"Let the little children come to Me and do not hinder them!
For the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these."
(Matthew 19:14)
Photograph courtesy/humananglemedia.com
52, 250 Christians. This is not an estimate of those murdered for their
faith worldwide this year, but in the African nation of Nigeria alone.
According to a recent report from the American Center for Law
and Justice, 90% of all Christians killed worldwide are in Nigeria.
Believers there live in a constant state of terror, fearing abduction,
torture, and murder by the adherents of radical Islam.
Chief Counsel for the ACLJ Jay Sekulow warns, "Islamic extremists pose an
existential threat to Christians. Defenseless believers have been gunned down
as they worship. Christian pastors have been beheaded or burned alive."
The ACLJ further reports that Boko Haram, the jihadist army
and Nigerian arm of ISIS, has slaughtered innocent Christians
and burned down Christian churches. One survivor stated,
"I saw bodies in the street. Children and women, some
were crying for help."
Some members of these terrorists groups actually pose as
preachers in order to murder Christians and kidnap their children.
Other jihadist groups like the Fulani herdsmen, embolden by the
lack of response from the Nigerian government, are increasing
their barbaric persecution of the Christian population and are
mercilessly slaughtering thousands of men, women, and children.
Also, according to the ACLJ, President Biden astonishingly removed
Nigeria from a vital persecution watchlist in the face of this bloodshed
and the death toll went up. In fact, the ACLJ's FOIA (Freedom of
Information Act) lawsuit uncovered the Biden State Department
willfully ignoring the grim facts to instead protect their political agenda.
Could the reason behind Biden's "punishment" of Nigeria be due to the
fact that this west African nation is a deeply religious country where
many of the people reject homosexuality as an abomination to God,
and who regard the current administration's worldwide
pushing of the LGBTQ+ political agenda as evil?
Joe Biden has sent millions and millions of US tax payer dollars
to fund the war in the Ukraine, a conflict which most Americans,
despite the intense media focus, know very little about.
The genocide in Nigeria has been going on for years and is
only getting worse with each passing day.
It is often hard for me to comprehend such evil being allowed
to flourish in this world, especially the suffering of little children,
due to the greed and selfishness of those wielding a "political agenda".
Nigeria is only one of many nations where believers in Jesus Christ
are persecuted for their faith. In other African nations, and in
parts of the Middle East and Asia, Christians are often regarded
as second class citizens and many face the risk of imprisonment,
torture, and too often, death on a daily basis.
I believe that the most effective weapon that Christians have in
this lost and fallen world is the power of prayer. My most fervent
prayer for Nigeria is that despite the satanic and human darkness
plaguing that nation, God's justice will prevail there. That despite
the intense opposition, the powerful saving message of the Gospel
will continue to move forward- straight into the heart of the enemy.
Psalm 35
A Psalm of David
Contend, O Lord, with those who contend with me;
fight against those who fight against me!
Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for my help!
Draw out also the spear and javelin and close up the way
of those who pursue and persecute me.
Say to me, I am your deliverance!
Let them be put to shame and dishonor who seek and require my life:
let them be turned back and confounded who plan my hurt!
Let them be as chaff before the wind,
with the Angel of the Lord driving them on!
Let their way be through dark and slippery places,
with the Angel of the Lord pursuing and afflicting them.
For without cause they hid for me their net;
a pit of destruction, without cause they dug for my life.
Let destruction befall my foe unawares; let the net laid for me
catch him; let him fall into that very destruction.
Then I shall be joyful in the Lord; I shall rejoice in His deliverance.
All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like You,
You Who deliver the poor and afflicted from him
who is too strong for him, yes, the poor and needy,
from him who snatches away his goods?
Malicious and unrighteous witnesses rise up; and they ask
me of things that I know not.
They reward me evil for good to my personal bereavement.
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth;
I afflicted myself with fasting, and prayed with head bowed on my breast.
I behaved as if grieving for my friend or my brother;
I bowed down in sorrow, as one who bewails his mother.
But in my stumbling and limping they rejoiced and gathered
against me, the smiters-slanderers and revilers- gathered against me,
and I knew them not; they ceased not to slander and revile me.
Like profane mockers at feasts, making sport for the price of cake,
they gnashed at me with their teeth.
Lord, how long will You look on without action? Rescue my life
from their destructions, my dear and only life from the lions!
I will give You thanks in the great assembly;
I will praise You among the mighty throng,
Let not those who are wrongfully my foes rejoice over me;
neither let them wink with the eye who hate me without cause.
For they do not speak peace, but devise deceitful matters
against those who are quiet in the land.
Yes, they open their mouths wide against me; they say,
"Aha! Aha! Our eyes have seen it!"
You have seen this, O Lord; keep not silence!
O Lord, be not far from me!
Arouse Yourself, awake to the justice due me, even to
my cause, my God and my Lord!
Judge and vindicate me, O Lord, my God, according to
Your righteousness and let not my foes rejoice over me!
Let them not say in their hearts, Aha, that is what we wanted!
Let them not say, We have swallowed him up and utterly destroyed him.
Let them be put to shame and confusion together who rejoice at
my calamity! Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who
magnify and exalt themselves over me!
Let those who favor my righteous cause and have pleasure in
my uprightness shout for joy and be glad and continually say,
Let the Lord be magnified, Who takes pleasure in the
prosperity of His servant.
And my tongue shall talk of Your righteousness, rightness,
and justice, and of my reasons for Your praise all day long.
Amen.
Maranatha!
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