A community in Laos blatantly told the four Christian families living among them that the only way to get rid of Christians is to kill them.
In an effort to persuade the Christians to leave, villagers have illegally logged all the trees on the property of one of the Christians. When the village faced drought and famine in 2019, village leaders purposely did not include the names of the Christian families on the list of those who would receive government assistance. When one of the Christians complained, village leaders told him the Christians were being stubborn by not leaving the village even though most of the village doesn’t believe their “foreign religion”. They added, “Right now, the only way to get all of you to leave is to threaten to kill you. Letting you Christians in this village is a waste of land here.”
The Christians do not want to leave their homes.
Source: The Voice of the Martyrs USA
- Pray the presence and faithful witness of these believers may be used by God to bring many in the village to Christ.
- Pray the threats against these Christians will come to nothing. Ask God to protect them.
- Ask God to help these Christians remain focused on Him and stay bold in spite of the opposition.
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Thank you, Lord, for the faithful Christian witness by this small group of believers in Laos. Cause them to endure in their faith during these threatening times.
May these threats be reduced or obliterated. Please protect your people during these times.
For the persecutors, I pray for their salvation. May the witness of the believers be like salt and light in Laos.
Lord there are so many in the world like us who need your constant protection, because of the threats to their lives via the enemy. These christians are just more who live such lives. God may they continue to seek you to help them through the ordeals they face each day. May they rely on you to guide them, protect them, and provide for them. Lord may those in their village who do not know you, see the love of you in these christians, that they come to know you also. May your peace come upon this village.
Great and helpful prayers above to which we say a hearty and humble Amen. Lord, your servant, Daniel, lived among the wicked and evil of Babylon in the 1st part of his exile. And we read in his record, the words of an older wiser and maybe even ‘converted’ Nebuchadnezzar, “ His dominion is an eternal dominion; his kingdom endures from generation to generation. All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: ‘What have you done?’” Nebuchadnezzar ‘came to his senses’. We ask for your kind hand to bring an end to the threat posed by the Village and indeed the government and pray for a dramatic work of your Spirit upon the peoples and leaders of Laos, as these brothers and sisters remain true to you. As Neb did, we “praise, exalt and glorify you as the King of heaven, because everything you do is right and all your ways are just. And those who walk in pride you are able to humble.”