The British settled upon this island in the early 1600’s eventually establishing the institution of slavery on Barbados[1]. While slavery was abolished in the 1800’s, the roots of slavery still leave scars upon the ancestors of slaves. The church held a national act of repentance in 1999, with a desire to completely remove these scars from ancestors of slaves. This island is also a source and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to sex trafficking and forced labor[2]. The island is also used as transshipment points for narcotics[3]. We pray for...

-The ancestors of slaves to entirely forgive ancestors of those who prospered from slavery. We pray for the sins and trauma of slavery to be healed in Jesus name. We pray for the enemy to have no stronghold in this area and we declare God’s forgiveness to overflow through all people in Barbados. 

-Christians to read the word of God, and that they would seek to love the Lord our God with all their heart, all their soul, and all their strength.*

-The Holy Spirit to release your fruits of love, joy, peace patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control upon the people of Barbados.** Father, we pray that crime & violence would decrease, and that your love would increase. 

-The Holy Spirit to break the chains of drug usage on the island in Jesus name! Protect your ports and cleanse them. Assign your angels to guard the ports so evil will not go from these islands unto the nations.   

-Your captives in Barbados Lord Jesus. Restore the plans you have for their lives, so they may glorify you Jesus. Bring freedom to your oppressed, and bring conviction to the hearts of the guilty, so that all may be saved through the precious blood of Jesus Christ. 

Image Credit: Brian Yurasits

[1] CIA World Factbook, (Date Accessed September 2012).

[2] CIA World Factbook, (Date Accessed September 2012).

[3]CIA World Factbook, (Date Accessed September 2012).

*Scripture quotations are based upon text obtained from New International Version of Deuteronomy 6:5, (2011).

**Scripture quotations are based upon text obtained from New International Version of Galatians 5:22-23, (1984).