Peace and Harmony

Prayer for peace in Manipur is our daily family prayer. Since the 3rd of May, Satan has been instigating different communities to hatred, violence, theft, killing, and murder. The intensity of the hatred is so much that nothing on earth can dose the burning flame of hatred. Try however much the government may, still they are in no way near to bringing peace to the state. Day by day, week by week, and now month by month, the fiery enmity is burning with higher intensity. Every little thing seems to act as an agent to pour more oil into the burning fire. Helpless the people are, and helpless the state machinery is. All efforts to call for peace were turned on deaf ears. Deep within, everyone wants peace, but no one has a solution, as to how to get that peace.

Only God is the God of peace! Only the true and living God, the Lord Jesus Christ, is the God of peace. I find no solution to this conflict other than the gospel of peace, the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the entire human history of mankind, only Jesus Christ, the very God incarnate, came and paid the price for peace at the cross. 

But now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far off have become near in the blood of Christ. For He Himself is our peace, He who has made both one and has broken down the middle wall of partition, the enmity, abolishing in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances, that He might create the two in Himself into one new man, so making peace, and might reconcile both in one Body to God through the cross, having slain the enmity by it. And coming, He announced peace as the gospel to you who were far off, and peace to those who were near. Ephesians 2:13-17

I am very clear about the prayer I and my family have been praying daily. I cannot take sides with any of the warring communities. They both are God's creations and in both communities, there are children of God, brothers and sisters in the Lord. Though one community is majority Christian and the other majority Hindu, this is not a religious battle. Though one is tribal and the other plain people, this is not a community battle. Remember, they both are created by the same God. I had written on this line already.

My Goodland: Prayer: Manipur Mayhem (palmeichung.blogspot.com)

My Goodland: Manipur: Forgive Us As We Also Forgive (palmeichung.blogspot.com)

One important point to note is, in every warfare, the first thing to identify who the enemy is and what strategy to employ in the battle. Here, the enemy is neither of the community. The common enemy is Satan who is the mastermind of this ethnic clash. Therefore, the way to fight this battle is on our knees by praying to the God of peace.

“Put on the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil, For our wrestling is not against blood and flesh but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenlies.” (Ephesians 6:11-12, RecVer)

“For though we walk in flesh, we do not war according to flesh; For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly but powerful before God for the overthrowing of strongholds, as we overthrow reasonings and every high thing rising up against the knowledge of God, and take captive every thought unto the obedience of Christ.”

(2 Corinthians 10:3-5, RecVer)

We daily pray for:

The Christians to repent of their ways, not resort to human wisdom, but turn to the living God. When God chastised His people for their sins, the Israelites repented and returned to Jehovah, who in turn forgave them, restored them, and blessed them.

The Christians to be brought into oneness as the children of the same Father God, to leave all the divisive and doctrinal differences, tribalism, and be united in Christ for the reality of the one new man, the church, the Body of Christ, where Christ is all and in all.

The Christians to be revived in their Christian life and not live like the Gentiles.

The Non-Christians to see, know, and believe into the true and living God, the Lord Jesus Christ. Only in Jesus Christ is there salvation. What they need the most is eternal life, to believe into the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.

The leaders of the communities, civil societies, and state and central government, to have wisdom in making the right decision in a righteous manner conducive to the atmosphere of peace and harmony.

The God of peace, who is also love, light, and life to come in to dispense Himself into all the people of Manipur. Thereby, turning war into peace, hatred into love, darkness into light, and deadness into life. This God of peace, love, light, and life is the Lord Jesus Christ!

These have been our daily family prayers for peace and harmony in Manipur. I have full faith in God to answer these prayers and there will be a new beginning, for the people of all the communities, and for the Lord's move and His testimony. I have expressed my burden to the people I know, from both communities.

The Lord in His mercy has answered these prayers and we are to witness His wonderful and marvelous deeds unto His glory!