This is the response that I gave to God after what came to me, under the impression as being a "burden from the Lord", to pray about. I had just distinctly received a very strong and clear leading to pray for a very specific and very irregular thing that had stopped me right in my tracks. It was something that I was supposedly to pray for, which thing violated my very Christian convictions at the core of being a "peacemaker" as Christ had said we were to be in Matthew chapter 5, and this prayer burden was anything but peacemaking. When the burden first came in, I dogmatically retorted, "I refuse to pray for this!" and firmly determined that that would be the end of that! I was wrong. The same, identical "burden from the Lord" so dogged my pathway continually with wave after wave of assurance in the Holy Spirit of it's genuineness that I simply could not evade this burden in any way. I suppose that I then could have plummeted into the bottom of the Pacific Ocean just like Jonah and the same "burden from the Lord" would have awaited me as I stepped back onto the shore. After going through this constant rejection mode of something I believed to be out of proper Christian conduct, I finally assented to this burden and agreed to pray for it as I believed that God, and not I, would be the responsible party. Here it is...I was quite clearly led to pray for, right out of the blue, that God would put a spirit into the hearts of the Soviet military to despise their own government. When I faithfully prayed this "burden from the Lord" for about a couple of weeks, the burden was then taken away and I had the assurance that I had done what God had led me to do. What is very interesting here is that this was somewhere between 6 months to a year before the break-up of the old Communist Soviet Government, which government was then in full power at the time. Imagine my tears of joy when the reports came into us in American from the east that the only reason why the revolution succeeded was because when the military was order by their own government to fire upon the people, they refused. They didn't know, but I did.
