Me:  How are you feeling today?

Prodigal:  I’m so low you couldn’t put a rug under me.

Me:  I have had days like that.  Maybe I can encourage you.

 

This is from the book The God Who Hung on the Cross by Dois Rosser Jr. and Ellen Vaughn

 

We were visiting Ethiopia when I saw an old shed on the property.  “What’s that?”  we asked.  “That’s the persecution house,”  our host told us.  “Whenever a family in our church comes under persecution, we bring them here to the shed so we can protect them and take care of them.”  Some members of his church, facing threats and opposition from local Muslims, had lived in the shed for months at a time.

 

When we stand for the word of God and who Christ is then we may come under persecution.  During those times a friend, and a place to go where you receive comfort and support helps you along the way to keep standing for God’s truth.

1 Peter 1:25

 

But the word of the Lord endureth for ever.  And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

 

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