COVID19 Call to Prayer – June 20: Our Refuge and Our Strength
1 God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
3 though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.
4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.
5 God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day.
6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; He lifts His voice, the earth melts.
7 The LORD Almighty is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress.
~ Psalm 46:1-7
Sometimes we feel as though the world has never been in such chaos. But this Psalm reminds us that it has ever been thus! The nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall and it seems as though darkness rules.
But God is our refuge and strength. He makes wars to cease. He is God. Our Rock.
“If all be well at home, it comforts a man, though he meets with troubles abroad.”
~ Richard Sibbes
Petition: Please join with us in praying for:
1. Bahrain – The number of confirmed cases is 20,916 with 57 deaths of those with Covid. Bahrain is the only Middle Eastern country not to have had a strict lockdown.
2. The Northern Territory – now has had 29 cases (up 0 from a week ago), with 0 deaths.
In Australia there have been 7,409 cases (up 20). All of the new cases, apart from in Victoria, are from overseas. There have been 102 deaths (up 0) 6,880 people have recovered (up 3). 15 are in hospital (2 in ICU). 1,970,205 have been tested, with 0.4% being positive.
3. There is concern in Italy and Germany, where the number of cases appears to be on the rise.
China says the outbreak in Beijing has been contained.
4. Russia has introduced a new drug to help with curing Covid-19. It is not a vaccine.
5. As the quote from Sibbes reminds us – we need our homes to be places of harmony and peace – yet that is where the devil most attacks. Pray for stable, peaceful, loving Christian homes.
A Prayer of Repentance:
Lord, you say we are to be still and know that You are God.
Yet we rush around and fill our heads with noise and our minds with nonsense.
Enable us to be still, and to know Your presence. Amen.
A Prayer of Thanksgiving:
Lord Almighty, we praise You that You are with us, that the God of Jacob is our fortress. Hallelujah!
___
Daily devotions by David Robertson via Christians United — COVID19 Call to Prayer.
[Photo by Arnaud Mariat on Unsplash]Recent Articles:
3 August 2026
4.5 MINS
A former witch looking for spiritual answers in all the wrong places, Christopher Wickland has driven off a cliff, been dead for 15 minutes, and encountered Jesus in the woods. The former occultist turned Pentecostal pastor now carries a burning conviction that England needs to reclaim its Christian identity — an he's not afraid to say so.
3 August 2026
7.9 MINS
Ceuta, Spain's enclave on Morocco's coast, faces unprecedented chaos as tens of thousands breach borders in what leaders are calling an invasion. The crisis exposes the catastrophic consequences of open-border policies across Europe.
3 August 2026
5.7 MINS
To understand Neo-Marxism, we first need to understand the realities of Marxism. Not the politically cleaned up propaganda version, but the brutal realities of the lives, and deaths, of those who lived and died under it.
3 August 2026
5.2 MINS
An unholy alliance between secular progressives and Islamists is reshaping the West. But the two movements operate from fundamentally different moral universes — and one is far better equipped to win the long game.
31 July 2026
5.9 MINS
It's been 44 years since Keith Green's death in a tragic plane crash, but “his legacy of love for God and love for the lost still lives on to this day.” His uncompromising cross-shaped Christianity is as relevant today as it was over four decades ago.
31 July 2026
3.3 MINS
On Monday Senator Rand Paul released over 1,000 pages of Fauci’s musings, written in his journal during the COVID era — which shockingly reveal that what Fauci demanded the public to believe was very different to what he knew to be the truth.
31 July 2026
5.8 MINS
The Trump administration has cut $67 million of taxpayer funding for controversial “radical leftist sex ed” programs in favour of solid curriculum that emphasises abstinence and marriage.
