The following is a portion of Scotland’s ‘The Stand’ monthly prayer letter regarding recent events in Paris. ‘At such times the inevitable questions are “Why now? Why there? Why them?” and the danger is that we focus so much on the tragedy that we start to lose sight of the One who holds the nations in the palm of His hand - the One who knows the end from the beginning - Alpha and Omega - El Shaddai! We know Jesus broke the power of evil on the Cross, but we are still in that timeframe awaiting the ultimate end of our enemy, Satan, who is out to ‘steal, kill and destroy’. In the meantime we see lawlessness increase in every sphere of society, so what should our response be? PRAYER! Pray with an intensity as never before! Pray without ceasing - crying out to God to uncover and defeat the enemy’s plans.’