in Paris
Joyce and I both had articles post on www.HeadlinePrayer.org while we were in Paris.
Here's Joyce's article on Smyrna, "Overcoming the Times We Live In":
Lord, we live in increasingly hostile conditions. Teach us how to live in faith and not in fear. In Jesus’ Name.
During the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony in Paris, drag queens mock the Lord’s supper, mimicking the apostles’ seating depicted in Leonardo de Vinci’s famed painting.
In Washington, D.C., pro-Hamas protestors flung feces at the police tasked with controlling and dispelling them.
Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakes finds himself back in the court system after being vindicated by the U.S. Supreme Court when someone wanted to compel him to violate his religious beliefs to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex wedding.
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Lord, many American eyes are on France during the Olympics. Bring many into your fold during these two weeks while so many organizations are bringing the gospel and much needed prayer.
The opening ceremonies of the Olympics highlighted how much the people of France need prayer...
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The following Tuesday they ran an interview I did with André Cronje (at the 38:27 mark) the night before we gathered on the bridge where the Last Supper was mocked during the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics:
The day after my interview with André, we had church for three hours on that bridge! We anointed it with oil, prayed, sang praise songs. I performed excerpts from Beyond the Chariots and prayed with people who stopped to watch. Joyce and I did an enacted prayer in which she portrayed one of the performers from the Opening Ceremonies standing on a black scarf representing the stain left by their presentation. As Jesus I washed her feet to get her to step off of the stain so I could remove it.
After lunch we returned and took communion. Then I performed the end of my play Journey to the Garden: “Ilohi, Ilohi, lema sabachthani? My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? It is finished!” I pantomimed being taken off the cross and being rolled into a shroud. Then I leapt up, shouting, “Death could not hold Him!” and proclaimed the Gospel.
This week I co-wrote "God Gets the Last Word at the Olympics":
I wrote the article on the plane home from Paris, and I wasn't sure we could clear the rights to use interviews with Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone and Yemisi Ogunleye, but that's exactly what my Editor in Chief Judy McDonough did! Holy Spirit was inspiring!Lord, you have raised up many Christians in athletics and elevated them to the Olympic platform. Now that the closing ceremonies have ended the Games, continue to work through their witness to their teammates and fans.
Though there was much about the Olympics in Paris that broke the Father’s heart, His witness went forth through the many Christian athletes.
While I was in Le Villette — Parc des Nations (Nations Park) — in Paris, I felt prompted to pray for some of the Christian athletes in front of their national houses...
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And here's Headline Prayer Live, which I felt was one of our best in the fact that it highlighted how people being pressured to keep their faith to themselves were witnessing boldly on a global stage, and if every Christian on the planet would share their faith as boldly, the world would be transformed! Here's the program...
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Our hearts are so full as we contemplate all the Lord was doing through our ministry efforts in Europe. We'll be posting more as we have time, so if you're not subscribed, you can do that at www.RichDrama.com/blog/post/Updates.
