18 The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. You walls of Daughter Zion, let your tears flow like a river day and night; give yourself no relief, your eyes no rest.
19 Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner. (Lamentations 2:18-19)
Even at this moment, North Korean people are not guaranteed their basic rights. They do not know what freedom or human rights are. The government has brainwashed them into believing they are living in a utopia. They suffer from hunger, and do not know the God to whom they can cry out in their pain.
We must cry out for them.
This spring, Pastor Seungeun Kim visited Atlanta, GA and prayed with believers at Atlanta Bethany Presbyterian Church Peaceland Church and participated in the Unification Square prayer meeting held by Saehan Presbyterian Church. During his visit, he raised awareness and cried out for the North Korean people.
Korea was once devastated by war and consequently divided—not only geographically and ideologically, but divided spiritually.
North Korea is taught to idolize its corrupt leaders as gods, whereas South Korea, thanks to the work of many missionaries, is filled with churches and has been transformed through prayer.
As we observe North and South Korea 71 years after the Korean War, we cannot deny the work of the living God who works through prayer. Christians in South Korea have become a people of prayer—even Koreans who have immigrated to the US have brought the South Korean tradition of daily morning prayer with them.
We trust that God will bring people together to pray, and that he will use our prayers to open the door into North Korea, so that the gospel of Jesus may be delivered to the suffering people of North Korea.
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