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Cities across Ukraine continue to suffer attacks.

PLEASE PRAY!

“Oh God, who is unshakable, be their solid rock as the walls around them are shaking. Protect those first responders who are running to the area directly struck by the enemy’s attack. Protect our friends who courageously continue to serve even though their city has been rocketed. In the name of Jesus, who is our solid rock.”

<updated> After a night of many air raid sirens, the early part of the day found our partners continue their diligence. They loaded the meals packed overnight into vans and cars to deliver to places like Kyiv and Kharkiv. Our Coordinator dutifully went to the bank to receive the day’s funds from CEO to distribute to partners who oversee and purchase food to be prepared and distributed for the coming weekend.

Later in the day repeated air raids drove the population indoors

Then at 4:30pm Ukraine time (10:30am Eastern), several explosions shook the walls of their building.

U. S. News recently reported, per the Ukrainian military, that several cruise missiles were aimed at the city. Local military officials indicate that, thanks be to God, several of the rockets were successfully shot down before reaching the city. Official casualty and damage reports are being withheld until there is confirmation.

Pray that God, our solid rock, protects, comforts and helps them. Pray for the children.

I am astounded by the courage of our partners. Please pray for them as they cook, pack and send food to those who are hunkered down in many other cities and villages. May God bless these courageous servants of God as they keep the food flowing. May God be glorified.

Please, please PRAY.

Please give to support these heroic servants of God who work to care for others.

http://www.ceokids.org/give

<this post was earlier modified to minimize information per official mandate until now as press have reported the attack.>

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-03-25/russian-missiles-target-ukrainian-air-force-command-in-vinnytsia-military-says

This guy does…

Our partners will use these carrots on the hundreds of meals taken to folks in fighting areas.

PLEASE PRAY for peace, for those hunkered down in danger areas and for our partners bringing them food.

YOU CAN help us help them. $3 pays for a substantial meal delivered to danger areas.

GIVE: http://www.ceokids.org/give

We can trust because HE is greater than all, HE is unshakable, steadfast, immovable! Grow in your trust in HIM by meditating ON HIM!

Yesterday’s posts included a helpful practice: turn-complain-ask-trust. My buddy Paul noted in a comment the book from which this originated. (See that post by scrolling below.) Just now I read Psalm 89. The end of the Psalm nicely shows how biblical this practice is.

“Lord, where is your steadfast love of old, which by your faithfulness you swore to David?

Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations, with which your enemies mock, O Lord, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.

Blessed be the Lord forever! Amen and Amen.”
‭‭Psalm‬ ‭89:49-52‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Yesterday this van took 640 meals to Kharkiv…

… our partners also sent 2 tons of flour and 300kg of yeast to the Chernigiv area for the baking of bread

… and 200 loaves of already baked bread to distribute.

Thanks be to God for this provision.

Thank you for continuing to pray.

Thank you for giving so people are fed in the midst of war.

$3 cooks, packs and sends a substantial meal.

GIVE: http://www.ceokids.org/give

I received some helpful counsel the other day. Each of us has struggles. We all have times when we feel shaken and then are weak.

Recent events may cause us to feel this more than usual.

This wise friend told me about a practice of prayer that I have found helpful in the days since. It is in four steps. I’m including Scripture to show the way.

Stop and turn to God.

“If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” (Colossians‬ ‭3:1-2‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

Complain to God.

“Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint; preserve my life from dread of the enemy. Hide me from the secret plots of the wicked, from the throng of evildoers, who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows, shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear. They hold fast to their evil purpose; they talk of laying snares secretly, thinking, “Who can see them?” They search out injustice, saying, “We have accomplished a diligent search.” For the inward mind and heart of a man are deep.” (Psalm‬ ‭64:1-6‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

Ask God.

“Make haste, O God, to deliver me! O Lord, make haste to help me! Let them be put to shame and confusion who seek my life! Let them be turned back and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt! Let them turn back because of their shame who say, “Aha, Aha!” May all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you! May those who love your salvation say evermore, “God is great!” But I am poor and needy; hasten to me, O God! You are my help and my deliverer; O Lord, do not delay!” (Psalm‬ ‭70:1-5‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

Trust God.

“Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation. God, the Lord, is my strength; he makes my feet like the deer’s; he makes me tread on my high places. To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.” (Habakkuk‬ ‭3:17-19‬ ‭ESV‬‬)

This last one can be hard. I suggest trust building scriptures like the list here in a post from a while back.

Above all, turn to Christ.