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“Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.”-

Job 13:15 (KJV)

As I was praying, my sisters and brothers in Christ came into my spirit to pray for. Ones who are being beheaded for their faith. Ones who are being shot and killed for professing the name of Jesus Christ. Ones who are in underground churches, because believing in Jesus Christ and outward worship is against the law. Unbeknownst to me, my spirit started to cry out for them. For the blood that was shed. For the tears that were made from them and on their behalf. I then physically started to cry and it just kept flowing. Tears of intercession I did not know existed were flowing like a stream. Things I didn’t know what to pray for were being prayed for at that moment. 

The word “yet” kept being repeated over and over again out loud that started in my spirit. “Though You slay me, yet I will trust in You” (Jb-13:15). This is what they have in their bellies. They have a “yet” in their spirits. They have a “yet” in their rivers. They have a warrior, soldier mentality that says “even though they come and point their guns and weapons at me, I will not downcast my faith in my true Saviour, Jesus Christ. ‘For me to live is Christ. To die is gain.’” (Phil 1:21).

I cannot honestly say I am not there yet. I am not going to sit here and front like I am either. My prayer is that the Lord continues to build on top of our altars a type of strength and boldness that can look death in the eye and declare “Oh death is where is your sting?” (1 Cor 15:55). Who can look death straight in the eye and still declare Jesus as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords?

What I am doing, and have been trying for a while now, is to change the perspective of importance. There’s so many foolish things happening that turn our viewpoints back only on ourselves, without thinking twice about what’s going on in the world. Do not be a selfish statistic! Let us rise up for the Word of God, be bold in the face of adversity, and move forward the agendas of Jesus Christ. 

***Let us Pray!!! Father, we thank you that you are giving, implanting, and imparting a “yet” in our bellies and in our spirits. That this “yet” will not budge, never move, and stand still as our face like flint in the case of adversity. Lord, we thank you that you gird our loins with your weapons to tear down and dismantle the enemies’ camp, even to the sacrificing of ourselves. We are in the days of martyrs who have already stood in the gap and on the frontlines for Jesus, and we honor them where honor is due. Let us not turn a blind eye to the things that are not so pretty or glamorous to look at, but let us be knowledgeable and pray on what is going on around us. We thank you Lord that you surround us on every side. That your hedge of protection, your wall of fire surrounds and protects us while keeping every wicked thing out. Lord, we thank you that in the midst of chaos you keep us at peace. In Jesus’ Name we pray—Amen.***