November 2015

My dear friend,

Are you ready to join us in praise and thanksgiving to God throughout this month? I hope so! Thank you for your faithful and earnest prayer for the hurting women we serve. Together we are changing their future! Like someone said, “History belongs to the intercessors who believe the future into being.” Praying with expectant faith for their present circumstances changes their future! Obeying Christ’s command in Luke 11:9 to ask, search, and knock will bring healing and restoration in their lives. So, God is allowing us through prayer to take hold of history and change these women’s eternal destiny! But today I propose we stop asking and knocking at heaven’s door. Instead, let’s raise our voices in thanksgiving and praise to our God and say, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits!”

I think of God’s benefits in answer to our prayers in Africa: first, the successful completion and delivery of the Healing Voice drama series intended for victims of fistulas and female genital mutilation in Ethiopia; and second, the new Project Hannah prayer and radio ministry in Kenya. I remember the intercessors’ tears and prayers for their unfaithful and abusive husbands. And in Tanzania, more than 1,000 women attended the dedication of the first Hannah’s House, dancing, singing, and shouting: “The grace of God came down to us through Project Hannah.”

In Europe, God called Yvonne, a passionate and dynamic Irish intercessor, to mobilize the Church to pray for the many “stolen lives” of women worldwide and to speak hope to her own country.

In Haiti, I remember launching the new prayer movement and praying along with hundreds of intercessors under the largest mango tree I have ever seen. What a faith-strengthening experience!

God is answering our prayers, blessing the well-coordinated partnership with Cru and its Magdalena film to produce a radio program called Portraits of Hope. Listeners will grow deeper in their faith.

And then God is opening Christians’ hands and hearts so that the Women of Hope radio program will continue proclaiming God’s love in 69 languages.

Finally, there is you, one of Project Hannah’s 50,000 intercessors, asking, seeking, and knocking at heaven’s door, asking God’s grace to change women’s lives now and for eternity. So much to be thankful for!

“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget NONE of His benefits.”

Marli Spieker
Global Ministry Director/Founder
Project Hannah
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