Back in 1939, Adolf Hitler started World War II on this very day (69 years to the day, to put it the way Frodo would in Lord of the Rings) by invading Poland. Now, I've been trying to work my way through Operation World, tearing down strongholds as I go, but this morning's coincidence was way too providential! Yeah, the entry for September 18-19 is Poland, but since I'm not holding to any real schedule, I "invaded" it by prayer along with several surrounding nations in order to tear down Satan's strongholds in that region. Why do I mention this? I guess it's the Holy Spirit's way of goosing you two who are reading this to do likewise...OK, so sue me for being a mystic.
I'm also reading Mr. Adams's Last Crusade by Joseph Wheelan, about John Quincy Adams; which talks of his first encounter with slavery. As a devout Christian, he battled slavery when he was a Congressman in the 1820s and 30s after being President. (A good depiction of him is in the movie, "Amistad," with Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams.) "From Poland, fourteen- year-old Adams wrote to his father, 'All the Farmers are in the most abject slavery; they are bought and sold like so many beasts, and are sometimes even chang'd for dogs or horses. Their masters have even the right of life and death over them, and if they kill one of them they are only obliged to pay a trifling fine.'"
Acts 26:18 is a great verse to turn into a specific prayer request for people in Satan's captivity:
"Open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the dominion of Satan to God, in order that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who have been sanctified by faith in Me."
Got folks for whom you can pray?
Source: Wheelan, Joseph. Mr. Adams's Last Crusade. Public Affairs, Perseus Book Group, 2008.
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