More than 19,000 residents of Yellowknife in Canada‘s Northwest Territories have been evacuated as firefighters battle 236 active fires in that area, just a fraction of the 1,000 fires raging across Canada and pouring smoke into the US. More than 29,500 people across the Northwest Territories are under evacuation orders, and over 15,000 in British Columbia. (CNN and Reuters, August 19)
More than 8,500 people in the Spanish Canary Islands‘ Tenerife have fled their homes and that number could climb past 26,000, as over 12,000 acres have already burned, and firefighters have not been able to contain the blazes due to hot, dry, windy conditions. No injuries have been reported. (ABC News, August 19)
On Saturday, eight villages in Greece near the northeastern border of Turkey were evacuated due to wildfires.
Let’s also continue praying for Maui and other areas of the world recovering from devastating fires this summer.
We ask You, Lord, for those facing fires right now. Give firefighters courage, wisdom, strength, and Your covering and protection as they battle the blaze. Meet them in the midst of the fire, show them the way to go and how to stop the spread, and please, Lord, bring rain. Shield people, homes, businesses, livestock, properties, forests, and wildlife. Provide the way of escape for those who are trapped. Whenever someone cries out to You, hear them, O God, and answer. Lord, so many across the world have lost homes and loved ones due to fire and other devastation this year. Please meet them in their sorrow and desperation, comfort them like only You can, and show them You are the God they are looking for. Provide for all their needs, and do it in a way that they know it was You, so they will place their faith in the only One who can truly help and heal them now. Be our Shield, our Comforter, our Home, not just in these physical fires but in the fiery trials we now face. For we have wandered far from You, and now it seems as if the things we trusted in are going up in flames. We need You, Lord. Here in the midst of the fire, let us see You with us, holding out Your arms full of grace, ready to save. Set us free from all that has consumed us that is not You. Change our minds, transform our hearts, and revive us, O Lord. Consume us with desire for You alone. For only when we are held in Your everlasting arms will we truly be safe. In Your name. Amen.
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