Basque Country Prayer Points for April 2025
Prayer Points and verse:
Prayers points:
- On Monday April 28 at ~12:30pm all the electricity went off in Spain, Portugal and portions of France. It was quite the event for the country. Some people had the power back on in an hour while others waited for multiple hours. It was quite the disruption to daily life. The cause is still under investigation.
- Pray for all those impacted by the event on Monday, wisdom as leaders work to determine the cause and peace as the people work to understand what happened.
- Imanol Pradales, the Lehendakari (Basque Government President) has been in office for about 1 year and the local paper I read recently had an interview discussing different themes from the year. He thought Basque Country is well positioned to navigate the current geopolitical situation. He also believes that the growth expected for the current year will need to be revisited in the near future. They also asked him about the housing situation, health system and recent public school system having several days of strikes to which he gave remarks to share how he is planning to address those situations.
- Pray for Pradales and the other political leaders as they look to represent those who elected them and wisdom on the decisions they need to make across multiple areas in the life of Basque people.
- The Basque Government, school administrators, parents and young people are trying to determine changes for mobile phone usage with youth. With all the data that is being presented they are seeing a need to make a change. Some of the young people are also realizing a need for change.
- Pray for the leaders, parents and youth as they look to determine what changes to make to protect young people who have smartphones
- Spain has recently been working to increase its military spending to be ~2% of its GDP. Previously it was ~1.3%. This is in response to some of the geopolitical changes where Europe is needing to make larger investments.
- Pray as leaders look to make these changes and for peace
- With the trade policy changes with the US, the Basque Country is trying to determine the impacts to the various industries. They listed the top 10 exports to the US. A few of them are machines and mechanical parts, electrical equipment and machines, and weapons and ammunition.
- Pray as leaders and business look to understand the impact of the trade policy changes and next steps to take.
- On April 26, 1937 the daily life of Guernica was tragically interrupted with over 300 people being killed as bombs were dropped on the city. This year was the 88th anniversary of this tragic event. Leaders were reminding people of the importance of remembering what happened and working to prevent it from happening in the future.
- Pray for the city of Guernica as it continues to heal from this event and leaders to see the destruction that happens from war.
The verse for the month:
Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Matthew 7:24 NIV