Weekly Prayer (12/30)

Weekly Prayer (12/30)

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Lana Vawser: New Season’s “BOOKS OF BEGINNINGS”

(Source: Lana Vawser Facebook)

At the start of last week I had an encounter with the Lord and He showed me large books and on the front of the book it said “BOOKS OF BEGINNINGS”. The Lord showed me that in this new era there are going to be many BEGINNINGS.

BEGINNINGS: the point in time or space at which something begins.
SYNONYMNS: dawn, birth, inception, conception, origination, genesis, emergence, rise, start, starting point, launch, onset, outset, unfolding, development, developing, debut, kick-off, commencement, opening
(Definition taken from Google)

The Lord spoke to me that in 2020 there are going to be multiple BEGINNINGS and BIRTHINGS. We have entered into a new era, a new beginning and in 2020 there is going to be a dawning, a rising, a launching, an unfolding, an opening that is going to take place like never before.

There is going to be clarity and development of vision like never before. There is going to be the manifestation of things God has said in the dark, come into the light in their manifestation. … Detailed Reading

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Declaration Prayer:  Declaration Of Peace for Nations

【Background: December, the month of Hanukkah, celebrates 7 days of ‘Dedication, Consecration and Inauguration’. Yeshua Himself, the Light of the World, is recorded as being at the Temple of Jerusalem and walking in Solomon’s Porch during the Feast Period (John 10:22-23)  2019 has yet drawn more historical and futuristic events in His Promises of Hope, for His Love never fails.  … Detailed Reading】

In the name of Jesus, we declare:

• As we stand in the gap in repentance for the sins of their disobedience, rebellion, ungodliness, abomination: God to forgive and heal the land and people as His Inheritance. We renounce all ungodly alliances and its system, altars, idols, practices to be judged, thus restored;
• Jesus is the Light and Lord over every nation, to rule and reign with eternal Dominion; blessed are those fear of the Lord and delight in His Commands;
• Revival, Reformation and Revolution will cause nations the hunger and thirst for righteousness, reviving fathers, sons and daughters, Harvesters  of souls;
• The Blood of Jesus prevails over the nations under-siege with poverty, turmoil, hostage and violence, deaths, famine, wars, evil strongholds;
• The Will of the Lord is renewed and done for all nations in 2020, for His is the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory forever. (Mat. 6:10-13)

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Pray for United States: What President Trump Had Accomplished During Impeachment

【Developing: On 12/18 Democrat-controlled House voted for passing the two Impeachment Articles onto Senate Trial. It is Democrats’ desire so can put various Republican witnesses and President himself to the witness stand. … Detailed Reading】

• Deuteronomy 32:4  He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.
• Proverbs 12:22  The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in people who are trustworthy.
• Job 5:9  He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted.

【PRAYER】

• Thanks And Praise God : Father God, You have spoken in the book of Isaiah, My way is higher than your way, and my thoughts are higher than yours … The words that come out of my mouth will be the same, and will never return in vain, But to accomplish what I am pleased with, I must prosper in what I send it to accomplish . (Is 55: 9, 11) We see what You have accomplished through President Trump during this period, and we are full of appreciation and adoration of You! You alone are the miracle worker, the God who set the banquet table for  President Trump in the presence of the enemy, May You continue to work through President Trump to fulfill Your plan and purpose for the United States!
• We Declare In The Name of The Lord Jesus Christ :
  • God will surround President Trump with a wall of fire. The angelic hosts are fighting and protecting his family and team. You will foil all evil conspiracies, intimidation, witchcraft and sorcery from the power of the enemy, and destroy all evil forces. The attacks against them will be futile and ineffective. (Proverbs 12:22)
  • God is ruling and reigning in power throughout the trial, all the judge, chief justices, and senators will vote according to God ’s justice and righteousness, to safeguard the interests and justice of the United States and the Constitution (Deut. 32: 4), and  vindicate President Trump to be  cleared of all accusations!

We pray in the name of Jesus!

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Pray for Israel: Urgent Prayer Request from Rev. Ariel Blumenthal of Revive Israel Ministries

Global Critical Event

Critical Event: Pray for Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential and Legislative Elections (5)

【Current Affairs: On Christmas Eve, Stability Forces Party “Exploded” with the good news and shouted “Give Me Back My Referendum!” On December 24, the Stability Force Party called for people who want national stability, to cross the party lines, to spread the concept of loving family, for the opinions of 7.65 million people be heard on silent night. For the first time the Stability Force Party stood at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, made a eloquent statement by preaching the gospel, and submitted a letter of love commitment to the president’s residence to DPP presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen, asking the president to fulfill her commitment to public opinion. …Detailed Reading】 

• Isaiah 42:16  I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.
• Isaiah 1:26 I will restore your leaders as in days of old, your rulers as at the beginning. Afterward you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.”
• Ezekiel 26:9  He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons.

【PRAYER】

• God’s Salvation and Grace Comes To Taiwan: Heavenly Father, we come before You for the non-believers in Taiwan, for the sins of not recognizing Lord Jesus as the true Savior. According to Your promise in Isaiah 42:16, please guide them to the road of redemption, to turn darkness into light and turn crooked road straight before them, so that they will no longer worship idols, follow falsehood, and cause them to repent and return to Jesus Christ with all their hearts.
• The Transformation of The Seven Mountains In Taiwan: Heavenly Father, please raise up a younger generation, to take their positions on the seven mountains, to break down the enemy ’s fortress, and use iron rod to demolish the enemy ’s towers (Eze 26: 9 ) , Lead them to take back what the enemy has plundered, and let the kingdom of God descend on the seven mountains including family, church, government, media, art, education, and business.  May the wind of Holy Spirit transform  the spiritual atmosphere of Taiwan. May Lord Jesus change Taiwan fundamentally to walk in the light of God with justice and righteousness and stabilizing Taiwan and let the kingdom culture comes upon Taiwan.
• Bless the presidential candidate and Legislative Candidates God Have Chosen : We declare that the Seven Spirits of Jehovah will anoint them. Their voices will break through the siege and be heard by and favorable to everyone. May they be elected to the governmental offices to be used by You and be a blessing to the people.
• Restore the Republic of China  To Be The City of Justice And Righteousness: Father God, please remember the hearts of the founding fathers of the Republic of China. which is, to fulfill her destiny and to bring heaven to earth and become a city of justice and righteousness . (Isa 1:26) 

Pray in the Holy Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

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Critical Events: Pray for Refugee Children Out of School And Child Marriage Crisis

【Background:　Current Events: Mouzon, now only 19 years old,  the youngest goodwill United Nations
ambassador from Syria. She had been in Jordan’ s refugee camp for a year and a half, she escaped with only books, tried persistently to be a voice for the silent refugees who were exploited from education opportunities, to appeal for girl refugees to be educated and to resist and stop child marriage. …  Detailed Reading】

• Gen 1:27 So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
• Psalm 68:10-11 Your people settled in it, and from your bounty, God, you provided for the poor.  The Lord announces the word, and the women who proclaim it are a mighty throng:  “Kings and armies flee in haste; the women at home divide the plunder.

【PRAYER】

• Rescue The Refugee Children Out of School And Child Marriage: Heavenly Father, be merciful to the refugee children, forgive those parents who prefer boy over girl, forced their daughters to marry early, not knowing that God created man and woman according to His image and His likeness, every child is precious in His eyes.  Please turn the lives of parents and children around, rescue young girls from the fate of child marriage, and give grace to the refugee children to have access to education. We also thank You for Mouzon holding on to her books in the refugee camp and did not drop out of school.  May salvation come to her, to receive Your love and redemption, hold on to the garment of Jesus, and become the vessel of Your glorious Kingdom (Gen 1:27)
• Send The Messengers of The Gospel: Heavenly Father, please send Your faithful servants to refugee camps all over the worldand spread the good news.  May the hope and peace of Christ reign in the hearts of the refugees and bring the harvest of souls.
• Raise Up The Army of Prayer: Heavenly Father, You have prepared grace for the refugee children and women that is in hardships, please send Your words, to raise them up to become a great number of  messengers for the good news, praise and worship and lift up the name of Jesus, standing in the gap to pray for the transformation of the country.   May they become the great army of prayers to bless all nations and all tribes to prepare the way for the coming of the Lord’s.  (Psalm 68:10-11)

In Jesus’ mighty Name, Amen.

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Pray For First Nations

Pray for First Nation of North America – Restoring The Native Language And Culture 

【Background: On December 20th, President Trump signed a measure to extend the federal grant program for the protection of Aboriginal languages ​​and relax the eligibility restrictions so that more tribes can participate. This measure was formally established with the support of the two parties, and was approved by President Trump after the U.S. Senate passed. Tribal leaders and members of the New Mexico State Congress said for this plan to be re-enactivated before 2024, symbolizing the federal government’s commitment to protect Native American language heritage and to help to identify and restore Native American communities. ... Click to read more 】

• Acts 17:26  From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands.

【PRAYER】

• Restore Native Language and Culture : Heavenly Father, please raise up the first nation people, especially the younger generation, so that they can not only identify with their own cultural language, but also revitalize and promote them. Please release the ancient and unique sound You created for the tribal people and restore their languages, music, dance, and culture, and release and restore them into their destinies.  (Acts 17:26) .
• U.S. Government Policy : Heavenly Father, please continue to use various channels to awaken every departments of the U.S. government, for them to understand that the first nation people is the key to the revival of the United States. May they come up with regulations and resources beneficial to the First Nations.  May the US government openly apologize to the first nations for injustices and unfair atrocities against the first nation people,  restore their due honor and statutes, so the first people across the United States can rise up, to lead all tribes to bring in the  unprecedented revival of the United States!

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen!

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Pray For Church

Pray for Participating Churches and Pastors on Regional 24/7 Prayer Walls

【Editor’s Note: The 24/7 prayer walls listed here are especially for local churches and pastors. If you are committed to watch on the regional walls, simply click on the link listed below to connect to the local prayer wall. 】

• East Coast 24/7 Prayer Wall – Prayers for Local Churches & Leaders  
• Bread Of Life Christian Church in ShiLin

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Related Events and Prayer Background

Lana Vawser: New Season’s “BOOKS OF BEGINNINGS”

(Source: Lana Vawser Facebook)

At the start of last week I had an encounter with the Lord and He showed me large books and on the front of the book it said “BOOKS OF BEGINNINGS”. The Lord showed me that in this new era there are going to be many BEGINNINGS.

BEGINNINGS: the point in time or space at which something begins.
SYNONYMNS: dawn, birth, inception, conception, origination, genesis, emergence, rise, start, starting point, launch, onset, outset, unfolding, development, developing, debut, kick-off, commencement, opening
(Definition taken from Google)

The Lord spoke to me that in 2020 there are going to be multiple BEGINNINGS and BIRTHINGS. We have entered into a new era, a new beginning and in 2020 there is going to be a dawning, a rising, a launching, an unfolding, an opening that is going to take place like never before.

There is going to be clarity and development of vision like never before. There is going to be the manifestation of things God has said in the dark, come into the light in their manifestation.

There will be significant birthing of promises in 2020 and monumental upgrades, and there will also be conception of new vision from the Lord. New assignments and commissions.

In the encounter I had with the Lord, the Lord showed me that there are many ‘word curses’ being spoken over these BEGINNINGS that the Lord has decreed over the lives of His people. In this encounter the Lord showed me so many of His people in such ferocious battles right now and I know many have been in battles for a long time, but He showed me many looking to Him and crying out because the closer it gets to the closing of 2019, the “signs” of breakthrough in the natural have not yet come, yet their spirits are soaring with the knowing that things are shifting and moving.

There is a battle over the books of beginning that the Lord has decreed for your life in 2020 and beyond. The new things the Lord has for you. There are so many things that the Lord has in store for you in 2020 and beyond that you haven’t even thought about or imagined and what you are fighting is not ‘natural circumstances’ but a spiritual battle.

In this encounter I had with the Lord He showed me the BREAKING off of these ‘word curses’. There are whirlwinds of jealousy, there have been poisonous words and whispers behind backs but the Lord is dealing with it all.

The Lord showed me that these words being spoken are coming like arrows in the spirit but the Lord is sending forth His fiery arrows to dismantle these words being spoken.

I heard the Lord say:

“The enemy is doing all he can to dismantle and abort that which I am building in the lives of My people in 2020, and many have been fighting and standing for a long time. The time has come for the DISMANTLING of the enemy’s plans and assignments over My people’s lives in opposition to these BEGINNINGS I have decreed. I am teaching My people the power of their words and the power of the tongue. I am awakening My people in discernment and heavenly wisdom as they seek Me and cry out for discernment. I am raising up a people who will not tolerate being pushed around by the enemy anymore but live in the secret place in strength. Their strength comes from Me, the power of My Spirit and living in the place of adoration.”

I know I have released quite few words on the power of praise and worship in the last month, and the Lord won’t let me move from it. The posture of ADORATION of the Lord is causing ACCELERATED ALIGNMENTS in the lives of His people. Out of the place of the ADORATION of God and His beauty, rising up from deep within them is the decree of who He is and the Word of God. He is enthroned on the praises of His people (Psalm 22:3) There is MIGHTY MOVEMENT that is taking place in the place of adoration of who He is, worshiping our beautiful King Jesus. The Lord showed me miracles taking place and sudden shifts taking place from the place of praise and worship. The deep place of REST in the worship and praise of who He is and seeing MIRACLES MANIFEST by His hand.

BE INTENTIONAL TO WORSHIP OUT OF 2019 AND INTO 2020

We have entered into 5780 and there is a MASSIVE shift that took place in the crossing over. As I sat with the Lord He showed me that there is a BREAKING OF ALIGNMENT that is going to take place as “2019” closes in the Western Calendar and we move into 2020.

I saw many being assaulted by what looked like black tentacles and they looked like octopus tentacles. Immediately I knew this represents assaults by a jezebellic spirit. I saw Jesus before those who were being assaulted and He spoke “ARM YOURSELF WITH ADORATION”

The sense surrounded me so strongly to lift your eyes to the heavens, for where does your help come from? The maker of heaven and earth (Psalm 121) I know there are specific ways to deal with a Jezebellic spirit and its assault and in this encounter the Lord showed me that many eyes have been on the tentacles, because the battle has been so fierce and going on for so long, in the discouragement and weariness, “eyes have come down” into the natural and onto the “tentacles”. The Lord showed me in this encounter that as His people INTENTIONALLY lift up their eyes to Jesus and make the choice to INTENTIONALLY ADORE Him in the crossover into 2020 there is going to be a MAJOR breaking of ANY alignment with this Jezebellic attack in the lives of believers. The Lord showed me that it will be HIS HAND that is going to bring forth a mighty move of His Spirit. The wind of His Spirit is going to blow strongly in the place of adoration of who He is and He is going to deal with this assault. There will be repentance that will take place of eyes upon the attack, there will be repentance of tolerating this attack and a fresh wind is going to blow upon the people of God that will heal them, refresh them and impart new vision to them for 2020 and beyond.

There will be a SUDDEN ALIGNMENT that will take place with the plans and purposes of God for 2020 and the new assignments that He has for His people. Many will receive their joy, excitement and expectation again for 2020 and the ‘blocks’ they have been feeling and seeing will suddenly fall away.

I AM GOING TO INCREASE THE SEER GIFT IN 2020 LIKE NEVER BEFORE

“And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.” Then the Lord opened the servant’s eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.” (2 Kings 6:17)

There has been significant opposition against vision in the spirit for many in 2019 and it has been a battle to continue to see and stand because of swirling confusion and haze.

The Lord showed me that there will be a MASSIVE increase in the seer gift in 2020 upon the body of Christ. There is going to be a mighty outpouring of vision like never before. SO much clarity. There will be monumental increase of the body of Christ learning to see in the spirit like never before. The Lord is going to open eyes in accelerated ways. This “opening of spiritual eyes” is going to move MANY, SUDDENLY from the position of DEFENSE to OFFENSE as they SEE what is going on in the spiritual realm and that all along what they have been fighting has been of a spiritual nature and not an ‘earthly’ issue. Mighty deliverance will take place, MAJOR healing and there will be a MIGHTY DEMONSTRATION of the uprising of a victorious army, awakened to who they are in Christ and who HE is that is going to be a game changer. This will prepare the people of God to carry a DOUBLE portion and inherit and occupy what is theirs in Christ.

I heard the Lord say “GET READY TO SEE WITH SUCH PRECISION”

As God is breaking the ‘words’ over the BOOKS OF BEGINNING and the alignments with the jezebellic spirit God showed me that He is going to lead His people into DIVINE TUNNEL VISION.

Now in the natural, tunnel vision has a negative connotation, but when the Lord spoke it, it was positive. It was to SEE WITH PRECISION and WITHOUT DISTRACTION.

Immediately, I had a vision and saw a horse with “blinkers” on. The Lord spoke to me “In this shift and breaking of the word curses and alignments My people will suddenly positioned with an impartation to FOCUS. I will SHIFT My people into the place of STRENGTH of FACES LIKE FLINT. The attack of DISTRACTION will no longer weigh over them heavily as I will empower them to set their faces like flint (Isaiah 50:7) like never before. As their eyes open in the spirit like never before it will cause an awakening of the heart to SET their faces like never before. A no toleration of anything but what I have said. I will release such PRECISE VISION for 2020 they will be astonished, but I will also release vision SO specific and clear for this next decade that they will be so full of the fire of My vision that they will see NOTHING ELSE but what I have spoken. Where the enemy has attempted to keep them locked in ‘tunnel vision’ of fear and oppression, I am transitioning My people into divine ‘tunnel vision’ of FOCUS and PRECISION of My direction and vision.”

People of God, the shift taking place is bigger than you or I can imagine. What God is doing right now is MONUMENTAL. The BEGINNINGS to be BIRTHED in 2020 are going to be ASTONISHING. Stay the course. Stand firm. Stay close to His heart and ARM YOURSELF with ADORATION of who Jesus is.

Everything is shifting and moving!

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Pray for The U.S.A.: What President Trump Had Accomplished During Impeachment

【Current Affairs:  Just as the U.S. House Judiciary Committee passed the clause of impeachment of Trump, accusing the President of abusing power and interfering with Congressional investigations, the Washington Examiner Magazine published a confirmed review article stating that the past week has actually been one of the best weeks since Trump became president, because while everyone was focusing on impeachment, President Trump took the opportunity to accomplish several major things.

Bills Signed In Late 2019
Democrats have been busy impeaching the president’s inquiry process since September, and haven’t had time to deal with budget spending bills and related matters. Within three years by the end of December, President Trump had successfully appointed 187 conservative judges, including two U.S. Supreme Court judges. If President Trump wins the election in 2020, at the current rate of judicial appointments, the federal court may have more than 400 conservative life long judges by 2024. In the U.S. Supreme Court, three Supreme Judges may be nominated, leading to a majority of six conservatives, while only three liberals are nominated.

Among the major changes and reforms already in place, the bill signed by President Trump at the end of 2019 includes:

• Diplomacy : Executive order on Pro-Israeli, and bill against anti-Semitism signed.
• Military And Federal Employees :
  • Military and federal employees will receive a 3.1% raise and maternity leave benefits; military battle plans will increase, and the Pentagon and Navy will also expand.
  • The House of Representatives passed a resolution to form the U.S. Space Force, a brand new service.
  • Paid maternity leave for government employees may become a template for universal access.
• Economic And Trade:
  • House of Representatives passed “The US – Mexico – Canada Agreements Act ” replaced ” the North American Free Trade Agreement ” , waiting for Senate vote in 2020.
  • Concluded a temporary trade agreement with China.
•  Budget:
  • Construction of the wall: Goal set at September 2020, US $ 1.375 billion has been secured for the border wall and 89.5 miles have been completed to date. (Also, $ 8.6 billion will be allocated from the 2020 budgets of the Ministry of National Security and the Pentagon to build the remaining 300 miles.)
  • On December 20, President Trump signed a $ 1.4 trillion budget spending bill to address various overdue issues.
  • $ 25 million will be used to prevent gun violence.
  • $ 425 million to supplement election security.
• People’s Livelihood:
  • Trump’s new Food and Drug Administration director approved.
  • The use of tobacco and e-cigarettes is prohibited at the age under 21.

Notes:

Constitutional Rules for Impeachment Process

Without submitting the Impeachment Articles to the Senate Trial, President Trump is not actually impeached. Constitution does not consider only the votes by the House of Congress, but of the process of sending the articles to the Senate for trial (and voted for). The House must send the articles and send managers to the Senate to prosecute the impeachment. Then, Senate must actually hold a trial. Without the articles presented, President Trump is legitimately not impeached at all. (quoted from Constitution Scholar, Noah Feldman).

Constitutions also stated ‘the Senate has the sole power to hold a trial over impeachments, empowered to judge the fairness of such trial’  which has made Speaker Pelosi very concern because she has no constitutional authority to dictate rules for the trial. (Ro. 16:17-18)

Why does Democrats delay the impeachment articles?

1. Articles are lack of evident
2. Avoiding projected trial testimonies from Adam Schiff and Joe Biden (ex-Vice President).
3. Witch hunt for more evident or witnesses against the President

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Critical Event: Pray for Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential and Legislative Elections (5)

【Current Affairs: On Christmas Eve, Stability Forces Party “Exploded” with the good news and shouted “Give Me Back My Referendum!” On December 24, the Stability Force Party called for people who want national stability, to cross the party lines, to spread the concept of loving family, for the opinions of 7.65 million people be heard on silent night. For the first time the Stability Force Party stood at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, made a eloquent statement by preaching the gospel, and submitted a letter of love commitment to the president’s residence to DPP presidential candidate Tsai Ing-wen, asking the president to fulfill her commitment to public opinion.

The Stability Force Party not only made a strong statement with the gospel, but also invited various groups of presidential candidates to publicly express their views on the implementation of the results of last year’s referendum. At the same time, they called on future executive to “bring the country’s democratic system back on the right track” and use public opinion as the basis; and not let Taiwanese society repeatedly stage political dramas such as smearing, slaughtering, division, bribery, injustice, lies, etc., causing people to live in an atmosphere of instability, distress and fear.

Presidential And Legislative Elections, is soon happening on January 11, let us come together and pray for Taiwan’s presidential election and social stability.

】 (Source: National Revival News, 2019.12.24)

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Critical Events: Pray for Refugee Children Out of School And Child Marriage Crisis

【Current Events: Mouzon, now only 19 years old,  the youngest goodwill United Nations
ambassador from Syria. She had been in Jordan’ s refugee camp for a year and a half, she escaped with only books, tried persistently to be a voice for the silent refugees who were exploited from education opportunities, to appeal for girl refugees to be educated and to resist and stop child marriage.

Concerned About the Demise of Refugee Children : For children, being out of school is only the beginning, long-term exploitation of educational opportunities will cause children to lack comprehensive development and have far-reaching effects.  　About $8.5 billion is required globally in education funds each year to help children in need, but the funds are chronically inadequate. 　According to reports, refugees have been displaced for an average of 17 years, meaning that their entire childhood was exploited, hurt and destroyed in the midst of displacement.

The study found that nearly one-third of Jordanian marriage registrations involved child marriage in 2014, and many ended in divorce, forcing uneducated girls to be overwhelmed and with no direction for the future. More than 130 million girls in the world are out of school.  In the war zone, about 25 million primary and secondary school children are out of school, 50 million children are displaced from their homes, and millions of people are wandering around looking for a safe life. The dropout rate of girls is 2.5 times higher than that of boys.  Of the refugee children, only half can enter primary school and about one quarter can attend secondary school.

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Pray for First Nation of North America – Restoring The Native Language And Culture 

【Current Affairs: On December 20th, President Trump signed a measure to extend the federal grant program for the protection of Aboriginal languages ​​and relax the eligibility restrictions so that more tribes can participate. This measure was formally established with the support of the two parties, and was approved by President Trump after the U.S. Senate passed. Tribal leaders and members of the New Mexico State Congress said for this plan to be re-enactivated before 2024, symbolizing the federal government’s commitment to protect Native American language heritage and to help to identify and restore Native American communities.

The importance of language lies in its culture, history, and ethnic beliefs in everything from the mundane to the sacred. However, Native American families no longer inherit languages, and their next generation is almost assimilated by American culture.
The recent wave of revival is gradually emerging in North America, and young Aboriginal people are working to restore tribal languages. Here is the journey of one of the Cheyenne young people:

We grew up hearing our dad speak Cheyenne in phrases. Words for bread, or salt, or fart. Phrases like come sit down, come sit down for dinner. We didn’t grow up thinking we should or should not be learning our language. We didn’t know then how important a language is to keep, how it holds within it a people’s culture, history—a people’s beliefs about everything from the mundane to the sacred. Those were different times. We weren’t from the generation of cultural revival, of language revival, as I’ve seen happen in the past ten years or so. We assimilated. Our mom did not speak the language. Our dad worked a lot. Teaching us would have taken energy he didn’t have. Maybe we didn’t have the energy either.

Language wasn’t important to me until later in life. I wasn’t particularly noticed for anything academic, and I was for athletics, so I did that. I was also quiet. In my own head, or seemingly daydreaming all the time. I must have been building a private language all along. When I finally came to reading and then writing after college, I took it on with the intensity of those who have lost and didn’t know, who found they could see to that other side, where something they couldn’t have known they couldn’t have known lay right there, if some time and effort is put in. Finishing a novel was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. I feel I’m approaching a similar place with the Cheyenne language now. There was something I didn’t understand I didn’t understand. I didn’t have the language or understanding for it. My dad’s never been one to force anything on his kids. My sister Carrie just became fluent in our language over the past several years and I could not be more proud of her.
Revitalizing the Cheyenne language, having tribal and non-tribal members learn the language, become fluent, is not an obscure hobby, is not like the learning of a past-time, like something that can’t be used or will not be useful. Use itself depends on language and context, use according whom? To understand the Cheyenne way of life, as Cheyenne people, as anyone interested in understanding Cheyenne people, language is the most direct route. There are ideas and worldviews embedded in the language. From what little I know to be true about any language, there is much to be learned.

Native people lived on this land for thousands and thousands of years. This country, American culture—which is in and of itself made of so many other cultures—has only existed for around three hundred years at most. There are relationships to this world, to the land, to each other to be learned from Native languages. There are ways to be we might need in a world such as this, one bent on destroying itself, one out of touch with what it means to consider our environment and our relationship to it. To have and embody respect, kindness, love, generosity. My dad told me the Cheyenne language has these qualities embedded in it. He said it’s a holy language.”

】(Source:Tommy Orange, Author of There There )

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