Good morning
Zebras,
I hope this
note finds you all well. Even though I’m
not writing, I continue to pray for you every day as I wait on God.
Before I left Korea,
Katherine and I went to the Goseong Unification Observatory. Built on a hill overlooking the river separating
North and South Korea, its name says it all.
From there you can “observe” the North Korean landscape and everything
inside speaks to the goal of Korean unification.
There is an exhibit
there entitled “My Hometown” where people who fled during the war have shared
their memories of people and places they can no longer see. (See attached
photos.) When they fled, they thought it would be temporary. They never thought they would find themselves
trapped, unable to return to their families and friends by a boundary built by
the world to establish peace.
As I walked
around I felt God’s Spirit so powerfully that I thought “Somehow Zebras is tied
up with all of this.”
Zebras was originally
started to encourage God’s women at my church to hang together and support one
another. It quickly grew to include
women from other churches, but it was a pastor who saw the bigger vision was unity. These are the verses he referenced when he
wrote an endorsement of the ministry.
John 17:20-23
“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me
through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in
me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that
you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may
be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete
unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you
have loved me.”
Nowhere, in my
opinion, is disunity more obvious than in Korea. The South enjoys the luxuries of the modern world,
while North Korea lives in conditions we don’t even like to think about. Our peace came at their expense and I am
praying it is time for God to act.
(Just think of
the revival that would start if God acted while the eyes of the world are on
Korea because of the Olympics!)
Korean churches
hold prayer services at 4 a.m. which means, with the time difference, if we
prayed every day at 11 a.m. we would all be praying at the same time. (Isn’t that cool!) Korean Christians and American Christians all
praying together, separated by distance but united by the Spirit.
I haven’t
really decided what to do with all of this except to commit myself to pray
every day at 11 a.m., for the duration of the Olympics, starting on Monday. And I’m letting you know in case you want to
join in.
2 Chronicles
7:14 “if my people, who are called by my name, will 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.”
Love,
Jill
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