Paul wrote to Timothy, “Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you have been called” (1 Timothy 6:12). He was familiar with the fight.

John Foxe, a young teacher at Magdelen College, pleaded in prayer, “They call themselves your priests and ministers, but they worship themselves and their political power. Help them realize that there is no need for another mediator between God and man but Christ Jesus and his Word.”

We pray for the government of Sudan but thank God for it, too. Thanks to its policies and its war against Christians the terror, the threats, the imprisonment look at how the church has grown. Look at what God has allowed us to do here in the middle of this! Look at how many are turning to Christ.