I’ve had the privilege of spending time with persecuted believers in Asia. Any contrasts in how they pray vs. how many pray in the West?

They deeply REVERE God.

Many of us seem CASUAL with God.

They consistently pray for the IMPOSSIBLE.

Many of us seem SAFE & REASONED.
They pray for POWER in PERSECUTION.

We pray for “God to be with us” in the church business meeting.

They CRY OUT in prayer FOR the lost.

We CRY OUT in prayer when WE have loss.

They pray on WAR FOOTING.

We pray from LUKEWARM HEARTS.
As we lament the moral shifts taking place in western culture, wed with the awareness that to be a convictional Christian now brings persecution in the west, perhaps it is time to consider that persecution may be a much needed gift to a western church that is very, very, ill.
“There is a revelation of Jesus that the persecuted church knows that the prosperous church will never know.”

-Mark Nysewander
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