Father, we urgently need Your guidance on how to best serve those in need of healthcare. Please lead those working towards this cause. Guide and protect them from short-sightedness, manipulation, greed, self-interest, political agendas, and corruption.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths. Proverbs 3:5-6
“If we’re to keep our economy healthy and strong, we need to stay healthy and strong ourselves. Our success will depend on each person’s willingness to adopt healthy habits, our collective ability to improve an already effective health care system, and our continued research and pioneer work in the kinds of medical technologies you’re developing right here.” ~ Ronald Reagan August 30, 1984
Operation World Pray for Asia : China’s re-emergence as a global superpower is possibly the major global political and economic factor in the first decades of the 21st Century. China is growing more assertive in international diplomacy and political engagement. The pragmatic marriage of centralized state control with an increasingly capitalist economy has achieved stupendous financial growth. But such growth, fuelled by massive consumption of resources, cannot be sustained indefinitely; what happens when the bubble bursts will have a global impact. The major demographic shift to an aged population (as a result of the one-child policy) will place great burdens on those of working age. The huge gender gap – in many areas, a shortfall of 20-30% from equal gender balance – has further serious implications for long-term societal stability. The quasi-colonization by ethnic Han of China’s hinterlands (Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Tibet, Yunnan) and accelerating immigration to under-populated and under-developed Russian Siberia are all potentially calamitous to the indigenous populations. Pray for God’s will to be done, in China as in heaven.
Teach me to do your will, for you are my God; may your good Spirit lead me on level ground. Psalms 143:10 (NIV)
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