Don't Forget

Last twelvemonth vii of your brothers together with sisters celebrated Christmas inwards a chicken coop, shackled manus together with foot...for 20 days.

Why? Because they did something illegal inwards Laos--they gathered to celebrate Christ's birth. The law arrested them.

The side yesteryear side 20 days, they celebrated the persecution of their Savior instead of his joyful birth. 

Open Doors ministry building says, "persecution together with Christmas oft become hand-in-hand for Christians inwards over sixty countries merely about the world." 

Most of y'all reading this volition celebrate Christmas alongside friends or household unit of measurement inwards comfortable homes alongside special foods together with luxury gifts. 

There's no argue for us to hold out ashamed of our blessings....unless nosotros forgot those who are less fortunate, peculiarly those who endure for the Name inwards a higher identify all Names (Matthew 25:34-40). 

These are our brothers together with sisters. How volition nosotros manage them this year? Please accept fourth dimension during your Christmas celebration to pray for those who are suffering.

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The Bible Is Worth The Risk

Every nighttime they secretly dig upwards the jolt buried inward their yard together with trace out the forbidden mass to read. They'll live on killed if anyone inward their North Korean hamlet finds out. Many induce got suffered for this book, only that doesn't halt them.

I in all likelihood induce got xxx Bibles inward my habitation inward a diverseness of translations—large print, pocket-size, loose-leaf, leather, paperback, red-letter, study, devotional, journaling, together with parallel. 

I read my Bible inward populace places amongst no fear. 

Every day, I induce got this wonderful mass for granted. 

But today, my pump is filled amongst gratitude for my Bible together with my freedom. And my prayers are amongst my North Korean brothers together with sisters who know amend than I produce that “man does non alive on breadstuff alone, only on every discussion that comes from the oral fissure of God” (Matthew 4:4).

Take around fourth dimension today to read your Bible together with give thank you lot God for it.
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To read most around other Christian who learned the value of God's Word read these 2 1-minute devotions:
Worth an Arm or Leg
5 Ways to "Hide" God's Word
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Let's Pray For Our Persecuted Brothers Too Sisters Inwards Christ - Hebrews 13:3

I asked a Bulgarian adult woman who'd grown upwards nether Communism, “What was the worst aspect of Communism?” 

She looked surprised that I didn't know in addition to said, “We were similar sheep to the slaughter. We'd never heard the Gospel."

My eyes welled amongst tears at her give-and-take movie of countless lambs herded to their deaths. 

I’ve never lived without a Gospel witness. I conduct maintain ever been complimentary to worship, complimentary to read the Bible, to remove heed Christian radio in addition to TV, to read Christian books in addition to magazines, to talk openly close the Lord.  

I conduct maintain a responsibleness to pray for those who haven't heard the Gospel in addition to for those Christians suffering persecution:

“Remember those inwards prison theatre equally if you lot were their immature human being prisoners, in addition to those who are mistreated equally if you lot yourselves were suffering.” Hebrews 13:3

Today let’s accept fourth dimension to pray for those who haven't heard God's Word in addition to those who are suffering for it.

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For specific prayer information on the persecuted church, encounter Open Doors Prayer News.

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