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Thank you to all who came to today’s Prayer and Fellowship meeting at Limehouse.

It was great to see you all.

The next borough meeting is on Wednesday 7th November at Bethnal Green Police Station (multi-faith room on 2nd floor), the next Limehouse meeting is on Friday 9th November at 7.30am (multi-faith room, Ground Floor, Harold Scott Building)

Check out our new events page  for more information, or for any changes to the meeting times or location. You can also see information about the CPA Annual Celebration which is this Friday. I hope to see you all there.

Kind Regards

Chris

It was a great prayer meeting last Friday. The group in prayer felt called to focus on the persecution of Christians around the world.

I mentioned that recently I’d been told that in the last year 10,000 Christians have been martyred for doing no more than worshiping Jesus. However, sadly a look around the internet shows that this may be a grossly under-estimated figure.

The World Evangelical Alliance has reported that over 100 million believers, in more than 60 countries, are routinely denied the most basic human rights, simply because of their Christian faith? It has been estimated that 176,000 Christians were martyred from mid-2008 to mid-2009?, Emeal Zwayne, executive vice president of Living Waters, said that few Christians in the U.S. are even aware “that an estimated 176,000 Christians were martyred from mid-2008 to mid-2009.” (www.livingwaters.com).

Those of us that work within the UK police service here are free to worship, however we should remember in prayer those who live under oppression and risk of death because of their love for Our Lord Jesus.

Next Limehouse meeting, 7.30am Friday 2nd November, as usual we meet first in the canteen.

It was lovely to see you all this morning. Again, a wonderful time of prayer, songs and the encouragement of God’s word. Welcome back to Chris and well done for staying up to make the meeting…who needs sleep anyway!!

For those who couldn’t make it…we missed you! Here is a summary:

Through Isaiah we see a picture of God’s people (Judah) who are being hounded by Syria and Israel, not to mention the Assyrian colossus. They are oppressed, despondent, hopeless and broken. What they want is a leader who will be more ruthless and violent than their enemies who will wipe the opposition from the face of the earth. What they get is the promise of a baby boy who will become the Prince of Peace. This promise was the only solution to their problem then….and it is the only solution to our problems today.

Isaiah 55: 8 & 9

8 “My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts,” says the Lord.
“And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine.
9 For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.”

God doesn’t always answer our prayers the way we expect Him to or when we think the time is right…but His timing is always perfect and His solutions always faultless. The more we get to know God and focus on Him the more we will be able to trust that His answers are…well…perfect!

We look forward to seeing you at the next meeting which will be on Friday 26th October, 7.30am at Limehouse.

Have a wonderful week.
God bless
Lara