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Standing up against the Chinese Dragon By Edison Macusi Though fires and brimstones hurl, From that curly nose and long snout, From that scaly enormous mass, that quakes the earth when it moves, and frightens earthlings into their caves, Yet I lift my hands up to the heavens, From the clouds I took my shield and sword, Standing my ground, I lift my face--westward ho! Grim and darkness blew as fire from your mouth threw, In an instant, in a heavenly swirl, My hands drew the sword into that scaly mass, And with my eagle's wings, I flewUp into your towering neck, I swirled into the thin air, Breathed deep and in one sweep, Cut off that stinky neck, Lo, the dragon is no more! It has come to my notice that we Christians have been adamant to demand Heaven's justice on our case concerning the Spratlys as well as the Panatag Shoal. Is God's hand so short that He cannot touch the governments of both sides? Is God involved in human controversies? Of course not, but we do need to ask Him to intervene. As David wrote, "the highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth He has given to man" (Psalm 115:16), God won't even intervene unless we call to Him because the affairs of this life, He has entrusted to man. We do need to call on God to intervene and then He will answer us. Do you have connections with other christian leaders? I hope they would form or do prayer rallies concerning the Spratlys and the Panatag shoal. It is for our good that these Chinese will leave the Panatag shoal. We all need the resources we can get from these areas. I hope I am not dictating but let us all pray because we cannot completely depend on man's help now, we have a weak military but we can depend on God's supernatural help. It has been on my heart that we should raise up a critical mass of prayers to God's throne. Most often we have many personal prayers, endless lists of petitions and protections for members of our groups or families most of the time. I think we need to add more muscle to our prayer. I hope we can do better than that. I hope we all remember that prophecy of Cindy Jacobs that God is opening up resources for the Philippines so that we can send more missionaries abroad and for bringing up equitable growth and progress for the people. God has in fact answered that by opening up the Malampaya gas, which under the reign of GMA and Gov. Reyes in Palawan, most of the money were not reinvested in the service of the people. This was the reason Gerry Ortega criticized Gov. Joel Reyes which resulted to the demise of "Doc. Gerry". Big money was involved and Palawan was supposed to be given its part. Now we are under a new administrator and loudly, visibly we can see the changes he is doing to make a better Philippines. Even the devil has seen this because of that, he wants to preemt the plans of God for this new administration as well as the Philippines which is really called to send missionaries abroad. We cannot sustain even send the potential numbers of missionaries that we can send abroad without a progressive base in the Philippines. The OFW money is mostly enough to cover the survival, schooling and building of homes of those who are from abroad. I hope that we will take action about this, that we write letters to our Christian leaders or urge them that prayers be persistently offered in behalf of the nation so that we will not lose part of our inheritance as a nation which God has blessed us. Panatag shoal and the Spratlys really belong to us. We cannot stand to lose this just because of a Chinese bully. It's time to offer more prayers for our leaders and for our country, let us not give up on prayer. I hope many of you will use your influence to urge others up on this matter. I would be glad to have likeminded people. We need God more than the US military or even by our might. We need to pray for our country. God bless! Sincerely, Bro. Edison |
