Steadfast in Love for the Brethern

It has been our joy this past year to share with you from the lives of our persecuted brothers and sisters. Thank you to all who have joined us in praying for our family across the globe, rejoicing in the victories of Christ in their lives and holding them continually before the Lord in their difficulties. Our hearts are continually drawn toward these dear ones participating in the fellowship of suffering for Christ as we are encouraged and inspired by God's work in their lives. In this last post of the year on their behalf, we encourage all of you to remain steadfast in loving these precious saints through prayer and any of the other avenues available that we have shared throughout this year. May they ever be on our hearts and in our prayers as dear to us as our physical families. Here a few quotes that have encouraged us to think more for the Kingdom than for ourselves.

Found in a child's journal in the
rubble of a Jewish ghetto in Poland
after it was bombed by the Nazis:

"God, I do not ask you to make my life easy;
I do ask you to make me strong."

The prayer of a church under
persecution in Vietnam:

"We are not praying that our borders be opened.
We are praying that heaven be opened."

Pastor Richard Wurmbrand
Founder of Voice of the Martyrs:

"If you are not willing
to die for what is in the Bible,
you should not give money for Bibles.
Because if you give,
we will smuggle more Bibles.
And if we smuggle more Bibles,
there will be more martyrs."

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