THE AUSTRALIAN PERSECUTION!
Comp.8/92
--Comments and Prayers from Dad and Mama
DO 2811
Dad's Comments and Prayer upon First Hearing About the Police Raids in Australia
1. (5/92) These guys who persecute us want to keep their dirty business a secret, but the thing to do is call in the media and publicize it! That's what the Family did in the Philippines. Call a press conference! Go on the attack! Expose them! They think they're exposing us--we ought to expose them! That's one thing the Devil doesn't like, to have his dirty tricks exposed.
2. Encourage our children, Lord! Bless and help them! Thank You that they know You, Jesus. The parents too, Lord. Help them to have faith that You're going to deliver. Expose our enemies, Lord! Don't let them get away with these dirty tricks without being exposed. It's all in Your hands. Give Thy children wisdom and give them inspiration to fight, and the courage to be a witness and a testimony.
3. Lord, defeat Thy enemies! May the leaders of this evil campaign suffer when they've accomplished Your will and brought out the testimony and the witness. Let them suffer, Lord! Confound their knavish tricks! Confuse their politics! Expose them, Lord! Show the public how much worse they are than we are! Give us public sympathy, Lord, in Jesus' name.
Mama's Comments and Prayer Against Our Enemies in Australia
4. (5/92) This situation in Australia with the Homes being raided and our children taken in just makes me furious at our enemies! But at the same time it really excites me to see how the Lord means business and is serious about getting His message out, and that He's forcing us into it. He wasn't kidding when He said our children are going to "speak with the enemies in the gate!" (Psa.127:5). He didn't just mean one or two or three, but obviously He meant many of them, since that's what they're going to be doing now.
5. We may have all kinds of worries and concerns that they're not ready and they haven't been prepared and the field isn't as strong as it could be and they don't know what to say, but obviously the Lord isn't too concerned about that.--Otherwise He wouldn't have let all of this happen. He's obviously more interested in getting His message out and in filling our enemies' cups of iniquity and in putting them on trial rather than worrying if our children know what to say. After all, He knows what to say, and that's all that's necessary. "But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost" (Mark 13:11). Hallelujah!
6. So really pray for those children now, that they'll say what the Lord leads them to say and that He'll "give them a mouth and wisdom that no one will be able to gainsay nor resist" (Luk. 21:15), and that He'll raise up lawyers for them now, and lots of them, that will be interested in taking our case. How can we have a great victory unless we have a great battle?
7. I'm so thankful that we're going to be able to get our message out now! We were wondering when it was the proper time for the publicity, and it sure looks like now is the time! We can let it roll! They pushed us into it and they've asked for a fight, and now they're going to get it!
8. (Prays:) Lord, help us to give them a good fight! Anoint and inspire those kids and their parents and help them to be wiser and more filled with Thy Words and Thy wisdom than ever before! Help them to rise up in judgment and condemn our enemies! Show Thy strong and mighty arm in defense of Thy little ones!--And make our enemies tremble and quake, all of them, Lord!
9. Bring down the government! Bring down the Social Services! Bring down "Current Affair" and any other demonic AC media! Bring down our enemies--defeat them, smash them, destroy them, Lord!--And all those that are fighting against Thy little ones. Make it a scandal, Lord! Make it a nationwide scandal! Make them ashamed, make them humiliated, make them embarrassed for what they've done! Make their heads roll, Lord! Make them lose their jobs! Make them lose their children! Make people take sides! Bring great forces to our side.
10. Give us the support we need! Give us the support of the civil rights groups, the human rights groups, the religious freedom groups, the religious organizations, the minority groups--all those, Lord, that are concerned about freedom and liberty and moral and ethical behavior. Help them to fear that they're going to be next! Help them to want to fight on our side, whether they like us or not.--To want to support us in this fight that will also affect them.
11. Create such a stir that those who have dared to touch us will turn tail and run to get out of the horrible mess that they have created for themselves! Divide the sheep from the goats, Lord! Do it right now! Make the whole country take sides and make them side with us, Lord, if they're at all concerned about their children and their religious freedoms and their human rights! Give us the lawyers we need and anoint them for the job.
12. Give the children wisdom and help them to be released back to their parents as quickly as possible! Give the parents peace in the midst of the storm. Give the leadership great wisdom and reliance on Your Word and faith in You. Overcome the obstacles, defeat the ancient spirits! Send Your angels from far and wide to surround and protect Your people and keep them from evil! Make it a great witness, a great testimony!
13. Raise up spokesmen who can wield the Word wisely and boldly, and media who will listen and be fair, and thousands of people who will be sympathetic. And even if they do believe the lies about us, help them to at least realize that this is going too far and this is going overboard, to violently rip so many children from their loving parents in what is supposed to be a democratic country, and one which supposedly encourages religious freedom.
14. Expose them, Lord! Expose the whole System! Bring it down! Destroy faith in it! Destroy the perpetrators of these crimes! Show Thy mighty power! Hallelujah! TYJ! Fulfill Your many promises to keep Thy little ones and make them a great witness to the world, in Jesus' name!
More Comments and Prayers from Dad
15. (5/92) It's amazing the ruckus this is causing! They certainly must have known this was going to get a lot of publicity--probably thinking it was all going to be bad for us. (Mama: Yes, I think they were so drunk with power in this case, and so sure that all the "evidence" against us was so horrific, that they weren't afraid. They thought they had the whole thing all tied up.)
16. Lord, You know all about it and why You're allowing it. "All things work together for good to them that love Thee" (Rom.8:28). You're allowing it to happen and You promised it would be for Your glory and as a witness against them! Amen, Lord, bless the children and keep them! Bless the parents and encourage them! Give them peace and assurance that You are working it all out for our good. "The heathen rage," but the Lord will have the last laugh! (Psa.2:1,4).
17. We know You're allowing it for some good reason, Lord, no doubt to get the message out, as a witness and a testimony, and a message to the people to show them how cruel and unjust the world is getting, and how the System is becoming more abusive of the children than the parents! Laws that were intended to protect the children are being used against both them and their parents, very unjustly and cruelly.
18. Bless and keep the children, Lord, and the parents and our advocates, and make this the witness and testimony You want it to be! Turn back the wrath of our enemies upon themselves and let them reap what they sow! May they have the trouble and heartaches that they're causing us, with no one but the Devil to comfort them! Let their troubles be multiplied manifold! You promised, Lord, that the evil of the wicked would be returned upon their own heads many times over, and that they'll reap what they've sowed! (Gal.6:7; Job 4:8; Eze.11:21).
19. Amen, Lord, thank You Jesus! It's in Your hands! I can't stand to worry about it too much or it affects my health and my digestion. It's no doubt a blow the Devil hopes to hurt me with too, because he knows how this would hurt me, and does hurt. So I just cast my burden upon Thee, Lord, and You'll sustain me. Forgive me, Lord, if I've caused any of this trouble for the Family. (Maria: The Lord said in prophecy we should be proud to be children of David and proud to stand up for the Words, that it's a privilege to suffer persecution!) Forgive me, Lord, if I've been too frank and too honest and too open in my freedom of beliefs that have shocked the world and brought on us this kind of persecution.
20. Let the Family not suffer, Lord, because of me and the truths that I've told them. We've had to be honest and open with our faith, Lord, even our beliefs about sex which have so infuriated the Devil's wicked, because You've been reclaiming Your Own creations that the Devil has stolen and uses for his own wicked devices. He's taken Your Own wonderful creation of sex and twisted it and contorted it for his own ends and pretended to be its own champion, and now is trying to use it against us. Most of these fiendish false accusations are based on our sexual openness and freedom, which is based on Your Word. If we've not always been wise in preaching it, or the Family in practicing it, forgive us and deliver us now, in Jesus' name.
21. Help the parents to appreciate their children even more, and the children their parents, when they see how evil the world is, how merciless and cruel!--Much more abusive than we could ever be!
22. Bless and keep the children. We know You will, Lord. They're in Your hands, and You deal with the persecutors! You deal with the liars and the enemies who hate us!--Not for our sexiness, which they're just using as an excuse, but they hate us, Lord, because we're defying their Godless System! In their hypocritical self-righteousness they're attacking us because of jealousy, envy, and because we have proven that their System is so vile and wicked! May this make it even more known and public.
23. Expose them, Lord! Reveal their horrible, evil wickedness, how wrong they are to persecute the helpless and the innocent and the righteous! Strip them naked, Lord! Expose their wickedness and their evil and their cruelty! Use it to expose them, Lord!--Not us, but them! Use this case to broadcast our message, Lord, Thy message of love, light, hope and goodness, and to expose the Devil's lies about us!
24. Bless and keep and give us wisdom, all of our Family everywhere, so they'll know how to avoid these things if possible. This is the sort of thing that we've tried to avoid, and we've given counsel on how to avoid it, but apparently the Lord wants us to get involved this time, to expose the evil System and broadcast the truth! (Mama: Amen! And the Lord said repeatedly that, "The children shall speak with the enemies in the gate" (Psa.127:5). That was a major part of the prophecies, that the children were going to be a witness. TYL!) Well, they threw the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace and they came through a greater testimony than ever! (See Daniel 3.)
25. The Devil is furious because he knows that his time is short. He's striking us like this just when we're having such tremendous success in his old stronghold of Russia! He's attacking us on another front and attacking where it really hurts--our children. We're saving what were his children, so he's trying to rob us of ours! We're getting his by the thousands, so he's trying to nibble off a few of ours. But, Lord, make them a testimony and a witness for Thy glory, in spite of all the suffering!
26. Let them be a real testimony even in how they eat, Lord, as You did with Thy four Hebrew children when they were in bondage, in the captivity of the enemy. Let our children be a witness, Lord, in the way they eat and the way they live. Protect them from the evil men and evil women, their evil persecutors, Lord!--In Jesus' name. And when You've had Your way and they've been enough of a witness, Lord, deliver them!
27. I got something really strongly the other day about the word "deliverance." I think I got it when I was reading the scripture, "The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto His Heavenly Kingdom, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen" (2Tim.4:18). It came to me that the Lord can't deliver you from something unless you're into something. He can't deliver you unless you're in some kind of trouble. So He has to let you have some kind of trouble so He can deliver you.
28. Well, Lord, it's all in Your hands; they're in Your hands! Bless and keep them all, parents and children! Defeat the Enemy and make it a great witness and testimony for the truth! May it come out for Thy glory and all work together for our good, in Jesus' name!
29. And, Lord, if You want me to go, You can easily take me, but if You want me to stay, it'll have to be You and for some purpose, perhaps to help encourage our people through these times of persecution and tribulation that are already upon us. (Mama: Yes, that's what the Lord said, that this was to help strengthen us for the times ahead. TYJ!) Yes, we're already getting our tribulation! We're getting it early. It's kind of like an inoculation to build up our resistance against the big thing! With a vaccination you get a tiny touch of the disease to build up your resistance against the full disease. So persecution and tribulation will be no new thing to us when it really begins to bear down on the churchy Christians!
30. Help them, Lord! Make their faith even stronger by seeing how You work. May they cling all the more to Thee, Lord, and pray even harder. May it drive all of us closer to Thee, Jesus.--Not only those who are suffering, but we who suffer with them. PTL! TYL!
31. It affects me a great deal to think that our Family and children and parents are suffering under cruel persecution and injustice of the wicked!--That times haven't changed too much since the Inquisition and persecutions of the past. Man certainly hasn't changed any, and religious enemies haven't changed any, and certainly the Devil hasn't changed any. He and his children still rant and rave against us and try to do all they can to hurt us. Thank God He does everything that He can to help us, and He can do a lot more than they can! Thank You Jesus!
32. I think the Devil is going to wish he'd never done this, it's going to work so much against him! Our enemies are probably going to try to cover up all their misdeeds and illegal acts. But the cat is out of the bag now, and they will have to suffer!--And God's truth will be proclaimed!
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Mama's prayer for the Australian Family not to compromise, prayed while their children were still in the custody of Community Services:
33. O Jesus, help Thy people to stand strong! Help them not to be influenced by the enticement of the Devil through telling them he will give them what they want if they will only bow to his conditions; that they can get their children back if they will only agree to his restrictions and constraints, the monitoring and the System school and the social workers living in their Homes. O Jesus, help them to stand firm!--To cling to Your promises that You will deliver them if they will stand strong, if they will fight back, if they will not be ashamed of Your Words and Your way of life and the spirit of David!
34. Lord, how can we agree to compromise all that we've fought for, all that we've been willing to be persecuted for, only to lose it now, to let it go, to voluntarily give it up. Give them conviction! Give them backbone! Give them courage! Give them faith that what You've promised You are going to perform!--If they'll just hang on for a little bit longer, if they'll just stand strong, if they'll just fight with all their might and not compromise with the Devil!
35. Lord, You said that this attack wasn't something to get fearful of or to feel bad about, but it was something to rejoice in, and that You were going to use it mightily to give us the victory and to be a testimony to others!--Everything that we stand for, everything that we've fought for all these years, to finally have it culminate in a wonderful testimony to what we've built in the Family, what You've built in the Family, Lord. Why are we in this Family if we don't think this is it?--If we're not willing to even die for this Family, if we're not willing to let our kids be in custody a few days, even a few weeks longer, in order that You might deliver them wholly and freely to us?
36. Lord, we've invested so many years in these precious children, we know it's not Your will to have it all torn down and thrown away with System corruption and perversion and contamination and pollution! How could we do that to our precious children? How could we do that to You, Lord?
37. Help our dear parents to stand strong for You, and to know that no matter how weak they are, You can be strong in them, You can do it through them, You will deliver their children! You promised, Jesus, in prophecy after prophecy that You're going to do it--and we know You will do it. But You want to do it Your way. You want a clear ringing testimony that what we stand for and what we live for are Your way, and that it's right and it's best and it's worth fighting for, and we're willing to die for it!
38. We have to have faith to believe Your promise that this is going to be good for us and even good for our children, and that You won't give them any more than they can take. We need to believe that You will deliver them back into our arms and into our Homes where we can continue to strengthen them and can continue to care for them and can continue to invest in them all that You've poured into us all these years.
39. Jesus, please help them not to waver! Help them to look up to You, to look at the wonderful victories that are being gained and know that this too will be a victory! Lord Jesus, they're some of our star players on the world scene right now, and the forces of both Heaven and Hell are surrounding them and waiting to see what moves they're going to make. The whole world is watching too! Help them, Lord, not to forsake their conviction, not to forsake their faith just as the crowns are coming down to be placed upon their heads! Help them not to miss it! Help them not to be ashamed of Your Words in this adulterous and sinful generation so that You will have to be ashamed of them! (Mk.8:38).
40. Lord, You're taking care of Your children! You've said they're more Your children than our children. You said if You didn't care for Your Own, You would be worse than an infidel (1Tim.5:8). We know You're just as close to them now and taking care of each of them as You always have been. You're with them and You're comforting them, and even though we can't be there to care for them, we know You're caring for them. You promised that if their mothers and their fathers have to forsake them, then You will take them up (Psa.27:10). You will love them and care for them.
41. O Jesus, help them to realize that it's better that their children even be in custody a few weeks or even a few months than that they be returned immediately but possibly be lost to the Family forever. Help them to see what is happening, help them to see what is going on, help them not to surrender! Help them to see that the Devil can't win unless they give in! You promised a victory, Lord, and we know You'll give it if they keep fighting! We know it's hard, Lord. We know it's heartbreaking; we know it's intimidating; we know it's vicious; we know it's stressful; but Lord, help them just to look to You and Your promises!--When they can't do anything else, just to cling to Your Word and refuse to give in!
42. Just when You're trying to show the beauty of our way of life, just when You're trying to show the whole world through this that Your Word works, that Your way of life works, please help them not to contradict it, Lord. Please help them not to compromise it. You want to show that here are some people who are willing to defy the System, who are willing to live the way You want them to live, who are willing to fight for the right to teach their children themselves with Godly principles, uncontaminated and unpolluted by the filthy world, a Family who are willing to fight for the right to live the way You want them to live!--Who love their children so much they're willing to fight for them not to be contaminated day after day with the horrors of the System.
43. Lord, help them to see that this is a light affliction and only for a moment (2Cor.4:17), but if they give in to the Devil's compromises, they will become entrenched and entangled in something that will cause them much more pain and suffering for much longer.--And that it is better to suffer affliction for a moment with the children of God than to enjoy the dubious pleasures of sin for a long season (Heb.11:25). Strengthen them, encourage them and help them to stand strong, in Jesus' name! Amen! (Amen! God bless you!--We love you!--D.)
(God bless the Family in Australia! They did stand strong and did not compromise, and after one week in custody the children were released! PTL!)
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