Pray for North Korea Day 26

Today's post is from the OMF Blog

Praying Biblically

We need to pray the promises of scripture on behalf of the people in North Korea. Let us look at some verses about seeking God and pray them for these people of the North.

“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 9:13

“Father God, we pray that people in North Korea will seek you with all their heart and that you would allow them to find you. Please make them thirsty for you. Please fan into flame that tiny spark of awareness of you that you have set in each one of them. We pray that you would draw the people of North Korea to yourself.”

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11:6

“Father God, we pray that many in the North will earnestly seek you, even though their teaching says you do not exist. We pray that many will believe in you and will be pleasing to you through faith in Jesus Christ. We pray that, like you did for Cornelius, you would send more light to the seekers, rewarding those who are searching for you.”

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost. Luke 19:10

“Father God, we pray that you will search for the lost in North Korea. We pray that you would cause them to seek you. We pray that you will draw them to yourself, to your word, to the gospel of Jesus Christ and to people who can explain the gospel to them. May they hear the gospel and come to you in repentance and faith.”

Pray for North Korea Day 25

90% of women who escape North Korea and end up in China become victims of human trafficking and are sold as sex slaves according to Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.  Women are often either sold as wives to Chinese farmers or forced to work in the cybersex industry.  They cannot complain to the authorities about their treatment because the Chinese government will just send them back to North Korea where they will face imprisonment or death.  They are helpless and have no governmental protection.

Here is the first part of the story of one girl:

A 26-year-old North Korean woman, Mun Yun-hee crossed the Duman or Tumen River into China in the dawn of Oct. 22 last year, which at that point was some 40 m wide, guided by a human trafficker. She was being sold to a single middle-aged Chinese farmer into a kind of indentured servitude-cum-companionship. Both of them wore only panties, having stored their trousers and shoes in bags, because if you are found wearing wet clothes across the river deep at night, it is a dead giveaway that you are a North Korean refugee.

Mun was led to a hideout, and the agent left. Asked why she crossed the river, she replied, "My father starved to death late in the 1990s, and my mother is blind from hunger." Her family owed 300 kg of corns, beans and rice and sold herself for the sake of her blind mother and a younger brother. The middleman paid her 350 yuan, or W46,000 (US$1=W939), equivalent to half of the grain debt.

Her story is continued here.  It shows the horrors of what happens when you are sent back to North Korea.

Pray that China will changes its policies concerning North Korean refuguees.  Pray that women will find a way to defect without selling themselves.  Pray for the Christian workers working in China trying to aid these refugees.