IDOP: Daily Focus #7
The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) is tomorrow. In a series of posts that began last Sunday, we're providing a daily "snapshot" of the work of the primary sponsoring organizations.
For a quick review of what IDOP is all about, you can visit the IDOP website, which provides links to the 10 sponsoring organizations.
Voice of the Martyrs is an interdenominational organization headquartered in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and working with Christians around the world who are suffering religious persecution. VOM has over 30 offices around the world with staff members from many different denominations, all working with the common goal of helping the suffering church. WEA is headquartered in Edmonds, Washington.
VOM is a member of the Evangelical Council for Accountability (ECFA).
The World Evangelical Alliance
is a "global network of 7 regional and 121 national evangelical alliances, 104 organizational ministries and 6 specialized ministries serving the worldwide church." While the WEA focuses on Christians, it also works to ensure religious liberty for all faiths.
WEA is a member of the Evangelical Council for Accountability (ECFA).
- About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everybody's chains come loose. The jailer woke up, and when he saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself because he thought the prisoners had escaped. But Paul shouted, "Don't harm yourself! We are all here!" The jailer called for lights, rushed in and fell trembling before Paul and Silas. He then brought them out and asked, "Sirs, what must I do to be saved?" They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved - you and your household." Acts 16:25-31
The weakest saint upon his knees.
Hymn writers William Cowper and John Newton
Pray that prisons will be places for worship and pulpits for God's word, so that prisoner and jailer alike are saved.
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