FORGIVE your enemies.  LOVE your enemies. PRAY for your enemies.

Easter's blasts were planned to be much larger. At the entrance gate security guards caught one person who immediately let off his bomb. Three others escaped. The bombers did not get to the place where they wanted to be, where it would have been more populated.  Think what it would have been if four bombs had gone off. A friend shares, a nurse from our hospital and her baby and husband were at this park. He went to get tickets and was killed. 

Military commission:

A year and a half ago a large explosion took place in a military school in the north, killing many children of military personnel.  This was a terrible incident with the loss of life to many children.  Out of this came a serious determination of the government and military to go after terrorists in the Northwest part of the country.

After this Easter tragedy this week-  PRAISE the military now has set up a  "military commission for the Punjab."  This is to go after terrorists in the Punjab where 70% of the population of Pakistan lives. This is where the majority of the terrorist

organizations have originated and operated out of.

PRAY they might carry this out.  For a long time it has been obvious that they need to be more serious about the terrorist nests in the Punjab.

PRAY for the right strategy to carry this out. The military is doing this. The government is not included in this. PRAY there will not be a clash between the two.

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Christ said.  FORGIVE  your enemies. LOVE your enemies. PRAY for your enemies. There is power in these three.

STORY -  A brother was in Pakistan last year for Easter. Shortly before that, two large terrorist attacks took place in Lahore and at the largest Christian settlement, Yohunabad in the city.  This brother arrived a couple days after this. A pastor and he literally forced their way into this area as people were fleeing this area. They almost got trampled. They went to a smaller church where they were to teach children how to pray.

Everything had been taken out of the church, a long hallway and an outside courtyard so more people could be seated. People were seated on the ground and it was packed with hundreds of people. Kids and parents who brought their kids. The Spirit of God was so present in a powerful way.  The meeting lasted from early afternoon to early the next morning. Hardly anyone moved. The brother ministering started by saying, "You do not expect me to say this but this is what God is telling me to say. Your friends and relatives have been killed by terrorists in this colony. God tells us, "to FORGIVE  our ENEMIES,  and to  LOVE THEM. "  

He told several instances of how terrorists had tried to kill him and how God had told him to

forgive them, and sometimes verbally to forgive them.  He said this is the hardest thing you can ever do but he was asking them to do exactly this.  There was absolute silence, and the brother thought everyone was going to walk out after stoning him.

Absolute silence for eternity.  Then God's Spirit descended as kids and then adults began to cry out in forgiveness. God was doing a MIRACLE, from a people whose culture is tied in with revenge. God was doing the miraculous. Then we began to teach on children in prayer.  They told stories of how God was using Pakistani children in prayer… 

After midnight they asked that we begin to PRAY for those who were sick. Forgiveness had taken place, people were praying from clean hearts.  The presence of God's spirit was very heavy.  People were healed and those who were processed by evil spirits were released from that bondage. Those from the majority community who were non-Christians first accepted Christ and then were released from Satan's demons.  When these nonbelievers were asked why they had accepted Christ they said because we saw people forgive one another and us and then we saw the power of Jesus, a God of love.

One woman in particular was the last to be brought because people said her demons are so strong and she is physically so strong no one could control her.  Though once a Christian she

said she had given herself over to the devil. She accepted the Lord. Now they turned to releasing her from her bondage.  It was like the Gerasenes demoniac, who was so strong he would break the chains that bound him.   As we began to pray, she fell to the floor screaming and cursing at us.  People had to help hold her.  Her strength was so great she was lifting the men up. They prayed for for peace to come over her, the devil was there to 'kill and destroy' this mighty warrior of the devil who has just deserted him. Prayer continued and she was slowly released from those demonic  spirits who bound her. She said,  ”When I was going through that time I could see and knew that Satan was trying to kill me. But at the same time I could see Jesus' love and that you loved me and were fighting for my life."

It is hard but we must learn to love our enemies. The power of God's love and prayer can turn those who hate God and us to the foot of the cross and Jesus.

Many of those who were healed and released that night like this women have now started prayer groups - because they saw the love of Jesus Christ.  Thank you, God, that you first loved us and for your power we see through prayer. 

Thank you for praying for Pakistan.

(From a Christian brother who loves Pakistan.)

Praise God for what He is doing in one of the most challenging national situations on earth! Let’s continue to pray for His people to arise in unity and love for one another and for their enemies so that Pakistan will be rid of its darkness and turn to Him who is the light of life.