PRAYER FOCUS: Blind Futility

The Tibetan Buddhist notion of prayer has nothing to do with intimate communication with a personal God.  For them ‘prayer’ means another obligation they have to fulfill in their effort to accumulate merit to ensure an adequate rebirth.  One such form of merit accumulation involves the repetitious spinning of prayer wheels, believing that the ‘prayers’ within the wheels will multiply their merit seeking efforts as they spin round and round.  For this reason, many Tibetans like the lady above, have spent their whole lives, day after day, performing this futile ritual.

PRAY:

• This bondage would be broken and the Kham would be delivered by coming to faith in Christ!
• for those Tibetan believers that do know Jesus – that they would be abiding in the vine and exhibiting the intimacy and reality the Tibetan Buddhist religion is so void of!
• that a global movement of prayer among God’s people will result in a movement of God’s Spirit in this desperate land.