Four days ago we landed in Bangkok, Thailand. I really think this country may make my top ten list – I LOVE it here. However, a sense of heaviness rests over this place in a way I haven’t encountered in any of my travels thus far.
A day or so after we arrived, all fifty of us (with translators) toured some of the main temples in Thailand. My team travelled together and we saw and prayed over four different temples. The architecture and history of the temples is extraordinary. But the heaviness and sense of being lost I felt for people, was overwhelming. The main religion of Thailand is Buddhism, although not everyone practices it. Many of the people bow their knees to a golden statue. This statue does nothing, can do nothing and yet they give their souls away in a search for hope. Please pray for truth to flood this nation. Pray for these people, pray that the Lord would protect them from the enemy’s schemes and that he would open their eyes. And please pray for us as we minister here, pray that the Lord would protect us from harm and the schemes of the enemy.
This is the largest idol in Thailand – it takes up an entire hall and is something like 52 meteres long. It is made of brick and plaster, and guilded in gold.
This is a picture of Bri and I out front of one of the temples.
