International Prayer Council