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Miracle in China - Prayer Power

Mother and Infant Freed from Jail in the Name of Jesus

Tessa Dale (December 13, 2011)BCN

The prayer for her release all started on Saturday, Dec. 3rd, when hundreds of intercessors lifted up China's girls and mothers at TheCall conference in Los Angeles, California: "We hope that the hundreds of intercessors, from stay-at-home moms to Members of Congress, realize that their prayers saved lives this week." -Chai Ling

On Wednesday, Dec. 7th, at almost midnight, Nie, her daughter and her mother were blindfolded and driven 2 hours outside of Beijing, then dropped off at a dark crossroads called Bao Ding. Prisoners are almost never released in the middle of the night, and the group is certain her release was a direct answer to prayer.

"12 midnight in China is 11am in Boston," says Chai Ling, founder of All Girls Allowed. "We were in the middle of our team prayer meeting when she was released."

This was not the first answer to prayer Nie has experienced. Last April, she was arrested for petitioning and was scheduled to undergo a forced abortion of her baby, but she was set free 2 days following an urgent prayer letter. According to reports, the Family Planning Officials "were too afraid and filled with terror to sign their names on her forced abortion order."

"In both of these situations, there was nothing left for us to do but pray," says Ling. "We hope that the hundreds of intercessors, from stay-at-home moms to Members of Congress, realize that their prayers saved lives this week."

Following her release, Nie spent the evening in a hotel and returned straightaway to petitioning in Tiananmen Square. Though she was warned that she would have faced 5-6 years in prison if her baby was a little bit older, she has lost her house and has no choice but to continue petitioning.

Chai Ling directs attention to the parable of the persistent widow in Luke chapter 18:

1 Then Jesus told His disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.

2 He said: "In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor cared what people thought.

3 And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, 'Grant me justice against my adversary.'

4 "For some time he refused. But finally he said to himself, 'Even though I don't fear God or care what people think,

5 yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won't eventually come and attack me!'"

6 And the Lord said, "Listen to what the unjust judge says. 7 And will not God bring about justice for His chosen ones, who cry out to Him day and night? Will He keep putting them off?"

"Our job is not done until justice has been served to Nie and her family," says Ling. "So let's keep on praying, persistently, for justice against Nie's adversary."

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