July’s Prayershift gathering was a powerful time of prayer and testimony. Ian Cole shared a range of powerful stories from his recent meetings with Arab Church leaders:

• Since 2010 more than 4 million people have come to Christ in Egypt - this is a growth of over 40% in the church. They focus on —LOVE - PRAYER - TRUTH; their deep love for their Muslim neighbours enabling them to forgive even after horrendous massacres and attacks has shaken the Egyptian nation.
• A prominent Iman asked to go to a church prayer meeting in Egypt, whilst there he had a vision of Jesus and a conversation with the Lord that led to the Iman giving his life to Jesus. He then confessed he was nervous about seeing his devout Muslim wife. When he returned home she told him she had had a vision of Jesus and given her life to Him at the same time as her husband!
• A young woman and her baby were hit by a truck. sadly the baby died and was put in the hospital morgue. The young woman went home to her family. They were all recent Christians and they said - "didn’t we read the Jesus can raise people from the dead?" They prayed from midnight till six o clock. At six a nurse walked past the morgue and heard a baby crying, she opened the door of the heavily refrigerated unit and saw the woman’s baby sat up.
• In Turkey, many churches (often small in number) are tripling in size with Christians joining them from the refugee population.

We prayed for a number of issues God laid on our hearts - why don’t you join us and pray into these issues as well:

• Europe Shall be saved - we pray for a fresh move of God across Europe and for young leaders to arise as Evangelists, prophets, and teachers to take the gospel forward.
• We pray for the Balkans - for God to turn back the flood of Islamic missionaries and for peace to be restored between Macedonia and Greece.
• We pray for turning in our nation 
  • We pray for those on the frontline in bringing unity - for protection on their families and relationships. Many are under savage spiritual attack.
  • We pray against fear - for people in the workplace, schools, communities to have the boldness to heart God’s call to demonstrate His kingdom.  
• We pray against the growth in drugs and knife crime 
• • Lord rescue 10 - 14 years olds who are being lured into drug gangs 
  • We pray your hand of protection on our towns and cities - the Police say they expect an escalation in violence over the summer - we pray against this.
  • We pray against the drugs like black mamba and monkey dust, that rob people of their senses and kill, break up the gangs and rescue the victims 
  • We pray against those gangs claiming parts of our cities as their territories - we proclaim the earth is the Lords and everything in it, we pray against any no-go areas in our nation.

Steve Botham - Director of World Prayer Centre