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Pray FOR and WITH JAPAN Sunday, April 10th

Japanese Red Cross

As participants of an emergency meeting a few days ago of Christians from inside and outside Japan inNagoya, we would like to invite you all to join our brothers and sisters in Japan with our prayers andintercession this Sunday. They will meet in several locations in Japan (2 PM Japanese time) to bring the current situation before God. They have clearly heard, in all the disasters that have happened, the deadly serious call of the coming King to repentance. It is their deep conviction that God is calling the entire nation of Japan to walk away from their idols and come back to him. Instead of just praying „for Japan“ as an innocent victim and donate money for humanitarian aid to restore the country back to the situation before the disasters, they specifically ask to pray „with Japan“ to the God from whom this national shaking originates, and to ask him if mercy can triumph one more time over justice.

As the judgement of God begins at the house of God, Dr. Mitsuo Fukuda (Osaka) has named three core idols of Christians that are competing with God and are venerated in most churches far more than most realize:the system of a professional and pyramidal priesthood with the imported theology of God as a distant and harmless grand-father that literally teaches „the laity“ to death; the obsession with costly church buildings that are far too large for the average of 20 believers per church; and the religious enslavement to the routines and rituals of the church programs, which are typically centered around a lifeless One Man show.According to leaders in society, business and politics, the church, as it is, has next to no voice nor influence in the Japanese society. Where the church has turned a deaf ear to all prophetic calls for a return to their first love, to unity and to a life aligned with the principles of the Kingdom of God, the judgment of God goes beyond the house of God and now implicates the entire country. The only way to stop this process is a national return to God. This, however, would mark a historic chance for a new beginning, and could be the beginning of liberating the nation of Japan to stepping into the historic role amongst the nations that God has planned for it.

-Please pray with them this coming Sunday in services, house churches and families, that the Japanese Church will have the strength to walk away from their idols and find back to their God, who is not only their savior, but also wants to be their acting King.

-Pray for a national repentance, for a capitulation of its leaders before the King of Kings.

- We should not attempt to hinder Gods arm. It makes no sense to pray against a situation that God has authorized. But as intercessors we have huge privileges: we can and should pray for repentance and forgiveness, negotiate with God about the number of those with righteous standing (Genesis 18), ask him to shorten the days of tribulation (Mark 13:20) and stand in the gap for a nation that God is calling back to him.

- Please pray if God would have you fast for three days towards the breakthrough of Gods redemptive purposes for Japan.

- Beyond humanitarian aid Japan urgently needs help for a spiritual reconstruction and reformation, based on the solid foundations of the Kingdom of God. More on this in the separate report: When God Shakes A Nation. To show solidarity with Japan in this and to stand with them in an international partnership, we have created the Save Japan Fund. Please pray what the King would want you to contribute towards that; and if you can, please use one of the accounts below of „Starfish Verein,“ a charity that will facilitate a part of this:

Schweiz: Starfish Verein, Postfinance Bern, Konto 60-516665-9

Deutschland: Starfish Verein Konto 1064138; BLZ 68350048 Sparkasse Lörrach-Rheinfelden.

For international wires: IBAN DE45 68350048 0001 0641 38 / BIC SOLADES1LOE

For the international delegates at the Nagoya meeting:

Wolfgang and Mercy Simson, Christoph Tiedeke

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