What to Pray

What we can Pray for the Persecuted Church

For their physical protection and deliverance.
(Matt 26:39, Acts 12:5, Philip 1:19, Phil 22, Rom 15:30-31)
That they will see God's grace as sufficient and God's power perfected in their weakness.
(2 Corinth 12:9-10)
That they would love Christ's appearing all the more.
(2 Tim 4:5-8, Heb 11:35)
That they will rejoice in sharing the sufferings of Jesus so that they will rejoice even more when Christ is revealed.
(Heb 10:34, Matt 5:12, 1 Peter 4:13, Rom 5:3-5)
That they will endure.
(Heb 10:36)
That will choose ill-treatment and the reproach of Christ, and not the pleasures of sin.
(Heb 11:24-26, 1 Peter 4:1, Heb 5:8)
That they will love Christ far more than life itself.
(Rev 12:10-11, Acts 20:24)
That they will love their enemies.
(Luke 6:27-31)
That they do not enter into temptations - an easy possibility under the stress of persecution.
(Luke 22:39-45)
That they will rejoice that they are considered worthy to suffer for His name.
(Acts 5:41)
That they will remember they were made for such persecution.
(Acts 14:22, Philip 1:29)
That they will live the joy of the Lord before their persecutors.
(Acts 16:25, Philip 1:28)
That they will remember their future glory.
(Rom 8:18)
That they would learn to completely trust in God.
(2 Corinth 1:8-9)
That they would rejoice that they bear in their bodies the 'brand marks of Christ.'
(Gal 6:17)