World Cup Prayers
The World Cup starts this Thursday with all the usual hype, and now, inevitably politics, with the host nation Russia. Football giants Italy and Holland are sadly absent, and perhaps it’s for the best, in order to avoid a Cold War side show, that the Americans also failed to make the cut this time. The World Cup Prayer guide is NOT about praying for the football! I gave up on that years ago as my team struggled in the lower reaches of the English football league, Heaven apparently deaf to my cries for mercy. To add insult to injury, the team dominating football at the time were nicknamed the Red Devils! No, enjoy the football, win, lose or draw. World Cup Prayers will help us to pray daily for countries featured in the fixture schedule. Psalm 2 invites us to make bold requests for the nations to our God who sits enthroned above them, 'Ask of Me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.’ So each day through the tournament, I