Pray For Turkey

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PRAY FOR TURKEY

(10) On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, (11) saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.” (Revelation 1: 10-11, BSB)

Turkey has borne the brunt of a 6.7 magnitude earthquake today, 30th October 2020. The epicentre was just off the coast of Samos, a Greek isle in the Aegean Sea. Let us pray for Turkey and Greece at this tragic time.

Turkey is a nation I have come to love dearly, as the prophetic call bestowed upon me for this end time is primarily for the Alevi community. It has been an immensely challenging journey. However, to bring any group of people out of spiritual captivity will attract the enemy. What God is doing will cause the watching world to give glory to His Name.

The early apostles of the faith, sent by Jesus into the outermost regions beyond Jerusalem of the then known world, were ardent custodians bearing the Good News of our Lord. These apostles turned their world upside down. John was sent to Asia Minor, modern day Turkey. He was banished as a convict to do hard labour on the Isle of Patmos, for preaching against the Roman authorities. It was whilst on this remote outcrop that he had a spiritual encounter and was given a revelation by Jesus, with a message to the 7 churches of Asia Minor. ‘saying, “Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches: to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.” (Revelation 1:11). Smyrna is modern day Izmir and what Jesus loved about this church was their zealousness for the faith. The Alevi enclaves of Turkey are in themselves a nation within a nation, adherents of Christianity who love Jesus. Many of them still hold firmly to their belief that they are the origins of the apostles’ work with the early Christians in Asia Minor. Hence, they have remained isolated from the Christian community.

I was instructed one morning in 2015 to write the vision for Turkey in a book, “The Forgotten Christians of Asia Minor”. It was when I commenced writing that the Spirit revealed to me that the Alevi people were the root of the apostles’ work in Asia Minor. Prior to this, in the winter of 2012, I was given the revelation: “I want you to establish it in a conference in the place of the 7-fold churches’.

I have come to appreciate the unusual and amazing way that God has revealed His plan for Turkey to me. I have never doubted His leading even in the face of great challenges and rejection for the call. I was Spirit-urged to keep moving through the prophetic turbulence because the deliverance, healing and restoration of this group to the body of Christ was more important than my personal discomforts. I believe this earthquake is an attack against what God is about to do. Equally, I am convinced that the pandemic is a backlash of evil to thwart the plan of God for the Spirit of Healing and Life to emerge for this end time.

Please find it in your heart to pray for this end time move of God that is being resisted by the Evil One. But, we can come in collective agreement that Jesus is Lord of His harvest. Is anything too hard for God?

Gwendolyn Smith. 30 October 2020