In spite of the hiccup that has arisen in plans for a historic summit with North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, let’s continue to pray that differences will be ironed out and that the meeting will go ahead at some point. There has been so much good progress in the meeting at the DMZ between President Moon and Kim as well as the release of three Korean American prisoners following U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s summit planning meetings with Kim. The latest news suggests that the meeting may still go ahead, even on June 12th.

Many thousands of Korean believers as well as many other Christians around the world have been praying for such a breakthrough for years and we believe the time has come for relations between the North and South to be normalized and even for a reunification of the two Koreas at some point. We need to keep praying with that vision in sight, trusting the Lord who is the Healer of the Nations to bring it forth!

“For decades, we have been adversaries. Now we are hopeful that we can work together to resolve this conflict,” said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. “There’s still a lot of work to do to achieve our ultimate goal,” he acknowledged, referring to what the United States has called a complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. “There are many challenges along the way.”

Praying friends in Arizona sent this information about some of the prayer events that have happened lately.:

“What most media outlets didn’t notice is that Christians in South Korea had been fasting and praying for the peace summit. In Paju, a city south of the North Korean border, pastors held an all-night vigil; and a group of Christian politicians joined together for a fasting and prayer event in the National Assembly buildings in Seoul. 

Between January 1 and 5, 2018, 2000 pastors gathered at a Christian conference in Seoul, South Korea. Among the speakers were Chuck Pierce, Lou Engle, and Bill Johnson.  Lou urged the pastors to go on a 40-day fast for the unification of the two countries and for the war to end.

At the time of this conference, the tension was high between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. However, near the end of this 40-day prayer and fasting period, a dramatic shift started to occur throughout the region.

South Koreans have been in desperate prayer for a time such as we see breaking forth in Korea. North Korea’s persecuted Christians have been praying for this moment—for years.

Before long, the churches of South Korea will freely send teams into the North with food, medicine and the message of Christ.  “Like a patient in a coma, North Korea will awaken. The world will watch a national transformation. We are witnessing the greatest display of God’s sovereign power over nations since the Berlin Wall fell.” (Charisma News).

Let’s thank God and pray:

Thank God for North Korea’s release of three American prisoners and for the successful meetings of Secretary of State Mike Pomeo with Kim Jong Un so far as well as progress made towards a summit between President Trump and Chairman Kim.

Pray that such a summit meeting will still happen though it may be postponed for a later time.  May Satan, the divider and destroyer, be bound and may peace and liberation come to the Korean peninsula.

Pray that denuclearization would be agreed to by the North and that those in that government currently bound by fear of what might happen to them or their loss of the benefits from the status quo will be kept from derailing this process.

Let’s pray for this 70 year conflict to completely come to an end and for the Gospel and humanitarian/development aid to flow freely to those millions of North Koreans living in abject poverty and starvation. May their deliverance come quickly now!