Prayer-Walking Miracle in October
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October 24, 2022 at 2:02 amFather, thank You for moving powerfully in East Germany back then and raising up prayer warriors. We pray that You would do the same in America today. Use our prayers to change the nation, Lord.
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October 24, 2022 at 2:04 amThis article is the historical account of a miraculous prayer walk that preceded one of the greatest spiritual and geopolitical victories of the past century. Be encouraged that our God Who did that then can do it again now.
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October 24, 2022 at 2:05 amHistorians credit the tearing down of the Berlin Wall for the slow demise of the Soviet economy — alongside great pressure from the West, including President Ronald Reagan’s urgent call: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
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October 24, 2022 at 2:06 amWell, there is more to the story. First, the background. For almost 40 years, the Soviet-dominated East German Communist Party had ruled East Germany with an iron fist. Dictator Erich Honecker threatened that death or imprisonment awaited anyone who dared to defy the German Democratic Republic
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October 24, 2022 at 2:07 amThere was one man willing to fight against this force, though perhaps not in the way you would think. Years before the Berlin Wall fell and Reagan’s famous speech, the Rev. Christian Führer started a simple prayer meeting he called Prayers for Peace. Every Monday the faithful would gather, light 40 candles (representing the Israelites’ 40 years in the wilderness), and pray for peace in Germany.
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October 24, 2022 at 2:09 amFor some time, the authorities ignored them. Eventually, however, attendance grew into the thousands, and the GDR could no longer turn a blind eye. Spies began infiltrating the meetings and recording the names of those present. Agents of the GDR tried to intimidate Pastor Führer, once even leaving him out in the snow to die. Numerous adults who attended got fired from their jobs, even though the meetings had no political agenda. Young people then took the place of their parents at the prayer meetings, because they had no jobs to lose.
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October 24, 2022 at 2:11 amDespite persecution, attendees continued interceding for seven years. They saw little by way of tangible answers to prayer during those years. The only “answer” some could point to was Reagan’s speech, and even with that, two years had passed and the wall still stood.
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October 24, 2022 at 2:12 amThen, on Oct. 9, 1989, Pastor Führer convened the meeting but sensed that the Lord desired they do something different that week as they prayed. He began handing out candles to each attendee. The GDR army, meanwhile, having learned about an organized prayer walk, mobilized troops and even tanks to line the street leading from the church to the center of the city.
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October 24, 2022 at 2:13 amPastor Führer had instructed his people to light their candles as they left the gathering and join other East Germans on the streets of Leipzig. Together they would peacefully march to the city center.
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October 24, 2022 at 2:15 amThese prayer warriors risked their vocations and their lives, but as some 2,000 of them emerged from the church, they were met by 100,000 fellow candle-carrying Germans. Facing possible death, the intercessors approached the GDR troops that lined the street. Never had Honecker allowed this kind of defiance. Previously, troops would have shot any demonstrators against the regime. Russian tanks were lined up behind the soldiers pointing their machine guns at the growing crowd. Demonstrators bravely approached these soldiers (fellow Germans) and offered them lighted candles.
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October 24, 2022 at 2:17 amAmazingly, soldiers began putting down their weapons to receive the candles. Soon, all the soldiers had lowered their weapons and joined the protestors. The Russian tanks backed up, returning to their barracks. East German officials later said they were ready for anything “except candles and prayer.”
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October 24, 2022 at 2:17 amThe next week Honecker resigned. One month later, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev began tearing down the Berlin Wall, and the German people knew that the courageous actions and miraculous events of Oct. 9, 1989, had been the true power leading to Germany’s reunification.
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October 24, 2022 at 2:18 amPrayer can change nations.🙏🏻
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October 24, 2022 at 2:19 amWere you encouraged by this story?
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October 24, 2022 at 7:22 amAmen ❤️
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October 24, 2022 at 8:53 amOur God is mighty to do anything! 🙏🙏🙏✨✨✨🕊🕊🕊❤️❤️❤️
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October 24, 2022 at 8:57 amGOd of miracle indeed 🙏GCOGA
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October 25, 2022 at 8:56 amI join in your prayer for our Nation and as well His Praise for: ‘May God arise, may his enemies be scattered; may his foes flee before him.’ Psalms 68:1
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October 25, 2022 at 9:50 amPraying for God to Rule and Reign! Thank you for joining in to pray 🙏🏻♥️
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