"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, March 31, 2006
JEHOVAH JIREH, our provider, help the Brays to be good and faithful stewards of all the blessings you have given. We pray for truck loads of donations to come in response to our crisis needs at this time for Hopegivers outreaches in Africa and India. We pray for the personal unmet needs of the Brays as well as other staff and missionaries at home and on the mission fields. Lord provide in many ways and help us not to limit ourselves by lack of faith or vision. We particularly pray for money to come in the United States and in the United Kingdom where special appeals for the orphan children will be going out in April. All this we ask boldly in Jesus' name, AMEN and AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, March 30, 2006
ABBA FATHER, may we always reflect you and represent you in our ministry here. Fill us daily with your Holy Spirit so that everyone always sees the glory of God in our faces and lifestyles and captures a glimpse of Jesus in our work, our words and all of our actions. AMEN! THANK YOU ABBA FATHER for Ivy and Bill and all the loyal Hopegivers staff members in the USA and overseas. We thank you for those who refuse to quit or become discouraged and who are dedicating their lives to uplifting the downtrodden no matter what the cost. AMEN and AMEN!

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, March 29, 2006
LORD JESUS CHRIST, bless the Brays and their efforts through Hopegivers to bring the Gospel to all of India's neighbors. Lord, intervene and save the ethnic nations and tribes from the current trend toward the political hijacking of religion by terrorist groups both Muslim and Hindu. Liberate those enslaved to sin and superstition among all of India's neighbors--Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and all the islands and territories of South Asia. AMEN! THANK YOU LORD JESUS, for the indigenous Apostles of Love and Sisters of Hope that are risking their lives to bring the good news to South Asia. AMEN!

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, March 28, 2006
FAITHFUL WITNESS, we pray for the Hopegivers International Board of Directors who were originally scheduled to meet today. Give them wisdom about when to best reschedule their meeting. May they and all the Hopegivers leadership here in the United States and around the world have unity and direction from the Holy Spirit. Make our leadership sensitive to your leading and guiding during these days. We especially pray for all the staff both here in the USA and throughout India and Africa. Bless the Bishops, missionary Hope Sisters and Hope Apostles as well as lay leaders in all 28 states and union territories of India. AMEN and AMEN

PRAISE THE LORD! Faithful Witness, we thank you for the release of Afghan convert Abdul Rahman from his death sentence. You are the Lord who sets the prisoner free! We thank you that Brother Rahman?s search for truth and salvation has triumphed. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday and Sunday, March 25-26, 2006
LORD GOD ALL POWERFUL, LORD OF LORDS we pray for the prayer partners, support team and volunteers who support Hopegivers through the Brays in Charlottesville, Virginia. Be with Bill and Ivy as they present the vision of Dr. Sam and Hopegivers in Virginia this weekend and help the Brays to development supplemental support essential to cover their immediate medical and related long-term needs. We look to you in confidence to make up the shortfall in Bray Family Support and to meet every need as we we ask and receive according to your promises. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, March 23, 2006
LORD JESUS, restore our website ministry which is the voice of hope that tells the Hopegivers story to leaders throughout the world and our supporters in the United States. Lord, give us back our voice. Use it to protect Dr. Sam and the others who are in jail for Christ today. Remove the technical difficulties that have temporarily closed it down. We thank you for all the churches and other ministries who are Hope Partners with us in this work such as Baptists, Bible Churches, CNI, CSI, Christian Aid, CitiHope, Dioceses, Evangelical Churches, GFA, i58, Pentecostals, Voice of the Martyrs, World Children's Fund and so many, many others in every Christian tradition. May they join with us in prayer and letter writing to the leaders of India and the US. Lord move on those leaders to provide justice and protection to persecuted Christians and save your people we pray. AMEN and AMEN!

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, March 22, 2006
LORD GOD, we pray for all our Hope Program Partners, the staff in India and around the world, the missionary Hope Apostles and Sisters, for our communications team, and the emerging leadership that they may remain strong as our founder and president are prevented from directly leading the mission. May all be strong and remember the commissions and vows we took before Dr. Sam was jailed for Christ's sake in Rajasthan. Bring to all special grace to continue on and fulfill the vision. May those facing financial difficulties be strong and look to you more directly during this time of disruption. Lord, show you mighty hand to save us. Pay the bills. Be with those who are threatened with real and actual violence. Bless the children, the sick, the students, the needy and all those who depend on this mission to show them the love of Christ. AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, March 20, 2006
LAMB OF GOD, be with all the missionary children of the world today. With Jon Bray as he celebrates his 21st birthday in Charlottesville and for the children of Dr. Samuel Thomas -- Stephen and Timothy -- as they wait for news of their father's release from jail in Kota. Help them Lord to not just be proud of their parents but to walk gladly in their footsteps, finding your call upon their lives early in life and avoiding sin and disobedience. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Saturday and Sunday, March 18-19, 2006
ONE WHO LIVES FOREVER AND LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, send additional grace to the Hon'ble Madan Dilwar and his co-conspirators who are spreading lies and slander against Dr. Sam and the Hopegivers staff in jail for Christ. We pray that their hearts will be changed by your power and that they will drop their charges and give up their cases against the ministry and allow at least the administrators to be freed from jail. We pray that the local judges and authorities will grant bail on Monday and enable the ministries to continue. We pray that a swelling tide of public opinion will rise against them all over India and around the world. Use Dr. Bill and the communications staff as they work on Sunday to get additional news updates out to the Hopegivers in the USA. Protect Dr. Sam and the prisoners for Christ as they are in custody and transported to court on Monday. In Jesus' name, AMEN and AMEN!

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, March 17, 2006
Rajasthan and throughout the world especially Dr. Samuel Thomas in Kota today and bless all those who are working and praying for his release. Use Bill and Ivy as they postpone their support-raising visit to Charlottesville today and remain in Columbus to handle the communications and fundraising crisis. Especially use Michael Glenn and Shelley Thomas as they are in Washington today seeking U.S. Government intervention on behalf of the persecuted minorities in India. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, March 16, 2006
FAITHFUL AND TRUE, how desperate we are for faithful men and faithful donors who can be counted upon to pray and work and give for the cause of Christ. We pray for more monthly sponsors for the Bray Family Support as well as for the orphans, the other missionary staff here at home and on the field, for the Bible school students who are training for leadership...and for many thousands more to give to the general funds of the mission. Lord, we ask all of this in the name of Jesus Christ with gratitude to you for your never ending supply. We thank you for meeting all our needs. AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, March 15, 2006
ONE WHO IS TRUE, bless Dr. Bill and the staff in the USA and UK as we communicate the vision and raise funds for the expansion of your kingdom into the darker areas of this world including Rajasthan and the other harvest fields into which you are sending us. Especially help Bill and Ivy as they travel to Charlottesville this weekend to visit churches, family and supporters in that area. Grant favor to us in face-to-face meetings, in the appeal letters we send out, and in our website and other communications ministries. Touch the hearts of our donors and help us to pay all our bills, give us this day our daily bread. AMEN and AMEN!

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, March 14, 2006
THE AMEN, we pray that you will open doors for us to start new Hope Homes for the orphans and abandoned children this year in Haiti, Malawi, Philippines and Rajasthan as well as the regions beyond. We lift up our eyes and claim a witness for your name in all of Africa, China, India, Iraq, Pakistan, Russia, as well as Afghanistan and South Africa in particular. Lord, let us shine as light and truth in the dark places where there is so much hopeless despair. Defeat those enemies who would seek to snuff out the candles we light -- especially among our staff and leaders in these nations. In Jesus' name we pray, AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Monday, March 13, 2006
ONE WHO IS HOLY, be with every advocate, lawyer and judge who is protecting the Indian constitution and bringing peace to a land so long troubled by communal and sectarian violence. Bless those who are guarding truth and freedom of religion and speech and press for every Indian including the Christians and the Dalits and other minorities. Lord, especially in Kota and Rajasthan and other Hindu-majority states bless every law enforcement officer who is honest and protects the property rights of the poor and oppressed. Continue to send saving grace to the enemies who hate us and want to take away the lives and freedoms of our leaders in Kota, namely Mssrs. Madan Dilawar, Om Birla Ji, Bhawani Sing Ji and others. In Jesus name we pray, AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Sunday, March 12, 2006
Instead of my usual "Pray-Read" Prayer Priority for Sunday, I am forwarding to you an actual e-letter from my President, Dr. Sam Thomas, which tells what the Sunday papers are predicting in Rajasthan.

They believe that the anti-Christian radicals who have taken control of the levers of government power in Rajasthan are going to attempt to actually take over the properties of the Emmanuel Fellowship churches, orphanages and schools on Monday.

They will also try to take the orphan children into government custody. Please pray with us that they God will miraculously intervene and this newest human rights abuse will fail. Please read the letter below for all the details we have.

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Dear saints,

Greetings in Jesus' name!

We sincerely thank you for your fasting and prayer. We thank you for your fervent prayers and for your financial support in this time of great need.

He himself has said, " I will never leave you nor forsake you." So we may boldly say: " The Lord is my helper, I will not fear" (Heb.13:5-6).

Right now it is 6:54p.m on 12 March,2006. This morning many christians in India worshipped God in truth and in spirit. We rejoice over the fact that in spite of persecution the believers still come to worship Him!!

Today whole day in Rajasthan they have been saying on the news that on Monday finally the government is going to overtake the orphanage, churches and school in all Rajasthan and mainly in Kota. As far as I know the team has left Jaipur today for Kota and they plan to take over all the property of the ministry. Many of our pastors called me and asked what should we do.

I said that no matter what happens you will not allow them to take the orphans or to take over the property where the children stay. Keep in mind that they are not afraid of the NHRC, Prime Minister, President. The state government is taking all illegal decisions.

I really have no idea where this will go, how this will ever end. But we the believers in India will always sing, "because He lives, I can face tomorrow. Because He lives, all fear is gone. Because I know, who holds the future and life is worth the living just because He lives. Praise God we serve a risen savior."

The government is planning to take the children by force into their custody on Monday. This may result in some blood shed. This may result in some deaths. Please pray that we may stand strong in the face of death and remain faithful to Him who called us into this ministry, "Jesus".

Please pray, keep praying that God may cause great confusion in their camp overnight. Let us continue to ask God to help us, we need to claim the promises of God. The TV in Bangalore is showing a sketch image of Dr. Thomas (tall man, bearded, walking stick and a cross on his neck) they want him alive!!!

All the orphans are well taken care off. The children are very strong and they are praying many hours a day for the same things that we asked you all to pray. We really covet your prayers today as the police is planning to come and take over today. Pray that God may bring them to His saving knowledge or bring a mighty act of God's terror upon the enemies camp.

Mr. Madan Dilawar, in the last couple minutes has made the following statements to the people of Kota and Rajasthan, "if I am not able to take all the children away from the orphanage, if I am not able to take over all the schools and churches in Kota and Rajasthan. Then I want the people of Kota to stone me (Mr. Madan Dilawar) and hang me.

In other words he is playing with the mind of radicals and militant hindu. Statement like this will provoke them to act against the orphans.

"Jesus comes to us in our difficulties, cares about our calamities, and speaks to us in our storms."

Please pray and act. Please call and fax to the
President of India (Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam),
Prime Minister of India (Dr. Manmohan Singh),
Chairman of "National Human Rights Commission (Justice, Shri. A.S. Anand).
Home Minister of India (Shri. Shivraj Patil).
National Minority commission.

Please get the USA, and UN involved in this. We need to act on this today, before it is too late. Monday morning in India will be your time Sunday evening.

"When fear knocks, let faith open the door".

PRAYER:
Free outgoing and incoming during trials. But "special offer" for a child of God, it will be free incoming/outgoing during the weekdays and weekends. True. Prayer has no network problems, never misses a call, no call waiting, no voice mail, battery power 24/7, never drops a call. It comes with a lifetime sim card called "Jesus", which fits into any life phone, always full signal. I humbly request you to take advantage of the prayer offer, and call the King on behalf of all the children under the care of Hopegivers in Rajasthan (north India). More than anything we need prayer.

May the great God of heaven and Jesus Christ our Lord overwhelm our minds, overcome our weakness, and overhear our praise throughout this day and the week, to His glory. Amen!!

Thanks!
Our Hope is in Him!
Bro. Samuel A. Thomas
President & C.E.O.
Hopegivers International
1-866-373-HOPE

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, March 10, 2006
KING OF KINGS, feed your children in Kota and Rajasthan and India and Africa and Haiti and Philippines and everywhere that Hopegivers serves or will serve this year. We ask you to meet the daily needs of your orphans, staff and students. Give them food and courage. Help them to be brave and not to be discouraged or disheartened by the attacks of the evil one and his servants in Kota. Bless the businessmen and kind-hearted Hindus who are standing against the saffron goons and doing good, sending in food to the orphans. Use the police to protect the children and see that food is provided. Use our emergency appeal mailings that are arriving today to bring in a flood of financial support for the orphans and those under attack. Cause Indian Christians outside of Rajasthan to rise up in faith and send it food to the children. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, March 9, 2006
THE SPIRIT, we worship you in spirit and in truth, realizing that we are all part of a grand spiritual warfare against the prince of the power of the air and those who are working for him in India and around the world. Protect those in frontline danger such as Dr. M.A. Thomas and Dr. Samuel Thomas and protect all who are in special jeopardy such as Pastor V.S. Thomas and R.S. Nair in the Kota jail. Be with Dr. Bill, Ivy and the Columbus staff as they raise support for the Legal Defense Fund and aid for the children. Protect them from all the attacks of the enemy on the home front and help the weak and faithless to be strong and have courage in this time of trial. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, March 8, 2006
ONE WHO HOLDS THE SEVEN STARS, please bless the struggle for truth in India and here in the USA. Use every journalist, reporter, photographer, videographer and communicators in every part of the news and media world to speak the truth in love. We acknowledge that all truth is God's truth and that you are the author of truth. Shine the light of truth on the terrorists in India and on the Hopegivers work to rescue children and the needy everywhere. Please Bill Bray and the staff in Columbus. Ease their load and make their struggle easier by the power of your spirit and help us recruit more volunteers to help in the war against lies and disinformation. In Jesus Name we pray, AMEN.

"Prayer Priority" Request for Tuesday, March 7, 2006
SON OF MAN, we pray that you will break the bonds that hold lawless Hindu radicals in slavery to dark forces and lies. Use Mike Glenn's second wave of letters and faxes beginning today to achieve a breakthrough with the high courts and national government. Protect Dr. Sam and Bishop Thomas from the search parties out to behead them. Use Bill, Ivy and the other Columbus staff today to broadcast the letter-writing campaign and prompt thousands in the movement to send letters and faxes to protect the children. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Friday, Saturday & Sunday, March 3-5, 2006
ONE WHO LOVES US, ONE WHO MADE US, THE ALPHA AND OMEGA we cry out to you for the safety of the persecuted Emmanuel Fellowship believers and the protection of the children and medical patients in Kota, Rajasthan. Bless Dr. Bill and the Columbus team as they organize a new letter-writing and fax mail campaign this week to ask national and state Indian leaders from outside Kota to intervene and stop the threats of violence and illegal actions against non-Hindus in that place...and Lord Jesus, we are quick to remember all the needy who are being helped by Hopegivers, not only in Rajasthan but also in other states of India, Africa and around the world. Help us Lord to live in peace and demonstrate your love for needy in our churches, schools and orphanages. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Thursday, March 2, 2006
ONE WHO WAS, we thank you for the strong leadership you are raising up in India who courageously face the enemy and are willing to take the Martyrs Oath and face persecution and jail. We thank you for everyone of our 10,253 missionaries as they go out to their stations in the midst of tribulation. Bless and dramatically protect them and protect Dr. Sam and Bishop M.A. as they face the roaring lions of hate. May everyone keep their focus on the children and the needy and doing good. Help us not to be overwhelmed by the battle and the threats of the enemy...and this goes for the Hopegivers and friends here in the USA who support the Brays and the Hopegivers ministry. May they give generously to the new Legal Defense Emergency Fund that was set up today to support the Indian leadership. Help people to write generous checks this week and not lose faith in the face of warfare. AMEN and AMEN

"Prayer Priority" Request for Wednesday, March 1, 2006
ONE WHO IS, be with Dr. Bray and Robby Brumberg as they meet with Keith Smith and a direct-mail marketing firm in Birmingham about plans to challenge more folks to become Hopegivers in AL, FL, GA, NC, SC, TN and the Southeastern USA -- and be with President Bush today in New Delhi as he meets with Indian leaders. May he have opportunity and courage to mention the persecution crisis in Rajasthan and call for curbs on the growing human rights violations there. In Jesus' name we pray, AMEN and AMEN!