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HisGrace
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I find it very difficult to imagine living under such violence. Apparently the IRA's killed around 1800 people during the three-decade campaign against British rule. I'm sure you must have witnessed much of this carnage yourself Seraph.
Many of us come from descendants in Ireland, a lot of them from Northern Ireland, so I myself have a soft spot for your country.
As they say, there are only two kinds of people in this world - those that are Irish and those that wish they were. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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His Grace,
Thats really touching what you posted and prayed about Northern Ireland and the peace process. I live in the heart of Northern Ireland. Im ever so grateful for your prayers.
As you said, May the Lord keep the peace on this wee island and not let it go back to what it was like years ago.
Godbless,
Seraph
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BUT -
Eph.1:21-23 Now he is far above any ruler or authority or power or leader or anything else in this world or in the world to come.
And God has put all things under the authority of Christ, and he gave him this authority for the benefit of the church.
And the church in his body; it is filled by Christ, who fills everything everywhere with his presence.
Eph 6:13 Use every piece of God's armor to resist the enemy in the time of evil, so that after the battle you will still be standing.
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NORTHERN Ireland's fragile peace process was plunged into full-blown crisis today as the IRA, the province's largest Catholic paramilitary group, withdrew an offer to destroy its stocks of weapons.
Following a bitter row over a massive bank robbery in December, blamed by the British and Irish governments on the Irish Republic Army (IRA), the group said it was taking "all our proposals off the table".
This means that painstakingly negotiated plans for the group to put all its remaining stocks of weapons beyond use in a verifiable way, the subject of lengthy talks before Christmas, have been scrapped.
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Other proposals involved include the IRA's pledges to end violence and other activities, although the group's statement said it remained committed to peace.
The announcement, in a statement released by the IRA and carried by Britain's Press Association newswire, follows a breakdown of mutual trust in Northern Ireland in the wake of the December 20 bank robbery in Belfast.
Northern Irish police, as well as the British and Irish governments, insist the IRA carried out the heist of a National Australia Bank-owned Northern Bank that netted $US26.5 million ($34.22 million) pounds.
However, the IRA, the paramilitary wing of Northern Ireland's biggest Catholic Party, Sinn Fein, has dismissed the allegation as a politically motivated slur, and said today it had had enough.
"We do not intend to remain quiescent within this unacceptable and unstable situation," the IRA statement said. "It has tried our patience to the limit."
"Consequently, on reassessment of our position, and in response to the governments and others withdrawing their commitments, we are taking all our proposals off the table.
"It is our intention to closely monitor and to protect to the best of our ability the rights of Republicans and our support base."
However, the statement did not threaten a return to violence, which largely ended in Northern Ireland with the landmark 1998 Good Friday peace deal.
"The IRA has demonstrated our commitment to the peace process again and again. We wanted to succeed. We have played a key role in achieving the progress achieved so far," it said.
"We are prepared, as part of a genuine and collective effort to do so again if and when the conditions are created for this."
Copyright from News.com.au Feb. 3/05
The IRA claim that it is committed to the peace process, but Satan has put his foot in the door, and we should pray for our Irish friends that this situation doesn't escalate once again into violence.
Dear Lord we turn this situation over to you. We rebuke and bind the devil and all his demons, in Jesus precious name, so that Northern Ireland will continue its peace process with prayerful wisdom under your mighty power and majesty.
I claim this scripture over Northern Ireland for all days to follow as their peacemaking efforts still weigh in the balance -
Eph 6:10-12 A final word. Be strong with the Lord's mighty power. Put on all of God's armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies and tricks of the Devil.
For we are not fighting against people made of flesh and blood, but against the evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world, against those mighty powers of darkness who rule this wolrd, and against wicked spirits in the heavenly realms.
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