Watch Focus November 21st, 2025: Thanksgiving! Jerusalem & Persecuted Church.

As American families and friends get together for Thanksgiving Day, we raise our voices in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord, for He is the Source and Provider who has so blessed our nation. We give thanks for our Savior, for the Bible, for our nation, for our parents and grandparents, for our church leaders, for our armed forces and their families, and for our basic provisions of food and shelter. Whatever challenges we have and are facing as a nation we look to the grace of God to keep us and preserve us. We look forward to our 250th birthday next year with faith and hope. With unwavering persistence we pray Matthew 6:10, “Your kingdom come. Your will be done On earth as it is in heaven.”

There is much talk amongst our own Administration, the UN and the nations regarding a two-state solution and dividing Jerusalem. We pray relentlessly for Jerusalem according to Isaiah 62:7, “And give Him no rest till He establishes And till He makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.” We pray for the peace of Jerusalem according to Psalm 122:6, “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: May they prosper who love you.”

We pray President Trump and his Administration would walk in Isaiah 11:2, “The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisdom and understanding, The Spirit of counsel and might, The Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.” May they be as…. “wise as serpents and harmless as doves.” (Matthew 10:16). We thank God for His Covenant to Abraham and his descendants regarding the land given to them.

According to Open Doors World Watch List 2025 some of the countries where The Church has the highest level of persecution include North Korea, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Sudan, Eritrea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and China. We lay hold of Paul’s instruction from Colossians 4:18, “This salutation by my own hand—Paul. Remember my chains. Grace be with you. Amen.” From the Watch we remember the persecuted Church in the Nations. We pray for them according to Ephesians 3:14-21, “For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

We pray and declare over them Romans 15:5-6, NIV, “May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.”

We pray with faith and persistence that nations hostile to the Gospel of Jesus Christ would experience a great outpouring of the Holy Spirit! May there be outpourings of joy and thanksgiving in these nations. We partner with the Lord for the fulfillment of Matthew 24:14, “And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” Amen!