After Keo’s wife suffered from numerous health problems for several years, a witch doctor told the couple to live separately until his wife found healing. From 2015 to 2019, Keo lived in a small hut he built for himself.
In November 2019, he learned about Jesus. He attended a worship gathering and was moved to give his life to Christ and be baptised.
Source: The Voice of the Martyrs USA
In early 2020, his wife, relatives and village authorities learned of Keo’s Christian faith.
His wife threatened to leave him if he didn’t leave Jesus, his relatives said they would cut him off from the family and village leaders formed a plan to evict him. Keo refused to abandon Christ, so villagers destroyed his hut.
Currently, 61-year-old Keo is living with a local pastor, but he is in poor health and has no job. Keo is in need of prayer.
Let us pray.
- Pray for Keo to remain strong in his faith, experience healing and find work.
- Pray for him to find his own place to live and be reunited with his wife. Pray that she will hear the Gospel and accept Christ as her Lord and Saviour.
- Thank the Lord for the strong Christian witness and church growth in Laos, which continues despite opposition.
Lord God, you place the lonely in families and are the God of the poor, prisoners, orphans and fatherless. We earnestly pray for Keo to remain strong in his faith, experience healing and find work. Help him to experience your grace and mercy and know your steadfast love. Gracious God we ask for him, that you find his own place to live and be reunited with his wife and we pray that she will hear the Gospel and accept Christ as her Lord and Saviour. We thank for Keo’s faith and the strong Christian witness and church growth in Laos, which continues despite opposition. May your Spirit bring much prosperity for the Gospel in this nation as many souls are won for Christ and all to your Glory.
‘Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins , he will be forgiven.’ James 5:14,15
I find it hard to walk in the shoes of Keo but I pray for his faith to be strong. In your sovereign will, please bring healing to him and help him with his job search.
He urgently needs his own place to live, to be joined again with his wife, and may shew fall at the feet of Jesus, accepting him as Lord and Saviour.