I have an unusual prayer request, but I'll take a chance here. Only serious responses, please. I am asking that others pray for me, specifically for my protection against sexual assault and rape. Persecution is coming to America, and I've been what is known in intelligence parlance as a "Targeted Individual." I now know that I've been targeted for quite awhile because I used to be in the occult but repented and turned back to the Lord Jesus Christ: needless to say, Satan and his slave minions are very unhappy with this and have made my life a living hell through "active measures" and what the East German Stasi used to refer to as zersetzung--deliberate, engineered decomposition and corrosion of an individual and his or her life. This is and has been used on me incessantly, BUT the LORD has had other plans and has made me blossom in the Faith, particularly when I have gotten more and more into His Word. Nevertheless, I would be a fool to not ask for God's protection, and 1 Corinthians 10:13 says it all: [1Co 10:13 KJV] 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God [is] faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear [it]. I know where my limits are and what would be above what I'm able to bear--and I think God agrees and is honoring this by moving me to ask for prayer for protection against rape and sexual assault. I have already been threatened with insinuations REPEATEDLY on this subject, and I'm not bending in my Faith, so these evil slaves of Satan are probably contemplating escalation. For obvious reasons, I don't care to be on the receiving end of this evil, as it will do NOTHING to sanctify me or, in my opinion, glorify God. So please pray for the following: 1) that Adonai Yehovah and His Son, Jesus Christ, completely thwart any and all attempts at sexual assault upon my person, but that: 2) if I DO get attacked (as God has to honor free will), please pray that I am completely ready, willing, and ABLE to fight off any and all attacks of this nature. or any other nature--through the POWER of the Holy Spirit to the greater glory of Adonai. God blessed Samson with an absolute ability to fight armies of Philistines; I personally think it's high time for *Christians* to consider that as Our Father in Heaven is absolutely no respecter of persons, He's not going to forbid *legitimate* self-defense to Christians ***when He didn't forbid it to the Israelites.*** Self-defense is not "returning evil for evil," it's allowed by God as believers walk in this fallen world (please reference Luke 22:35-37, KJV.) ***Thank you ahead of time for your prayers and intercession.*** Loving Regards in the Lord Jesus Christ, The Patriot Sphinx