“Thou shalt have no other gods before Me.”-Exodus 20:3
Greetings, brothers and sisters in Christ! On one of the evenings, for about an hour our group went through the streets of our city and prayed for the people of Vietnam. We prayed for everyone we saw; people in different coffee shops, stores, parks, etc. To tell you the sad truth, I personally had little faith in the usefulness of what we were doing because we prayed for these people every time at home anyways.
Yet, God started opening to me the spiritual situation here in Vietnam even more than before. Throughout a couple of weeks, we heard many bitter news; on the beach right by our house, two gentlemen drowned even though lifeguards tried to save them. Then, not far from us, two young ladies got into a motorcycle accident where one lady died. And there was more of these kind of fatal events around us and all we could do is pray for their families. Until we personally saw a fatal accident, where a huge semi-truck cab (without the attached load) drove over a young girl on a motorcycle. Instantly the people nearby found something to cover her body and in her cracked helmet stuck incense sticks and lit them. We stopped and Pastor Alexander started to pray but they forced us to leave. I was shocked at how much they cared for their rituals and how much Satan did not want us even near this occurred situation.
After all these horrible events, I remembered the huge mountain we went on, where there stands a big temple and many gardens full of countless idol statues. Yet the ones that got my attention most were the 3 women idols, about 6 meters tall, standing above our city and showing some kind of signs to the city. This made me realize on how much the lives of these people are under the control of their idols and how deceived these people really are by the one who stands behind all their idols. Then, I found out that statistically, in Vietnam, every hour someone dies not by their own death but by some unfortunate accident. I chose the word “Perishment” in my tittle because perish means: “to die or be destroyed, especially in a violent or untimely manner.” (“…neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?” -Ecclesiastes 7:17) Here, Satan has the people lined up on the death row and “executes” them every hour because they blindly serve him and don’t know that the only One true God would take care of them (“…for You alone, O LORD, make me
This is how God opened to me that going through the city and praying for these people is not just useful, it’s critical! So please, join us in prayer for the lives of these people, so that God helps free them from Satan’s lies and they accept the Truth!
Ministry in Vietnam – Tatyana Yevstratenko