I came across an article today about Kim Jong-Un and the injustice that he has brought over the lives of the citizens that are living in North Korea. If you haven't already read or heard about the terrible news, it has been reported that Kim Jong-Un had 80 people publicly executed in North Korea on November 3rd. The justification for his decision for taking the innocent lives of these 80 people were very minor "crimes" which include watching South Korean films, religious activism, cellphone use, and stealing food.
Not only did he unjustly take the lives of these people, but he also ordered the Wonsan authorities to gather a crowd of 10,000 people, including children, at Shinpoong Stadium and forced them to watch the killings.
This news was really heartbreaking. The fact that horrible events such as these are going on around the world everyday, and that we go on with our lives unaware of it, really made me rethink about how I was living.
I'm not trying to point fingers because I am guilty of being caught up in my own "issues" everyday just as much as everyone else is. Many times we're caught up with our own issues, our own problems, etc. And I feel like so many of us complain on a daily basis on what we don't have or wish we did have.
Very trivial issues compared to problems that people around the world are going through.
This article humbled me and reminded me to be thankful for all the things that I am blessed to have in my life. Even if we may not have entirely every thing that we may want, we should focus on the things that we do have! Things such as good health, freedom of speech, freedom to move around whenever we desire, freedom to watch what we want, freedom to talk with whoever we want, freedom to praise God wherever and whenever we want, and the list goes on.
What has happened on November 3rd in North Korea was very wrong and unjust. And I believe this gives us an even bigger reason to pray for not only North Korea but also its leader, Kim Jong-Un.
At such a young age he was given so much authority and power. This execution that occurred on November 3rd was the first known public execution that Kim Jong-Un had ordered, since he took power after the death of his father.
Whether he will command more public executions to take place in the future or not, I do not know. But I'll tell you what i do know.
I know that God, the Creator of Heaven and Earth and everything and everyone on it, did not create Kim Jong-Un and the rest of the Kim family to be or to do what they have been doing for the past 67 years in North Korea. He also did not create the citizens living in North Korea to be treated the way they are being treated; their lives being taken away from them without justice or dying from starvation without even being able to hear the good news of the Gospel of hope and salvation.
So I just want us to pray. To pray for God to rock North Korea with his love and the everlasting hope that only He can provide. I want us to pray for the impossible, the things that seem like it could never happen.
Because God could do the impossible. We may not be able to do the impossible, the extraordinary. But we are partnered with the one who can!!
So pray for Kim Jong-Un to be changed from the inside out, to be struck with God's love and his glory so hard, that he wouldn't be able to contain it and his life would be transformed. Pray for all these things and pray for even crazier things to happen!! And as we pray, I encourage us to have faith and to believe 100 percent that what we are praying about will really happen. To not let even a single thought of doubt seep through, as we pray.
Because our God is able. Remember who you are praying to as you make your prayers to him.
You're talking to THE CREATOR OF THIS ENTIRE UNIVERSE!!
If he could make a blind man see, if he could take away the pain in your body, if he could rise someone from the dead, if he could create the entire universe, and if he knows each and every one of us by name, and the number of hairs we have on our head, he can SURELY bring salvation and hope to North Korea.
Remember that the God who preformed all the miracles throughout the bible is THE SAME GOD we worship today!! He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow! He never changes and his power never fades. So lets have hope and faith in what he can do.
I believe that prayer is such a powerful weapon that we are blessed with and we are partnered and backed up by the MOST POWERFUL ONE, the BEST partner of all. WHAT IS THERE TO BE AFRAID OF?! If God is for us, what can be against us?
So lets have faith and pray and believe that it will be done.
And it, surely, will be done.
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