8 Ways to Pray for during this pandemic

So this post going to be sort of a sequel to my blog post on what the Coronavirus and how to respond to it, I feel obligation to add how to go about pray during this pandemic. Here’s how:

1. Calm assurance in God's sovereignty.
2. Dispelling of fear and worry.
3. Opportunities to serve neighbors.
4. Wisdom in decision making.
5. Global gospel advance.
6. Willingness to follow instructions.
7. Healing for those affected.
8. Pray that Asians in America will be protect from hate crimes.

I included the last one for a reason. The Coronavirus originated in Wuhan, China. Therefore some people are going to be (irrationally) blaming Asians living in America for bringing the virus over to this country. This article shows that it’s already happening:

An FBI report obtained by ABC News says the stabbing of three Chinese-Americans at the Sam's in Midland was a hate crime.

The document detailed the incident in which "three Asian American family members, including a 2-year-old and 6-year-old, were stabbed … The suspect indicated that he stabbed the family because he thought the family was Chinese, and infecting people with the coronavirus."

The FBI is warning that there's an increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans as the coronavirus crisis continues to grow.

"The FBI assesses hate crime incidents against Asian Americans likely will surge across the United States, due to the spread of coronavirus disease … endangering Asian American communities," according to the report, which was done by the FBI’s Houston office and distributed to local law enforcement agencies across the country. 

"The FBI makes this assessment based on the assumption that a portion of the US public will associate COVID-19 with China and Asian American populations(Keep reading)."

We need to pray that God will keep a hedge of protection around the Asians living in this country (and by extension other western countries), because I sense this is only going to get uglier.

As I said in my 1st post from yesterday, this could not be a better time for the church to show the world how big her God is. Let’s show this by displaying the power of prayer.