It Could Be Us Tomorrow

 How Can We Sing Zion Songs in a Strange Land?

    Yesterday, the “powers that be” swept through the streets of our local vicinity and disrupted the lives of innocent children and hard-working parents.  This government sanctioned attack is NOT a “their” problem.  It is an “our” problem. Therefore, let us intercede through prayer for our brothers and sisters who were snatched from their homes and their places of employment.

    We MUST NEVER forget that the oppressors who FORCIBLY raided their homes and businesses are the same oppressors who…

• Who landed in the Americas in 1492 and stole the homeland of other brown people (the Native Americans).
• Who FORCIBLY evicted those inhabitants from their ancestral homeland,
  
  
  
• Who sailed half way around the world and FORCIBLY kidnapped our sisters and brothers from the African continent (human trafficking),
• Who FORCIBLY shipped our ancestors (packed like sardines in a can) to the country that they had stolen from the Native Americans,
  
  
  
• Who FORCIBLY put our forefathers on the auction block and sold us to the highest bidder,
  
  
  
• Who FORCIBLY enslaved our forefathers to work from sun up to sun down so that they could "make America great”,
• Who FORCIBLY denied us the right to citizenship,
• Who FORCIBLY denied us the right to vote,
• Who FORCIBLY enforced Jim Crow laws to "make America great”,
• Who FORCIBLY used fire hoses, batons and dogs to attack peaceful protesters that fought desperately to gain civil rights,
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Who FORCIBLY gunned down our brothers and sisters without just cause.
  
  
  

    
    And even now - these same oppressors are FORCIBLY separating mothers from babies, fathers from families and destroying homes and lives.

    They were taken yesterday.  It could be us tomorrow.  We are living in a system where the “checks and balances” seem to have failed. So, what can we do?  My people, we must pray.  YES - that is what we must do. That is our spiritual weapon. When the kingdom of God suffers violence, those who have suffered violence must take - by force. (If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14)

    God’s chosen people were often in bondage.  Because of their sins, the Most High God allowed them to be in captivity by ungodly nations. The wicked oppressors would often forbid the chosen people to speak their native language and to worship as they once did. But, Daniel and the Hebrew boys fearfully proved that physical bondage does NOT stop the power of fervent prayer. They proved that even in the midst of a strange land, prayer is still the believer’s most powerful weapon.

Psalm 137:4 

(How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?)