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On June 12, 1987, President Ronald Reagan stood beneath the looming Brandenburg Gate in the heart of Berlin. Surrounded by Communist leaders, the American president addressed the man responsible for the wall that separated East from West and held part of Europe hostage behind an “iron curtain.”
“Mr. Gorbachev,” he cried, “tear down this wall!” The Berlin Wall would come down, but it had nothing to do with President Reagan’s request to the leader of the Soviet Union. The wall only fell after Christians made an appeal to the Ruler of Heaven….
In May of 1989, a handful of German believers began to gather for prayer and Scripture reading at the Church of St. Nicholas in Leipzig, the very church where the world-changing Protestant Reformation had begun 450 years earlier. The small group simply read the Sermon on the Mount and prayed for peace in their troubled nation.
The tiny gathering soon grew and moved into a larger room and continued to grow until they filled the sanctuary itself. Meanwhile, Communist authorities took note of the activity. They sent party officials to attend the meetings and issue threats. On several occasions, they even arrested churchgoers. They went so far as to shut down streets to make it difficult for the congregation to gather.
But on the evening of October 9, 1989, they gathered in mass. Roughly 2,000 Christians crammed into the sanctuary to pray while another 10,000 stood outside the historic church in the cold. Exactly one month later, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell.
Some call it coincidence.
Some call it geopolitical maneuvering.
God’s people just call it an answer to prayer.
Resource’s Origin:
1 – 2 Timothy and Titus by Bryan Chapell. Crossway Publishers, 2012, page 62.
