At least 11 died and about 40 others were injured in a suicide bombing at a political rally in Quetta, Balochistan province, where hundreds had gathered.
Meanwhile, severe flooding in Punjab‘s farming belt has affected more than two million people and brought a death toll of at least 33 over just a few days. About 2,200 villages have flooded and close to a million people evacuated. Throughout Pakistan, a total of over 840 people have died since late June in flood-related incidents.
Pakistan is home to more than 782 unreached people groups, and ranks eighth among the most dangerous countries in the world for Christians, according to Open Doors’ World Watchlist. Among the more than 244,100,000 people who live in this country squeezed between India and Afghanistan, 96 percent are Muslim and 99 percent have yet to hear the good news about Jesus.
Lord, please rescue those who are in danger and provide for the needs of those who are displaced. Bring Christians to them to share Your love and good news, and give every heart in Pakistan such a deep hunger for Your love they will seek Truth with all their hearts and find You. Meet every Muslim in their dreams and show them the way to salvation. Let them see Your heart of love for them and long to know You.
Many Christians in Pakistan face working dangerous or unsanitary jobs, false accusations of blasphemy, imprisonment, mob attacks, death, torture, abduction, forced conversion to Islam and forced marriage to a Muslim.
Lord, please protect Christians in Pakistan from harm. Empower them to forgive and show love such as no Muslim in those areas has experienced. Speak through them, love through them in such powerful ways Muslims all around them will drop what they have been holding onto and reach for You, Jesus, instead. Give them favor with police, judges, neighbors and coworkers. Provide the way for Muslims bent on evil and violence to be charged with their crimes and placed in jail so they will not harm others. Visit them in their dreams at night and show them their need for a Savior. Talk to them throughout the day and give them visions that lead them to repentance. Break the chains that bind them to false religion and demons of violence, and grip them with remorse for their sins. In the same way that You gripped Paul in Acts 9 for the murders of so many Christians and then transformed his heart to follow You with a passion, lead many lost to faith and build Your church. Lift the veil from these persecutors’ eyes and unstop their ears so they will see You as You truly are and hear Your voice calling them to salvation. Ruin everything they trust in; give them no peace until they fall to their knees in fear of You and repentance. Use the mothers, the sisters, the wives in their lives to pressure them into change. Bury them beneath such a burden of guilt they can no longer bear it. Then move them to ask questions about Christ, to seek You and find You. Shine Your light into their darkness so brightly that they and all around them will hunger and thirst for You. Out of these terrible tragedies, Lord, we ask You to bring forth eternal good. Lead the lost to faith, grow the faith of the saved strong. Build Your kingdom in these communities, drawing every heart to Yourself. Grow Your church in Pakistan. For every Christian who is persecuted or martyred, bring 1,000 Muslims to faith in Christ. Lord, so many Pakistanis have never heard Your good news because Islam forbids them to convert. But where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. Set the peoples of Pakistan free to seek Truth with all their hearts and find You. John 14:6. In Your name, Jesus. Amen.
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