PERSECUTION JEWELS!--No.7!       DO 2899  10/93

Prayer for the Family--"Monster on the Move!"
         1. Bless the Family around the world, Lord, especially those who are receiving persecution. Bring them glorious victory and real triumph over their trials! Thank You Jesus! Bring testimonies from their tests! Thank You for how You have in all these wonderful reports of the Family "Monster on the Move" shaking up the world and getting out the Word! Thank You Lord! It's working! You're getting out the message through us, and defeating our enemies so far.
         2. Give the Family strength for the attack! Help them to hit our adversaries hard! Praise the Lord! Thank You Lord! Lead and guide all of us around the world. Help us to do what You know is best for Thy work and Thy world.
         3. Bless the Family worldwide! Give them strength and wisdom and skill and protection and provision and all they need to fight the Enemy and expose him and rescue souls from him! Thank You Jesus! Praise the Lord!--In Jesus' name, amen.

Prayer for Patience and Deliverance!

         4. (Dad sings:)
         "Draw me, Jesus, to Thy bosom,
         From this World of care & woes.
         Let me feel Thine arms around me,
         That my soul may know repose.
         I am weary with my burden,
         And I come to Thee for rest.
         Precious Jesus, still my refuge,
         Draw me, Jesus, to Thy breast.
         Draw me, Jesus, to Thy bosom,
         From this World of care & woes.
         Let me feel Thine arms around me,
         That my soul may know repose."

         5. Jesus, give me patience! I just can't stand to have to think about this persecution all the time. I'd like to see the defeat of the Enemy!
         6. Bless all those in bonds, all those suffering unjustifiable persecution. And when You've accomplished Your purpose, Lord, deliver them and put our enemies to shame.
         7. Bless and help our Family in Argentina and give them strength! Make them real witnesses against them, as You said You would (Mat.10:18). You promised, Lord, that You would bring us before kings and magistrates and make us a testimony against them.--In other words, for the evil deeds that they do against us. Expose them, Lord! Expose them to the public, expose them to the officials and get rid of them! Release Thy children and give them a place to go.

Argentine Gangsters!

         8. The government of Argentina is run by a bunch of gangsters, actual criminals running the country, and has been for years--killing people, eliminating people, kidnapping them. The military that was running the country was exterminating anybody who opposed them, and from what I hear, although they have not taken back the official offices that they once held, such as president and other top posts, they're still pretty much running the country undercover, which is probably why we are having so much trouble there. After all, they're the rich and the powerful and the influential, and they don't usually lose their jobs. They may officially, but they don't lose behind the scenes. The rich and powerful pretty well run things in almost any country, including the U.S.

Let's Teach Our Kids to Fight!

         9. Just like the System teaches their children to scream and fight if a stranger takes them away, so should we do with our children. They need to learn to kick and scream and fight when they're forcibly taken away!

Stirring Up the Pot!

         10. I wouldn't be surprised if our propaganda against France and our exposure of the French brutality has had some effect. I'm sure the Lord is helping us to stir up the pot with our worldwide words! They're finding out that we're no small force to deal with!

Anti-Cult Propaganda!

         11. "Men's hearts failing them for fear" (Luk.21:26). It's an age of fear! Everybody's afraid. They're afraid of everything, and especially of the cults, which means they're afraid of you!
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         12. This worldwide campaign against the cults is sponsored by the ACs. The only ones the Devil is afraid of are the people who proclaim Jesus and rely on Jesus and count on Jesus!
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         13. The Devil is succeeding in stirring up the world against the cults. The general worldwide feeling now is anti-cult, largely as a result of the media propaganda--which is largely AC, run by our enemies. The Devil has got to get the whole world interested in cults and familiar with them, so he can then try to turn people against them--especially the good ones that are defeating him, like us!

The Worst Is Coming--But So Is the Best--Jesus!

         14. When our enemies find out they can't attack us the legal way any more, then they're going to try the rough stuff. But by that time we will have done all we can to clear our name and to get out the good news and to win friends and influence people, and when they start getting rough, like burning down our houses and things like that, the good people and our new friends will know who's doing it. We'll have accomplished our purpose in exposing our enemies, and our friends will have learned how dirty they are and who they are!
         15. Times are getting worse and they're getting tougher and the Devil keeps doing worse and worse things. He thinks he's going to get away with it, but the Lord always lets it backfire to do him more harm than good.--Like this synchronized attack against our Family worldwide has backfired! Well, the worst is on the way, but so is the best--Jesus! Praise the Lord!

Endtime Witnesses!

         16. The Devil will never be satisfied until he's killed us all--but the Lord won't let him do it. We'll be fighting until the end! The Lord's going to have His witnesses till the very end, till the Coming of the Lord! Some of us will still be around! Praise the Lord! Thank You Jesus!

No Such Thing as Bad Publicity!

         17. Just remember: If they weren't putting out all this bad news about us, we wouldn't be getting all this good news!

Public Prayer Vigils!

         18. Kneeling down in prayer impresses people a lot, even with candles. People do respect prayer. The Lord apparently told some of our people that they should kneel down and pray during their protests! Hallelujah! The Lord's going to really use it. He had to find people who were willing to do that sort of thing, and we're some of the few people who are.

Persecution Like the Middle Ages!

         19. God bless our folks in bonds! Strengthen and empower them, Lord! Make fools out of our enemies and let this attack backfire on them! We're not abusing our children--it's the System that's abusing them in their vicious, devilish, Satanic pogrom against us! It's just like being back in the Middle Ages! (Maria: And now that they're seeing that it's not as easy to destroy us as they thought, they're coming out with a bunch of lies and crazy things that they're making up, and some of our antagonistic backsliders are getting paid for doing it!)
         20. It's almost the same as it was in the Middle Ages, except there's not yet the physical torture with the screws and the racks and the nails, nor the more updated methods of electric shock, etc. There's not yet the martyrdom. But what some of our people are experiencing is torture nonetheless. (Maria: Yes, absolutely! The children have had to undergo horrible gynecological tests. One little girl had three tests done on her, two in one day within three hours, and she just screamed in pain. She's not even sleeping well now. It was real torture, and our adults and children alike have had to undergo cold and hunger and filth and verbal and physical assaults and threatenings and psychological abuse, and persecution in the spirit by the Devil with floods of doubts and fears!)
         21. Fiendish men and fiendish women still exist, devils still exist, but the Lord will get the victory! He's got to get the victory and rescue His children. You promised, Lord, that You would take care of Your Own. Help them and make them strong to withstand the Enemy. You're using it as a witness and You're testing us. Strengthen them, protect them and keep them, Lord, and when they've stood the test and done the job, liberate them!

Let's Do Our Job to Witness and Testify!

         22. The Lord said we'd be brought before kings and magistrates so that we can be witnesses against them. Well, the Lord's doing it, and nothing has happened without His permission, and even His promotion. So let's just do our job and witness and testify. Apparently He's getting a lot of witness out of it. Thy will be done. It's in Your hands, Lord. You know what You want to do, whether you want us to continue in that country or not. Just give us wisdom to obey Thee.
         23. Once our job is done and we've gotten out the Word and we've been persecuted and it's publicized and we've finished the job, there's no use staying on and getting more persecution. The Lord Himself said to get out, flee, shake the dust of your feet off on them. It'll be worse for such cities and countries than Sodom and Gomorrah! Of course, from the examples of the Early Church, it was not necessarily all the people who left. It was the leading disciples who came as missionaries who left, and they no doubt left many converts and disciples behind who just had to go underground.
         24. Lord, give Thy children wisdom about what You want them to do. Have Thy way, You know what's best. Help them to know what to do, whether to go or stay. Thy will be done, in Jesus' name.

The Lord Knows How to Help Us Survive!

         25. (Maria:) The Devil figures that if he can't completely destroy us through this persecution, maybe he can at least discredit us with all those who need our help and our leadership, and to whom we have just begun ministering and rallying to fight with us. The Devil must be very upset at the great progress that has been made in our communication with these other maligned groups, and except for the power of God and His intervention worldwide, we wouldn't have too far to go before we become Waco situations! But we know God is going to have to do it, and He's going to have to rise up with something very strong and powerful to turn the tide in our favor! Or He's going to have to give people something which so seriously affects their personal well-being that they won't have the will nor the time to bother with us for a while.
         26. We always try to second-guess the Lord and try to decide all kinds of ways He could accomplish His will, and that's sort of fun. But it hardly ever happens the way we have envisioned it could, because the Lord's ways aren't our ways, and in His marvelous wisdom He knows much better than we do how to help us to survive. But there may come a time when the public will be so greatly hit by disasters which affect them personally, brought on by the fury of an angry God, that they will welcome our help and our comfort and encouragement, and our sample will speak louder than any lies they have ever heard about us.
         27. When someone is drowning, he doesn't worry about what kind of person is rescuing him, does he? And when he has survived, he has nothing but great thanks for that person. In God's mercy, He might give the poor duped public, who have been so propagandized by a lying media for years, a chance to see our shining sample in a way that we could probably never have gotten it across while the AC media stands in the way.
         28. Anyway, it looks like the Lord's probably going to have to do something big to change the world's hellish plans to put us out of action. Their cup of iniquity is getting fuller every day. If God can't stop them any other way, He may send something so bad that it completely puts them out of action, like they're trying to do with us!

Victories out of Seeming Defeat!

         29. (Maria:) It was such good news to hear that 12 of our precious Family (now all!) have been released in Argentina! Praise the Lord! Isn't it wonderful to see how the Lord is winning the battle? "The battle is not yours, but God's!" (2Chr.20:15). Watching how the Lord works is truly amazing! Imagine, He allows the raid, the brethren to be incarcerated, the media to slam us, the dance videos to be played all around the world, and our enemies to spew out their lies; then in just a matter of a few weeks He engineers things so that we get some of the best press we've ever gotten, our friends all around the world stand up for us, Latin American governments agree to check us out rather than raid, and in doing so get won over. Other groups and NRMs (New Religious Movements) grow closer, our enemies get exposed as liars, and now the brethren begin to get released! Out of a seeming defeat has come a great victory! And the great victory that our enemies thought they had in their hand has turned to dust. Hallelujah! Jesus never fails!

Keep Fighting No Matter What!

         30. (Maria:) I know when you get pushed into a corner and when things look so black, the tendency is to think, "Well, why even fight any more? Why do anything at all since it's all going to be over soon?" But we have to hold on to the promises that God has made and not lose faith! Because if we get down and sit around doing nothing because we think things look so bad they must almost be over, the Devil is going to hit us even harder and the fight will be even more difficult when we get back on our feet. So we just have to keep fighting and not look at the waves! We can't allow ourselves to be moved by the way things look. We need to just keep going and doing all we can in every area that we can, and not give in to doubt and thoughts of defeat.

Only God Can Do It!

         31. (Maria:) It's a funny thing, but the more we see how impossible the situations are, the more peace I have about it. You just sort of give up worrying about it because you know that at this point worrying won't help and nothing will help except God! You just have to cast all your care and all your weight on Him, and you know that He's going to take care of it! (1Pet.5:7).

"We Are Weak, But He Is Strong!"

         32. (Maria:) Last night when I woke up, as I do often in the night, out of the blue I got the words: "Little ones to Him belong, they are weak, but He is strong"--only this one phrase from the song "Jesus Loves Me." And the meaning that I immediately got from it was that the Lord was comforting us all. Not just our children, but all of us are "little ones" to the Lord. We're all so weak, but He is very strong in our behalf because we belong to Him and are His possessions, His precious treasures, and He'll guard us with care and protect us from the Enemy.


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