The Korean Christians have for decades mourned, wept and prayed with great travail for the ending of the conflict between North and South Korea and for reunification of their long-divided nation. Several other prayer initiatives in more recent years have been held at the DMZ, the armed border separating the two Koreas, and in other parts of South Korea. In some of these initiatives, the IPC has been deeply engaged with our Korean brothers and sisters who serve in the prayer movement there. God uses such united, combined prayer byHis people wherever they are to change history, even bringing about great transformations that are beyond human belief and comprehension. “With God all things are possible,” Jesus said. Let us, therefore, give Him thanks, praise and all the glory for what happened on June 12^th in Singapore!

Here is a word about one of those most recent prayer initiatives. In an interview with CBN, Pastor Jerome Ocampo who is one of our IPC leadership team told the story of the UPRISING youth prayer gathering at the DMZ separating North and South Korea in 2016:

“Pastor Jerome Ocampo recounts the South Korea Uprising Prayer Conference in 2016 where young leaders of churches from different nations gathered near the border of North Korea. They cried out to God for the reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

Although, human rights and religious freedom were not the focus of the Singapore Summit, Pastor Jerome believes denuclearization can pave the way to a greater purpose. He said people should also pray for reunification, liberation, and freedom for North Korean believers to practice their faith. 

Spiritual revival took place in the North Korean capital of Pyongyang in 1907. Ironically today, North Korea is a place where Christians suffer the world’s worst persecution. In the book by missionary Kwang Choi, It’s Fine Should I Die, North Koreans testify how they were brainwashed from childhood into believing that “Christianity is a tool of invasion of small and weak nations by the imperialist United States of America and its agent, South Korea’s puppet government," Choi wrote. "Christians in North Korea were already purged in prison camps even before the Korean War began in 1950."

This is one reason why some Christians believe a US president coming face-to-face with a North Korean leader was nothing short of miraculous. Pastor Jerome shared a dream he had about Kim Jong Un just two weeks before the 2016 Uprising conference. He said, “I dreamt of Kim Jong Un, he had a dream. And he was waking up in the morning. And there was this voice that goes like this, 'Will you be remembered as the Korean who destroys North Korea, or would you like to be remembered to be the Korean who unites North and South Korea?' He made a choice, 'I will be the Korean who will unite North and South Korea.'"

And this is why Pastor Jerome is rallying Christians to pray for Kim Jong Un. 

He said that what God has shown through the events that transpired is that he has access to Kim Jong Un’s heart and therefore God can do more.“We cannot erase what he has done in the past. The whole history of the regime will always be there. But as a millennial, he is the most flexible in all the regime to bring change," the pastor said. "And we’re gonna pray for change. God can bring that change. We will see one day one Korea. We will see one day Pyongyang will welcome believers and we will see God manifesting His glory again probably in a new way of revival all over Korea," he said.

Meanwhile, prayers for North Korean peace are taking place all around the world. Johnnie Moore, the unofficial spokesman for President Trump's evangelical advisers, says he met with a North Korean leader to pray and believe for healing for Korea.

"Today, in Switzerland, I met & prayed together with the leader of North Korea's 'Korean Christian Federation' - from Pyongyang," Moore tweeted."I asked if he had a message for American Christians & he said: 'We are brothers & we are all children of God whom God has called to peace,'" Moore said.”

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Excerpted from Cbn.com 06-17-2018 Lucille Talusan