"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, February 28, 2006
LORD JESUS CHRIST, use all our attorneys in India and network of friends in the UK, USA, India and Pakistan to talk to presidents and prime ministers in South Asia this week about the persecution emergency in Rajasthan from the saffron goons. May President Bush and the others involved take the actions needed to protect the orphans and needy children of Rajasthan as well as the persecuted staff missionaries and church leaders that are reaching them in your name. Particularly use Mike Glenn's Rajasthan Persecution Memorandum to speak to President Bush and his staff as they fly to India and Pakistan. AMEN and AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, February 27, 2006
BRIGHT AND MORNING STAR, we praise you that you guide us into the right direction and show us all truth. Help Shibu John, Stephen, Dr. Bray, Robby Brumberg and the whole international communications team to better present your truth in a world where the mass-media is filled with deception, disinformation and misunderstanding about the humanitarian work and beliefs of innocent Christians in India and Pakistan. Help us to get trained staff and computer software to connect Hopegivers with the children and projects they sponsor and to build a national reporting network in developing countries that will get the truth out. Help us to include mass communication training and information dissemination in all our curriculum and bless our plans to hold mass media training seminars in south Asia. AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday & Sunday, February 25-26, 2006
LORD OF LORDS, AND LORD ALL POWERFUL we unite to ask you to move through your holy spirit to call intercessors around the world to prayer and fasting this weekend and throughout the next 10 days for the persecuted believers and innocent children of Rajasthan. Keep Dr. Sam and Bishop Thomas safe as they face the concerted rage and intimidation campaign of the terrorists there. Use the efforts of Bill and Ivy and the communications team today and this week as they extend the call to prayer in Columbus and throughout the world. Especially use the "tell a friend to pray" campaign to enlist thousands more from the website ministry and draw in more financial support for the expenses of the legal team on the ground in India. Keep the Thomas' strong and wise Lord, filling their mouths with the right words of encouragement and inspiration. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, February 24, 2006
KING OF THE NATIONS, we pray for President Bush, the White House staff, the State Department and the United Nations human rights staff as the USA president prepares to travel to South Asia that they will all help preserve freedom of speech and religion in Rajasthan and other troubled areas where terrorists are trying to intimidate Christians. Help Dr. Sam and Bishop M.A. to stand firm and not lose heart and may we have increasing support and solidarity from other Christian groups and our Hope Program Partners like Gospel for Asia and Voice of the Martyrs. May the world rise up in prayer with us as we look to you to defend us in this hour of trial and help the communications team to get the Call to Prayer out as widely as possible. Lord, we look to you to protect our leaders and preserve the work of God in lands where demon powers and tyrants have too long ruled. You alone are King of the Nations! AMEN and AMEN!

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, February 23, 2006
LORD JESUS, it is hard to celebrate Bill's 59th birthday when Indian Christians are being falsely accused, framed, arrested, jailed, beaten and running for their lives. Confound the lying extremists who are mis-applying and using laws against the innocent. Bless the honest advocates, police, lawyers and political leaders that they might promote freedom of speech and religion in India. Give us an army of lawyers and journalists who will tell the truth and defend the Christians. God bless Bill today as he leads the overseas effort to promote the All India Global Call to Prayer today and be with our Indian staff workers as they face their hour of trial. Help Dr. Sam and Bishop M.A. to lead and inspire the staff by the power of the Holy Spirit. In the name of Jesus, AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, February 22, 2006
LORD GOD, we seek to honor your power and majesty in all we do. Help Dr. Bill and Robby Brumberg today as they prepare Bishop Thomas' Circle of Hope newsletter and the Calls to Prayer for March with a special emphasis on the All India Global Call to Prayer from Dr. Sam for the peace and welfare of India. May the news releases and Hope Alerts we send out in connection with the Hopegivers 2006 Graduation and current persecution be used to be bring much glory to You and motivate believers around the world to fast and pray for the persecuted Christians in India and everywhere. AMEN and AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, February 21, 2006
ONE WHO MADE THE SKIES, give safety and both ministry and planning opportunities to the Brays as they fly home to Georgia today from the National Religious Broadcasters. Water all the seed that has been sown in Texas this week with your Holy Spirit for we know Lord that we labor but you give the increase. Bless our Hope Program Partners here including Christian Aid, Voice of the Martyrs, World Children's Fund as well as our communication partners like the Barnabas Team, ECFA, MNN, Mail America, Silas Partners and so many others whose names you know. Especially bless the Hopegivers in Northern Texas and all our supporters and prayer partners here as they follow-up on these meetings. May many join is the All India Global Call to Prayer this week.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday, February 19, 2006
LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, prosper our relationships with the many new friends and prayer partners made today in Valley View, Texas and with our communications partners old and new at the National Religious Broadcasters, especially our coworkers at Silas Partners and Barnabas Team. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday & Saturday, February 17-18, 2006
ONE WHO SITS ON THE THRONE, use our meetings today with local Bray Family Supporters, Hope Ambassadors and the Jaipur Children's Aid support group to expand the numbers of churches and individuals in Texas who are supporting Hopegivers. Lord we thank you for the people of God here in Texas and their love for missions and your work. Help us to connect with them in a new way and may we leave Dallas with many new friends, Prayer Partners and supporters. Even use our meetings with B&B Media and the Barnabas group at NRB as well as Texas broadcasters and Christian leaders to expand our chains of prayer and support. In the name of Jesus we pray, AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, February 16, 2006
FAITHFUL AND TRUE, use Dr. Bill and Ivy as they arrive tonight in Dallas to begin five days of intense meetings with the Hopegivers communication team at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention and to develop new support in Texas to extend the Kingdom of God into the darkest parts of India, Africa and around the world. We ask this always remembering the suffering believers in India today and asking you to bring growth and revival to the churches of India as they face increased persecution. We ask this in Emmanuel's Name, Amen.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, February 15, 2006
LORD AND GOD, we pray for the innocent Hopegivers staff who have been arrested and are being held by Indian police without charge. Confound the new threats by police to arrest Dr. Samuel Thomas and Bishop M.A.Thomas in order to stop the Hopegivers staff missionary graduation in Kota. May the police preserve the peace and protect the constitutional rights of all Indian citizens to enjoy freedom of religion, including the Dalit untouchables. Help Bill and Ivy Bray as they must wisely distribute the news of increased persecution and issue Dr. Sam's call for global prayer support at the National Religious Broadcasters Convention in Dallas this weekend. Give us all traveling mercies and protection as we go to Dallas and India, and especially protect the 10,000 Bible school graduates who are traveling across India at this time. In the all-powerful name of Jesus we pray, AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, February 14, 2006
THE AMEN, bless the marriage of Ivy and Bil Bray today, and all our Hopegivers staff couples in Africa, India and around the world. Give them every grace and ever-expanding love. Give Dr. Sam and Bishop M.A. Thomas every grace as they are traveling today to the first graduation ceremony for our 10,000 newly-trained Apostles of Hope in India. May Christians around the world unite with us in a huge All-India Prayer Conference February 25-26 in Kota, Rajasthan. AMEN and AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday and Monday, February 12-13, 2006
ONE WHO IS HOLY AND TRUE, everything we have comes from your hand and so we look to you to meet the expenses and costs of our missions to Chicago, Dallas and India this month as well as the costs of projecting the vision for the work and for our daily bread and all the thousands whom you have entrusted us to care for here in the USA and in Belgaum, Bombay, Bellarie, Malawi, New Delhi, Kota and in the places like the Philippines and Haiti. Help us to be wise stewards of our finances and bless us as we seek to cut budgets and be frugal. Remove burdens and debts from us such as mortgages, car payments and other expenses that weigh us down and teach us not to worry about these things. Add many new regular faith-partners to our Bray Family Support Team and to the Hopegivers family. Attract large donors both Christian and non-Christian who will study us from a distance and discover that we are a worthy charity they want to support in large ways without our even asking. Supply every need great and small, and give us good perspectives on our challenges and situations. Help us to loan and not borrow. Replace our sinful fears with faith and help us because we are calling on the Name of Jesus, AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, February 10, 2006
KING OF KINGS, look how the heathen rage and the cow-belt bigots of northern India imagine a vain thing against us. Lord, come to our rescue and preserve us and protect us from their fear-driven harassment and terror. Forgive them for they know not what they do and confound them in their ignorance as they worship idols and persecute your holy ones. Have mercy Lord and make us faithful to maintain our physical and spiritual disciplines and grow in holiness as we work to develop Hopegivers this week. Give us your peace and wisdom in the midst of the storm, especiallythe leadership and communications staff that we might put oil on the troubled waters. All these things we ask in Jesus's name and for your glory. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, February 9, 2006
THE SPIRIT, inspire Dr. Bray and the communications department staff at Hopegivers for the next week as they finalize editorial copy for the next life-saving issues of the next Hopegivers Journal, Word for You Today devotional magazine, and the February/March newsletters. Help minimize interruptions and protect them from distractions as they work. We pray for the Apostles of Hope in India that they will be able to establish an Emmanuel School in every city of India and in all the surrounding South Asian lands. In Jesus' name we pray, AMEN and AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, February 8, 2006
ONE WHO HOLDS THE SEVEN STARS, we pray that you will bless the Hope Ambassadors movement as they recruit the first one million Hopegivers in the USA and Europe. Bless the Breakfast Briefings with Dr. Bray and raise up volunteers to include this in their personal ministries. Be with Mike Glenn as he arranges the new Donor Data Base to track this movement and all the other friends and partners who are helping us save the children. We include those affected with leprosy in in our request to you and ask that you bless the Hopegivers staff missionaries in India as they seek to have an outreach in every leprosy colony of India and the world. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, February 7, 2006
SON OF MAN, may Dr. Bill renew old friendships and find support among his former classmates and alumni today at Moody Bible Institute. May he be a blessing to Moody and be blessed by Moody. May he find where Hopegivers ministry to indigenous missionaries and needy children is celebrated and go where he is personally celebrated rather than tolerated. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, February 6, 2006
ALPHA AND OMEGA, we realized that one day of favor is worth more than a thousand days of labor and so we ask you to grant us favor in Chicago today at Moody Bible Institute and with local church leaders, family and friends. Lord expand the Bray Family circle of support in this city where our missionary ministry first launched out. May people celebrate with us what God has done in the last 40 years and resurrect a new generation of support partners in this city. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday and Sunday, February 4-5, 2006
ONE WHO LOVES US AND MADE US, thank you for bringing Ivy and Bill safely to Chicago and for the many new connections already made for Hopegivers and Hopegivers Bray Family Missionary support. Bless all the people who are having the Brays in their homes and providing hospitality and all those who are making decisions to join us as Hopegivers and save more children. Be with Pastor George Rice and the other churches we visit tomorrow and throughout the week -- connect us with the mission-minded churches in the Chicago area and raise up thousands of new supporters from this city. Help us make connections and renew support pledges for this year and give the Brays the Prayer Partners and Support Team Members that will stay with them till the end. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, February 3, 2006
ONE WHO IS TO COME, bind the strong man in India and the rage of fanatics who are kidnapping and beating and attacking your servants throughout the land. Protect the orphans and dalits everywhere, especially the children of the Hope Home orphange in Tindole, Rajasthan. Strengthen Thomas Matthew and his emergency relief team who is there to care for the children. Bless the police and all those in authority that they may restore order and protect the innocent and oppressed. Confound the attackers and the violent ones and bring your peace into the Hope process. Use the Hopegivers news releases to mobilize more intercession around the world and flood India with faith and shalom at this time. In Jesus' name we pray, AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, February 2, 2006
ONE WHO WAS, send a powerful presence of your Shalom over the staff, visiting craftsmen and computer installation team and workers as new carpet is being laid in the Columbus offices of Hopegivers International. Be with Executive Director Mike Glenn has he oversees the moving operations and give everyone a sense of order as office routines are disrupted, new wiring laid and furniture is moved. Protect the staff from confusion and may the work be done quickly and safely with little damage or mishap. You alone are our protection Lord. We look to you in the details of life. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, February 1, 2006
ONE WHO IS, we ask you dear Lord Jesus to enlarge the Circles of Hope intercessors, Bray Family Support Teams and Hope Ambassador network in Chicago and Dallas this month as Bill and Ivy prepare to begin their travel there. Confirm appointments and meetings in Chicago and Dallas at key local churches, Moody Bible Institute and at the National Religious Broadcasters. Grant us favor as we travel to these metroplex areas and grant increased coverage in the news media there. Do the same Lord for Dr. Sam and Bishop Thomas as they travel in Pittsburg today. All this we ask in your name and for your glory, AMEN.