Christmas time may seem like a strange time to pray regarding the missing children, but actually, it ties right into Christmas.
A couple we know has lived through the anguish of a missing child. Their teen daughter went missing a year ago. For the last year they have followed every lead to determine what happened to her and if she was still alive. (She is, thank God.) But can you imagine the nightmare?
It is estimated that 2000 children go missing EVERY DAY in America. How can that be in a first world country—or are we? Then add to that the unrestricted child-trafficking taking place daily at our borders. Children crossing into America, many who cannot speak English, who once across are whisked away and disappear. Where are they taken to? And to what?
Our nation has become a child trafficking hub allowed by the present administration and abetted by the media. When child trafficking was exposed with the release of the movie “Sound of Freedom” it was mocked by the media as a “conspiracy theory.” And yet the proof is there. Why won’t the Biden Administration put a stop to it? Because they know what is happening…
How do we stop these atrocities?
I heard an unusual story recently about St. Nick. While there are lots of legends on record, this is not one of those. It described a God-fearing man, St. Nick, who knew the power of prayer and how to hear God’s voice. Back in the 3rd century when he lived, child trafficking was also a growing issue. After several children seemed to just disappear, and the police had no leads, according to the story St. Nick prayed and asked the Lord to show him where the children were. And the Holy Spirit did. St. Nick told the police he believed the local pickle factory was where the children were taken and then shipped out into slavery in pickle barrels. St. Nick, led by the Spirit, was able to alert the police to the location and get it shut down.
I know there is a gruesome legend surrounding St. Nick of 3 boys discovered at a pickle factory. This is not that. But could it be that legend was birthed out of this other story? I have no idea. But the story, true or not, is an important reminder of the power of prayer to break the back of this predatory evil that has continued for centuries. It also reminds us that the Holy Spirit resides in us and can show us where children are, how to stop corruption, and thwart the plans of the enemy.
As we near Christmas break, it is a time of excitement for some children and a time of terror for others. Some children are left to fend for themselves without enough food or protection by addict parents. Others may live in a home with a revolving door of less than savory people coming through. Others are trapped and trafficked—their childhoods stolen. This may seem an odd Christmas prayer, but it is truly an important one.
Father, we pray for the children. We know they are important to you for You said it would be better for those doing such evil to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of Your little ones to stumble. They are not only causing them to stumble, but now they are creating gender confusion and doing surgeries to permanently mutilate their bodies. They are opening our borders to allow children to be brought across and shipped all across our nation to God knows where, doing God knows what.
You see it all. This is an evil that has continued for centuries and it’s time it stopped. We join together to bind the spirit of perversion and greed behind this evil. We pray for righteous workers, law enforcement, etc. who are already working to stop it and recover the children. We pray for others to rise up and join them. We bind the open access currently happening under this administration and declare those doors and avenues to be closed now.
Father we pray for the children held in captivity. Children not only in America, but other countries, where perversion has stolen their innocence and their future. Father we pray now that the sex trafficking rings—every single one—would be discovered and every person working in them and for them would be caught and arrested. We pray for those who are forced to work as slaves to “pay back” their “debt” for being brought across the border, but who will never earn enough to get out of slavery.
We pray most for the sexually abused children, some who have known nothing else but this perversion. We pray for their minds, their hearts, their bodies and their spirits for the deep healing and cleansing power of the Holy Spirit to release and renew them. We pray that the perversion deposited in them would be uprooted and that they would be set free and filled with the knowledge of You and the joy of the Holy Spirit so that they do not become perpetrators as they grow up. Heal them in every area.
We pray for the runaways, who have left home and now may be in danger, or don’t know what to do. We pray for healing and restoration in their families. We pray for the prodicals to return.
We pray for those on the front lines of this battle that they will have wisdom, strength, finances and help as they continue to press in against the darkness to see the captives set free. May they not grow weary in well doing for in due season they will reap if they faint not.
We pray for the children, who may still be living at home, but with parents who are addicts or alcoholics who do not take care of their children. For the children in which school is the only place they are assured of a meal and a warm environment, we pray provision for them. As Christmas break is about to begin, Holy Spirit we pray protection over those children and pray for Your angels to encamp around about them to keep them safe. Send laborers across their paths to be alerted to their situation and offer help physically and spiritually.
We declare that the perversion behind pedophile would be uprooted and cast out. That as they have tried to legalize this evil that it will fail and any law the U.N. tries to establish sanctioning such horrific actions would be their undoing.
Luke 17:2, Gal 6:9, Ps 34:7, Col 1:9