Lift Off! 40 Days of Sacrifice - Day 29
Deuteronomy 24:14
You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your countrymen or one of your aliens who is in your land in your towns.
Aleppo is the largest city in Syria and contains the country’s largest population of Christians. Aleppo is believed to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world behind only Damascus (also in Syria) and Byblos (Lebanon). Prior to the Syrian civil war, Aleppo contained about 10 percent of Syria’s population (roughly 2.3 million people).
The battle for Aleppo began in mid-July 2012, when anti-government rebels gained control of several districts within the city. Since then the city has been divided between the government-held west and rebel-held east. Beginning at the end of 2013, the Syrian government began aerial bombing of the eastern sections of the city, a tactic that has caused a humanitarian crisis that has disproportionately affected the city’s children. (tgc.org)
Pray for the city of Aleppo--the devastation in this large city is hard to imagine. But pray for God's intervening in the violence and turmoil that this city is going through. Pray for the people still remaining in the city--that they would find shelter, safety, and aid. Pray that the destruction in this city would end and God's mercy and grace would fill the city instead. Pray that relief would find its way into the darkest, most devastated places of this city.
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