PRAYER FOR PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS

 

Dear heavenly Father, we cry out to you today on behalf of our fellow Christians who are being persecuted around the world.  Rescue them from the hand of their enemies. Renew their faith in you, even as their homes and churches are bring destroyed.  Give them a sense of your love amid their suffering and loss.  Help them see your face and hear your voice.

 

Stretch out your hand of love and peace to all your children who have been imprisoned.  Help them shine like lights in a dark place.  may they feel your warm arms around them in the cold and lonely prison cells.  Let these times of trials strengthen them, not destroy them.

 

Hear our prayers as we intercede for our persecuted brothers and sisters in Christ.  We also life up their families who struggle to live without them.  We suffer when they suffer because we are all part of one body -- the body of Christ.  Remind us to pray for them often.  We ask this in Jesus' name.

 

Amen

 

  

"Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering."

 

Hebrews 13:3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date this page was last edited:  July 11, 2004