Article by Dr Cho (:
Many great things are happening at our church because of prayer. So you must keep on praying so that you will be equipped to fight Satan in your life and your ministry. THE HAND OF GOD IS MOVED THROUGH PRAYER When you move the hand of God, then God moves in your life and in your circumstances. In 1987, Korea had a national presidential election. Before the election, there was a great turmoil in Korea. There was labor unrest, student riots and demonstrations.
One day the Prime Minister asked me to have dinner with him. He was trembling as he said, "Pastor, I cannot handle these riots. The whole country is in an uproar. The unrest of the labor, the students, the Communists from North Korea are instigating the people constantly. Now we are unable to have a peaceful election. I cannot even use the army because if they come out, then that will be the sign for the communistic people to rise up and agitate people all the more. I do not know how to solve this problem." I said, "Mr. Prime Minister, I will do my best to help the situation. We will see how God helps." I announced to my people that we would have a great prayer meeting at Yoido Plaza. I will gather together at least 800,000 people totally mobilizing all our Christian plus more to have a prayer meeting for the peaceful election of the President of Korea. We had one month to prepare for this Prayer Rally. I announced to my people that the communist-inspired people were very angry at me and said, "We will kill you and your family." They were so ugly that I moved my wife and children to America, and I could not go home. I stayed in the church. My Christians were surrounding me. I was living in the church day and night. The telephones were constantly ringing and intimidating me.
The time arrived for this big prayer rally. On Yoido Plaza, all the people would be exposed to the snipers. From my office, I called my parents saying, "Daddy, today I will go to heaven before you because the snipers are going to shoot at me, and there is no defense. If I die ahead of you, think that I have died for God and for my nation." I wrote my last will to my family, and the people gathered together on the plaza, all 800,000 people.
Surrounded by people, I moved to the platform on the plaza. It was a very eerie feeling. I asked the people to pray for our nation. They responded beautifully. Three thousand communistic student demonstrators were positioned to disturb us, but they were stopped. They could not approach us because of the vast crowd and the fervent prayer. After the prayer, the Spirit spoke to my heart saying, "Make a demonstration throughout the city." Usually you can't have that kind of a parade without getting permission from the government. But I said to myself, permission or no permission, we are going to do it because I had received permission from the Lord. I announced my decision to the people. My elders said, "Pastor, please do not do this because from the top of the buildings, the snipers can shoot at us." But I told them that I had prayed and that they did not know that we were prepared for this. If the snipers had known of our plans ahead of time, they could have arranged to be in strategic places, but they had no knowledge of what we were going to do. So, with all kinds of slogans and flags, we marched through the city. When the marchers arrived at Seoul City Hall, still there were people on the Plaza. It was such a long line. The parade was televised all over the country, the newspaper wrote about it. The next day, all the riots stopped.
God's power came down and a very peaceful presidential election was held. The new President was so happy. He really treated me nicely. In 1988, Korea was scheduled to hold the Summer Olympic Games. Once again the nation was in trouble. North Korea was very angry. North Korea said, "There is internal division in the country." So every day they spoke against the Olympics through the radio and propagandized South Korea. They sent hundreds of spies to South Korea to agitate the students saying, "There is internal division in the country. This is the plan of the American imperialists. This is the plan of the European imperialists. So you should destroy this idea." This time it was even worse than the presidential election. Every day there were burnings. Finally, Mr. Samaranch, president of the Olympic Committee came to Korea and said that should move the games from Korea to another place because it was too dangerous for the athletes and the spectators. The President of Korea asked me to come to his palace. He said, "Nobody can handle this situation, but when I was ready to be elected President, you helped me, so please help our country now."
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