Children and infants faint in the streets of the city!
A month or so ago I was in a worship/prayer meeting at our church, and as often happens when we come into the presence of God in worship, he once again began to break my heart for children and as I started to weep and cry out to him, he gave me a picture/vision.
What I saw was a picture of starving and malnourished children, it reminded me of the pictures that came out of Ethiopia in the 80’s, but these children were from the UK and Europe. People thought they were okay, they thought that they were well-fed because they had big bellies, but what they were looking at were the results of malnutrition and not the results of affluence. Some of the children were so malnourished that they had gone blind and they now had no hope of finding food themselves, yet they still wandered blindly in the desert; but in the desert there was a well-watered oasis, surrounded by large lush palm trees. The people that lived there had an abundant supply of water and food, enough for everyone and then some! Most of them hadn’t noticed those children wandering in the desert and those that had just assumed that they would come and join them to enjoy the water and food that the oasis provided, but the children couldn’t find the oasis, they were still wandering blindly around the desert. Who was going to go to these children? Who was going to share their abundant supply of the water and food with them? Who was going to go and lead them to the oasis where they wouldn’t be thirsty or hungry again? Who was going to go?
This picture impacted me so much that I’ve continued to pray about what I saw. I’ve been praying for God to send out workers from the oasis into the desert. Then last Sunday God again impressed on me what he’d shown me last month. We’ve been doing a sermon series on Lamentations, not a book that we often look at! As the Bible reading was read out, I was unable to hold back from audibly weeping as the scripture connected with the vision God had given to me.
Lamentation 2:11-12 & 19: “My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. They say to their mothers, "Where is bread and wine?" as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away in their mothers' arms……Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.”
Will you join me in lifting up your hands to him for the lives of our children in the UK and Europe, who faint from hunger at every street corner? Remember God’s promise… “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14
What I saw was a picture of starving and malnourished children, it reminded me of the pictures that came out of Ethiopia in the 80’s, but these children were from the UK and Europe. People thought they were okay, they thought that they were well-fed because they had big bellies, but what they were looking at were the results of malnutrition and not the results of affluence. Some of the children were so malnourished that they had gone blind and they now had no hope of finding food themselves, yet they still wandered blindly in the desert; but in the desert there was a well-watered oasis, surrounded by large lush palm trees. The people that lived there had an abundant supply of water and food, enough for everyone and then some! Most of them hadn’t noticed those children wandering in the desert and those that had just assumed that they would come and join them to enjoy the water and food that the oasis provided, but the children couldn’t find the oasis, they were still wandering blindly around the desert. Who was going to go to these children? Who was going to share their abundant supply of the water and food with them? Who was going to go and lead them to the oasis where they wouldn’t be thirsty or hungry again? Who was going to go?
This picture impacted me so much that I’ve continued to pray about what I saw. I’ve been praying for God to send out workers from the oasis into the desert. Then last Sunday God again impressed on me what he’d shown me last month. We’ve been doing a sermon series on Lamentations, not a book that we often look at! As the Bible reading was read out, I was unable to hold back from audibly weeping as the scripture connected with the vision God had given to me.
Lamentation 2:11-12 & 19: “My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. They say to their mothers, "Where is bread and wine?" as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away in their mothers' arms……Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.”
Will you join me in lifting up your hands to him for the lives of our children in the UK and Europe, who faint from hunger at every street corner? Remember God’s promise… “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2 Chronicles 7:14
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