Theme: Thy Kingdom Come
Geographical Focus: Alaska, Greenland, Northern Canada, and the Indigenous communities of the Arctic regions.
Kingdom Focus: Indigenous peoples, isolated communities, cultural identity, family wellbeing, healthcare, education, environmental pressures, access to the Gospel, and the raising of local disciples.
Big Question: Who remembers the people living beyond the roads, cities, and headlines?
The eagle continued northward after crossing the ocean, following the coastline until the crowded cities, highways, cultivated fields, and familiar signs of modern life gradually disappeared beneath it. Forests gave way to open tundra, rivers became narrow lines of silver beneath the morning light, and the land stretched into a vast expanse of rock, snow, ice, and water. From above, the Arctic seemed almost empty, but the eagle soon discovered that silence did not mean absence.
Scattered across the enormous landscape were small communities where families had lived for generations, learning to read the weather, travel across frozen ground, navigate the sea, preserve food, protect one another, and survive conditions that many people from warmer regions could scarcely imagine. The people understood that the Arctic demanded respect. A careless decision could place an entire family at risk, while cooperation, memory, patience, and wisdom could sustain a community through the longest winter.
In one of those settlements, a woman named Anaana rose before dawn and added wood to the small stove in the centre of her home. The cold had pressed against the walls throughout the night, but the fire had remained alive. Its warmth slowly filled the room, touching the photographs of her parents, children, and grandchildren that stood upon a shelf near the window. Outside, darkness still covered the settlement, and the wind moved across the frozen ground with such force that familiar paths could disappear beneath drifting snow.
Anaana had learned from her mother that surviving the cold required more than heavy clothing, a strong house, and enough food. A family needed memory, discipline, cooperation, identity, and hope. People had to remember where they came from, which routes were safe, how the seasons changed, where food could be found, when the ice could carry weight, and when it could no longer be trusted. They had to listen to the elders, watch the sky, recognise changes in the wind, and understand that no one survived the Arctic completely alone.
As she prepared tea, Anaana looked towards the window and thought about her grandson, who had left the community to continue his education in a distant city. He had called two days earlier and told her that he was doing well, but she could hear uncertainty beneath his voice. He was surrounded by people, yet he felt alone. He was learning new ideas and gaining new opportunities, but he was also becoming unsure about where he truly belonged.
In the city, some people treated him as though his community belonged to a forgotten past. Others spoke about the Arctic as though it were merely a wilderness, an environmental concern, a source of minerals, a military region, or a strategic territory. Very few seemed interested in the families, languages, cultures, memories, spiritual questions, and everyday struggles carried by the people who actually lived there.
Anaana understood his struggle because she had watched many young people leave. Some returned with knowledge and skills that strengthened their communities, while others returned wounded by discrimination, addiction, isolation, or the feeling that they no longer belonged fully in either world. Some never returned at all, and with each departure the community wondered what knowledge, language, memory, and responsibility might disappear with them.
She stirred the fire and remembered the words her father had often spoken: “A people can survive the cold outside, but they cannot survive when the fire inside them goes out.” He had not been speaking only about the stove. He had been speaking about identity, faith, family, language, memory, dignity, and purpose. He believed that when a people lost the stories that taught them who they were, they became vulnerable to every outside voice that tried to define them.
The history of many Arctic Indigenous communities contains both remarkable courage and profound pain. Their ancestors survived some of the most demanding environments on earth and developed knowledge, skills, relationships, and cultural practices that sustained families across generations. Yet many communities also experienced displacement, outside control, forced assimilation, suppression of their languages, and systems that separated children from their families in the name of education, religion, or civilisation.
The consequences did not disappear when those policies changed. Pain moved quietly from one generation to another, and families carried grief that was not always easy to explain. Some communities struggled with addiction, depression, suicide, domestic violence, overcrowded housing, unemployment, and limited access to healthcare. Young people often found themselves caught between respect for their heritage and the pressure to become someone else in order to succeed.
The eagle circled above the settlement and saw more than hardship. It saw fishermen preparing their equipment, teachers opening classrooms, healthcare workers serving with limited resources, elders passing knowledge to children, and mothers ensuring that no family went without food. It saw young people using technology to preserve their language, record the stories of elders, connect isolated communities, and tell the world that their people were still present, still learning, still creating, and still hoping.
The eagle also saw believers gathering in small churches and homes. Some had inherited a form of Christianity associated with painful histories of cultural control, while others had encountered Jesus as the One who restored their dignity rather than erased it. They were discovering that following Christ did not require them to despise their language, community values, creativity, heritage, or the good things God had allowed to develop among their people.
The Gospel was never intended to destroy human identity but to redeem people from sin and bring every part of life under the lordship of Jesus Christ. The book of Revelation does not describe heaven as a place where every language, culture, and people have disappeared into sameness. It describes a multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language standing before the throne of God. Their diversity remains visible, but their worship is united.
This truth must shape the way the Church prays for and serves Indigenous peoples. Christians must never confuse the Gospel with the politics, customs, ambitions, or cultural preferences of those who carry it. Jesus must be presented faithfully as Lord and Saviour, but His name must never be used to justify domination, disrespect, forced assimilation, or the destruction of a people’s dignity.
As the eagle moved farther across the Arctic, it saw communities in Alaska, Northern Canada, Greenland, and the islands scattered across the northern waters. Some were connected by roads, but many could be reached only by air or sea. Food, medicine, building materials, fuel, and essential goods often travelled great distances before arriving. Severe weather could interrupt transportation, isolate families, delay medical care, and increase the already high cost of daily life.
The remoteness of these communities created challenges that people in major cities rarely considered. A medical emergency might require evacuation across a great distance. A shortage of teachers could disrupt the education of an entire generation. Poor internet access could limit learning, communication, business, healthcare, and access to government services. Housing shortages could force several generations to live in crowded spaces, increasing stress and pressure within families.
Yet distance did not diminish the value of the people who lived there. A child in an isolated Arctic settlement mattered as much to God as a child in any global city. An elderly woman praying beside a stove mattered as much as a well-known leader speaking before thousands. A young man struggling with identity in a distant university mattered as much as anyone whose name appeared in the news.
The eagle also saw that the physical environment was changing. Travel routes that elders had trusted for generations were becoming less predictable. Ice conditions were shifting, coastlines were becoming vulnerable, and changes in the weather were affecting hunting, fishing, transportation, food security, local economies, and the safety of entire communities. For people whose daily lives were closely connected to the land and sea, environmental change was not merely an argument between experts. It directly affected survival, family income, culture, and the future.
At the same time, the Arctic was attracting growing political and commercial attention because of its natural resources, shipping possibilities, and strategic importance. Governments and companies looked northward and saw opportunity, but the people who lived there often wondered whether decisions about their future would be made with them or simply around them.
Kingdom justice requires more than speaking on behalf of people. It requires listening to them, recognising their God-given dignity, respecting their legitimate concerns, and ensuring that economic development does not sacrifice their homes, health, heritage, land, or future for the benefit of distant interests.
As Anaana sat beside the fire, she opened a small Bible that had belonged to her mother. The pages were worn, and several passages had been marked by hand. She turned to Isaiah 42, where the prophet called the coastlands, wilderness settlements, and distant communities to lift their voices in praise. The words reminded her that God was not distant from the Arctic. He heard worship rising from villages the world rarely noticed, and He knew every family, every child, every elder, every hidden grief, and every unanswered prayer.
Anaana began to pray for her grandson. She asked God to preserve his faith, give him wisdom, and help him remember who he was. She prayed that he would gain knowledge without losing compassion, pursue opportunity without abandoning responsibility, and one day use his education to strengthen his people.
She also prayed for the children of the Arctic, especially those growing up without a clear sense of hope. She asked God to raise teachers who would believe in them, counsellors who would listen to them, pastors who would disciple them, leaders who would defend them, and families strong enough to help them face the pressures of a rapidly changing world.
Outside, the wind continued to move across the frozen ground, but the fire inside the house had grown stronger. Its light passed through the window and became one of the small lights the eagle had seen from above.
Nathan, still following the eagle in his imagination, understood that national transformation could not be measured only by what happened in capitals and major cities. A nation could speak proudly about progress while remote communities remained neglected. A country could celebrate equality while Indigenous children continued to face barriers that others never encountered. It could possess enormous wealth while families in isolated regions struggled for housing, healthcare, education, clean water, employment, and hope.
God sees those who live at the edge of national attention. He remembers the communities that governments overlook, markets consider unprofitable, and churches find difficult to reach. He is the God of the city, but He is also the God of the tundra, the frozen coastline, the remote island, and the village beyond the road.
The fire beneath the ice is therefore more than a symbol of survival. It represents the faith, identity, resilience, wisdom, and hope that God has preserved among people who have endured both the severity of nature and the failures of human systems. Our prayer is that this fire will not be extinguished but purified, strengthened, and joined with a living encounter with Jesus Christ.
We pray that the Gospel will travel throughout the Arctic through local believers who understand the languages, cultures, histories, and needs of their communities. We pray that churches will raise disciples rather than create dependence, that outside ministries will come with humility rather than superiority, and that Indigenous followers of Jesus will be equipped to teach, lead, translate Scripture, care for families, and carry the good news from one community to another.
We also pray that governments, institutions, businesses, and churches will remember that no people are too distant to matter. The measure of a nation’s compassion is often revealed in the way it treats those who live far from centres of power.
As the eagle continued its journey, the small light from Anaana’s window remained visible beneath it. The darkness was vast, the winter was long, and the wind was strong, but the fire continued to burn.
Consider how easily remote communities can disappear from public attention. Most national conversations are shaped by large cities, major industries, political centres, and people with access to influential platforms, but God’s attention is never limited by geography, population, wealth, or visibility.
Reflect on the difference between sharing the Gospel with a people and imposing an outside culture upon them. Ask whether Christian mission can honour the language, history, creativity, family structures, and dignity of Indigenous peoples while faithfully calling every person to repentance, obedience, and faith in Jesus Christ.
Think about young people who leave remote communities for education or employment and find themselves caught between two worlds. Pray that they will gain knowledge and opportunity without losing their identity, responsibility, faith, and connection to their families.
Ask God to reveal whether you have unconsciously regarded some communities as too distant, too small, too difficult, or too different to deserve sustained prayer, investment, and partnership.
Isaiah 42:10–12: “Sing to the Lord a new song, and His praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you coastlands and you inhabitants of them. Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains. Let them give glory to the Lord, and declare His praise in the coastlands.”
Psalm 68:5–6: “A father of the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy habitation. God sets the solitary in families.”
Psalm 147:16–18: “He gives snow like wool; He scatters the frost like ashes; He casts out His hail like morsels; who can stand before His cold? He sends out His word and melts them; He causes His wind to blow, and the waters flow.”
Luke 4:18: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me, because He has anointed Me to preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted.”
Revelation 7:9–10: “After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude which no one could number, of all nations, tribes, peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb.”
The Arctic regions of the Americas include northern areas of Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and many islands and coastal communities. These lands are home to diverse Indigenous peoples with distinct languages, histories, traditions, and relationships with the environment. Their knowledge of the land, sea, animals, weather, seasons, and community survival has developed across generations.
Many Arctic communities are separated from major cities by great distances and may have limited road access. Travel, food supply, healthcare, education, housing, communication, and employment can therefore be more difficult and expensive. Severe weather can interrupt transportation, while medical emergencies may require patients to travel far from their families and communities.
Historical policies of assimilation and the separation of children from families have left enduring wounds in many Indigenous communities. The weakening of language, family structures, cultural confidence, and community leadership has contributed to intergenerational trauma. These realities must be approached with honesty, humility, and a commitment to healing rather than judgment.
At the same time, Arctic peoples should never be presented only through stories of suffering. Their communities also demonstrate resilience, creativity, cooperation, knowledge, hospitality, spiritual hunger, and a strong concern for future generations. Many people are using education, technology, local leadership, cultural renewal, and Christian ministry to strengthen their communities.
Environmental changes are also affecting many Arctic settlements because travel, food gathering, housing, coastlines, and local economies are closely connected to the condition of the land and sea. Decisions about natural resources and development must therefore include the voices, knowledge, rights, and wellbeing of the people who live in these regions.
The Church has an important role to play, but it must serve with humility. Effective ministry should strengthen local families and equip local disciples rather than create dependence upon distant leaders. Scripture translation, culturally informed discipleship, trauma care, leadership development, education, healthcare support, youth mentoring, and practical service can all contribute to the wellbeing of Arctic communities.
We thank God for the Indigenous peoples of the Arctic and for the knowledge, resilience, creativity, languages, family bonds, and community values that have been preserved across generations. We thank Him for elders who continue to pass wisdom to younger people and for parents who labour to provide stability, identity, and hope for their children.
We thank God for teachers, healthcare workers, pilots, counsellors, pastors, missionaries, translators, emergency workers, community leaders, and volunteers who serve in remote regions despite difficult conditions. We thank Him for believers who are following Jesus while helping their communities recover dignity, heal from historical wounds, and prepare for the future.
We also thank God for young people who are pursuing education and returning with skills that can strengthen their communities. We thank Him for every effort to preserve Indigenous languages, record the stories of elders, improve healthcare, expand educational opportunities, and ensure that remote communities are included in national decisions.
Above all, we thank God that no distance can separate a people from His presence. The Arctic is not forgotten before Him, and every prayer rising from its villages, homes, churches, coastlines, and frozen landscapes is heard.
Ask God to reveal whether you have overlooked people because they live far from the places that shape public attention. Allow Him to challenge any assumption that small or isolated communities are less important than cities, large churches, powerful institutions, or influential nations.
Listen for whether God is asking you to pray specifically for Indigenous children, young people, elders, families, pastors, teachers, healthcare workers, or local leaders. He may be inviting you to learn about a community whose history and present struggles are unfamiliar to you.
Consider whether God is calling you to become more careful in the way you speak about cultures that are different from your own. Ask Him to teach you how to uphold the authority of Scripture and the lordship of Jesus while treating every people with dignity, humility, patience, and love.
What I sense God saying to me:
Choose one Arctic community or Indigenous people group and spend time learning about its history, language, strengths, present challenges, and Christian witness. Avoid reducing the people to a single problem or stereotype. Look for evidence of resilience, leadership, creativity, and hope.
Pray intentionally for a young person who is struggling with identity, isolation, addiction, depression, or uncertainty about the future. You may not know that person by name, but God does. Ask Him to place trustworthy adults, faithful disciples, skilled counsellors, and compassionate friends around them.
Consider supporting a ministry or organisation involved in Scripture translation, Indigenous leadership development, healthcare, education, trauma care, youth mentoring, or community strengthening. Where possible, prioritise efforts that listen to local leaders and equip local people to shape the future of their own communities.
The community or people I will remember in prayer:
My practical action:
Father, we come before You in the name of Jesus Christ and thank You for the peoples and communities of the Arctic. You know every settlement, family, language, coastline, island, village, and home. No place is too distant for Your presence, and no person is hidden from Your sight.
We thank You for the courage, knowledge, resilience, creativity, and community strength that You have preserved among Indigenous peoples across Alaska, Northern Canada, Greenland, and the surrounding Arctic regions. Thank You for elders who have carried the memories of their people, parents who continue to protect their families, and young people who are searching for a future that honours both their heritage and their God-given purpose.
Father, we ask for healing wherever historical injustice, forced assimilation, family separation, discrimination, or cultural suppression has produced pain. Bring truth where stories have been denied, repentance where wrongdoing has been defended, justice where communities have been exploited, and reconciliation where relationships have been broken.
Heal the wounds that have passed from one generation to another. Strengthen families affected by addiction, depression, suicide, domestic violence, isolation, overcrowding, and hopelessness. Raise counsellors, pastors, healthcare professionals, teachers, and community workers who will serve with wisdom, patience, skill, and compassion.
Protect the children and young people of the Arctic. Give them a strong sense of identity, dignity, belonging, and purpose. When they leave their communities for education or employment, surround them with people who will respect them, encourage them, and help them remain connected to their families and faith.
Provide adequate housing, healthcare, education, clean water, food security, transportation, communication, and employment opportunities. Give governments wisdom to include Indigenous communities in decisions concerning their lands, resources, environment, and future. Do not allow commercial ambition or political strategy to silence the voices of the people who live upon the land.
Father, strengthen the Church throughout the Arctic. Forgive every way in which Your name has been associated with domination, disrespect, forced assimilation, or cultural destruction. Raise a generation of humble servants who will present Jesus faithfully without presenting their own culture as superior.
Equip Indigenous pastors, evangelists, teachers, translators, worship leaders, counsellors, and disciple-makers. Let the Scriptures become available and clearly understood in the languages of the people. Allow churches to become places of healing, truth, family restoration, practical service, and spiritual transformation.
Let the Gospel travel by road, sea, air, radio, digital platforms, and personal relationships. Let every remote community have the opportunity to encounter Jesus Christ through believers who demonstrate both truth and love.
Father, preserve the fire within these communities. Protect their children, honour their elders, strengthen their families, and guide their leaders. Let hope rise where despair has settled, let purpose rise where confusion has taken hold, and let the light of Christ shine through the long darkness.
May worship arise from the coastlands, islands, tundra, frozen villages, and northernmost settlements of the Americas. Let the peoples of the Arctic declare Your praise and take their place among the multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language standing before Your throne.
In Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.
Today, I declare that the peoples of the Arctic are seen, known, valued, and loved by God. No community is too small, no village is too remote, and no family is beyond the reach of His presence and redemptive power.
I declare healing over communities carrying the pain of historical injustice, family separation, cultural suppression, addiction, isolation, and hopelessness. I declare that children will be protected, young people will discover purpose, elders will be honoured, families will be strengthened, and local leaders will receive wisdom.
I declare that the Gospel of Jesus Christ will travel throughout the Arctic with humility, truth, compassion, and power. Indigenous disciples will arise, Scriptures will be understood in the languages of the people, and churches will become centres of healing, reconciliation, practical service, and disciple-making.
I declare that the fire of faith, identity, hope, resilience, and community will not be extinguished. The light of Christ will shine through the darkness, and praise will rise to God from the distant coastlands and northern settlements.
In Jesus’ mighty name, Amen.
Remember those who live beyond the roads, cities, and headlines. Refuse to measure the importance of a people by their population, economic power, political influence, or public visibility.
Carry an Arctic community in your prayers today. Pray for a child whose future feels uncertain, a young person caught between two worlds, an elder concerned about what may be lost, a pastor serving with limited resources, and a family keeping the fire alive through a long and difficult season.
The wind may be strong, the winter may be long, and the darkness may appear overwhelming, but the fire beneath the ice is still burning.
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.”— Isaiah 60:1 “And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways…”— 2 Chronicles 7:14 “It is of the […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee…”— John 17:21 “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.”— Mark 16:15 “The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few…”— Matthew 9:37 🔥 DAILY EXHORTATION Europe […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.”— Proverbs 2:6 “Great are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them.”— […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true… honest… just… pure… lovely… think on these things.”— Philippians 4:8 “Ye are the light of the world.”— Matthew 5:14 🔥 DAILY EXHORTATION Europe has profoundly […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.”— 1 Timothy 2:2 “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “The Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.”— 2 Thessalonians 3:3 “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”— Psalm 46:1 🔥 […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof…”— Psalm 24:1 “And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good.”— Genesis 1:31 🔥 DAILY EXHORTATION […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.”— Proverbs 16:3 “A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight.”— Proverbs 11:1 […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers…”— 1 Timothy 4:12 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord… to […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?”— Psalm 85:6 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray… then will […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.”— 3 John 1:2 “He sent his word, and healed them, and delivered […]
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Theme: Thy Kingdom Come in Europe 30 Days of Prayer & Fasting for Europe Anchored by:Patricia Mgbaji Presented by:God’s Eagle Ministries 📖 THEME SCRIPTURES “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom…”— Proverbs 9:10 “And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.”— […]
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