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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
In their daily prayers Christians should include this paraphrase of Martin Luther's imprecatory prayer (from E. Pless, What Luther Says [St. Louis: Concordia, 1959], p. 1100):
We pray that Finland's prosecutor-general Raija Toiviainen be converted and cease the persecution and prosecution of Dr. Päivi Räsänen, Rev. Dr. Juhana Pohjola, and their Christian teaching, and if not, that the doing and designing of Raija Toiviainen and Finnish officials supporting her efforts be bound to fail and have no success and that Toiviainen and those officials perish rather than the Gospel and the kingdom of Christ.

So we, too, pray for our angry enemy, not that God protect and strengthen the Finland prosecutor-general Raija Toiviainen in her ways, as we pray for Christians, or that He help her, but that she be converted, if she can be; or, if she refuses, that God oppose her, stop her and end the game to her harm and misfortune.

11 posted on 05/09/2021 6:43:31 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Carl Vehse

That is a great prayer,


14 posted on 05/09/2021 7:01:18 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Carl Vehse

Thank you for that prayer; may it be so.


17 posted on 05/09/2021 7:31:50 PM PDT by A strike ( Barr to Gitmo, Fauxi to Florence supermax, Roberts to Terre Haute)
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