Father, as your children, we run to your loving arms right now for refuge and shelter. We know you are an ever-present help in our time of trouble.
We entrust our lives, our families, our homes, our possessions, and our futures to you, knowing that your love, your mercy, and your grace will always preserve, deliver, sustain, and strengthen us.
We trust in you. Therefore, we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the midst of the sea; though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its crashing waves. Nothing can shake, and nothing can break, our confidence in you, and your ever-faithful love.
Father, in this, our time of need, we ask for healing for those who are injured, comfort for those who mourn, hope for those in despair, and restoration for families who have lost loved ones, their homes, their livelihoods, their possessions.
We ask that you would speak to the hearts of those whom you have prospered and move them to action. May they quickly respond to your voice, giving generously and cheerfully to recovery, relief, and rebuilding efforts. We know that as they give, motivated by faith and love, you will make all grace, every favor and earthly blessing, abound to them, as you furnish them in abundance for every good work and charitable donation.
Lord, we pray that you would protect our brave first responders and relief workers, surrounding them with angels to assist in their heroic efforts. Give them the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical strength they need to perform their tasks. Give them your wisdom to know how to efficiently use the resources that are being provided. And we ask you to multiply those resources, just as you did when the young boy put his five loaves of bread and two small fish, into your hands.
Lord Jesus, you said in John 10:10 that,
“The thief comes only to steal, and kill, and destroy. I came that you may have life, and have it abundantly.”
Therefore, we know that fear, destruction, hopelessness, and chaos never come from you. We will not be deceived by satan, nor by religious leaders who tell us that typhoons, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions are “acts of God”. We know with unshakable certainty that you are good all the time, and that you are the Giver of every good and every perfect gift. (James 1:17)
So, now, we turn to the seas surrounding our nation and speak to them as Jesus spoke to the violent winds and waves on the Sea of Galilee, and we command, “Peace! Be still! Typhoons and storms, we command you to be turned away from the Philippines. We forbid you to bring destruction and death to our nation in Jesus’ name!”
Father, you laid the foundations of the earth in the very beginning. We thank you for stabilizing and strengthening those foundations beneath our nation right now. Uphold us. Protect and shield us, we pray.
Lord Jesus, you gave us the keys of kingdom authority, and you said that whatever we bind and forbid on earth will be bound and forbidden, having already been bound and forbidden in heaven.
You also said that whatever we loose and allow on earth will be loosed and allowed, having already been loosed and allowed in heaven. We know that neither disaster nor destruction is allowed in heaven. Therefore, we will not allow them in our nation.
We say, “Let your your kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth, just as it is in heaven!”
You also said the gates of hell itself would not be able to withstand the power of your Church. So we now rise in that authority, and bind the wild, violent, and destructive forces of the seas, and those generated in the earth’s crust and mantle beneath our nation. We now forbid typhoons, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions in the Philippines, and declare that those forces are being restrained and dissipated in the name of Jesus!
Abba-Father, you bring light out of darkness,
victory out of defeat, and life out of death. Be glorified as you do so in the Philippines. We lay hold on your promises for our nation, the “Land of the Morning”.
And we thank you for your grace and mercy, in Jesus’ name, Amen!
His Heart, My Home 