CAMPBELLTON, New Brunswick, June 18, 2023 – The provocations of the alphabet-rainbow agenda have been legion this year, and for a reason.

The reason is to provoke you to respond with anger rather than prayer, protest rather than prayer, disgust and outrage rather than prayer. Christians have even been provoked to join ranks with people whose faith dictates they throw their enemies off a roof. How can Christians align themselves with such a belief system? And absent – glaringly absent – in all this shouting and outrage is the call for much-needed prayers.

If we don’t pray for the alphabet-rainbow contingent, who will?

If we don’t see their issues as spiritual, who will?

I’ve written before HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE about the primacy of prayer over protest. Christians aren’t called to protest: Jesus never protested, and we’re to do what Jesus did, not what the world does. Protesting was a popular pastime during the days of Jesus’ ministry, but Jesus never once participated in them. How do we know that? Scripture tells us he never raised his voice in the streets. He was never involved in insurrections against either the Roman or the Jewish powers-that-be. He instead focused his energy on the task at hand, which was preaching and teaching the Word and PRAYING for those who hated him, not throwing them off a roof.

If you’re a Christian and you’ve been caught up in the heady backlash against the alphabet-rainbow agenda, please reconsider what you’re doing. We Christians are to respond with prayers, not protests. At the same time, we cannot align ourselves with a belief system that advocates for violence against those they consider enemies. If we align ourselves with such a belief system, we’ll be tarred with the same brush in the eyes of the world, and in the eyes of God we’ll be hypocrites.

If non-Christians want to protest, let them; it’s not our business to tell them what to do. Our business is to follow Jesus’ example, which is to pray for and bless our enemies, not ridicule, malign, and threaten them.

Prayer is the most powerful force in the universe. The best – absolutely best – thing you can do in response to the alphabet-rainbow provocation is to pray. Satan is using these people to provoke you into hatred. He wants you outraged; he wants you protesting. Don’t give into him. Don’t fall for his tricks.

“Love your enemies.”

Please take this to heart.