O Father, I pray that my faith will be authentic when my time of trial comes.
Thank you for the heroes of faith who kept doing what the Spirit led them to do, regardless of opposition.
Give our present-day missionaries the wisdom to know when to move to a new place and when to settle in and endure opposition.
Most of all, Lord Jesus, pour out your Spirit with power so that all of us will share the message of Jesus with wisdom, courage, and passion. In your name, O Lord, I pray. Amen.
After reading so many stories about North Koreans defecting their fatherland I got my hands on a book that turns the tables on the whole idea of defecting North Korea. This guy was a Sargent in the US army in South Korea. He was afraid he was going to get hauled off to the Vietnam war in 1965. So he went AWOL and walked across the DMZ into North Korea thinking he would eventually be let loose to the Soviets and then let go for home in the US. Instead he was captured and did not leave for 40 years. Eventually after four decades of the weirdest life you could never imagine, he managed to survive and leave North Korea of his own volition. His story is the weirdest I’ve heard of in North Korea.
This book left me thinking of more questions about North Korea and it’s system of communism. After reading Escape from Camp 14 to now reading this, I’m convinced that the North Korean regime must actually hate their own people more than they hate Americans who they preach are their arch nemesis.
@Grace365 I live in South Korea so it’s easy for me to get these kinds of books here.
We want to thank everyone for the donations that came in online for the flood victims in Henan Province.
https://backtojerusalem.com/ptl-btj-raised-12931-online-for-flood-victims-in-henan-province/
Such a powerful message. No matter what you may think of Benny Hinn this message is truth and it will bless you. Only believe.
Powerful prayer and worship time.
Make the bowels of hell shake with worship and praise to King Jesus!!
https://youtu.be/22R2sbIhB-w
I recently watched this film Silence. It just reminded me of the need for a spiritual relationship with Christ. So many put their hope in the body and their community. But if Christ is God as the Bible says, as Christ said, “ before Abraham was I AM”, then we must come to the conclusion that Christ is also spirit within us. It must be our hope in Him alone that carries us through the harshest of suffering. I am alive in His Spirit, born again not of flesh, but of the Holy Spirit. Eternal life is for those born of the Spirit with the body. Everlasting life is first spiritual and then in the twinkling of an eye we are restored.
https://www.jesuits.org/stories/silence-the-true-story-of-the-jesuits-in-japan/
I’m going to eat this very soon. This woman is amazing and her food is even more amazing.
https://youtu.be/sROm4FBxuuU
https://youtu.be/sj5P65YzphM
CDC lies. Fauci lies. The world hears and follows every order. The ultimate symptom of fear is control and contradictions.
The flooding in China is crazy!
It is going to impact China in many ways! Many people are missing! Many people have drowned, as most Chinese do not know how to swim. There are people crying out for help to find their loved ones! Entire Farms have been washed away! Apparently millions of livestock have drowned or been basically standing in flood waters unable to eat for days! This will once again create a lack of food! Entire crops gone! Entire livelihoods washed away! We will be looking at price increases for food here once again! At the beginning to Covid they went high but have been slowly coming back down......but this will once again change things!
Chinese Christians are banding together and helping in the most beautiful sacrificial ways! It brings me to tears as I hear reports of brothers and sisters racing to the flood frontlines to help!
this small video is nearby where we live and it is nothing compared to Henan flooding! Our friend sent it....
@Jorge love you and Nancy! Powerful message and very needed! Amen!!
Please keep us in your prayers today
https://backtojerusalem.com/urgent-btj-prayer-request/
I'm SO EXCITED to be speaking at two Sabbath meetings this week! If you are in the Denver CO area, come and join us for a special Back to Jerusalem Sabbath service at Roeh Israel, a Messianic Jewish congregation. Jews and Gentiles ALL WELCOME! I will be sharing details from the frontlines from China, North Korea, Iran, and how you can get involved.
https://backtojerusalem.com/btj-special-sabbath-service-in-denver-co-this-friday-and-saturday-only-with-eugene-bach/
@jezzadiah4messiah Sadly, multiple nation states have done this too, including France
@bethany it’s estimated that there could be up to fifty thousand similar experiences over the last twenty years just from North Korean women in China. Yeonmi has said also said that her own experience is not as bad as most, including her own sister and mother.
These are some of the most heart wrenching stories of North Korean defectors I’ve read. I’m not convinced it’s any better now than twenty years ago. In fact I know it’s harder to cross into China than ever before and harder to send money back in to loved ones still there. God is still there though and His Spirit stills revives and gives birth to new spirits even in the harshest times.