India’s Devastating ‘Second Wave’ Requires ‘Third Wave’ Of Compassion, Prayer, Aid

WILLS POINT, TX – KP Yohannan, founder of Gospel for Asia (GFA World), which inspired numerous charities like Gospel for Asia Canada, and Metropolitan of Believers Eastern Church, to assist the poor and deprived worldwide — shares on the devastating ‘second wave’ in India, and calls for a ‘third wave’ of compassion, prayer and aid.

India is literally choking to death. In my lifetime, I’ve never seen anything that compares with this tsunami of suffering.

KP Yohannan, GFA World founder, shares on the devastating second wave in India, and calls for a third wave of compassion, prayer and aid. — In this May 1, 2021, file photo, relatives carry the body of a person who died of COVID-19 as multiple pyres of other COVID-19 victims burn at a crematorium in New Delhi, India. (AP Photo/Amit Sharma, File)

A catastrophic second wave of COVID-19 is ripping across India like an unstoppable forest fire. The U.S. State Department has just urged all Americans in India to leave the country immediately. The nation continues to shatter global records for the number of new daily infections. Unable to get into overwhelmed hospitals, people are dying in the streets, gasping for air as oxygen supplies run out.

My heart bursts with pain for those who are even now gasping for their final breath — and the family members who hold them in their arms, placing them in caskets or on burning funeral pyres. As the smoke billows heavenward, people are falling to their knees, asking: “Where is God?”

This is the time for us to show the untold millions suffering in India and elsewhere that God has not deserted them — and neither have we.

We Need a ‘Third Wave’

Amid the horrors of India’s second wave, I’m calling for a “third wave” — a tidal wave of compassion, prayer, and humanitarian aid to help alleviate pain and breathe hope into a world in distress.

While India is making headlines, rivers of grief are flowing across not only the Indian subcontinent but also Africa and Latin America as the pandemic surges in the developing world and deadly new variants spread fear.

I’m thankful that governments in India and around the world are willing to help humanitarian workers — like ours at GFA World — get into the places where suffering is unbearable. Their support has enabled local workers to distribute food to tens of thousands on the edge of starvation during the pandemic — and we’re working with indigenous workers right now to help even more suffering people, including patients at a hospital in India.

At a time when the world seems at its darkest, we carry the light. We can show the world a “third wave” that brings healing and hope in the throes of suffering. Hope flows through our compassion. It shows in our practical aid. And it lives in our prayers.

Around the world, people — and entire nations like India — are crying out for God’s mercy and desperately need our focused intercession right now. Governments need our prayers for wisdom as they confront this unforgiving pandemic.

Fervent and effectual prayer — along with sincere fasting — can change the course of human events (James 5:16-18). I’m praying that God will place this burden of intercession on the hearts of millions of believers worldwide — so that, through the eyes of faith, we will see his unfathomable wonders at work amid this tsunami of suffering.

‘Second Wave’ Suffering in India Affects Us All

What’s happening in India right now doesn’t just affect the nearly 1.4 billion people who live there. It affects us all. If this second wave — including a deadly new ‘double mutant’ variant — isn’t quickly brought under control in India, it will spread far beyond the nation’s borders. It will decimate not only India but could have dire consequences for the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and other countries.

As deadly new variants and virus mutations continue to threaten millions, India’s tsunami of suffering could easily repeat itself on a global scale. Our outpouring of compassion, prayer, and aid cannot wait another moment. We must unleash this counter-tsunami — this “third wave” — before it’s too late.

My essay was originally published on: CBN News, India’s Devastating ‘Second Wave’ Requires ‘Third Wave’ of Compassion, Prayer, Aid

Find out more about Gospel for Asia in the video “A Year in Review with K.P. Yohannan.”

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About K P Yohannan

K.P. Yohannan, founder and director of GFA World (Gospel for Asia) and Metropolitan of Believers Eastern Church (BEC), has written more than 250 books, including Revolution in World Missions, an international bestseller with more than 4 million copies in print. He and his wife, Gisela, have two grown children, Daniel and Sarah, who both serve the Lord with their families.

About Gospel for Asia

GFA World (Gospel for Asia) is a nonprofit organization serving the “least of these” in Asia since its beginning in 1979, often in places where no one else is serving. GFA World workers serve as the hands and feet of Christ by ministering to people’s needs so they can understand the love of God for them for the first time. GFA World is engaged in dozens of projects, such as caring for poor children, slum dwellers and widows and orphans; providing clean water by funding wells; supporting medical missions; and meeting the needs of those in leprosy colonies. Through GFA World’s Bridge of Hope Program, tens of thousands of children are being rescued from the generational curses of poverty and hopelessness.

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