(is-tan-BULL) – Please pray 2 Timothy 4:1-8 (ESV) over the churches of Turkey. Pray for the leaders to always be prepared to “preach the word.” Pray for them to “reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching.” Pray for the members of the churches to “endure sound teaching.” Pray that they will not have “itching ears” and “accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions.” Pray that they will not “turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.” Pray that they will be “sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill [their] ministry.” They are promised a “crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award . . . on that day” if they “have loved his appearing.”