You're the God of this Country

God has been really speaking to me a lot today about what to pray for for the Burmese people. A couple of weeks ago when I met with Katherine Rudisill she told me her thoughts about storms. Her thoughts were that storms come to different areas, countries, etc because something needs to happen there. Either people need to be made aware of what is happening, or darkness needs to be wiped out, or people need to get there to help (or any combination of the 3). I really digested this and thought it was very interesting that the Lord revealed that to her.

If anyone knows me well, they know that I don't like storms. They make me scared and depressed, but this interpretation about storms gave me hope. She also told me to turn storms into prayers, for example, see them in pictures. When it rains, as the Lord to rain down on your heart and clean out the junk there.

So when I heard about the Burmese cyclone I started pondering. Starting asking questions of why the storm hit Burma, why did it not hit any other country as bad? He has been answering that question ever since. He has been answering it with news, with people from the Village who went there, and today the internet.

The Burmese are an oppressed people. There government is very corrupt, and renamed the country in the early 90s because the Junta government wanted to make their presence known to the rest of the world. They are primarily Buddhist. They have a large AIDS epidemic. They are the source of human trafficking in Asia, and a large distributor of opium. They have lots of resources, but their government is not letting them use it. And as most of you know, they didn't want any help to come in after the cyclone, leaving their people hopeless and helpless.

The Lord showed me to pray for the protection of these people. That the gospel would flood the peoples hearts, especially the governments hearts, like the cyclone flooded the country. He lead me to pray for the women and children who are sold into the sex trade and made to fight in the military. He just kept showing me to pray that He would flood over the people. That He would be made known.

And lastly He showed me to pray this song (God of this City) over Burma, will you pray it along with me..

You're the God of this city, You're the King of these people
You're the Lord of this nation, You are
You're the Light in this darkness, You're the Hope to the hopeless
You're the Peace to the restless, You are

There is no one like our God, there is no one like our God

For greater things have yet to come, and greater things are still to be done in this city
Greater things have yet to come, and greater things are still to be done in this city

Greater things have yet to come, and greater things are still to be done here

I felt helpless when I read all these things about Burma. I immediately wanted to do something, but knew that little me could not do much, but pray. The Lord is the God of these people, and He sent this cyclone to this country so that we would intercede for them. Even though Burma is no longer in the news, they are still hurting and in darkness. Pray that the Lord's light would shine brightly where it is dark. There really is no one like our God.