Come Alive – Day 20
January 27, 2012 by admin
Welcome to Come Alive: 21 Days. These entries are coinciding with our 3 week vision series that we are currently in and we pray they both challenge and encourage you. This post was written by Edward Hunt, our Frontline Arlington Campus Pastor.
Did you know that Christ was thinking about you when he was praying to God? “As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world” (John 17:18) Here Christ is praying for you and all the disciples that have and will ever live. You come from a long line of faithful men and women who have entrusted themselves fully to living a “sent” life no matter what the cost. The cost of following Christ demands the entirety of our lives. In the western church we haven’t experienced this “cost” as many have around the world. This very day your brothers and your sisters are being persecuted for their faith. Let us not be so lulled to sleep by the comfortable Christianity that we experience and forget them. Let us pray diligently for them. A dear brother once said “When you unite in prayer for the persecuted church, you notice a powerful connection – to Christ, to one another and to our brothers and sisters living under oppression. In the place of prayer, we come to see the spiritual depth to be found in suffering.”
I know it is easy to forget with everything we have going on in our lives but I beg of you to fight against this. To fight against my forgetfulness I signed up for a daily email that tells me ways I can be praying. Please go to this website and join me in praying for the persecuted church: http://www.opendoorsusa.org/pray/.
- Edward Hunt
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