Prayer for Zimbabwe

Every week Leah and I lead our base in intercession for different topics,issues,places, and people. We recieved a letter from the leadership of YWAM to be in prayer for Zimbabwe and it's people. They are in a desperate situation in almost every way. There is scarcely enough food for people, inflation is the highest in the world, clean water is almost non-existant and what little there is,it is for sale.

The government is completely corrupt and is run by the elected president Robert Mugabe. In 2000, in an effort to give back land to the indigenous people he passed a law that kicked any white farmers from their own land and put this into effect. Soon the land that had been colonized by the british for already well over 100 years was handed over to squatters and people with no knowledge of farming, one of the biggest economies of zimbabwe. This in turn lead to a quick collapse of the country's economy and and caused prices to sky rocket. People have to stand in line at the bank for the better part of a day just to pull out enough to by a loaf of bread...and repeat that process the next day to feed their family.
The government, in particular their leader, Robert Mugabe, has turned a blind eye to his own people and the disaster that his nation has become, blaming the problems on the people that originally settled on the land as westerners coming to his country.

We prayed for this country in early December and the very same day that we prayed there on the front page of BBC News was a picture of Robert Mugabe and a Headline that read "World Leaders call for Mugabe's Removal". Most of the issue at hand in the politcal world is from the recent Cholera outbreak that has already killed over a thousand, and new cases are reported to be 26,000.

The people of Zimbabwe need our prayers.In the end, these people need hope, and that hope is Jesus. Take a minute of your free time and pray for this country, it's people, and it's leader.

If you want to read more:
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/16501.htm