Finding a Voice

I received this email today. While there is truth in it, and I do not condone the positions of the politicians in question, I believe this call to prayer is one-sided, misguided, reactive, and vengeful. So, patience as you read through it. My response follows.

Hi Colleen,

Just a quickie note to ask you for prayer support for the next two days. There's a group of us here in MJ who are asking the Lord that He will remove from the political field and political life the following people:

Paul Martin
Svend Robinson
Belinda Stronach
Scott Bryson

Paul Martin has been peppering the airwaves with blatant lies about one of God's Christian servants, Stephen Harper, (a member of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church), and causing the popularity polls in Ontario for Harper to drop drastically yesterday and today. It is really a tragedy, because this is the first chance we've had to elect a born-again Christian as our Prime Minister – someone whom Christians can rely upon to stand up for Christian moral values – in contrast to the
other three leaders.

I did some research several years ago on the NDP, and in a letter from the Head Office of the NDP, I have in my possession the form which ALL potential candidates have to fill out before they are accepted as nominees in the NDP Party. The conditions to which they have to agree are:

To promote the acceptability of
1. homosexuality
2. same-sex marriage
3.abortion
4. physician-assisted suicide

Svend Robinson, a former NDP MP and a self-proclaimed homosexual and thief, is the one who introduced into Parliament the bill to legalize homosexuality and also same-sex marriage, which, as you know, became law under the guidance of Paul Martin, Gilles Duceppe, and Jack Layton. Scott Bryson, a self-proclaimed homosexual, and just recently "married" to his boyfriend, was a former contender for the leadership of the old PC Party several years ago, and later defected to the Liberal Party because he did not feel comfortable with an Evangelical Christian as his leader. He has nothing but scorn for Harper whenever interviewed on TV. The same goes for Belinda Stronach who, without any experience, ran for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada but who fortunately lost. Belinda is a strong "women's rights" promoter, and berates Harper as not having enough "experience" to be a Prime Minister – pointing out her hypocrisy, as she aspired to that very post herself when she ran for the leadership of the Conservative Party of Canada two years ago.

Jack Layton, who espouses all of the above four-listed terms of admittance to the candidate race of the NDP, is also a strong promoter of "Women's Rights", even though this concept more often than not leads to the abortion of innocent little babies to whom God has given a body and an everlasting soul. God help us if we vote for him or any of his candidates.

These people – Paul Martin, Scott Bryson, Belinda Stronach, Jack Layton and Svend Robinson – all promote "Women's Rights", but say nothing about the rights of the unborn baby, whom God has created and whose little body is very visible very early on in pre-natal growth. There are very few people, it seems, who are willing to protect the rights of that little soul; indeed, NO potential Prime Minister of ANY of the Federal parties except Stephen Harper, would dare to let this issue be debated in the House of Commons with a view to possibly having this law, or lack of it, changed.

I would, therefore, ask you to pray that the four above-listed people, along with Jack Layton, would be removed from the political arena in Canada, and that they not be elected again. I would further ask that you ask two more Christian people of your acquaintance to pray similarly for the next two days, and that those two people would continue on asking others to pray for this, two and two and so on.

I believe strongly that God would be pleased to hear these particular prayers - one has only to read the Old Testament prophets to find out what God thinks of child sacrifice (Putting them through the fire). I also bring to your attention I Corinthians 6:9, as well as Rev. 21:8 and Rev.22:15. These are the very things which Jack Layton, Scott Bryson, Belinda Stronach, Paul Martin and Svend Robinson are all promoting. They are now being aided and abetted by Dr. Henry Morganthaler, the diabolical abortionist doctor.

May God help us to get rid of them. May God have mercy on us if we do not try. We battle not only.against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers. Let us do battle for the Lord's sake. We must not fail to do less than that.

Your friend in Christ, ______

My Response

Dear ______,

Thank you for this call to prayer.

I will indeed pray, as Paul instructs in I Timothy 2:1-2. "First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in everyway."

Removal from politics is not the only option for our prayer. I Timothy 2:3-4 should instruct us as much as any Old Testament prophecy on praying for politicians, because "This [intercession] is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth." Belinda, Paul, Svend, and Scott are people and God cares about their souls as much as he cares about those of the unborn. In fact, in addition to stories of kings and kingdoms being brought down, the Old Testament contains many examples of God turning the hearts of kings and leaders towards himself. These politicians may be enemies of God right now, but so were all of us before we knew the Lord (Romans 5:10). Romans 12:14-21 urges blessings rather than curses for persecutors. Praying for a leader's removal from government might seem like a righteous thing to do, but what if it is actually a curse? Let’s call upon them to turn to the Lord – in both his love and his righteousness.

Let's ask God for His will to be done and His kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven, which includes pleading for the salvation and transformation of these politicians as well as justice and protection for the weak, the oppressed, and the helpless (like the unborn).

One day Martin, Stronach, Robinson, and Bryson will stand before the Lord and their obviously evil purposes and deeds will be judged. How much better that they bow the knee before Jesus Christ in this life rather than the next. We should ask God to change their hearts and, if necessary, their positions. We should call for Christ's glory to be revealed in all things.

Blessings.

Colleen