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Psalm 77 1 - 3
I cried out to God for help I cried out to God
to hear me. When I was in distress, I sought the
Lord at night I stretched out untiring hands
and my soul refused to be comforted. I
remembered you, O God, and I groaned I mused,
and my spirit grew faint.
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Victims

• Medicine and clean water are in short supply.
  Pray that the right people who are able to
  distribute properly would get this and distribute
  it to the right places. Also there is a need for
  tents as temporary homes for displaced people.
• Disease could cause huge problems. Pray for
  proper preventive measures.
• Pray for the thousands of people who are
  devastated through the loss of loved ones and
  possessions. Pray that Christians would be a
  healing balm here. Pray that they would go out of
  their way to comfort and counsel such people.

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Psalm 77 7 - 9
"Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never
show his favor again? Has his unfailing love
vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all
time? Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he
in anger withheld his compassion?"
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Relief workers

• Pray for the personal lives and the families of
  those doing relief. Usually during these crises
  huge tensions emerge in families and sometimes
  moral failures too. Pray that the workers would
  guard their spiritual lives and maintain their
  personal spiritual accountability with their
  spiritual brothers or sisters.
• Pray for the meetings of coordination committees
  of individual groups and of umbrella
  organisations which bring groups together.

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Psalm 77 13 - 15
Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great
as our God? You are the God who performs
miracles you display your power among the
peoples. With your mighty arm you redeemed your
people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.
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Organisation

• Christian relief groups like LEADS, World Vision
  and the EvangelicalAlliance are doing good work.
  Pray that God would give them the necessary
  wisdom and human and material resources to do
  this work well.
• Pray that during these initial days God would
  guide his people andgovernment authorities to
  take the right steps in prioritising what
  needsto be done long term to rehabilitate those
  who have been affected.
• Pray for proper planning and co-ordination of the
  relief efforts. At themoment some who have are
  getting more and others who don't have are not
  getting anything. Pray for wisdom for leaders in
  the Government and non-Government Organisation
  (NGO) communities.

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Psalm 77 10 - 12
Then I thought, "To this I will appeal the
years of the right hand of the Most High." I
will remember the deeds of the LORD yes, I
will remember your miracles of long ago. I will
meditate on all your works and consider all your
mighty deeds.
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The church

• Pray for an unprecedented uniting of the body of
  Christ. That we wouldappreciate what each other
  is doing and that we would not compete with
  eachother, but unite to present a combined
  witness to the gospel.
• While we should not use this crisis in any
  unethical way to further thecause of evangelism,
  pray that this crisis may cause people to turn to
  theGod who alone can meet their deepest needs.
  Pray that Christians would bewise and bold in
  witnessing about the Saviour's love.
• The Sri Lankan church has received a lot of bad
  and false press in thepast few years. Pray that
  our work these days would bring glory to the
  nameof Christ even among those hostile to them.
  Pray that Christians wouldtruly reach out to all
  in love irrespective of race, class and religion.

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Credits
Compilation Evangelical Alliance the
Netherlands Pictures de Volkskrant
(www.volkskrant.nl) Text Ajith Fernando (YFC Sri
Lanka) Bible version NIV